Arcadian notes - Spring 2025
Greetings!
For each concert season, you will find various resources on this site
and on this page to assist with our rehearsals, including
links to PDFs of scores and audio/video of various works.
NOTE: PDFs of scores can be found ONLY at Chorus Connection.
They are downloadable, and can be printed as you prefer.
Audio/Video links are below.
Let's keep our joy alive---sing every day!
Marina
For each concert season, you will find various resources on this site
and on this page to assist with our rehearsals, including
links to PDFs of scores and audio/video of various works.
NOTE: PDFs of scores can be found ONLY at Chorus Connection.
They are downloadable, and can be printed as you prefer.
Audio/Video links are below.
Let's keep our joy alive---sing every day!
Marina
Welcome as Arcadian Chorale rehearses
for our
SPRING 2025 program
"Songs of the Wild:
a Zoological Fantasy!"
for our
SPRING 2025 program
"Songs of the Wild:
a Zoological Fantasy!"
REPERTORY and RESOURCES for SPRING 2025
PROGRAM
Our program is centered around The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens.
Though it dates from 1886, it's first complete performance did not take place until 1922.
It is in 14 short movements, each on a specific animal or theme.
Here is the Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carnival_of_the_Animals
Though it dates from 1886, it's first complete performance did not take place until 1922.
It is in 14 short movements, each on a specific animal or theme.
Here is the Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carnival_of_the_Animals
First, it would be good for you to familiarize yourself with Carnival.
Here are a couple of excellent and entertaining videos, tracing it's composition and it's musical elements.
Here are a couple of excellent and entertaining videos, tracing it's composition and it's musical elements.
Here also are individual links to videos for each of the 14 movements, in performance order
1. Intro & Royal March of the Lion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE4CATvZ188&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0
2. Hens & Roosters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEd7Ovt4cWE&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=3
3.Wild Asses - Swift Animals
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoFY7-2f_lM&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=4
4. Tortoises
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPHqJTpgo-U&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=5
5.The Elephant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1nVDoCnsNk&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=6
6.Kangaroos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjNhJ7l7Mk&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=7
7. Aquarium
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OAQ6rAs9DA&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=8
8. Persons With Long Ears
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyaBeSgyFoY&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=9
9.The Cuckoo in the Woods
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJpqN2oTgR8&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=10
10. The Aviary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJf3rHd69c&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=11
11. Pianists
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y1ntDP07rM&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=12
12. Fossils
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TSkIG9lFvY&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=13
13. The Swan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXEy_UfSgCU&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=14
14. Finale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbyZFHeuFA&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=15
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE4CATvZ188&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0
2. Hens & Roosters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEd7Ovt4cWE&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=3
3.Wild Asses - Swift Animals
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoFY7-2f_lM&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=4
4. Tortoises
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPHqJTpgo-U&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=5
5.The Elephant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1nVDoCnsNk&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=6
6.Kangaroos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjNhJ7l7Mk&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=7
7. Aquarium
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OAQ6rAs9DA&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=8
8. Persons With Long Ears
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyaBeSgyFoY&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=9
9.The Cuckoo in the Woods
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJpqN2oTgR8&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=10
10. The Aviary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJf3rHd69c&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=11
11. Pianists
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y1ntDP07rM&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=12
12. Fossils
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TSkIG9lFvY&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=13
13. The Swan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXEy_UfSgCU&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=14
14. Finale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbyZFHeuFA&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=15
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LEARNING RESOURCES: AUDIO/VIDEO LINKS
All score PDFs and audio/video links for the pieces listed below
will be available at Arcadian Chorale's
Chorus Connection site.
After logging in, click on MUSIC, and then Spring 2025
Clicking on each individual piece will display the FILES and LINKS available there.
will be available at Arcadian Chorale's
Chorus Connection site.
After logging in, click on MUSIC, and then Spring 2025
Clicking on each individual piece will display the FILES and LINKS available there.
These are the pieces we will sing in between the movements of the Carnival.
Concerto for Singing Chickens & Piano - Stephen L. Lawrence
The Tortoise & the Hare - Darmon Meader
Live performance - Horn Lake Choirs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuwtJNEVQo
Live performance - Lafayette Choir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYv1nji-vEc
Live performance - Maples Collegiate Chamber Choir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVBpT9gQ8Qo
Scrolling score (midi)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud3Oj2YBAxY
Live performance - Horn Lake Choirs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuwtJNEVQo
Live performance - Lafayette Choir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYv1nji-vEc
Live performance - Maples Collegiate Chamber Choir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVBpT9gQ8Qo
Scrolling score (midi)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud3Oj2YBAxY
Baby Elephant Walk - Henry Mancini, arr. Marina Alexander
First, here's the original version performed by Henry Mancini and his big band (1964)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIMTMb4iJ1I
Here's my arrangement
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIMTMb4iJ1I
Here's my arrangement
The Kangaroo - Eric Whitacre
Live performance - UniversitatsChor Muünchen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QhX46nMXeE
Audio only
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6d9SzGh46s
Live performance - UniversitatsChor Muünchen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QhX46nMXeE
Audio only
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6d9SzGh46s
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport - Rolf Harris, arr. Walter Ehret
Live performance of the original song - Rolf Harris with the Seekers (2008)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyTXM8mcTew
Live performance of the original song - Rolf Harris with the Seekers (2008)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyTXM8mcTew
Aquarium - arr. Sofia Carlile
AUDIO only
www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=11558661
AUDIO only
www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=11558661
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The Bird-donkey - Marina Alexander |
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SATB + Piano
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Soprano + Piano
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Alto + Piano
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Tenor + Piano
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Bass + Piano
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The poem is by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928).
Here's a nice commentary on the text:
www.thereader.org.uk/featured-poem-proud-songsters-by-thomas-hardy/
The thrushes sing as the sun is going,
and the finches whistle in ones and pairs,
and as it gets dark loud nightingales
in bushes
pipe, as they can when April wears,
as if all Time were theirs.
These are brand-new birds of twelve-months’ growing,
which a year ago, or less than twain,
no finches were, nor nightingales,
nor thrushes,
but only particles of grain,
and earth, and air, and rain.
Here's a nice commentary on the text:
www.thereader.org.uk/featured-poem-proud-songsters-by-thomas-hardy/
The thrushes sing as the sun is going,
and the finches whistle in ones and pairs,
and as it gets dark loud nightingales
in bushes
pipe, as they can when April wears,
as if all Time were theirs.
These are brand-new birds of twelve-months’ growing,
which a year ago, or less than twain,
no finches were, nor nightingales,
nor thrushes,
but only particles of grain,
and earth, and air, and rain.
Vocalise - Gabriel Faure, arr. Kenneth Neufeld
arrangement of the art song Apres un Reve
Text & Translation
oxfordsong.org/song/apr%C3%A8s-un-r%C3%AAve
Sung by the great Elly Ameling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_H_tp0m8DQ
arrangement of the art song Apres un Reve
Text & Translation
oxfordsong.org/song/apr%C3%A8s-un-r%C3%AAve
Sung by the great Elly Ameling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_H_tp0m8DQ
Roger Wagner Chorale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnlcdhuTYTE
Live performance - Bellevue College Concert Choir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO7v48Es-Aw
Live performance - Cantorum Chamber Choir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6fJCB7aDlM
Live performance - Southeastern Chorale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBuR3RrRsFM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnlcdhuTYTE
Live performance - Bellevue College Concert Choir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO7v48Es-Aw
Live performance - Cantorum Chamber Choir
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6fJCB7aDlM
Live performance - Southeastern Chorale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBuR3RrRsFM
Fossils - Georgiann H. Toole
NOTE: There is a new score for this piece---see Chorus Connection
NOTE: There is a new score for this piece---see Chorus Connection
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SATB + Piano
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Soprano + Piano
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Alto + Piano
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Tenor + Piano
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Bass 1 + Piano
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Bass 2 + Piano
NOTE: the BASS 2 part begins at m. 48 |
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Bass 1 + 2 + Piano
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The Swan - Caille Saint-Saens, arr. Audrey Snyder
There is no audio for Ms. Snyder's arrangement, but it matches the original.
Thus, best to listen to that movement in Carnival.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXEy_UfSgCU&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=15
There is no audio for Ms. Snyder's arrangement, but it matches the original.
Thus, best to listen to that movement in Carnival.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXEy_UfSgCU&list=PL5EDDC3CD0593C9E0&index=15
I Love All Graceful Things - Z. Randall Stroope
Live performance - ACDA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnONYnlf78k
Live performance - ACDA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnONYnlf78k
Carnival of the Animals - Finale - arr. Marina Alexander
REHEARSAL TRACKS
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SATB + Piano
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Soprano + Piano
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Alto + Piano
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Tenor + Piano
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Bass + Piano
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