CHORantine
By Eric Christopher Perry (ECP)
CHORantine May 20, 2022
E66: Go Goldy!
ecp is back and sharing some thoughts about CHORantine's future, new directions, and maybe even a new name? He's also enamored by a local car commercial jingle. Recorded from a Best Western in Charleston, West Virginia.
E65: Gimme That Shot!
Vaccinations are flying and so are the pandemic parodies. Shannon Rose McAuliffe and David Kravitz return with another "Shay-D Pasquinades" take on "Seasons of Love" from Rent.
Also heard:
Want to be on the show? Show ideas? Drop a line! ecp@ecpmusic.com. Visit our website: www.chorantine.org.
E64: You'll Never Walk Alone
Like everyone else, ecp spends a little time on the year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, reluctantly. Back to work, sort of. Excited and optimistic but aware of the perpetual danger and doom. A little time on ecp's own walk with the virus in early February. Curious about when and how people move out of Zoom and into real life. And unbelievable singing by Patti LaBelle. That's what's happening, baby.
Music Heard Today
Bob Hope and Shirley Ross – Thanks for the Memory (1938)
The Young Philosophers Club – Hope
No Use Cryin' – Selvins Orchestra
Patti LaBelle and the BlueBelles – You'll Never Walk Alone
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E63a: Woke Up This Morning
ecp sings traditional spiritual "Woke Up This Morning" as part of a celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Colby College. For the full service:
Virtual Event led by the Rev. Kate Smanik, Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life, the Rev. Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, and Jamya Brown, ‘22, President of Students Organized for Black and Latinx Unity.
Members of Choirs at Colby provide musical selections.
E63: Joanne Rogers (1929-2021)
In memory of Joanne Rogers (1929-2021), concert pianist, recording artist, arts advocate, and occasional TV guest musician.
TedWomen 2018: Showing Up – TedxPittsburghWomen - Joanne Rogers: "Make Goodness Attractive"
E62: You Say You Want a RevoKNUTtion
ecp went cassette scrounging at Electric Buddahs in Portland, Maine, and found an old tape of Military Musick of the American Revolution from 1989. It feels all too familiar in 2021.
Music and Articles:
"Military Musick of the American Revolution Containing Drum Signals and Camp Duties with a Choice Collection of Celebrated Marches and Airs Performed" by the Fifes and Drums of the Brigade of the American Revolution. Albany, New York.
Revolution Void - Someone Else's Memories
Food Will Win The War - Lie Awake live at WMFU New Jersey/New York
E61: Movin' To The Country
Music and Articles:
Piers Barber from Music Factory Number One: "Revisiting The Honey Drippers 'Impeach the President.'"
The Honey Drippers: Impeach the President
Washington Post: Impeachment Polka
Randy Rainbow: Sedition!
Mother Jones: Soundtrack for Impeachment
Revolution Void
E60: Moonset
ecp embraces midwinter darkness with Don Macdonald's "Moonset," performed by Vancouver's Musica Intima.
E59: Rats!
ecp reads some good news about a Ratatouille-inspired TikTok musical that's getting a ton of press! And raising money for a great cause.
Musical Selections and Stories:
CNN: "Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical aims to cook up first-of-its-kind fun."
Adeline Francis reads "The Mouse and the Thomas Cat"
How To Make A Perfect Ratatouille
E58: What Is Trivial?
Today's Music and Sources:
Jeopardy Cat Music
Jeopardy Theme Music Trap Remix by OMGItzChillBill
Yung Kartz: Jeopardy
Retrigger: EZ Money
Ketsa: Memory
Hope and Social: People Change
CBC: Facts About Jeopardy Theme
Sounds of the NBC Chimes
Jingle Hall of Fame
www.chorantine.org
E57: Liberty
ecp reads poems from Frank Lebby Stanton, Georgia's first Poet Laureate, and shares musical settings of his poetry by Amy Beach.
Stanton - One Country
A Song of Liberty: https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=70814
Stanton - A Song of Liberty
Amy Beach: A Song of Liberty
A Song of Liberty performed by Minnesota Valley Chorale
E56: Georgia On All Of Our Minds
ECP salivates over sweet, sweet Georgia delicacies. And some Georgia based songs.
Featured:
Georgia On My Mind: Fortissimo, Dilworth School's men's ensemble (Auckland, New Zealand)
from the 2019 Big Sing Festival. Performance found on YouTube HERE.
Georgia by the Peerless Quartet
Song by Walter Donaldson and Howard E. Johnson
Sheet music archived at UMaine HERE
E55: Make Me An Instrument, Send Me A Cassette Tape
ECP bought a new toy he's so excited to share with the podcast. Now calling for old cassette tapes! ecp@ecpmusic.com
Today featuring "Make Me An Instrument" by Lynn Michael Coffey (1953-2003), taken from an old tape and converted to MP3. Also, is the New Year a new year?
E:54 Car-nversations – 12 March 2020
E43: Make A Pancake Joke, But Seriously...
E42: Enescu, the Pandispan Cu Fructe
A birthday celebration for one of ECP's closest friends in the form of Romanian composer George Enescu (1881-1955) and numerous failed attempts at pronunciation of Romanian meals. ECP's first tripe soup.
E41: Taps and Tapped Out
ECP forgot it was Memorial Day, ashamedly. How many battles are we fighting right now?
E38: American Idle Pt. III: Slugworth and the Sneaky Pipeline
E37: American Idle Pt. II – Staying Home Since 2002
E36: American Idle Pt. I – Mamma Mia Let Me Go
This week on CHORantine we take a glance at pop culture's response to content creation and open up the phones for YOUR ideas and know-how. Just because America is on pause doesn't mean we have to be, necessarily.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/11/american-idol-is-shooting-on-iphones-amid-stay-at-home-orders/
https://www.soundslikenashville.com/news/american-idol-mothers-day-disney-2020/
Also, CHORantine's website is up and running! www.chorantine.org
E35: Pumpkins, Houses, and "The Webinar" – Yet Another Response
ECP spins allegorical about devastating news heard about the state of choral singing this week. Not that anyone needs another opinion about this, but, if you like great British triphop and garden talk...
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa
E34: I'm Still Here
Continued bad news about the state of the choral art in COVIDtimes. Elaine Stritch's performance of Stephen Sondheim's "I'm Still Here" from the White House in 2010 gives us a history lesson, and maybe some hope, that we're going to make it. Both the song and the performance inspires some takeaways. Riiiiise! Riiiiiise! RIIIIIIIIIISE!
For the video:
E33: My Castle's Rockin'
National Appreciation for Nurses today! Featured in today's episode: the music, the voice, and the nursing career of international vocal jazz giant Alberta Hunter (1895-1984). Thank you to all of our nurses keeping us healthy across America and around the world.
E32: Those Who Can
A soliloquy for National Teacher's Day underscored by La ille Morte by famed French composer and teacher of composers Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979).
E31: 54
What else is there to say?
E24: There God Is
Tips about isolation and Gregorian chant by Benedictine nuns in France and Poor Clare nuns in Minnesota. Featuring the Gregorian chant "Ubi caritas."
https://archive.org/details/UbiCaritas
E23: Miles To Go Before I Sleep
Simplicity and complexity: Robert Frost and Randall Thompson – Frostiana
Heard on the episode:
Vermont
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Randall%20Thompson%20Frostiana
An exploration of the journey of the soul.
The Vermont Youth Chorus perform THE ROAD NOT TAKEN from Frostiana by Randall Thompson with a chamber orchestra featuring musicians from the Vermont Youth Orchestra.
Caleb Pillsbury, conductors - Mary Jane Austin, accompanist - broadcast on Regional Educational Television Network, Burlington, VT
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Birch/MUSIC_FOR_TV_FILM__GAMES_VOL1/Frostbite
John C. Hughes Article on Frostiana
https://www.ncco-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/TCS_v5n1_c-Hughes.pdf
anchor.fm/chorantine
E22: Laura
When is love real and when is it not? Is love alone in our mind still love? Petrarch's Canzoniere in music, with settings by Marenzio and Liszt.
Selections:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJlj1uy8cSA
For full Canzoniere: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/Petrarchhome.php
Elderly Man Cries At Cushion Of Wife From Family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPcgW8jKhd8
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E21: No One Is Alone
Back in action! Brief remarks about the Good Friday livestream of Bach's St. John Passion in Benedikt Kristjánsson's incredibly powerful rendition, performed at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany. Must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zwy1Gi4ob4
Also heard: Bio Unit's "You're Not Alone"
E20: Were You There?
A reading from John 12:20, featuring Bob Chilcott's "Were You There" recorded by Festina Cantorum, Daniel Gostin, conductor, Shannon Rose McAuliffe, co-artistic director.
E19: Laments
ECP reflects on Renaissance Men's recording of Thomas Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah and the social, economic, and humanitarian destruction brought by Covid-19.
Bach By One: BWV 245: Johannes-Passion Final Chorale
Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein
Ah Lord, let your dear angels
Am letzten End die Seele mein
at my final hour carry my soul
In Abrahams Schoß tragen,
to Abraham’s bosom,
Den Leib in seim Schlafkämmerlein
while my body in its narrow chamber
Gar sanft ohn eigne Qual und Pein
gently without pain or torment
Ruhn bis am jüngsten Tage!
rests until the last day.
Alsdenn vom Tod erwecke mich,
Wake me then from death,
Dass meine Augen sehen dich
so that my eyes see you
In aller Freud, o Gottes Sohn,
in all joy,o God’s son,
Mein Heiland und Genadenthron!
my saviour and throne of mercy
Herr Jesu Christ, erhöre mich,
Lord Jesus Christ, hear me,
Ich will dich preisen ewiglich!
I shall praise you eternally!
E18: Chag Pesach Sameach
Song of Solomon and Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Selections:
Anima mea liquefacta est / Adiuro vos, Filiae Hierusalem, SWV 263-264/Musicalische Compagney/Schütz: Lamenti et concerti by Musicalische Compagney
Translation found at EmmanuelMusic.org
Sammy's Medley by Eastern Watershed Klezmer Quartet
New York Times article on Schütz by Tommasini: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/arts/music/heinrich-schutz.html
E17: The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
Psalm 118 performed by Festina Cantorum
Daniel Gosten, conductor, Shannon Rose McAuliffe, co-artistic director
E16: Where's Gesualdo?
Springtime sacred holidays and musical culture in the age of social distancing. ECP partook in a state-approved recording session for virtual church last weekend – here is a week's worth of thoughts and recordings from those sessions.
Selections heard in this episode:
Carlo Gesualdo - O vos omnes, recorded by Festina Cantorum, Daniel Gostin, conductor, Shannon Rose McAuliffe, co-artistic director
From the Free Music Archive:
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/TRG_Banks/Return_to_Dreamland/In_search_of_the_lost_dream
Charlie Bit Me Remix!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=pOle1AnPOc4&feature=emb_logo
E15: Zoom REMIIIIIIIIX
E14: Is There A Doctor In The House? Pt. 3: In A Heartbeat
A short, deep dive through the work of Dr. Joseph Leopold Auenbrügger (1722-1809), doctor, prominent author of "percussion" and medicine, and librettist of Antonio Salieri's comic opera, "The Chimney Sweep." Many thanks to Sydney, Australia's Pinchgut Opera and the Orchestra of the Antipodes, Erin Halyard, conductor, Candice Docker, Marketing and Development Executive, for permission to use audio.
E13: You Know What's Coming
...something something...major announcement...something something...
E12: Heav'ns High Paradise
ECP sings a little four part ayre by English composer, poet, and physician Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
E11: Is There A Doctor In The House? Pt. 1
This week, ECP explores doctors + musicians in celebration of International Doctor's Day. Today we feature Dr. Assad Meymandi of UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina – a celebrated physician, author, and philanthropist. While not a performing musician, per say, Dr. Meymandi's writings on music and medicine, as well as his prolific generosity over the course of his lifetime, are unparalleled in American culture today.
For his blog: https://assadmeymandi.wordpress.com/?s=maymand
https://www.waltermagazine.com/people/assad-meymandi-polymath-humanist-philanthropist/
Bach By One: Chorale from BWV 45
Grant that I may do with diligence
what it is proper for me to do,
wherever your command
leads me in my position!
Grant that I may soon do it
at the time when I should do it;
and when I do it, then grant
that it may turn out well!
Chorale from BWv 45 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Orchestra by Suzumidi.com http://www.suzumidi.com/eng/bach6.htm - pick a cantata and give it a try! If you'd like to share your recording, email the MP3 to ecp@ecpmusic.com
https://freesound.org/people/Flying_Deer_Fx/sounds/369404/
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E10: Friend Feature Friday! Vol. 1
Today is the first episode of CHORantine's Friend Feature Friday! On today's episode:
(6:14) Jay Mobley: Isolation – Wer hat dich (J.S. Bach) , performed and produced by Jay Mobley
For more information on Jay Mobley, find his page on Facebook or check out Jay's SoundCloud . Thanks Jay for the submission!
(9:30) Clare Macean: Christ the King, performed by New England vocal ensemble Cappella Nova Mundi, William Kempster, Artistic Director.
For a video of this performance, find it on YouTube here. Thank you to ensemble member Elizabeth Mitchell Bowman for the submission.
Other selections on today's episode include:
"Friends" by Heartwurkz https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Heartwurkz/Horizons/Friends_\
"Hopeful Journey" by Scott Holmes https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Corporate__Motivational_Music_2/2018112270224877
Loops and samples: www.looperman.com
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E09: Ware In The World
Selections heard on today's episode:
Believe by Roa Music | soundcloud.com/roa_music1031
Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
Joy of the Morning Performer: John Barnes Wells; Harriet Ware
Writer: Edwin Markham; Harriet Ware archive.org/details/78_joy-of-the-morning_john-barnes-wells-edwin-markham-harriet-ware_gbia0058701b/Joy+of+the+Morning+-+John+Barnes+Wells+-+Edwin+Markham.flac
Blue Skies by Betty Hutton - Paul Weston and his Orchestra (Irving Berlin) archive.org/details/BlueSkies_201811
Loops and samples: www.looperman.com
Harriet Ware obituary: www.newspapers.com/clip/20812807/harriet_ware_krumbhaar_1962/
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E08: Spring Sonnet Pt. 2 – Brush Up Your Shakespeare!
ECP gets a little carried away with the Shakespeare Generator. Today's selections are all set to the text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 98, "From you have I been absent in the spring." These selections are not in the podcast itself (copyright) but can be found at our companion playlist on Spotify @chorantine. Or, at your favourite music distributor. Kirke Meecham's "Five Centuries of Spring" performed by Los Angles Chamber Singers, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedeso's "28 Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125," performed by Salvatore Champagne and Howard Lubin, and David Myska's "Four Songs on William Shakespeare" performed by Anita Krause and Thomas Wiebe.
Additional selections heard in this episode include "Blah Blah Blah" by Complete Shakespeare found on FreeMusicArchive.org https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blah_Blah_Blah/Green_Collection/Complete_Shakespeare
Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke - The Spirit of Gambo (The Lord Dewey's Favoret) by Tobias Hume, Phillip Serna, viola da gamba
https://musopen.org/music/43378-captain-humes-poeticall-musicke/
Sonnet 98 by Yonatan Gutfeld from Time's Tyranny, 9 Shakespeare Sonnets
https://music.apple.com/us/album/times-tyranny-9-shakespeare-sonnets/1321649537
E07: Spring Sonnet: Pt. 1
A reading of Work without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).
E06: Spring #1, And, 54!
ECP safely transported to Boston, Massachusetts, where the next week of shows will be recorded. Despite technical difficulties and a snow 'event,' nothing stops us from celebrating the first full week of spring! First up: The spring songs of Tchaikovsky Op. 54: 16 Songs for Children. Pardon any and all pronunciation mistakes. Special thanks to Emily Ezust, www.lieder.net, for translation permissions. We hope to get the sounds right for tomorrow, but, enjoy the beautiful music!
Heard on Today's Episode:
Podington Bear/Just Watching/Freemusicarchive.org
Tchaikovsky 16 Songs for Children Op. 54 Gennady Pishchayev, tenor Alexander Bakhciev, piano Firma Melodia 1980
John McCormack; Gerald Moore https://archive.org/details/78_legend-christ-in-his-garden_john-mccormack-gerald-moore-lockwood-tchaikovsky_gbia0076973b
Tchaikovsky: Music For Cello & Orchestra by
Rafael Wallfisch; English Chamber Orchestra; Geoffrey Simon
Chandos Records Ltd. (CHAN8347)
P.Tchaikovsky. "Legend". Words by A.Pleshcheyev
The State Chamber Choir of the USSR
Russian Conducting School. Valery Polyansky
1996
Talents of Russia
Bach By One: Chorale from BWV 39
Bach By One Series: Pick a Bach chorale and sing all the parts! This week:
BWV 39: 7. Chorale
Blessed are those who from pity
take to themselves the needs of others,
are compassionate with the poor,
pray faithfully for them to God.
Those who are helpful with counsel
and also, whenever possible, in deeds
will in turn receive help
and obtain compassion for themselves.
English Translation by Francis Browne (March 2002)
https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Texts/BWV39-Eng3P.htm
Orchestra by Suzumidi.com http://www.suzumidi.com/eng/bach6.htm - pick a cantata and give it a try! If you'd like to share your recording, email the MP3 to ecp@ecpmusic.com
https://freesound.org/people/Flying_Deer_Fx/sounds/369404/
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E05: Zoom Zoom Zoom!
Like so many of you, ECP has been in countless hours of online conference calls and tele-teaching this week. It's only the beginning. Hang in there...we are all in this together. It's worth it. Nobody processes times of crisis in the same way. Today is also the launch of the Friday format, where we invite your projects, recordings, readings, etc. to be a part of the show. Have anything you'd like featured on Friday? Let us know! ecp@ecpmusic.com or facebook.com/chorantine.
Keep an eye out for Sunday as well, as CHORantine's Sunday series of Bach Chorales sung by ECP (and any of YOU who'd like to participate) will be added to this channel.
Show selections today:
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
by The Sunnysiders; Morgan;Malkin
Kapp (K-113)
Publication date 1955-04
Topics 78rpm, Popular Music
Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation
I See The Squirrels Outside In The Sunshine Of Delight by Origami Repetika
E04: GOAT!
New England received some sad news this week about the GOAT. In this episode of CHORantine, ECP pays tribute to the man, the myth, the GOAT, Tom Brady, with musical samplings from other notable goat-ables.
Invention No. 8 Collage - Sans Gloves, Latex Gloves, Thin Gloves, Ski Gloves, Mittens, Boxing Gloves by In Glove With Bachhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/In_Glove_With_Bach/2019090810542410/Invention_No_8_Collage_-_Sans_Gloves_Latex_Gloves_Thin_Gloves_Ski_Gloves_Mittens_Boxing_Gloves
THE VICTORS (University of Michigan) by COLUMBIA MILITARY BAND; Elbel
Columbia (35717) 1939 https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A"COLUMBIA+MILITARY+BAND"
Giovanni da Cascia Gothic Voices and Christopher Page A Song for Francesca on the Helios label
Courante Ennemond Gaultier Style brisé: Gautier and the French Lute School Toyohiko Satoh Channel Classics
Bach: Christmas Oratorio Musical Heritage Society
Engel - Rammstein
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E03: Til The Storm Passes By
ECP wishes a happy birthday to his Dad, who introduced him to the timeless, uplifting recordings of the Mennonite A Cappella family singing tradition.
Heard On Today's Episode:
Till the Storm Passes By/https://archive.org/details/YouCanAlwaysComeHome_201610/Til+the+Storm+Passes.mp3
I Wil Sing the Wondrous Story/Antrim Mennonite Choir/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ahjKfVb4Lc
Sweet Home from The Philharmonia/Eric Christopher Perry sings
God Be with You Til We Meet Again/Antrim Mennonite Choir/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZHrtHdbdOE&list=RDR1XXwyIiY-o&index=15
Loops and beats provided by Looperman.com
Hot Hot Mate from Mennist to Society
Bush Wiebe and the Mennonite Blues Experiment
Read more about the Mennonites at http://mennoniteusa.org/who-we-are/
Take a read and learn a thing or two about music! Link to The Philharmonia on IMSLP
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E02: My Irish Song of Songs
It's St. Patrick's Day! And ECP takes a swipe at the wrong Sullivan (and not even an Irish one!).
Song Selections:
My Irish Song of Songs by Alfred Dubin/Daniel J. Sullivan/John McCormack, tenor/Berliner Gram-o-phone Co. Limited, 1918, Creative Commons.
For Auld Lang Syne/Robert Carr, vocalist, Robert Burns, poetry/1910 (?), Creative Commons
The Rare Old Mountain Dew/Peter C. Schilling, baritone, and Renaissance Men, Eric Christopher Perry, Artistic Director/used by permission
Rogers Jig, Village Jig/Paddy Sweeney/Decca, 1933/Creative Commons
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E01: CHORantine – An Introduction
Eric Christopher Perry, Director of Vocal and Choral Activities at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, as well as the Artistic Director of Renaissance Men, New England's Professional Male Vocal Chamber Ensemble, enters the ring of podcasting. "Let's build a playlist of cool choral music, or vocal music, or otherwise, and let's make silly observations about the pieces." What better time to pass time than in troubled times? He also rambles about The Great Gildersleeve.
Loops heard today can be found on www.looperman.com and www.samplefocus.com. The Great Gildersleeve intro courtesy of archive.org.
Outro: Gander in the Pratie Hole, Morrison's Jig, Drowsy Maggie by Sláinte. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Slinte/Slinte/slinte_-_04_-_gander_in_the_pratie_hole_morrisons_jig_drowsy_maggie
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