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RE: Introducing the Verdigris Ensemble - The non-profit professional choir I have been terrified to share with the world
Awesome stuff. You have a great road ahead of you. Do you chant psalms? There are some beautiful antiphons from the Church that have been lost to modern liturgical... ahem. sensibilities... hahaha
I wish there was talent like this in my small neck of the woods. You are very lucky.
Hahaha! Yes we do chant psalms. Which ones are you favorite? Maybe we could record a few and send it along!
Thanks for your support.
I'm working thru the Lumen Christi series by Adam Bartlett. Brilliant stuff, making chant accessible for once. People have just never TRIED the stuff, and they say it is impossible. Far from it. The traditional psalm tones in harmony are just.... haunting. I'm gonna start recording some of them myself, multitracking it. They need more exposure.
Please make sure to send me recordings if you do record some stuff. Chant is very difficult with a choir, but singing it on your own is pretty doable. I love performing chant in live acoustical spaces because the natural dissonances and harmonies really shine from the reverberation.
Definitely check out James Jordan's "Discovering Chant." Lots of really good guidelines on chant singing. Also, you should take a look at the Liber Usualis.
I'll be following you and your group closely. I'm glad I stumbled across you yesterday!
Will check out both. I've glanced at the LU, which I got from Corpus Christi Watershed, but never really studied it... The Lumen Christi Simple Gradual is really nice... like 10 mass settings. Using chant as functional music forces us to concentrate on English for the moment, and Bartlett's series is such a great doorway into the whole chant/polyphony world.
Thanks! Just followed you back.