ECC Chorale, Concert Choir, & Women's Chorus 6-4-23

Описание: Here is a concert video of a performance by the Chorale, Concert Choir, Women's Chorus, and a combination of all 3, of El Camino. The evening's music consists of pieces written by John Rutter, Giuseppe Pitoni, Duke Ellington, and including a traditional Swedish Folk Song. It starts off with Requiem by John Rutter in full, all 7 movements.
This was a pretty tight venue, the other concerts had me filming from a balcony, which gave me distance from the audience and better sound. This time I had to work from within the audience, so there will be some room noises, mixed levels and random sounds, but I tried to fix some of that. In parts I had to run the same track in layers to get the dynamic range in sound back, some parts blew my recorder's mic, leading to some clipping too and clever work arounds. Other than that, I thought it came out pretty good!
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Some of the people involved:
The performance was co-directed by Joanna Medawar Nachef. She has toured all over the world, including Canada, the US, Lebanon, and Vienna, and conducting in prestigious events and venues such as Carnegie Hall, Al Bustan Summer Festival, "Beirut Chants Festival", and the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra. She is also a speaker and "Citizen Diplomat" for the US State Department. Dr. Nachef has also received numerous lifetime achievement and prestigious awards, including the Daughters of the American Revolution's 2015 State Americanism Medal, El Camino College's Distinguished Faculty Award 2014-2015, featured in 2017 Book "100 Influential Lebanese Figures Around the World", and the first recipient of TPAC 2019 "Peace and Harmony" Award.
The performance was also co-directed by Soyun Kang. She has studied under Albert J McNeil, Jane Hardester, Lynn Bielefelt, Robert Page, and Charlene Archibeque. She is serving as a church choir director since 1990 in Davis, Torrance, Anaheim, San Jose, and Brea. She also seres as an associate conductor at the Los Angeles Chamber Choir
Sharing the duties of piano, is special guest Alin Melik-Adamyan, a prize-winning collaborative artist, soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has won first place at the Los Angeles Liszt International Competition, and at the William Grant Sill Young Artists Competition. She has played with the Los Angeles Master Chorale in Walt Disney Concert Hall, with LA Philharmonic Concertmaster Martin Chalifour, LA Phil Principal Clarinet Boris Allakhverdyan, cellist Coleman Itzkoff as the Amicus Duo, cellist Taeguk Mun, and many others
Also on the piano/organ is Kenner Bailey. While still in jr high school, he was accepted as a special music student to Truman State University. His mentor was Frederick Kirchberger, a protégé of the great pianist Erno von Dohnanyi.
And we also had a guest soloist fill in for someone for Requiem, Joslyn Sarshad. Coming from Boulder CO, she's been in the LA/OC scene for 10 years. She has been first soprano in Orange County's Pacific Chorale and the Cogitatio Chorale. She is also an instructor of voice, piano and guitar!
Enjoy!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 SET 1 Combined Chorus
01:05 Intro
03:00 Requiem by John Rutter Suite: I. Requiem Aeternam
08:27 II. Out of The Deep
14:00 iii. Pie Jesus (Soloist: Joslyn Sarshad)
17:44 IV. Sanctus
19:58 V. Agnus Dei
25:17 VI. The Lord Is My Sheperd
29:43 VII. Lux Aeterna (Soloist: Joslyn Sarshad)
36:24 Get to know the Soloist and instrumentalists
39:49 SET 2 Concert Choir
41:05 Cantate Domino by Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni
42:48 How Do You Keep The Music Playing by Michel Legrand / Arr. Alan Billingsley
47:01 Jamaican Market Place by Larry Farrow (Soloists: Marissa Klug and Mariella Lagman)
50:44 He'll Make a Way by Byron Smith (Soloist: Vincent Edrain)
56:34 SET 3 Women's Chorus
56:56 Art Thou Troubled? by George F. Handel / ed. Jean Ashworth Bartle
59:54 Shenandoah (American Folk Song) arr. James Erb
1:03:35 Wood River by Connie Kaldor / arr. Willi Zwozdesky (Soloist: Michell Idell)
1:07:10 Ride on, King Jesus (traditional Spiritual) Arr. Moses Hogan (Soloists: Christina Yoon, and Clare Jacobs)
1:10:45 SET 4 Chorale
1:12:43 The Seal Lullaby by Eric Whitacre
1:18:09 Reading of I Dream a World by Langston Hughes
1:19:33 I Dream A World by Rosephanye Powell
1:23:55 Who Can Sail? (Traditional Swedish Folk Song) Arr. Ginger Littleton
1:27:50 Mood Indigo by Duke Ellington & Barney Bigard / arr. Harry Simeone
1:23:02 Gershiwn! A Concert Panorama by George Gershwin / arr. John Higgins (Soloists: Isabella Rivero, David Contreras, Jaqueline Keller, Nathaniel Smith)
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Filmed at El Camino College in Torrance, CA
Equipment:
Lumix G9
Lumix G7
Lumix GX85/80
Zoom H1n
Lenses:
45-150mm x2
45-200mm
Software: Shotcut
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