Christmas Cantata II & III - Daniel Pinkham

[AriCovair]

Wow - nice work! Nailed it. I had forgotten how wacky the ending is. Hooray for youtube for hosting all this stuff for us choir junkies.

[sam2kim]

The third movement as a Gloria often will take over a choir if the director is not careful. In that context starting fast and far quieter is a requirement, if only so that as the choir builds the final stanzas they have enough gas left not to mention the very real contrast of PPP to FFF. This is a strongly rhythmic piece that shifts from 2/4, 3/4, 3/6, and 4/4 which is easier to hear in the horns. The real trick is to get the choir to dance off of the stressed syllables of the Latin

[sam2kim]

General remark to performance is that the 2nd movement is about the Great Mysteries and framed in context to medieval liturgical chants. And such it should be decidedly slower and more breathy in voicing, the top tones should be float and not quiet have a beginning or end to the tone that as clipped as it is here.

[TheMeinlow]

hardest song I've ever sung

[MissMariahLove]

Winslow is Singing this year..love this movement soprano

[darkfairy2684]

we're doing this in our High school's christmas concert :)

[PuRpLe17ChIcK]

@darkfairy2684 me too!!! wait...are you from masco??

[mangofreek]

we sang the third mvt. in our all-region chorus for sight-reading.. verrryyy hard!!!! but lots of fun!!

[Katherine0862]

Yes, very hard, but VERY fun! I enjoyed this a lot in college :)

[Sesquiltera]

why don't you tell in the credits who the organist is???? >:-(

[24Lancelot]

I remember playing this in 1981 (1st trumpet) in high school. It still sings in my head and remember the rehearsals and performance fondly.

LOL, the choral director showed the score to my band director and he thought, "I don't know...this looks like college material". We ran through it very well on the sight reading and BOY, was he excited! "WE DON'T NEED NO COLLEGE BOYS!" It's a shame that to get a recording of this, it's over $50.

[cindylouallen]

There is a CD called Christmas in Vermont by Counterpoint; Vermont Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet. If you buy the MP3 version it has this whole piece plus many more and it only costs $8.99.