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A Choral Menagerie
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An original composition for a cappella SATB choir by Ian Maurer of Brisbane, Australia. Not all choral music is serious. “A Choral Menagerie” pokes a little fun at each section of the SATB choir.
Loud and amorous basses, air-head sopranos, conceited tenors and altos with delusions of grandeur.
Like all good fairytales, “A Choral Menagerie” ends happily ever after and contains a moral – that the most unlikely collections of people can produce beautiful music together.
Brisbane Concert Choir, conductor Debra Shearer-Dirié, 16 September 2007.
Copyright Ian Maurer 2004. Used with permission.
Visit http://www.ianmaurer.net/MyMusic.htm for links to sheet music and other performances of the piece.
If you are searching for other choral, instrumental, orchestral and vocal sheet music, try my other site http://www.sheetmusictips.com where you can quickly find and buy what you are looking for.
This piece is now available on the CD Radiance released by Brisbane Concert Choir. To buy a copy, please go to:
http://www.brisbaneconcertchoir.com/Sounds.htm
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howdy, great music, …
howdy, great music, really enjoyed it, check mine out: channel tbourke325, im also in brisbane, !!!
Brisbane Concert …
Brisbane Concert Choir has now released its own CD titled “Radiance” featuring this piece. It is available for sale to anywhere in the world. The link is in the box at top right. Click on more info for details.
excelent !!
excelent !!
You have a typical …
You have a typical song SATB by Rapahael PASSAQUET, in french (alas ?) : “La Troupe”.
May be can you find a recorder on the Net…
you’re a very pleasant choir.
Sorry for my englis, my teachers were not so very good (lol). I’m 62, it’s not too bad ???
Thanks for your …
Thanks for your interest in the piece. You might like to send your choir director an email link to this performance. Or contact me via my website listed in “About this video”. Cheers.
I’m a bass II, on O …
I’m a bass II, on O Magnum as well… I’d like to see our choir do something like this…
Good to hear from a …
Good to hear from a fellow “Bass 2″. Has Femmes de Chanson recorded a CD?
I have hopes that my Choral Menagerie might be picked up by a publisher in USA some time soon so that it can get out to a wider choral audience.
I saw your comment …
I saw your comment on the “O Magnum Mysterium” video that we (Femmes de Chanson) put up a month ago. Thanks so much for your comments! I sing “Bass 2″ in that piece also, hahaha.
This a great and really fun composition!! And what a great choir!!
ok thanks..
ok thanks..
Yes. The title of …
Yes. The title of the song is “A Choral Menagerie”. You can find out more about it and hear a clearer recording by a very good high school choir from Georgia, USA. Just click on “more” in the info box and follow my link.
AMAZING!!! NICE …
AMAZING!!! NICE SONG…So is the title the Title of the song?
There will be a …
There will be a variety of music, old and new. We have a few others on YouTube – search for Brisbane Concert Choir and you should find four other pieces which might make it onto the CD. These are all “old” – that is, out of copyright so we don’t have any legal hassles here at YouTube.
It will be …
It will be fantastic !
Is there another amazing track like this one ?
Glad you like it! …
Glad you like it! We plan to record it to CD in 2008.
That’s really good …
That’s really good ! I’m a french guy and I t love this performance !
Australian premiere!
Australian premiere!