When I look at art, I want to feel something. I want it to speak to my soul or to make me question everything or to make me cry or make me want to yell. I want my muscles to tense up or for my breathing to slow down… I want a physical and mental reaction to it.
And it’s the same way with music. Give me power, give me theatre, give me emotion, make me want to clench my fists and throw my hands up in the air and tilt my head back and close my eyes and yell out “YES!”. Give me intensity.
For that, I usually turn to Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Jacques Brel, Dulce Pontes… tonight, it was Ginette Reno.
Ce soir, c’est pour toi, et toi, et toi, et TOI.
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Elle est super émouvante! J’ai eu le privilège de la rencontrer lorsqu’elle est venu à Sudbury faire un spectacle pour le Centre Victoria en 2005…
a really beautiful choral song…
our school had a workshop with a choir from Regina a few weeks ago. this is one of the songs they performed. (but this video isn’t of them.)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=in+remembrance+jeffrey+ames&aq=f
I forgot to include the back story!
(songs mean more if you understand the reason behind them, I think)
this song was written by Jeffrey Ames who is a choral conductor. Two of the students in his choir died in a car accident. He wrote this song as a tribute to them. It… displays (is that the right word?) three stages of grief that everyone goes through after a loss. They are: shock, anger, and resignation.
I hope this helps convey the emotion in the song on a bit of a deeper level, I hope it makes you think a little.