To help us all (re)familiarize ourselves with works that we'll be performing in the coming weeks, here are some resources available on the web. If you haven't tried practicing with MIDI files, you should! I find it very helpful just to follow the MIDI along with the score while listening to the file a few times, and I use YouTube recordings of good performances to get a sense of the "musicality" of the work as a whole.
First, here's a fun performance of the Banquet Fugue from John Rutter's "The Reluctant Dragon," which we will perform this Saturday, 15 Sept., at the variety show benefit for the Divine Face Organization.
First, here's a fun performance of the Banquet Fugue from John Rutter's "The Reluctant Dragon," which we will perform this Saturday, 15 Sept., at the variety show benefit for the Divine Face Organization.
A beautiful performance by the Cambridge Singers of Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine, with the CPDL score to make it easy to follow along. We will sing this as the anthem at Mass on Sept. 23. You will find English translations of the lyrics, as well as a link to a MIDI file for practice here on CPDL. To practice individual parts, here are individual MIDI files that emphasize the soprano, alto, tenor, and bass parts.
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Here's a nice, clear rendition of Biebl's Angelus (Ave Maria) with score, which we will sing with the choir of St Mary of the Assumption Church at the dedication of their new altar on Monday, Sept. 24. (Our usual midweek practice will be held at St Mary of the Assumption on Wednesday, 19 Sept., carpooling from SMV parking lot.) Here's a link to a MIDI file of this work. Here is where you can find MIDI files of individual parts (we're singing the Choir 2 parts). You can also listen to the gorgeous Chanticleer rendition here.
Happy practicing!
