Eric Whitacre - A Boy And A Girl
VOCES8
Joyful and intimidating at the same time.
Rachmaninov - Prelude No. 2 in B-flat
Sviatoslav Richter
New CoSo cloud infrastructure theme no. 1:
Leonard Bernstein - "Mambo" from West Side Story
Sinfónica Simón Bolívar Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel
New people coming in here and immediately demanding UI changes and/or grubbing for followers are really channeling this:
I'm starting to teach some private piano lessons again, which means it's time to revisit this warmup piece.
#cosomusic #cosoclassical #musictheory
This is my favorite interpretation of my favorite Passion setting. Please give it a listen.
Bach: St John Passion
John Butt, Dunedin Consort
BBC Proms 2017
The Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun
https://youtu.be/vdvnOH060Qg
Best April Fools Jokes For Musicians & Producers : Ask.Audio
https://ask.audio/articles/best-april-fools-jokes-for-musicians-producers
I'm performing in two different choirs for benefit concerts this weekend and next. I've also been asked to record both, and they are in polar opposite acoustics with very different instrumentation, so I'll be trying a new variation on a 4-mic setup I've used in the past.
This will hopefully allow me to dial in the direct / reverberant ratio differently at each concert while keeping my physical setup the same. If the performances and recordings go well, I'll post samples.
Geopolitics affecting the opera world:
Anna Netrebko, Russian soprano, out at the Metropolitan Opera - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/entertainment/anna-netrebko-russian-soprano-metropolitan-opera-met/index.html
How have I never heard this piece of this choir before? Stunning.
E.Stankovych - The Great Litany of Peace, from
Liturgy of St.John Chrysostom
Kyiv Chamber Choir
https://youtu.be/sFzmEzcs8YQ
I was browsing for some new pieces to purchase for my choir today, and this came up on a publisher's site. It's quite a lovely piece for children's choir, but that title...
#cosomusic
#cosochoral
This is one of those rare years where I will actually tune in to the Super Bowl halftime show.
The last really great one was Prince, and that may have been the greatest of all time.
#cosomusic
It was 2 years ago that @Render alerted me to the tiny musical hurricane that is Nandi Bushell:
https://counter.social/@Render/103557635430006164
Now she is just unreal. Listen to her on Tool - Forty Six & 2. All with a huge smile.
If you don't know the song, 4:30 is where it gets REAL.
Rick Beato breaks down what makes Adele's new single Easy on Me so much better than 99% of all pop music out there today.
This is my new favorite version of Lift Every Voice and Sing.
I still say this should be the US National Anthem, or at least exist on equal footing with the Star-Spangled Banner as its creators, the Johnson brothers intended.
Kirk Franklin - Lift Every Voice and Sing
https://youtu.be/cYrxT3As2AM
Karen the musical (full-length version)
https://v.redd.it/t915i29zune81
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