send your choir to YouTube - 454 free choral practice videos! - ChoralTracks.com
  • mjcurtis
    Posts: 62
    Are you tired of spending all of your rehearsals learning the notes on the page and not having any time to actually make music?
    Expect more from your singers! Give them homework and send them to YouTube and ChoralTracks.com to come to rehearsal prepared.

    1) currently 454 FREE YouTube videos of 30 sacred choral gems.

    2) download all audio/video tracks at choraltracks.com

    3) learn your part with 4 different types of practice tracks:

    Balanced Voices - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ty7BwbxGDs
    Part Predominant - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpjPDKBkERw
    Part Muted - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-PX4n0zIu4
    Part Left - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7fPtTZePm0




    MATTHEW CURTIS, tenor, is excited to be in his second year with Grammy award-winning Chanticleer. He also sang with the internationally acclaimed Rose Ensemble in 2009 and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale for one summer in 2009. Matthew began singing choral music at age 7 with the La Crosse Boychoir and sang with the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman Gallery Singers for 9 years beginning in 1999.

    A Wisconsin native, he received his bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance and Music Education as a Liberace Scholar from Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 2008. He continued studying for a year in the graduate school at the University of Minnesota focusing on opera.

    Matthew’s solo performances include light, lyric tenor roles. Matthew played the role of Steva in Janacek’s Jenufa and the role of Male Chorus in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at the University of Minnesota. Viterbo University roles included Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Monsieur Vogelsang (Der Schauspieldirektor), and Policeman Chorus (Pirates of Penzance). Past oratorio performances include Messiah and The Creation.

    Matthew has won numerous awards in his young career. He recently received an Encouragement Award at the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the Iowa district. In his seven years competing at the National Association of Teachers of Singing Wisconsin State Chapter Student auditions, he appeared as a finalist all seven times including four first place awards and two second place awards. He also became a Liberace Scholar in 2006 from the Liberace Foundation for excellence in academics and performance.
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,605
    I have to admit that I was interested by the unique idea of one person singing all the parts....the last time this was done successfully was the series of Alvin and the Chipmunks recordings...

    Then I began listening to them and just did not like what I was hearing. Like my wife said, there's something weird about this.

    However, something gradually became apparent. These recordings are incredibly valuable. Every other recording is an amalgamation of of singer's abilities, temperaments, abilities and sometimes the final product reflects what the composer or conductor intended, but often not. These recordings are pure music, all voices sung by the same person with the same musical ability...and when listening we are hearing the purest performance possible.

    If all of our choir sections had the chance to hear their parts sung as they are here and then are brought together with other singers who have studied their parts using these recordings, I am quite sure that our choirs would rise to a higher level.

    For the time being they are free to download. With the next 6 weeks ending a choir season in many churches, setting up a program to get these in the hands of your singers along with the music and beginning work can enliven your choir in the post-Holy Week time and get them excited about joining together this Fall.

    Many choirs do sing all summer. How about yours?
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