Show more

👋 Welcome, new CoSoNauts!

Time to crack those eggs: Upload a profile pic, fill out your profile and say hello. Check out the user guide:
counter.social/userguide.pdf

Some tags to follow:
Infosec discussion at .
Music lovers and musicians: check out , , and .
If you love good drinks, follow and .
Animal lovers: , , .

We're glad you made it here.

Here is something very unique for both Jazz and Opera fans. If you every studied from the 24 Italian Art Songs book, you will know these songs.

///

"When opera star Joyce DiDonato told us she wanted to sing centuries-old Italian love songs at the Tiny Desk we weren't surprised. But when she said she was bringing a jazz band to back her up, we did a double take."

npr.org/2020/01/15/795977663/j


More of Prokofiev's epic depictions of war. Please read the video description for an excellent outline.

///

Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 6
Sviatoslav Richter (who originally premiered the piece in 1940)


youtube.com/watch?v=AFCeeLXdSQ

Prokofiev really understood how to capture the essence of conflict and war in music. Exhibit A:

///

Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet Suite: Montagues and Capulets

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti


youtube.com/watch?v=97aYNBjpd4

I Wonder as I Wander - arr. S. Pilkington
Williamson Voices of Westminster Choir College
James Jordan, conductor

youtube.com/watch?v=aw_bNM2InD

Pilkington is a former WCC faculty member. His arrangement is less well-known than John Rutter's, but equally beautiful.



I will be posting some excellent full-length performances of Christmas choral music from the finest choirs around.

Follow these tags:



Concert 8 of 8 COMPETE. Tonight was two abbreviated programs an hour apart, double-seating in a small but very beautiful venue.

I am spent. Done. Only thing left this week is leading an all-school sing along with several hundred of my closest little friends.

Drinking a high ABV brew, and then off to bed.



Concert time yet again. (Number 6 of 8 tonight)

I hate wearing a tuxedo. Especially the damn cummerbund.



My fellow pianists here will appreciate this. On my second accompanist gig of the week, and fortunately nothing on this list applies.


This, IMHO, is what every local choir _should_ perform every Christmas season, instead of the out-of-place Hallelujah Chorus.

I performed this on my first choir concert as a college freshman, and I have loved it since then.

///

Felix Mendelssohn

Recitative "When Jesus our Lord"
Trio "Say, Where is He born"
Chorus "There shall a star"

from the unfinished oratorio "Christus"

Recorded by Westminster Choir College
youtube.com/watch?v=Y3FB16egV9



Show more

ᏤⵁŁ₮ƦⵁИł€

CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.