Jenamarie Posted April 20, 2014 Report Posted April 20, 2014 Anybody watching/listening to this right now? Breathtakingly beautiful! Quote
Palerider Posted April 20, 2014 Report Posted April 20, 2014 Was this live lastnight??? If so we watched it .....awesome Quote
Jenamarie Posted April 20, 2014 Author Report Posted April 20, 2014 Well I feel silly. I saw on their webpage "starts at 6:30MST" right as it was 5:30 PST (where I am), so I started watching it. I now realize that it *isn't* "live" that I'm watching. Don't mind me. I've obviously eaten too many jelly beans today. Quote
Just_A_Guy Posted April 20, 2014 Report Posted April 20, 2014 Wonderful. The website implies that they'll be taking the Youtube video down after this Easter weekend. I hope they leave it up. Quote
pam Posted April 20, 2014 Report Posted April 20, 2014 Yeh it was live when they did their performance Friday. Quote
MacDow Posted April 20, 2014 Report Posted April 20, 2014 The last stake I lived in used to have a performance "The Messiah" everey christmas. Its is one of my favorites. Quote
Guest Posted April 21, 2014 Report Posted April 21, 2014 Our ward showed this on our Easter Activity. It was super cool. Quote
pam Posted April 21, 2014 Report Posted April 21, 2014 Today is the last day to view it. After today it will be taken down. Quote
The Folk Prophet Posted April 22, 2014 Report Posted April 22, 2014 Ok...fair warning...serious music nerd coming out in the following: The Mormon Tab is not an ideal choir for the Messiah. Handel wrote it for chamber choir, and this is evidenced by the musical style as well, wherein it requires an agility that is mostly beyond a larger choir (as is typical for Baroque music). Obviously there are natural exceptions to this (the Hallelujah chorus being one example where a large choir works better). However, a choir the size of the MoTab is not well suited for performance of Baroque music in general, and specifically not well suited for The Messiah. Of course one really has to have heard the Messiah performed properly (in true Baroque style) to have a comparison point. The problem is, of course, is that it spoils one for performances done "improperly" (large choirs doing Baroque music), which is one of the downfalls of being musically educated. But I suppose that's true of any art education. My favorite rendition of The Messiah is by the Boston Baroque choir. Light. Agile. Perfect. An ideal performance would bring in a bunch of extra singers to make a large chorus for the Hallelujah Chorus though. :) Quote
pam Posted April 22, 2014 Report Posted April 22, 2014 I watched it and I thought it was absolutely beautiful just the way they did it. I've sung in large choirs and have done The Messiah. I loved this concert from the MoTab. carlimac 1 Quote
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