It started so lovely - steady, smooth, reverent. What on earth happened in the middle? Instead of intensity and focus we got excess speed, vibrato, off-track vowels, and voices popping out all over the place. DON’T DO THAT. You completely lose ensemble when you do that. It also has a tendency to take the grace out of the accompanist. Speaking of which - good lord this isn’t a march dude - take it easy on those quarters! Straight quarters can have beauty too, you know. And I’m sorry but that last “and be staid” was a total train wreck. Why? Two reasons 1) unless you’re 200% sure every singer is totally on the stick, varying the tempo so broadly like that eventually will bite you in the end. And it did because 2) there wasn’t a stable tempo - that nasty false cue didn’t help - it only exposed the fact SOMEBODY WASN’T WATCHING and launched a sibilant about a week before everyone else. The only thing all of you should have been doing was watching for three (3!) deftly executed cues to end the piece. None of that happened. Singers - get your ill-prepared head out of your damn score! Someone shouldn’t be asked back next year.
oh my.... the middle section got butchered..... easy, easy, easy. pianist needs to learn how to make music out of repeating notes... there's a line there. it's not just bang. bang. bang. bang.
Really, really lovely performance! So often, with this piece, the text is not supported by the interp, or, its not attended to. This is Exceptionally Wonderful. Excellent vocal production, awesome use of dynamics, and an amazing interp Thank you for an Awesome performance 😎😎😎
This song makes me think of two things depending on te accompaniment, if the accompaniment is played by strings, I think of a starlit nighttime dance with a pretty lady, but if it’s played on piano like here, I think of a mother holding her baby on a nice summer night, with the window open and a nice cool breeze blowing through the room
