With a Lily in Your Hand

[dpellicori11]

this choir is very messy. Their Sopranos Needed to practice a little more.. You need to practice on more than the epic parts. Half the time the sopranos werent even the same pitch... Good at some parts but overall it was ok...

[Ericajt09]

They sang this at the ACDA Convention last week in Tucson...

[TheFlutegirl15]

I did enjoy this recornding. I sang this last semester with my college chamber singers, and loved it. The only thing i say about this recording is that the intro is too staccato-it needs to be more fluid, but thats just one opinion and interpretation. The best recording I've heard of this piece is by Polyphony.

[gomounties08]

what was wrong with it??

[mynameisjacobx13]

Everything was wrong. You were flat, didn't go fast enough, to many added ritards, and your vocal positions were wayyyy to far back. It sounds like you are swallowing the sound. When Eric Whitacre started to write for my school my director knew what he wanted and that was definitely not it.

[gomounties08]

i am compelled to disagree with your comment about intonation. that was never a big problem for us in this song.

we definitely are not swallowing the sound...some of the people in the group might have swallowed tones but there isnt much to be done with the way they sing naturally.

its done at about the same speed that ive heard most groups perform it...and i believe its faster than the famous BYU recording

i dont recall our conductor actually adding any ritards...could be wrong though

[gomounties08]

and if my memory serves me correctly this piece was written and published in the early 90s...so unless youre like in your late twenties or something i dont think you know what eric was looking for when he wrote this piece.

[lala132435]

The swallowing sound part, its quite obvious thats its due to the bad recording quality. As for the speed, I believe that people have different musical taste and preferences. As long as they stay true to the meaning of the song, we should learn to appreciate their musicality and not be so critical and try to impose our own musical taste upon them.

[lala132435]

Instead, we should listen to different musical interpretations so as to refine our own musicality and not be so arrogant to think that only our interpretation is correct. I believe that Eric Whitacre thinks the same way; if you would just read his blog, you could see how accepting he is of different interpretations of his songs.

[AnusMusic]

This is actually a VERY successful rendition of this piece. ESPECIALLY for a high school choir.

Eric Whitacre's work is not easy for anybody. But this group did quite a good job of it. I am very excited for this choir!

[gomounties08]

were a college choir...

[AnusMusic]

I'm sorry. It said "High School choral festival" so i assumed the obvious.

[gomounties08]

lol thats ok...this is at our annual festival that we have for the HS choirs in our area

[lordofdastrings76]

HELLO?!?!?! thats the beauty of music!!! its all about interpretation.

[musicallynclined11]

YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!!