MUSIC SHARING TIME.
Okay! Like I promised, I'm going to share a few songs. This is a very eclectic range of music, but I hope that you'll try listening to something new. I started off with some singer-songwriters, but I provided you with lots of classical music and choral works, this time. I highly recommend everything. I threw in the works by Whitacre that I mentioned a while ago, miss Joana. And an opera piece!
"Fake Yer Death" by Orion Rigel Dommisse. She's not very well known yet, but I promise that she'll be big in the pseudo-goth-sort-of-like-Voltaire-or-Emilie-Autumn scene. Her songs have macabre themes, and her voice is really beautiful. I have no idea who plays strings for her, but the ensemble kicks ass. "Fake Yer Death", in particular, features Orion only with strings. Simply beautiful and haunting stuff.
"Foundations" by Kate Nash. I love this girl. Most of her lyrics are hilarious, and her music is catchy. I love her British accent. 8D I love "Foundations" because the verses make me laugh, and the chorus is actually somewhat meaningful. She's a great musician and storyteller.
"Blue Wind/Don't Do Sadness" from Spring Awakening. Okay, okay. A few of you on my F-list are reading this and scrolling past it, 'cause I already shared it with you. But for the rest of you! Spring Awakening is the latest alternative phenomenon to hit Broadway. Read the synopsis, do what you like, but know that the music is amazing. This song was featured on a commercial for the show, and the man who I really wouldn't mind marrying (John Gallagher Jr) sings and plays Moritz, the male voice. The girl singing is Lauren Pritchard, but I still like John 10000x more than her.
"Lux Aurumque" and "Sleep" by Eric Whitacre. Please ignore the incorrect labelling for the next few songs. It's certainly not anything by the rock band Breaking Benjamin. UHM. "Lux" is the first and only song to make me cry. Right in the middle of singing it in a 250-person choir, no less. "Sleep" was a piece that was supposed to be written for Robert Frost's famous poem of the same title, but Frosts' family didn't permit it, so. They put a new poem to it. Beautiful choral pieces, composed by Whitacre the Wonderful. And yeah, I'm the only one who calls him this.
"Under the Willow Tree" from the opera Vanessa. Note that this is a choral arrangement of the original. This is an all-boys choir, and they're really awesome singers. We're singing this song in chorus, and I love it.
"Vois Sur Ton Chemin" from the movie Les Choristes. This movie has become a favorite of mine, despite my weakening relationship with the French language. It's a very moving and cute movie, and you all really need to see it. This song is, yet again, sang only by young males. It's really pretty.
"Os Iusti" by The Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos. Merely thrown in here to make you all proclaim "WTF." I've sang this text to different music before. Now, monks chant it! It's cool stuff.
"Suite for Solo Cello No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: I. Prélude" by Johann Sebastion Bach BUT BUT BUT played by Yo-Yo Ma. Kickass classical music.
"Chansons Madecasses II - Aoua!" by Maurice Ravel. Chaotic quartet composed of a flute, a piano, a cello, and a soprano with a set of amazing pipes. Creepy and boisterous and in french.
"The Light that is Felt" by Charles Ives. I sang this for NYSSMA a few years back. Really pretty song.
Edit; Took the username littepreludes for future music-sharing purposes, but I like the name so much that I would totally use it for my personal journal, if I could. D: Don't really feel like moving when I don't have to, though. I still want a rename token and paid account, regardless. ;.;
"Fake Yer Death" by Orion Rigel Dommisse. She's not very well known yet, but I promise that she'll be big in the pseudo-goth-sort-of-like-Voltaire-or-Emilie-Autumn scene. Her songs have macabre themes, and her voice is really beautiful. I have no idea who plays strings for her, but the ensemble kicks ass. "Fake Yer Death", in particular, features Orion only with strings. Simply beautiful and haunting stuff.
"Foundations" by Kate Nash. I love this girl. Most of her lyrics are hilarious, and her music is catchy. I love her British accent. 8D I love "Foundations" because the verses make me laugh, and the chorus is actually somewhat meaningful. She's a great musician and storyteller.
"Blue Wind/Don't Do Sadness" from Spring Awakening. Okay, okay. A few of you on my F-list are reading this and scrolling past it, 'cause I already shared it with you. But for the rest of you! Spring Awakening is the latest alternative phenomenon to hit Broadway. Read the synopsis, do what you like, but know that the music is amazing. This song was featured on a commercial for the show, and the man who I really wouldn't mind marrying (John Gallagher Jr) sings and plays Moritz, the male voice. The girl singing is Lauren Pritchard, but I still like John 10000x more than her.
"Lux Aurumque" and "Sleep" by Eric Whitacre. Please ignore the incorrect labelling for the next few songs. It's certainly not anything by the rock band Breaking Benjamin. UHM. "Lux" is the first and only song to make me cry. Right in the middle of singing it in a 250-person choir, no less. "Sleep" was a piece that was supposed to be written for Robert Frost's famous poem of the same title, but Frosts' family didn't permit it, so. They put a new poem to it. Beautiful choral pieces, composed by Whitacre the Wonderful. And yeah, I'm the only one who calls him this.
"Under the Willow Tree" from the opera Vanessa. Note that this is a choral arrangement of the original. This is an all-boys choir, and they're really awesome singers. We're singing this song in chorus, and I love it.
"Vois Sur Ton Chemin" from the movie Les Choristes. This movie has become a favorite of mine, despite my weakening relationship with the French language. It's a very moving and cute movie, and you all really need to see it. This song is, yet again, sang only by young males. It's really pretty.
"Os Iusti" by The Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos. Merely thrown in here to make you all proclaim "WTF." I've sang this text to different music before. Now, monks chant it! It's cool stuff.
"Suite for Solo Cello No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: I. Prélude" by Johann Sebastion Bach BUT BUT BUT played by Yo-Yo Ma. Kickass classical music.
"Chansons Madecasses II - Aoua!" by Maurice Ravel. Chaotic quartet composed of a flute, a piano, a cello, and a soprano with a set of amazing pipes. Creepy and boisterous and in french.
"The Light that is Felt" by Charles Ives. I sang this for NYSSMA a few years back. Really pretty song.
Edit; Took the username littepreludes for future music-sharing purposes, but I like the name so much that I would totally use it for my personal journal, if I could. D: Don't really feel like moving when I don't have to, though. I still want a rename token and paid account, regardless. ;.;