Tango To Evora

DHS Chamber Choir in concert with LSU Choir singing "Tango To Evora" by Jon Washburn - accompanist is Lori Ziecker - soloists Radhi Ladd and Caitlyn Martin. Performed 03/08/08 at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Buckhead (Atlanta, GA)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• duluth
• dhs
• chorus
• choir
• chamber
• Tango
• To
• Evora
• Washburn
• Ziecker

[errozitto1]

I agree with GabbyLovesPeace !!!!! PERFECT!!!!!

[GabbyLovesPeace]

This is by far the best performance I've seen for this song.I don't care what anyone else says.

[YuuSenkai]

omgee, so preetty

[IX19UT8O]

DHSCHORUS: Your comments accompanying this posting state this is by Jon Washburn, not correct. "Tango to Evora" was composed by Canadian Loreena McKennitt. It is the theme music for the Canadian documentary "Burning Times" (about witches and witchcraft).

[Caliera]

I don't understand why people think that, in order to sing higher, you need to sing louder. Loud=/=high, I learned that in grade 3!! They should've studied the songs crescendos/decrescendoes. They would have come to understand that the song is a love story between, first, the guitarist and the violinist, and then the vocalist steps in to add some spice. Also, I want to see something other than boredom flit across their faces at least once throughout the performance.

[fuckkyouhhk]

qatewayy hiiqh school chrous; :) w sunqq hisz onqq a our Chorus"Extravaqazaa"||beautfu soqq.//youu quysz rockked thiisz szonqq. (:

[nicoleyloleyosis]

this is really good! i love it.

my choir did the same song. hahah.

[avivagabriel]

You guys really GOT it. I watched every other chorus I could find...and not one did I finish to the end. They left me cold (despite some excellent qualities, partially, in each one). But NONE of them "got" the real heart of the song. I believe your choir DID, indeed, understand this song profoundly, I was pinned to the screen, had the chills for the whole performance, and was moved to tears.

[avivagabriel]

Not even the three main professional soloists who perform this commercially (Loreena herself, Haris Alexiou from Greece, nor Nilufer from Turkey) seemed to express this song with so much...believability.

I think part of the success of this performance was that the voices retained a lonely, haunted feeling throughout. That intense loneliness, almost chilling, was present in both the choir as a whole, and in the soloists.

[avivagabriel]

The pacing was perfect; perhaps that had something to do with the sustained emotion, the communication of a fundamentally tragic human condition we all share.

This "haunted feeling" was communicated in Loreena McKennett's live video performance by the violins, I believe, and perhaps all the instrumentals. She was intensely focused, too. Yet, the sense of loss, of tragedy, of loneliness, wasn't quite present, despite the song's intense beauty (and Loreena's as well).