Yale Women's Slavic Choir -- "Erghen Dieda"

[jdpbili]

Congratulations, really an amazing verision of this Bulgarian traditional song interpreted by English? language speakers....

[makedonBULGAR]

AMAZING!!!! Bulgaria loves you!

[kmuzpo]

saw this choir live for free! They were amazing.

[Rightherepearted]

Just wonderful. The blend is amazing and the dissonance is so beautiful. Very talented women indeed.

[cwlovespattyniibah1]

great rhythms - thanks for sharing your wonderful voices in perfect harmony!

[deepinbrain]

This is INCREDIBLE!

[Katley99]

this brought a smile to my face the singing was beautiful and you were having so much fun with this :)

[Minkefreak]

haaaa, you're way better than we are! But we do our best as well...:)

[bambrcko]

Супер, још мало да вежбате.



[dschia22]

Wow! Really, really beautiful!!!!!

[dalmatianfutballer]

i was shuddering through the whole performance! you're incredible! i'm from bulgaria and i've heard the performance of the mystery of bulgarian voices and you're really good...almost as good as them!

NICE WORK

[elizahaha]

They get better by the second, and end BRILLIANTLY!

[ROCKSTARCRANE]

Every time I listen to this, I am moved to tears. Why did it take me so long to find this music?

[ROCKSTARCRANE]

This is truly astonishing. As a lover of vocal harmony, finding this is like finding a crown jewel. The precision, pitch, syncopation, and chord structure coupled with the obvious enthusiasm and dedication of these young women is a rare treat indeed.

[berbo79]

is it me or they are not bulgarians ? if so ... i am astonished by this great performance !!!

[pngilman]

OUTSTANDING!

[MihaelaMadzharova]

Excellent! Made me cry! Greetings from Bulgaria.

[flanissimo]

take away the fact that these are young gorgeous women and you have one thing left: pure genius.

[Anneliselove]

Holy crap... that was breathtaking! Everyone is so relaxed... its just like "oh hey, lets start singing now, whatevs" and then it was gorgeous. pleeeeease keep up the good work!

[sirasy]

does anybody knows where can I find the music of this piece?

[CowboyBebop444]

great job

[ljolos]

Excellent, guys! You're awesome.

[mjconnollyIII]

You fantastic ladies need to record a CD with the Yale Orchestra and present it to the entire world...!

[MGxGuitar]

Wow! The women's choir at my school is doing this song for our spring concert and competition. Hope ours is as good! This is great and you all are amazing!

[honeybeeman]

my dream come true, i wish i could be in a choir like that!

[shmuckfane]

good work!

[zandonadi]

YOU ARE SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL!!!

I bursted into tears to see how you've sung it apparently so easily, so relaxed...!

Keep it all this way always!!!

[akolev81]

you guys are AWESOME! respect!

and yeah, I'm also a Bulgarian :)

[kppteam]

Awesome!

[NODNOLKU]

WOW

GREAT PERFORMANCE

WONDERFUL

[danail1131]

Best non-bulgarian performans. Bravo!

Regards from Bulgaria.

[e2mushi2009]

You guys are amazing keep it up

[Tihbialdunav]

Indeed great-and this from a Bulgarian. Bravo, girls. You have a good teacher.

[pilytalinda]

ooooooooooooooooooo se pasaron , yo escuchaba esto cuando chica gracias auna prima que tenia el cd de los misterios bulgaros , wow se me pone la piel de gallina , muchas gracias y son secas!!!

[Ckalja090]

bravo!

[daliborcek]

gr8!

[Probuem]

Good, very good performance - the best I've heard from foreigners. Pronunciation is almost flawless !

[musicissimple]

AMAZING!

[indjilin]

hey do you have Bulgarians between you? you are amazing girls!

[ednorogche]

best non-bulgarian performance I've seen :) congratulations girls!! you sound great!

[Zpoket]

its better in full choir, but this sounds ok for a crappy mic

[angelsburningbright]

beautiful

[NelsonClick]

WOW!!! I didn't know it could be performed so well casually. I presumed it was a formal concert piece. Is it a folk song? Meaning, did you hear it a lot growing up. I'm very impressed. I'm relating to it differently now that I've heard it performed like this.

[sonikar]

Yes it is a Folk song-Bulgarian to be precised.

[GayleMI]

It must be an empowering notion for these ladies to realize that they can enter a room and, with only their voices, blow the doors off the place!

[stmonev]

Sehr gut! Respekt!

[Ishna2010]

I love it!!! I'm excited to sing it with my choir.

These girls are very good.

[casperado666]

this gave me goosebumps, it's almost better than the mystery of bulgarian voices. this is pure awesomeness

[me19357]

We have to sing this for our choir and we are just a bunch of middle schoolers! We will be horrible!

But I get to go to Potsdam university adn sing! We alos get to go to Lake Placid in new York. YAY!

[lahonz]

Do you all speak Bulgarian? It certainly feels like you do. Fantastic performance, with the specific color of the Bulgarian folk voices. And you are having so much fun! Благодаря ви, момичета, продължавайте да пеете все така пракрасно!

[windcoast666]

WOW! EXCELLENT!

Amazing!

Greeting from Bulgaria!

[tntaylor101]

bril. seriously bril.

[JanisYvonne]

Yeah, For our marching band show we are playing 4 of the Bulgarian womans songs, This one, Svatba, Polegnala E Todora and Kaval Sviri. Its awesome.

[ahellojello]

Were you guys perchance taught by David Connell?

[JasonJabber]

Wow!!!

[createpeacestopwar]

EXCELLENT JOB! :]

we sang this in choir last year!

it was a blast!

[dinaelhifnawi]

i have the song but i want the lyrics!!! plz!!

[cymrohyll]

Beautiful music, beautiful women. Super! Blagodarya x

[macasrcka]

bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooo

[operamusicfan]

I live in the US but was in Bulgaria in the summer of 2007 and saw you girls on TV :)

[svizc15]

Brilliant :D

[muzician2001]

Hi. You are amazing. WOuld you tell me if this piece is SSA or SSAA??? Thank you!!

[nikonezna]

Wow - fantastyczne! And you look like you did it during a quick break from... reading or coffee or something... and if it can get you away from coffee it's gotta be good. Blagodarya...

[1s2k3s]

Beautiful bulgarianm folklor song!

[AuroraDeVenessia]

what is the text of the song?!? You're great!!

[daliborkovic]

Great!! , girls got the moment for balkan emotion pagan voice!

BRAVO

[jhernandez16]

wow! super good. Better than Noteworthy's performance of it in ICCA.

[musiquedude235]

i agree!

[SopranoDancer]

I agree with jhernandez16 as well, it was so much more full and the pronunciation was right! yay! also a lot more fun sounding

[SopranoDancer]

Very nice sound! Great vowels and superpowerful harmonies. Blend is spot-on. Definitely 5 stars! Keep singing!

[balkanian]

Respect girls!

Awesome job!

I don't think that most of the bulgarian choirs can sing this song so nice.

Great singing and great pronounciation!!!

Unbelievable!

Thank you!

[orpheusvi]

the girl with the tie is smokin!

[rmb1317]

true that

[rmb1317]

true that

[tapanar74]

Hello I'm Michiel from holland and i play Bulgarian music myself.

You sing great i did cry when i heard you sing.

My friends from Bulgaria where sirprised when they listened you.

Pozdravi Michiel

[Chastalard]

Love it! What style...and the harmony...amazing!

[runbambirun]

Loved it.

[dizkidliz]

THEY ARE AMAZING!!!!! my choir's doin this song and I'm sooooo phyched!!!!!

[Chastalard]

BEAUTIFUL!!!Hope they are alive and well and delighting!!!

[litereeder]

This is gorgeous. The Slavic Chorus were my idols when I was at Yale in the 70's. I guess they still are.

[pdxtran]

I was in the Yale Slavic Chorus in the 1970s, and these women are much better than we ever were.

[litereeder]

Do you think so? Well --- I thought you were absolutely sensational. I was in the Yale Symphony and went on to become a professional musician for 20 years or so...I never heard anything I liked better than the slavs, then or now, so here's to you!

[litereeder]

Hey there pdxtran --- I guess I don't know how to work this site --- my reply is about 4 lines up under Litereeder.

[CryingCrimsonEyes]

i actually looked this up because my class is supposed to be ding this song in chorus. i love the song now!!! ^_^

[vocalecantat]

wonderful , wow =)

[Tihbialdunav]

Oh, this is great. Bulgarian folrlore is so hard , and they larnt even the words well. Wow! Congrats, girls!

[JorkoOfMiami]

he-he, I'm amazed they learned all the lyrics in Bulgarian and sing the words so clear. great!

btw the name of the song is 'Ergen Dedo' ('bachelor grandpa' - about an old man who is still not married and acts as if he is still young)

[operamusicfan]

It's deda, not dedo, not dieda :)

[zafiro91]

they can to put the letter of this song? please the request

[zafiro91]

o my got amazing

[pajutar]

Slavs 4-ever!

[HalfBlackbird]

how does one obtain the sheet music to Ergen Daido?

[pajutar]

In this case, someone in the choir probably transcribed it from a recording. A lot of the songs in the repertoire were learned that way.

[trulr]

Amazing, sounds almost like the original.

[samyale2010]

i love catherine kastleman!

[cedricbp]

Incredible! I'm amazed at how similar it is to latvian folk music.

[OZSERB]

love old serbian music/songs

[StanislavaDaskalova]

Actually this particular song was written by The Bulgarian author Petur Lyondev. So, that's an author's song, it wasn't composed by the native population of any country:). So, it's not Serbian, Macedonian or whatever. It's Petur Lyondev's song :).

[sebastopol2002]

this is the 2nd video I see from these young ladies and still I have my mouth wide open. They sing as hard as if they were drinking a glass of water. I beg you to share the score to sing it with my childrten choir in Chile.

Thank´s for sharing this amazing music

[youtumor45678]

Wonderful! You ladies keep it up!

[Mamasan41]

BRAVA!!!!!!!

[DragoBS]

amazing! keep up the good work! all the best wishes from Sofia Bulgaria!

[cosmikumquat]

you guys are my heroes. i've been wanting to start a balkan ensemble at my university for ages, but i can't generate enough interest.

[deiangu]

Incredible, I agree with kamentso - this sounds absolutely authentic! I enjoyed it soooo much. Another thank you from me :)

[MantisSage]

That was really cool. My high school choir is also singing that song and we even have percussion. We just got back from our New York tour and that was one of our best songs. You guys are doing pretty good with the accent, did your director have to spend a lot of time teaching that? Anyway, really good work!!

[kamentso]

Amazing! I am bulgarian and I couldn't believe how authentic this performance sounded. It's great to see that young people from a completely different background have taken an interest in our culture. Thank you!

[oliverlewin]

woah, so good. my favorite lyric is: ya pa pa ki cha kta puh tuh.

[momtrock]

Thanks so much for creating and sharing this very cool, impromptu moment! Corinne said she had a wonderful time that afternoon and how warm and welcoming you were. We loved having Jane and the girls at our home during their Jersey stay of the tour. We'll never forget it. They are an amazing, talented group of young women!