Watch us sing!

[wiseheart]

On April 28, we took part of the annual music festival of the 11th district of Budapest. Some of it even made it to YouTube!

The grand beginning, with 200 schoolkids and us (I'm the chubby woman with the glasses and the very wide, lacy collar on the far right, seen at the beginning of the clip):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNzkXWbP3dY

Several clips from our children's choir:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwdRL6T9lnc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb2C-EdbeTM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwSvhGtcYy0

And, last but not least, the choir consisting of us, teachers, and some of the parents (I'm the third one from the right in the front row):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEKPwWkGPJk

Comments

Re: What fun!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is an old Hungarian folk song, reworked for a female choir by 20th-century Hungarian composer József Karai. He's done fantastic work writing dozens of such pieces, and I'm proud to have met him while I was still in college.

If you liked this, you'll like Evening Songs even more. It's a quartet of Transsylvanian songs, very old-style. We're not the one singing on this clip, but we did sing it, and it sounded quite like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUqNjQP0ehQ

The great thing with Karai is that his piano pieces to his choir pieces almost have a life of their own.