MGSH Crimson Chorale "Sleep" Eric Whitacre

[IDidYourMomIn1988]

Great job! Not bad for a high school choir!

[katydahle]

i am so proud! i graduated from mgsh in 2003, and it's AMAZING how far this choir has come. great job!!

[Ulkarus]

if i'm not mistake it sounds like doon not deun but that could just be video quality that and i can't your bass in "safe in bed" near the beginning of the song that and it feels as if you're rushing the song is in huge long phrases for a reason but who knows i'm just a high school junior who just performed it [not very well to tell you the truth] what i enjoyed it the line "clouds of dream" which ended up very well what i know but may i ask is with the head bobbing all around? i find it weird =/

[peteskey21]

raise the soft-pallet! this song is for adults. if a high school is going to do it, raids those pallets. the vowels could use a little darkening, but thats just a personal preference.

[perc67]

The words of this poem represent restlessness, excitement, and fighting sleep - like a child resisting sleep, as described by the author. Giving the tempo some motion at times can help translate that feeling to the audience. Also, the author of the poem relates the work to the death of his wife in that she fought death but it eventually captured her. This piece can represent that struggle and pain as well. Tempo fluctuation, among other things, is a great way to evoke that emotion.

[zamy360]

our choir in northfield has the exact same robes lol

[amuslimextremist]

The choir in Willmar has the same ones too!

[murp1403]

very good sounding performance... Just feels a little rushed - not quite embracing the true emotion of the piece... but alot better than other performances I have seen

[chuckt427]

very nice

[jm958924]

i did not hear the 2nds in the "as i surrender" part. :( thats my favorite part

[gislovesx]

you guys did amazing.

[SomberSinger]

Ok, so my chamber choir just sang this. I agree that it's too fast; the whole point is to make your audience feel like they are trying to get to sleep, but they can't. Also, I almost cried when you sang pictures, the vowel was so bad. I don't mean to be a dick, but if you sing it like 'pick-shures' it sounds flat, even if its not. It should be pick-chuhs, like you are british. Ooh, and the surrender unto is a little jankey. What happened to the Soprano Ones?

[olaxer1]

I'll be sure to tell my conductor to try to improve the "jankiness" factor for future choirs. Oh cursed jankiness! Why hast thou chosen to plague Maple Grove?

[SomberSinger]

It plagues everyone, from time to time. My choir sang Lux Aurumque last year; the concert was good, but when we went to record it (the guy missed the concert, long story) it was sooo bad. By the end of it, we were about a whole step and a quarter flat. Most of us were in tears.

Anyway, I'm gonna try and post the recording of us singing this when we get it. I'll try making a pleasant slideshow to go with it. Then you can point out our janky parts!

[paperclipgenius]

It did seem rushed, but usually the conductor will do that because this song is easier to sing if it isn't slowed down so much. But I definitely think this choir could've handled it that way. They are very good.

[moonwalkgast]

it's too fast I think. very good performance but just to fast

[born2broadway]

This is correct, you followed the music well. But.. This is an immaculate piece, and should be sang with an obscene amount of tranquility. I feel a little bit as if the group is trying to 'rock out' to the piece [lol]. It should be sung as if one is sleeping and the text is a floating dream in the sky..

[HhHbigE33HhH]

born2broadway is so correct! its a feeling of comfort and and tranquility.. and the word if should be pronounced as an eef sound. the men at the crescendo dark could be a little more rich in vowel foucs. a very tough piece to perform for a hs choir.