Libera Dreams

liberavieve wrote: Whenever I see 'Come, Sing at St George's!' I can't help but hear it as a cheesy television jingle sung by overly-happy choristers— not unlike Will Dutton in the SoP video of 'Happiness' with Ken Dodd, actually!

You know of the great Ken Dodd? Hmmh, I think I'd wrongly assumed that you were from the US

liberavieve wrote:And, boy; how I wish I'd had the opportunity, as a child, to attend a school like St George's on a choristership. These behind-the-scenes videos make me more than a bit wistful!

And now confession number two - I thought you were a girl based on your thesis topic No girls allowed at our best choral prep schools

liberavieve wrote:(And would you look at that? It seems that today is Will Dutton's sixteenth birthday! Good timing, Yorkie.)

No such thing as a coincidence. Damn I'm good, but you might just have me beat for picking up on it

BrightEyes wrote: I think it may not matter where you are if there ever is a massive launch. You're probably better to be near a target so it's all over quick. I would hate to die slowly and watch the world struggle to survive after such a disaster.

Run Yorkie. Run towards that mushroom cloud

Mentioned in another thread. Westminster Cathedral Choir.

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Keeping on the Missa Brevis theme, one of my top three favourite choirs - New College Oxford (well it was new when it was founded in 1379 )

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BrightEyes wrote:

Wow you have some great memories of that time.... come to think of it, that must have been a really scary thing to live through. I saw the movie "Matinee" with John Goodman and that gave a sense of the hysteria that must have been everywhere. I also saw "Thirteen Days" with Kevin Costner. We really came close to blowing up the planet!

Actually, not quite. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union the Russians revealed that they only had 12 more or less functioning ICBMs in 1962. They hadn't developed in-flight refueling so their bombers couldn't reach the US. In the event of conflict they would have fared very poorly. They could have made a mess of Europe though.

So I had to cheat and use Google to look up Tully Bascom (sp?) and I guess it was the character Peter Sellers played in "The Mouse that Roared", and I know he was in Dr. Strangelove. My favorite role of his was Inspector Clouseau. I always liked the Pink Panther movies.

In the movie Tully was the Sargent - at - arms of the Grand Duchy of Fenwick, an English speaking long forgotten tiny country somewhere near France. Fenwick was in dire economic straits because a California wine using the name of their main product was crimping on the sales of their wine, so they decided to declare war and lose so they could get lots of American aid. Tully arrived in New York for the purposes of surrendering exactly at the time that the city was conducting a fallout drill because a professor was activating his new invention the "Q bomb", the most powerful weapon ever. By luck Tully manages to capture the bomb, the professor and his daugther and take them back to Fenwick. There the Grand Duchess (Sellers) and the Prime Minister (Sellers) are aghast that he's botched the job and won the war. Diplomats and press from around the world appear at their border. Tully falls in love with the professor's daughter. She wants the thing disassembled. The Prime Minister secretly tries to auction the thing off. The Grand Dutchess just wants to give the thing back and apologise. At the climax the various Fenwickians and diplomats fight over it and the fight evolves into a sort of macabre football match. (The Q bomb looks just like a football.) Eventually the bomb starts making ominous noises. They all stop in horror ..... and then nothing, its lights go out. Fenwick decides that the right thing to do is to keep it in the possession of the world's smallest countries because they're not involved in the great conflicts of the world. As the movie ends a baby chick crawls out of the bomb and its ;lights come back on.

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BrightEyes wrote:

Wow you have some great memories of that time.... come to think of it, that must have been a really scary thing to live through. I saw the movie "Matinee" with John Goodman and that gave a sense of the hysteria that must have been everywhere. I also saw "Thirteen Days" with Kevin Costner. We really came close to blowing up the planet!

Actually, not quite. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union the Russians revealed that they only had 12 more or less functioning ICBMs in 1962. They hadn't developed in-flight refueling so their bombers couldn't reach the US. In the event of conflict they would have fared very poorly. They could have made a mess of Europe though.

So I had to cheat and use Google to look up Tully Bascom (sp?) and I guess it was the character Peter Sellers played in "The Mouse that Roared", and I know he was in Dr. Strangelove. My favorite role of his was Inspector Clouseau. I always liked the Pink Panther movies.

In the movie Tully was the Sargent - at - arms of the Grand Duchy of Fenwick, an English speaking long forgotten tiny country somewhere near France. Fenwick was in dire economic straits because a California wine using the name of their main product was crimping on the sales of their wine, so they decided to declare war and lose so they could get lots of American aid. Tully arrived in New York for the purposes of surrendering exactly at the time that the city was conducting a fallout drill because a professor was activating his new invention the "Q bomb", the most powerful weapon ever. By luck Tully manages to capture the bomb, the professor and his daugther and take them back to Fenwick. There the Grand Duchess (Sellers) and the Prime Minister (Sellers) are aghast that he's botched the job and won the war. Diplomats and press from around the world appear at their border. Tully falls in love with the professor's daughter. She wants the thing disassembled. The Prime Minister secretly tries to auction the thing off. The Grand Dutchess just wants to give the thing back and apologise. At the climax the various Fenwickians and diplomats fight over it and the fight evolves into a sort of macabre football match. (The Q bomb looks just like a football.) Eventually the bomb starts making ominous noises. They all stop in horror ..... and then nothing, its lights go out. Fenwick decides that the right thing to do is to keep it in the possession of the world's smallest countries because they're not involved in the great conflicts of the world. As the movie ends a baby chick crawls out of the bomb and its ;lights come back on.

Well that makes me feel a little better. So the Russians were just bluffing? Causing innocent schoolkids to dive under desks in mortal terror? I was born in midst of all that chaos, but of course I don't remember any of it.

I'll have to check out that movie the next time it's on. I know TCM shows it now and again. And I remember in Dr. Strangelove when Slim Pickens rides the bomb down like a bronco! Scary times the cold war!

Yorkie wrote:

BrightEyes wrote: I think it may not matter where you are if there ever is a massive launch. You're probably better to be near a target so it's all over quick. I would hate to die slowly and watch the world struggle to survive after such a disaster.

Run Yorkie. Run towards that mushroom cloud

Well I would just sit in my room and listen to Libera on my iPod until:

A: I was vaporized

Or

B: The iPod batteries run out and I can't recharge it cause the power is out for the rest of time

Of course if I didn't have my iPod I might have to run into the mushroom cloud with you!

I had a dream during the CMC. The air raid sirens would sound, the teacher told us to go home. I started walking up the hill towards home and glanced over my shoulder to see a tiny speck in the sky. I could see that it was moving, so I picked up the pace. As I ran I glanced back over my shoulder and the speck was closer, so I ran more, then looked over my shoulder again, I could see the speck was sort of conical and it was definitely descending in my general direction. I ran harder, then there would be a flash - and I'd wake up.

A boy singer who most members of the forum will probably know is Troye Sivan from Australia. I liked some of his earlier videos and the clear passion he shows in them for music and singing. I was wondering what he was up to now and hadn't realised his voice might have broken by now, but it has. Sad though this is, it's great to see him still singing and enjoying it, as this lovely example below shows. There's also a recent clip of him singing a Britney Spears song where he looks so much older and grown-up than how I remembered him - but I'm not too fond of the song so I chose to post this one I think this clip right here showcases what a smooth and delicate voice his new voice is... Pity it's only a fragment, hope he'll upload some full songs soon... Anyways, enjoy

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I think that I saw the St Thomas Choir of Men and Boys mentioned earlier in this thread. The choir is based out of New York's St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue and is, I believe, unique in the United States as the only church choir affiliated with a boarding choir school.

The choir takes its cues from the Anglican tradition of collegiate and cathedral choirs and is currently under the direction of John Scott, who came to New York from St Paul's Cathedral, where he was also director.

Youtube doesn't yield much on the choir, video-wise, but the church provides streams of all of its choral services on its website, and you can listen in ((here)), navigating with the calendar near the top right of the page.

At Christmastime, I was lucky enough to catch one of St Thomas' lessons and carols services, and it was really just stunning. Very similar to this year's service from King's College. That particular service is ((here)). There's quite a lot of organ prelude at the start of it, and I'm not quire sure how to advance through to the tolling of the 11 o'clock bells that will let you know that the carols have begun, but it's worth waiting for. The familiar "Once in Royal David's City" solo, I'll admit, choked me up a bit at the start.

And this, according to a rather cranky parishioner sitting behind me, was the choir in a bad year!

Speaking of non-English choirs 'in the Anglican tradition,' here are a few offerings by the Roder Jongenskoor, a Dutch choir of men and boys who do much of their singing in English.

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liberavieve wrote:
I think that I saw the St Thomas Choir of Men and Boys mentioned earlier in this thread. The choir is based out of New York's St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue and is, I believe, unique in the United States as the only church choir affiliated with a boarding choir school.

The choir takes its cues from the Anglican tradition of collegiate and cathedral choirs and is currently under the direction of John Scott, who came to New York from St Paul's Cathedral, where he was also director.

Youtube doesn't yield much on the choir, video-wise, but the church provides streams of all of its choral services on its website, and you can listen in ((here)), navigating with the calendar near the top right of the page.

At Christmastime, I was lucky enough to catch one of St Thomas' lessons and carols services, and it was really just stunning. Very similar to this year's service from King's College. That particular service is ((here)). There's quite a lot of organ prelude at the start of it, and I'm not quire sure how to advance through to the tolling of the 11 o'clock bells that will let you know that the carols have begun, but it's worth waiting for. The familiar "Once in Royal David's City" solo, I'll admit, choked me up a bit at the start.

And this, according to a rather cranky parishioner sitting behind me, was the choir in a bad year!

Loving St Thomas' and thanks for the heads up about the online broadcast. The Once in Royal David's City starts at 18:40. My only criticism is that they sited the mike too far from the choir and too close to the organ. Interesting carol selection, many are new to me. I listened to one of the previous festival recordings (18th December I think) and they had a lovely one set to the tune of Greensleeves that I haven't heard since I was a kid.

Yorkie wrote:Loving St Thomas' and thanks for the heads up about the online broadcast. The Once in Royal David's City starts at 18:40. My only criticism is that they sited the mike too far from the choir and too close to the organ. Interesting carol selection, many are new to me. I listened to one of the previous festival recordings (18th December I think) and they had a lovely one set to the tune of Greensleeves that I haven't heard since I was a kid.

Glad that you're liking them. I wasn't quite sure what to expect going in, having been more familiar, where American choirs were concerned, with a sound closer to that of the American Boychoir, etc; but it really was gorgeous, and the choir was lovely.

It is a shame about the microphone; but on the light side of that, it meant being able to hear the treble solo at the beginning, even on the recording. I hadn't expected that.

I really like this song! This is the song I'll now be singing for the talent show as a duet!

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It's called Season's of Love.. I'm sure some of ya'll have heard it..
I have to do all those crazy notes at the end.. it should be fun!

EDIT: After listening to this again, it's not the Glee cast singing, it's the cast from Rent.

I think this lad has a wonderfull voice. He hits some top notes.

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