Mata del Anima Sola - Antonio Estevez - CHS Chamber Singers

Claremont High School Chamber Singers performing Estevez's Venezuelan "Mata del Anima Sola" at U.C.C. on May 15th 2007.
Soloist: Erik Bondehagen

P.s: Sorry the first part is cut, it started recording late...

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Music

Tags:

• CHS
• Mata
• Anima
• Sola
• Antonio
• Estevez
• Choir
• Claremont
• High
• Chamber
• Singers

[Fugitron]

To the people who are arguing:

I am a High School Choral director, and graduated from Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR home of EARTHSONGS which is the publisher of Mata del anima sola. The song is PRINTED with the inner solo as the soprano line. So unless the choral director is familiar with the unwritten performance notes he/she will most likely have their choir perform like this one - which by the way is not wrong if you are following with has been printed. Just food for thought.

[FranFerraris]

Thank you for your comment fugitron, I think it'll help everyone that watches the performance without knowing the context and not only that, but to those that start criticizing without having previous knowledge... We all know it's not a great performance, but high school choirs rarely do pieces this complex, that's the only reason I put this up...

[DeadStockYota]

Conducted a little too fast and the soloist should have continued the solo instead of the saoranos! And they even missed their entrance on the second round! Overall good sound and good job!

[FranFerraris]

Haha, if you look closely around 2:30 and 2:40, you'll see a cat walking through the choir. It distracted us all, that's why the sopranos missed their entrance

[NPIngrid]

en ningun momento las sopranos llevan melodia, solamente en el corte de la noche yegua cansada. En el arreglo original de estevez, esa primera melodia la lleva siempre el solista. Buena version, acento comiquisimo jeje ;) les hizo falta mas picardia llanera q solo los venezolanos tenemos

[FranFerraris]

Acuerdo totalmente con vos. El coro no se animo a poner un solista por ser una melodia tan picaresca y unica como la describis vos. Nadie en nuestro coro tenia esas caracteristicas, o por lo menos yo que era el unico Latino en el coro no llegaba tan alto.

Algo es cierto, es imposible tener el "feeling" que tiene un Latino, menos todavia un Venezolano con tanta musica que llevamos en la sangre. Es como que un blanco intente tocar jazz, jeje...

[axellidenbrock]

@Fugitron The solo of this work is for tenor even in the first part. I don't know if the printed score of earthsongs is wrong, but you can check other performances by venezuelan choirs in you tube. Cheers

[axellidenbrock]

Buena versión, aunque muy lenta para mi gusto de una obra muy difícil.

No es un "arreglo" como alguien puso por allí. Es una composición, de las mejores por cierto, del gran maestro venezolano Antonio Estévez.

[erizano69]

Ok.. Hay mucho, mucho, mucho blabco que toca jaz.. Por cierto, pero el caso es que, no es fácil la música venezolana.. Mucho menos la de estévez. Es una muy buena versión de un coro EXTRANJERO. Hay un coro por acá en "llutús" que la actúa y se pone sombreros.. Muy ridículo, sobre todo con algo tan solemne como las piezas del Gran Estévez. Pero me gusta.. Está muy afinado y llevan el tempo en la primera parte.

[jhoaisis]

greit altos i love your voices

[eternalsenata]

whos cat is that walkign behind them.

Also balance is missing. Just need abit more balance.

[MelodiousTrance]

Ouch..

They need to use more breath support, open their mouths wider and work on accents and vowel pronunciations.

But the soloist was good.

[ChibiYuugiKoibito]

Quite true! The sopranos in my own select choir did the inner solo :D

But I must admit...it sounded a little muddy and rushed, but overall a pretty good job ^__^.

[PenguiniMitch]

wow real mature....especially for someone with so much background and education... good luck with life dude

[PenguiniMitch]

um the recording itself is terrible so it totally kills the consonants. just throwing it out there.

its hillarious how into critiquing people get.... who cares? if you dont like it. go find a video you like. and if you do like it. great....

[weeblewobble22]

this choir...is bad. lol, i love how they dont dentalize their t's and they dont roll their r's and how they pronounce "ya" with a y.  and the fast part is sooooooo messed up. and they arent moving, so the choir looks like zombies.

i dont think this song worked out. lol.