A Choir Calling
Monday June 5, 2006
Recently, I've been listening to my old choir CD's reminiscing and appreciating the great memories and music. Choir music gives me a completely different feeling than a string quartet for instance. Perhaps its because for nine years of my life, I was singing in a choir or two. I joined choir because I loved to sing... I had no idea that my love of singing would one day lead me to perform the Brahms Requiem with the New York Philharmonic. As I was thinking of the opportunities presented to me, I do owe a great deal of thanks to my alma mater, Westminster Choir College of Rider University. I don't know of any other school in which performing with the New York Philharmonic or the Philadelphia Orchestra is as a regular routine as brushing your teeth. For those of you interested in getting a degree in music, or if your in the New York metropolitan area looking for a good choir performance, keep Westminster in mind.
Comments
Sounds like a wonderful way to spend your college career. There is nothing on earth compared to singing in a choir. In fact, that’s what I hope to do, God willing, when I get to Heaven.
I love choral music. While in high school, I began my love for choral music. It has become one of my musical lifetime loves. I collect choral cds, especially Morman Taberncale Choir. I think I have almost all the recordings they have done and I’m not even Mormon. Unfortunately, I no longer sing very well as I am an asthmatic and various bouts with the disease have affected my ability to vocalize. I truly miss the ability to sing, but I still can hear so that will have to do.
Lea in WI
As an undergrad music major, some of my fondest memories of making music in the choir were singing in performances of The Grand Mass by Mozart, The Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky, and the German Requiem by Brahms! I consider all three of those choral works to be “precious gems” of music.