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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Johannes Brahms – Complete Liebeslieder Walzer Op. 52 and Op. 65
How tough could singing a Waltz be? Brahms: Hold my beer!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Gabriel Fauré: Requiem
This what we’re singing on March 29th. You should come hear the Requiem live, it is a powerful experience.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Service Note – Vacactions, Colds, Hell Divers 2
Good morning faithful readers. I must apologize for the blogging interruption. The plan was to go on a lovely choral retreat to the Banff Centre – including a attending a Master Class on solo singing, and workshops with the estimable Lona Larson, Eva Bostrand, and Micheal Zaugg. It was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude – Tchaikovsky – Hymn of the Cherubim
“Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music. Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul’s moods.” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A DWR Holiday Wish – Arvo Pärt – Da pacem Domine
Give us peace… It is a wish I think we can all get behind. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all. ‘Give Us Peace In Our Time, Oh Lord.’
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Christmas Baroque Interlude – Bach – Mass in B minor BWV 232
What else can one listen to as Christmas time approaches? Enjoy my friends. Sublime, extreme and all-embracing… only superlatives will do to describe Bach’s Mass in B minor, the ‘Hohe Messe’, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach. In between an awe-inspiring Kyrie and the jubilant final
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica
Winter is taking its time in coming this year to my neck of the woods. Let’s preview the frosty winter spirit soon to be gracing our province. 🙂 Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony N°. 7) 00:00 1. 1st Movement: Prelude- Andante maestoso* 10:13 2.. 2nd Movement: Scherzo- Moderato 16:42 3. 3rd Movement:
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