At 11:59 PM +0200 6/5/02, Paul Delcour wrote: >That may be the case, but as a conductor it is impossible to learn a >choir a piece without knowing something of the intention of the >piece which comes both from the words and the choral sound. Teach a >choir a piece in a language they have no clue what ever it means and >they will be lost, be it not all the way of course, since the music >has some meaning and therefore gives guidance. But add the meaning >of the words and away they go. At least my choirs do so. > >Apart from this: adding lyrics to existing music is much harder than >the other way round. And it shows, I mean hears. O well, you know >what I mean. > >:-) > >Paul Delcour
This seems usually true to me, but there's a remarkable exception - Jon Hendricks' enormous output of brilliant lyrics written to existing jazz tunes, and even more remarkably, to scores of difficult jazz solos. They are often hard to understand at speed, but they are nonetheless brilliant, and wonderfully suited to the music onto which they are grafted. The guy has created (nearly single handedly, though there are a few good examples that precede Jon's work) a new genre of vocal music. If you get a chance to hear any of this, it is intelligent, witty, philosophically interesting an rhythmically connected to the way Americans speak. Lots of fun. Chuck >____________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham WA 98225-5836 (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
