Concert Review: Da Capo, "One"

[da_lj]

DaCapo played a concert this evening, titled "One: In the Beginning."

The first piece was "Calme" by Leonard Enns, the conductor; it had wonderful dissonances and harmonies, as well as some improvisation.

A Credo by Einojuhani Rautavaara (Finnish) felt overly long (or overly slow), but I liked a quote from him in the program: "music is great

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[melted_snowball]

Glad you had a good time! Sounds like a good evening.

Trees of the field, trees of the wild

[morgan_starfire]

I know two really lovely rounds to Isaiah 55:12 (btw, your link to that is missing an 'h').

Trees of the Wild, which I learned first, is completely a round. It has neat overlaps where each part will sing a line together and then split again, and clapping is part of the music of the round. I learned it from Julie Middleton's book Songs for Earthlings, which is perhaps a weird title, but definitely a great musical resource. The music is by Nancy Schimmel, and it's been recorded on Roots and Wings by Linda Hirschhorn and Vocolot.

I learned Trees of the Field from Annie Patterson's recording Deep Roots. Worship in Song claims both words and music by Stuart Dauerman and Steffi Geiser Rubin. You can do the end in round or in parts, and you can add clapping

Re: Trees of the field, trees of the wild

[da_lj]

Would you believe:

An LJ spam led me to review this post; and I saw your comment here, which I am distressed to realize that I never replied to (or even fixed the broken link you discovered!)

AND this reminded me of an early-morning dream that I had made it down to visit you guys and got to give you and S. pre-move hugs, which really bummed me when I woke up and realized it has been a dream.

However, in the dream, I reminded you both that dan and I like to travel, and you can count on us visiting in your new habitat at some point, hopefully at a soon point. And that is definitely true.

So, yeah. How about that?