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I think it's time for a little song (with apologies to Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane): Ding, ding, ding went the TROLL-y Clang, clang, clang went the bell Clack, clack, clack went his keyboard Oh God, he's joined THIS forum as well... (repeat ad infinitum until banned)

Hi, Guys!! I'm new here, but i found this thread because I was search for a virtual choir to perform a piece that I just wrote for My Fiancée, My Love. The text is "There Will be Rest" by Sara Teasdale. here is the score and the audio for it. There Will Be Rest1.pdf There Will Be Rest.wav Also I used Sibelius 6 to write it with, so I can create .wav file of each individual part to help everyone learn the piece. In addition, I think the way to synchronize everyone in recording the performance is for everyone to follow the same video file of a conductor conducting the piece. I can conduct pretty decently and would be happy to provide a video on me conducting the piece.

Hey, Guys!! I was cleaning out my closet recently and I came across several sheets of lyrics that I had written for a fellow Choral Composer to set to music. Although he had asked me to write them, he never ended up completing the project he was using them for. So, I figure I might as well post a few of them here and hopefully someone might be able to benefit from them or be inspired. So, here is two of the songs. I will try to post the rest later. The Way of the Human By J. Glenn Wright To a little daisey girl, whose head is brightly steeped in clouds of blue. From a man only, (who is alive) and briefly Twenty-Two: Be always beginning and leaping and Love; Every smallest flower, And all the little, Pretty things inside of you. Put your darker selves in boxes far away. And, most merrily {in all seriousness}, Be Alive today; And True! Oh, my sweetest friend: Hello to you- Please take your time, Live not so fast. For remember; That which is beauty, Was meant to last. Be simple, And know life In every breath you take. And gracious most For everyday you wake. Know that with Hope, Faith, Love, Your world will illumine; Be true, my dear, To the Path of Peace. Walk the Way Of The Human, Please, Remember not to live life In past tenses. {Living is pleasant most when you lose your mind and come to your senses} And lastly, in death: End your story With grace. A Will unbroken; Then die- With silence most, Eyes closing. Loveliest; Your heart wide open. Untitled On this night, (in the sacred silence) I hide myself Inside you, Softly (with the deep). With closed eyes and a whispered sound of rain, as I surrender To the Universe Of Sleep. Tangled, we- bodies stretched out upon the bed- with drowsy,covers wrapped around us (Safe). And a pillow, For your daisey Head. Outside, it's (California) and Beautifully most raining- Inside, warm a A fire's tender most after-glow remaining- in the silence- in the Sacred Silence

Best piece on the site hands down. Someone likes to have fun, I like fun too. :> Don't take the internets so seriously people, geesh.

After 2 minutes composition becomes boring. You are not changing anything for the 5 minutes neither the rythm or dynamic or something that will keep interest. And if this is a piano concerto aren't supposed to be an orchestra as well?

ahah, i hope its a joke.... :o

You call this a pianoconcerto? You call this the best concerto in history? .... I do not know your musical taste, but this seems to be a small child without any musical training whatsoever hitting some keys on the keyboard... The best concerto in history... MY donkey!!!!!

Hi, First remark even before I have opened your file.... "Best concerto in history"... who are you to be so pretentious? So you consider yourself the best composer in history as well? Better than the ones established in time? Better than Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Scriabin, Shostakovitch and so many others? Yet ... I must say - but that is propably my fault ... I never had heared until now of you... Now let us see if you are THAT great a composer.... Great composers are not afraid to put up their score? Where is yours? If there is something that I hate, it are people who boast especially about themselves. WS

Thanks for the positive feedback! Yes, actually I've not just heard of Eric, I know him. we coresponded back and forth via email years ago. Apparently, Eric said, "I am deeply and profoundly moved by your uttter passion to compose and evolve....". I also went to go visit him several times and sat with him to discuss composition. Those talks that we had left a major impact upon me. However, my lyrical style was actually influenced by the poems of those poets you have cited, long before I knew Eric.

Why can't I?

Thanks, prestidigilicious! Thanks for both taking an interest in helping this piece get performed and for your feedback about the piece itself. It's definitely not Career Defining Work (in wrote it in about an hour and a half), But its for someone I deeply LOVE and it is, therefore, special to me. Thank you too, Danny and jesusfreak1277, for your involvement and help. I am still working on the conducting video. I'm having one of my dear friends, who is a professional conductor, do the actually conducting. He is much better than I, in that arena, and he also has a knack for bringing out things is choral songs that even I didn't realize were there. I, myself, am a lyric baritone. So, I can do most of the bass lines. All we need is an alto. I was thinking that, if we don't get a lot of singer that want to be involved, we can simple create a full sounding choir by recording our vocal lines several times. Everytime that we each record our parts, we could use varying degrees of lighter and heavy sound to our voices, thereby creating the slight micro-tonal variations that you would hear in a full choir. What do you guys think?

You arse. Your pretentious comments honestly have made me feel quite sick, not to mention your abomination that you have the audacity to call music never mind a concerto. Who are you to waltz in and decide that you're the greatest composer in history? When so many who have gone before you, and indeed many today have stuggled and worked for years on end learning what it is to be a composer; an instrumentalist; a conductor. The truth is that you cannot just decide to be the greatest, that alone is the oppinion of those who hear your music. You said that the composers mentioned by WS are not relevant to our time... yet, you chose your name to be "@TheGreat12Tones" which is something of a contridiction is it not? I mean: 1 - If your name is based up the 12 tone technique largely attributed to the music of Schoenberg, then you yourself have made his music relevant to today. Also Schoenberg did not dismiss the past as not being of relevence, he saw his 12-tone technique as the natural progression of western music. Also you'll find many of his forms are derived from those invented by composers of the past 2 - If the past is so irrelevant, why do you have 12 tones? Surely this is something invented and perfected by hundreds of years of musicians? 3 - You call your work a concerto, a form invented by other composers. "Also, my music training is of the highest degree." Surely you could tell us lesser mortals what training you acctualy have? Please do yourself a favour. Delete this work, apologise to the people of YC, and unless you wish to write some serious music rather than this ill thought through tripe the don't attempt compose again.

If you understood Glenn Gould's essays/interviews on the concert hall at all, you would know that he was against public performance however not people learning music - in his ideal world of battleship grey houses, there is a need for music scores. I haven't listened to your piano concerto, going by your attitude.. I most likely wont even bother.

I hope you don't mind- I gave you your own thread so your choir doesn't get mixed up with someone elses. Also, count me in as a female voice (either soprano or alto...doesn't matter). Upload a video of you conducting, and I also think split audio files would be a good idea.

Thanx. I will get the conducting vid. as soon as I can. Also, about the piece, what do you think of it? What is your feedback?

I really REALLY enjoyed this piece. I am looking forward to being apart of this!!

I don't have a good voice at all, but I can sight-sing, and will help out with a few parts if the response isn't overwhelming.

Would be happy to sing the soprano part(s), could have a go at the alto, stays in the low range a little too much for where my voice sits, but I'm sure it would be fine :)

Great, Sofie! thanks for you participation. I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback about the piece as well.

Ok, so, thus far we have Sofie on soprano, Elizabeth (jesusfreak1277) on soprano & alto, Danny & prestidigilicious on the men's parts (I'm not sure what range though, please tell). William (pianoman216) has also agreed to help out and I can sing baritone & most of the 2nd tenor lines. 6 singers so far, in just a few days; if this keeps up, we will have a full choir in no time. I also, I was thinking that it might be possible to record the parts and real time performance dynamics with vocaloid. That way we can all have "someone" singing the lines with us so that we can follow. I have vocaloid, but am not to proficient as using and programming it. Anyone who reads this thread and would like to help out with the performance in that way, please let me know. Ok, here are the recordings of the individual parts to help everyone learn the notes: there will be rest soprano 1.wav there will be rest soprano 2.wav there will be rest alto 1.wav there will be rest alto 2.wav there will be rest tenor 1.wav there will be rest tenor 2.wav there will be rest bass 1.wav there will be rest bass 2.wav

Hopefully if this works well, we could try and get more projects like this going :)

Absolutely, Sofie. I, myself, would love to take advantage of this new medium for several things I'm working on. And I'm sure others feel the same way.

Also, my music training is of the highest degree.

Who are you to be so presumptuous? I am most certainly one of the best composers, if not, THE best composer who ever lived. All the composers you mention are not relevant to our time, which is the greatest time in all of history. I think it is funny that you require a score. My work does not require a score, it is far too elegant to be chained down by the drudgeries of paper. My work is completely electronic, and in the spirit of Glenn Gould who correctly predicted that the concert hall would be irrelevant by the year 2000. Why write scores for players that don't need to exist?? Obviously, you do not understand, it seems. @alessandrogozzo: no joke, It might be beyond your comprehension level, however.

This is the first ever piano concerto where the entire orchestra is tacet the complete time the piano plays. The orchestra represents society. The piano represents the individual. In today's world of cacophony in the media, the individual is silenced from ever expressing his genius by the society that breeds him, by silencing the orchestra, the most important statement ever made in musical history is here for our times. Piano Concerto