April 7, 2011
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How Can I Keep From Singing?
Where will you be this weekend? I’ll be singing HERE!
Friday, Saturday and Sunday I’ll be performing with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Chorus as we offer Samuel Barber’s “Prayers of Kirkegaard” and Gustav Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, also known as his “Resurrection” Symphony. It is going to be spectacular!
http://www.stlpublicradio.org/listen.php
From here you can pick which option you would like as far as Windows Live or Streaming goes, but I believe the actual station you want is “90.7 FM KWMU-1″
Enjoy!
PS- For those of you who will be tuning in, make sure to hang in there for the end of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony; the vocals are heart-meltingly beautiful. Here is the English translation:
- Rise again, yes, rise again,
- Will you My dust,
- After a brief rest!
- Immortal life! Immortal life
- Will He who called you, give you.
- To bloom again were you sown!
- The Lord of the harvest goes
- And gathers in, like sheaves,
- Us together, who died.
- O believe, my heart, O believe:
- Nothing to you is lost!
- Yours is, yes yours, is what you desired
- Yours, what you have loved
- What you have fought for!
- O believe,
- You were not born for nothing!
- Have not for nothing, lived, suffered!
- What was created
- Must perish,
- What perished, rise again!
- Cease from trembling!
- Prepare yourself to live!
- O Pain, You piercer of all things,
- From you, I have been wrested!
- O Death, You masterer of all things,
- Now, are you conquered!
- With wings which I have won for myself,
- In love’s fierce striving,
- I shall soar upwards
- To the light which no eye has penetrated!
- Its wing that I won is expanded,
- and I fly up.
- Die shall I in order to live.
- Rise again, yes, rise again,
- Will you, my heart, in an instant!
- That for which you suffered,
- To God will it lead you!
- Resurrection Symphony indeed!
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Comments (13)
Joyful, joyful.
It sounds like a great time. Good luck with it. I’ll be doing my best to catch it on the link you gave.
How wonderful! I’ll be on as much as I can to listen.
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I love Samuel Barber.
That’s fantastic! I am sooo incredibly jealous.
Best of luck!
glorious
How wonderful for you! I miss my choir days.
Happy Feast of St Gemma!!
@living_embers - Ah! Thank you so much for the reminder! I’d been having such a miserable day with schoolwork and the like, and she tends to be so quiet about herself, that I’d surely have forgotten but for your remembering me! God bless you for this kindness.
How was the singing?
And I do miss you stopping by my page, Jacob! Just sayin’. By the way, I finally managed to send Kendra a card a few weeks ago. I hope she got it.
@addyorable - It was splendid; we had at least four curtain calls each time! And I’m sure that Sr. Kendra received your card; be patient for her reply, though!
@Ancient_Scribe - Did they record it? I’d like to listen. (Didn’t get to listen to it live.) I will wait patiently for her reply (if she does at all, which would be awesome! If she doesn’t, I wouldn’t mind one bit).
@addyorable - Sorry! If you missed it, you missed it! But we are performing again in May; there will be another post when the time comes!