elizabethclaire
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Re:CARMINA BURANA! - 2007/03/31 22:14
haha, i often dislike choral singing (because i'm loud....i'll hold back for concerts and rehearsals, but i always sing out for warmups and when there's a lack of volume from my section!). plus most of the big things i've sung (faure requiem, messiah, etc.), there are always sections i dislike or am at least ambivalent about. i seriously loved every moment of carmina burana, even the sections where the women don't sing at all which is a pretty large chunk in the middle. and there's really nothing like getting together a huge group of singers and hearing the amazing volume and unity you can acquire; this performance was 125 university students and 75 or so alumni, and you can really recognize that on the forte sections.
that being said, there's definitely a few movements you can tell were underrehearsed. i always think it's funny how INEVITABLY the women outshine the men (the 14th movement, "in taberna", is one of my favorites, and i think the men really could have pulled it together better, though that may have been a rehearsal timing issue). but i love how orff is able to push the emotional affect in "o fortuna" and "veni veni venias", which still give me chills months later!
roles (the significant ones): laurey in "oklahoma!", grace farrell in "annie", the mistress in "evita", cha-cha in "grease", marion thayer in "titanic" |
