For The Beauty of the Earth (Rutter) SSA choir

[TheSecondFrenzie]

My teacher told me to look this up, to see how others do it. The beginning starts out pretty, but then it goes on, and just-- what happened? The Rs are way too over-pronounced, and it sounds off. I think it may be their Australian accent, but their vowels sound odd.

[CathyLuvsLipGloss]

very fast, isn't it? and some of the higher notes sounded strained and they overpronounced their Rs.

[TheMuteSwan]

Such a beautiful song - the SATB arrangement is awesome, though, to hear the blend of the different vocal registers.

[dangermouth007]

this was my favorite choir song to sing when i was at school, thank you so much for putting this on here, they sing great

[amandaleeist]

Sounds-a-little-rushed,but-oth­erwise-beutiful..

[fantomdiva]

oh to be young again!!! This is just a marvelous performance... It is obvious that you have spent a great deal of time with these young people to bring them to such marvelous performance standards... Planning to move to Australia, so maybe i will get to hear you all in person!! Keep up the great work!

[willbskeptic]

Wow! Great Vowel Shaping - what beautiful voices.  I didn't sense the tendency for people this age to want to move to the diphthong! What types of warm ups do you do?

[musicedworld]

Thanks for the kind words. I'm in the process of writing a book on warmups that will be simple, clear and inexpensive. I can alert you to when this is ready for review or purchase. Contact me privately and leave your email.

[Roseburg93]

One of the best performances of this piece on YouTube, if not the best.

[AmericanAngel117]

I much like the SATB arrangement of this song, but coming from an SSA choir, I say both arrangements are equally beautiful. :)

[organisten]

they are not trebles, they are sopranos. The word "treble" applies to boys.

[Actor555]

personally I think this song should be sung by an SATB choir not just treble cuz the Bass part is awesome

[maudiehottie]

jeez guys wut is with all of u saying u were better? i sang this too when i was in the colorado children's chorale... we were good too. the sound on the video makes them not sound as good. but i still think this is very well sung.

[IzzyL123]

Yeah. When you capture things on video, like, without some professional microphone to catch all the details, it always sounds weird. (: They're really good. (:

[chicbway]

the girls are too cute to wear ties! :o/

they sound great though!

[molefoot]

Pretty sure when we did this in our school choir, we sounded like poo on stick. Possibly because the soprano's were the only ones singing and everyone else sat around flicking spit balls at each other. ahhh memories.

[evertonian1994]

we are much better

it on are tour to germany was amazing

bu you guys are good aswell :D

well done...

[emsqua]

@evertonian1994 i know exactly how u feel lol, i watch choirs singing songs that ive done in my choir and i sit here thinking we do it better :P i felt this is done too fast, meaning that the words werent as emotional and heartfelt as it could be :D

[72ve17]

the voicing is lovely - i dont understand why the all girls have to wear mens uniform - they could have upgrade the uniform for girls a little bit

[quinnlamusicman101]

their pretty good, it's a hard piece, no ofeence because my chior is world class but when we sang it we were far better, these guys are great thoguh

[evertonian1994]

yeah are chior is world class aswell these are jus normal we have loads in arez haha :)

[cfoley20]

@quinnlamusicman101 -ya they need to do better

[Roseburg93]

This choir really know how to perform Rutter. All their clips are great.

[maddijeana]

we're singing this at Mt.Solo Middle School. and i think we're singing it for the Choral Festival.

[xxmcrgirl2760xx]

we are singing this song for a competion next month and we are a lot better

[zeMusicluver]

yeah. us too.

[DEONTREZ3]

we have to sing this sng for our chior group at john deere middle school[were so much betta] JUST SAYN

[k3riann3]

pretty good our choir sang this - we went tof rance (on tour) and sang it in a breathtaking catherdral there and it sounded AMAZING my favourite choir song ever

[JMCaldwellAcademy]

I see the guys, but don't hear them :(

[musicedworld]

That's becuase they are unbroken treble voices. They are not men -they are 12 years old. You might be thinking of the SATB version.

[JMCaldwellAcademy]

ahhhhh yeah that makes sense :p

[CBwifee]

My chorus sang this song for our concert....I love it!!!

[techman85]

There's that magnificent organ behind the choir and they used a piano?

[JMCaldwellAcademy]

lol yeah guess so :p

[bimo59]

can't use an organ would sound muffled

[musicedworld]

This was a competition -we don't have a pipe organ at our school to prepare with, nor would I have considered it appropriate for this work.

[hamokiwi]

That's interesting -- I've accaompanied this on the pipe organ and it worked very well. There's also a version on youtube with pipe organ accompaniment and it seems very appropriate as a musical choice (and not all muffled as bimo50 suggests it would be). This choir produces a lovely sound as far as I can tell through this youtube medium; I'm going straight to the website!

[apw50]

Agreed. Good organists are rare compared to the number of good pianists around. A struggling pianist on a pipe organ would have been a distraction to the choir and the competition.

[Classicalytrained]

@musicedworld Agreed. this song is too light and airy for a pipe organ, even using flutes. as a choirmaster and organist myself, i rarely use the organ with the choir as i find it tends to over power the choir with its grandure and volume (not because of bad playing but because, generally you dont think of it as accompanying choirs singing light and airy songs)

[expatmartin]

Dear Michael

Margaret in SA just sent me your links and what excellent work you have been doing in Australia with your fine ensembles. This is the way to go in music and art education especially in Australia where it is all a struggle for recognition, funding and support.

The Locus Iste was also impressive.

Regards

Martin

[musicedworld]

Thank you for your kind remarks and for the suggestion. Could you tell me what a 'trap set' is please?

Michael