All My Heart This Night Rejoices by Z. Randall Stroope

[gdebb07]

What church is this?

[mdmnmdllr]

@gdebb07 - This performance was at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Just an amazingly beautiful room to perform, very live ... but very hard to set up in, and demanding because of hard far apart we have to be spread out.

[gdebb07]

Where is this?

[MrGlobalman67]

Columbus Symphony Chorus just performed this

STELLAR

( this piece needs room for ppp--fff)

Each verse MUST have room to grow in dynamics.

[BigSquirt1987]

all of Stroope's music is beautiful.

[hisgirl5708]

this song is beautiful, i don't think anyone could mess it up (i don't think)

[0627nmp]

I don't know it is a difficult song. This is sad, I am singing the song next week and I can not remember what key it is in, I think E major, there are a whole bunch of flats then a whole bunch of sharps and back and forth.

[luxaurum]

@0627nmp Sounds like key of B major to me, modulating to key of D flat major later in the song....your director might like to raise the pitch by a half step or even whole step if he has a lot of young singers....many directors will do this to give it a brighter sound....

As far as dynamics this piece has them, but you don't hear it here...this recording has an extremely compressed dynamic range resulting from recording it at too high a VU level or using a lower quality recording machine ..

[0627nmp]

@luxaurum You are right for the key signatures. My choir director would have expelled you from the group if you told him to change the key, he would have croaked if you told him to use a bright vowel. He is all about engaging us into a higher dificulty of music. Sometimes it is tough because most High Schoolers don't care. But he got us to do the Durufle' Requiem.

[luxaurum]

@0627nmp I came to choir as a folk-rock singing guitarist, where key change is a way of life (as is changing lyrics sometimes)..I l blithely suggested lowering the key a half step when we were singing a Bach cantata (where they wind the tenors way up) and getting a look of death from the director, the accompanist throwing an empty water bottle at me..I have perfect pitch..a four-letter word in choir..anyway I never made that suggestion again..next lesson was you don't "tell" directors anything..