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SKYLAB CHAT
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skylab
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Hey Miss B 
Handel's Messiah is on my search list of upcoming selections In my younger years I tried to attend live performances of Messiah whenever they were held...always a holiday favorite for me And the contemporary selections in post #5557 were always favorites as well. I remember when Mary Did You Know was released...someone brought the tape to rehearsal and the song leader asked if I would chord the song for the team and help teach it to everyone for the following morning's service Together we did it, hot off the press, with no song sheets for the musicians....they just followed me out on a limb and we all made it without having a train wreck...haha.
Handel's Messiah is on my search list of upcoming selections In my younger years I tried to attend live performances of Messiah whenever they were held...always a holiday favorite for me And the contemporary selections in post #5557 were always favorites as well. I remember when Mary Did You Know was released...someone brought the tape to rehearsal and the song leader asked if I would chord the song for the team and help teach it to everyone for the following morning's service Together we did it, hot off the press, with no song sheets for the musicians....they just followed me out on a limb and we all made it without having a train wreck...haha.
skylab
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I'll go ahead and post this one tonight...it's called Handel's Young Messiah. I saw the live performance back in 1990. At that time this was considered very contemporary...mostly it's just an upbeat version of the songs from the traditional Messiah. I liked the instrumentals a lot, and the performances by Matthew Ward (Comfort Ye), Sheila Walsh, Russ Taff (He Shall Feed His Flock), and Cynthia Clawson (I Know That My Redeemer Liveth), and I love all the choral parts...usually I like any choir singing However, some of the songs that were originally intended to be solos or choral renderings that were done instead by groups, or sometimes weak soloists, always left me with a bit of a twitch when I'd hear them...haha. When I saw the live performance Sandi Patty did the high solos, and she had no trouble doing them with energy and strength...it was a wonderful performance. It was interesting to see such a short lady command such strength on stage...when she walked through a crowd, they tended to part like the Red Sea...haha. The ladies in the choir in this video appear to have purplish-pink tops...but it's a trick with the lighting...the blouses are actually colorless, and reflective like aluminum foil would be, and any color they appear to have is entirely from the lighting.
Tomorrow I'll try to find some decent traditional Messiah videos, and post them Hope this will do for now...I knew where this was located, so didn't have to do a deep search in order to find it.
However, some of the songs that were originally intended to be solos or choral renderings that were done instead by groups, or sometimes weak soloists, always left me with a bit of a twitch when I'd hear them...haha. When I saw the live performance Sandi Patty did the high solos, and she had no trouble doing them with energy and strength...it was a wonderful performance. It was interesting to see such a short lady command such strength on stage...when she walked through a crowd, they tended to part like the Red Sea...haha. The ladies in the choir in this video appear to have purplish-pink tops...but it's a trick with the lighting...the blouses are actually colorless, and reflective like aluminum foil would be, and any color they appear to have is entirely from the lighting. Tomorrow I'll try to find some decent traditional Messiah videos, and post them
Hope this will do for now...I knew where this was located, so didn't have to do a deep search in order to find it.
We only did one other number from Messiah, but I don't recall off-hand which one it was. I know we also did a couple of other performances during the school year, but Hallelujah Chorus was always the one we did extremely well. I think it's because we all enjoyed singing it. Sheesh, now I'm going to have it running around in my head the rest of the night.Hey Miss B
skylab
Esteemed
I found one of Sandi Patty doing the contemporary Hallelujah Chorus...you can hear the training and strength, and at the same time, she's totally relaxed as if it is effortless. And in He Shall Feed His Flock done during the live performance tour, she's really holding back so as not to blow Steven Curtis Chapman right off the stage....haha.
skylab
Esteemed
Here you go...and I can tell this version has gotten off to a good start...that is, every instrument is flawlessly tuned correctly, and though the size of the orchestra and chorus is small by today's standards, it is appropriate for the size choral performance for which Messiah was written. This is a Nederlands Choir (my grandfather would be pleased).
WOW, thank you for that Sky. I've never heard a contemporary version of Hallelujah Chorus before, so it was definitely enlightening, and very enjoyable.
