Date sent: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:32:32 EST
Subject: Festival
To: vocalist
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I don't know if no one read this, but I was in a festival this past weekend,
and it was AMAZING! Has anyone heard of Heather Buchanan before? She's a
director at Westminster Choir College I believe... She's from Australia, and
we were her first HS chorus in the States!!! =-) The festival was absolutely
phenomenal, and we had SO much fun! She's so good, and I'm so glad that I got
to work under her!

The songs that we did, were hard, and some are songs that most HS, and some
college choirs won't even attempt! We had an amazing soloist in one of our
songs, who we'd just met the day before, named Kiera Duffy, who I was
breathtaken by... And an oboe player who was just wonderful -- played in two
of our songs.

***Does anyone know of any festivals that Ms. Buchanan is doing, or any
courses that she can teach or anything!?!?! I REALLY Want to find out!!! She
was so amazing, and I thought I had to share.... Thank you!!!***

Well, here is a list of the songs in which we performed (The 2nd to last one
we learned THAT morning--of the performance!):

"Notre Pere (The Lord's Prayer)"(sung in French) --Maurice DURUFLE
"Hallelujah (from "Mount of Olives")"--BEETHOVEN
"He, Watching over Israel"--Felix MENDELSSOHN
"Antiphon (No. 5 of Five Mystical songs)"-- Ralph Vaughan WILLIAMS
"Praise Ye the Lord (Laudate Dominum)"(sung in Latin)--W.A. MOZART (with
soloist)
"The Lord is my shepard"--(Psalm 23) --John RUTTER
"ALLELUIA"--sung a cappella --Randall THOMPSON
"The Cloths of Heaven"--Z. Randall STROOPE
"Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair"--Appalachian Folk Song
--arr. Stuart CHURCHILL
"Here's One"--Traditional Tune --Arr. Mark HAYES
"Ain'-A That Good News!"--William L. DAWSON
and a surprise ending:
"A Gaelic Blessing"--John RUTTER


If any of you have heard of these songs, you'll know what I am talking about
when I say that we were breathtaking. Well, I'm going to go now! Bye.
--Sara Ellzey--
--West Chester--
--Pennsylvania--
--Voice: Alto--

--StarryEyedWonder-at-aol.com--

"You've got to dance like nobody else is watching, Dream like you will live
forever, Live like you're going to die tomorrow, and Love like it's never
going to hurt."