In 1948 Britten Pears and Eric Crozier founded the Aldeburgh Festival now one of the most respected established fornew English music. His brilliant gifts as a pianist and conductor coupled withhis virtuosic inventiveness also led him to compose music for great performers such as the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the singers Galina Vishnevskaya Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Janet Baker.The greatestpersonal influence on his music was the Tenor Peter Pears for whom he composed many operatic and vocal roles. He shared with his predecessors Parry Vaughan Williams and Holst an intense interest in works for amateurs and children. He never abandoned the principles of tonality and was a 'modern' composer who reached a mass audience and a conservative whoseoriginality no radical would sensibly deny. Essentially a vocal composer Britten won international fame for his operas and song-cycles. Cecilia's Day a happy augury for the career of one of Britain's greatestcomposers. Now that I think about it, he’s the one who first introduced me to Pote’s “The Journey is Our Home.Britten's Jubilate is written for SATB choir and Organ accompaniment.Benjamin Britten's birthday (22nd November 1913 Lowestoft) falls on St. Thinking about those summer choral workshops in high school (and I participated in many of them), the clinician from whom I probably learned the most was Tommy Smith from Auburn. The other was Norman Luboff, who was more of a Brush with Choral Grossness. Sort of like half Crystal Gayle, half bald guy. When he would really get into conducting, his combover would kind of slide off and he’d have REALLY long hair on one side. But he did have that conductor’s combover thing happening, which was made even more comical by his use of Vitalis. He was really good and I learned a lot from him. One was Gregg Smith, who did a summer choral workshop in B’ham. I did have two other Brushes with Choral Greatness, both in high school. Lee Scott, which I guess is more than a brush, since I got to work with him for so many years. Wow! Brad has had a Brush with Choral Greatness! Coming soon: more favorite church music composers and favorite anthems. Chi-POTE-lay.Īllen Pote has written some nice choral music for the church. Now, (at least in the case of the Taco Bell people) they’re putting the “L” in both places and saying “chipoltle.” Then they might remember how to pronounce “chipotle.” I know we’ve been over this before, but back then, it was because people were saying “chipolte” instead of “chipotle”. I wish the people who did Taco Bell commercials liked Allen Pote too. But I digress.)Īllen Pote, in addition to writing lots o’ great anthems for choirs, has written quite a number of youth musicals that are very good too, such as “ Malice in the Palace” (based on the story of Esther). Not that we’d sing “The Journey is Our Home” for Christmas Eve. (Seriously, if everyone would take me up on this “tell 3.5 people about Jesus this week” thing, we’d have plenty o’ people for a boffo choir by Christmas Eve. One day, when we have a choir once again at JKPC, they will sing this anthem. Giving help along the way to those who fall, It’s published by Hinshaw.)īut we move in faith, making love our creed as we follow (If you have a choir and you don’t have this piece, get it. One of my favorite pieces of his is the anthem entitled “The Journey is Our Home.” I don’t have the music to put on the blog, but here’s the text.
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