The Opera Company of Philadelphia and about 30 choral groups and a fantastic organist playing a mighty Wannemaker organ joined together for this celebration – a season opener at Macy’s.
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Something like this could well revive my interest in Christmas shopping, CWJ!
Absolutely marvellous.
I wish my speakers were louder, but my spine still tingled despite the lack of volume. Wonderful! Thanks, CWJ.
Hi, cjw.
I have always loved the boy Handel’s masterpiece at full volume and this was superb. Nonetheless, I have my ticket for Mrs M and her chums’ interpretation thereof by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Choir in the Usher Hall next Thursday. She assures me that it can be just as powerful without big battalions of singers. I’ll let you know.
Enjoy your Usher Hall performance! There is something about the “impromptu” nature of the Company just mingling in the crowd and suddenly belting out the stuff which appeals to me. I had posted another example to my coldwaterjohn Blog, but to save you flicking about the place, here is a link to the item itself on youtube – this one involved the Opera Company of Philadelphia “Flash Brindisi” at Reading Terminal Market:
The Yanks are so much better than we are at such gatherings. During my Vermont days, the firm’s owner only had to announce a ‘picnic’ and an event appeared out of nowhere.
It wasn’t written for ‘n’ thousand voices. It was written for about 20 voices and a chamber group.
I have heard it done thus in Dallas on antique instruments of the period. I found it far more haunting and attractive.
Fantastic, every store and shopping mall should do this, wonderful.
I suspect about twenty voices would be lost in Macy’s Philadelphia’s 157,940 sq feet…
Terrific – I loved it. A great work for all seasons!
I love these random singing events. I can guarantee it that Handel would have been thrilled.
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Something like this could well revive my interest in Christmas shopping, CWJ!
Absolutely marvellous.
I wish my speakers were louder, but my spine still tingled despite the lack of volume. Wonderful! Thanks, CWJ.
Hi, cjw.
I have always loved the boy Handel’s masterpiece at full volume and this was superb. Nonetheless, I have my ticket for Mrs M and her chums’ interpretation thereof by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Choir in the Usher Hall next Thursday. She assures me that it can be just as powerful without big battalions of singers. I’ll let you know.
Enjoy your Usher Hall performance! There is something about the “impromptu” nature of the Company just mingling in the crowd and suddenly belting out the stuff which appeals to me. I had posted another example to my coldwaterjohn Blog, but to save you flicking about the place, here is a link to the item itself on youtube – this one involved the Opera Company of Philadelphia “Flash Brindisi” at Reading Terminal Market:
The Yanks are so much better than we are at such gatherings. During my Vermont days, the firm’s owner only had to announce a ‘picnic’ and an event appeared out of nowhere.
It wasn’t written for ‘n’ thousand voices. It was written for about 20 voices and a chamber group.
I have heard it done thus in Dallas on antique instruments of the period. I found it far more haunting and attractive.
Fantastic, every store and shopping mall should do this, wonderful.
I suspect about twenty voices would be lost in Macy’s Philadelphia’s 157,940 sq feet…
Terrific – I loved it. A great work for all seasons!
I love these random singing events. I can guarantee it that Handel would have been thrilled.