Redshirt no more

[clarentine]

Today, I had a walk-on character hijack the scene, and he's now camped out, determined not to be left out of the fun.

Here's hoping that my current POV character doesn't get upstaged. The new guy has potential.

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[ter369.livejournal.com]

Tallis Scholars!




that's all ...

[clarentine]

::grin::

I'm writing about people who are believers, and there's an element of religious belief in some of what they're doing, so it's useful music. And it has a huge plus in that I don't understand Latin. (For some reason, I find myself distracted more easily by lyrics in languages I understand. Music's sort of white noise, otherwise, to maintain a mood.)

I've got the 25th anniversary collection. Lovely stuff.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

There was a 500th Tallis anniversary symposium in Houston in 2005. I went to the concert at the end of the scholarly events, held in a convent's chapel. They did truly obscure pieces in new performing editions. The real joy was simply the unamplified human voice, plus the fact that hundreds of listeners trekked into the forest on a misty November night for ancient music. I find that regardless of the text's original purpose, the devotion to the art, both presenters and listeners, can be a sacred experience.

[clarentine]

::nod:: I really enjoy good choral music. Carry-over from childhood choral training, perhaps, though I was not all that good. I imagine the event you describe was pretty damned amazing.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

I imagine the event you describe was pretty damned amazing.

They did one piece that calls for 40 voices, in 8 groups of 5 parts, which was the centerpiece -- or actually, the book ends, as they did it at the opening and again for the closing. The Houston Chamber Choir was augmented by university groups just for that.

Thanks to that concert, which I found out about through a tiny ad in another event's program, I found the other early music groups in Houston through their ads in the program.