#the choral

[heyho-simonrussellbeale]

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Director Nicholas Hytner and writer Alan Bennett are collaborating again, with The Lady in the Van, The History Boys and The Madness of King George duo set to team on The Choral, which will star Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent and Simon Russell Beale. Production begins in May in Yorkshire.

[dontcxckitup]

(...)The film follows a group of teenage boys and girls in a choral society run by Dr. Guthrie (Fiennes). As the synopsis explains, the film shows how “together they discover the joys of singing and the urgency of desire as the new boys come to terms with their imminent conscription into the army. ‘The Choral’ explores the humor and humanity at the heart of a community facing an uncertain future.”

// Yet another new film with Ralph Fiennes in the works! The man's busy 😳

[finelythreadedsky]

keep thinking now about the idea of the ancient greek stage building as a doorway into death, which is separated from the stage (the space of the living) by the screen of the skene. cassandra calls it as much ("the gates of hades") when she enters the house of atreus. by convention characters cannot die on stage but must exit, usually into the skene, to be killed. cassandra's just extra explicit about it because of her foresight, but every entry into the stage building is a step into death. and then some people come back out of it!!!

[haveyouheardthisband]

[cupophrogs]

Hey DD. How have you been. You’ve been quiet.

“Thankfully, most of the vending machines are intact and full, so we won’t be starving while Cherub’s leg heals. Thing has caught him trying to sneak out far too many times.”

[dreamyelectronicmusic]

I propose that we celebrate April 30 as the official Wilmon Day

[sedlex]

This was already ridiculous but the choice of music makes it 120% funnier

[grandboute]

music rules the life

[princessmoms]

Character Guides (pt. 2) - Ponyville

Second batch of nextgen oc references. With small redesigns for some of them. Changed Cherry to a deeper blue, made Mince's mane a smokey grey color, Timbre is more twig shaped, etc. (Also through in the yonabar baby)

[young-royals-confessions]

Confessing this anonymously for understandable reasons. First time I watched YR, I couldn’t understand how Simon was credible as the star of the school choir. Omar Rudberg has a good voice, but it’s very obviously a “pop music” voice. Choral music, at least at a high level, is a totally different type of vocal training.

It’s something I can hand wave away, upon rewatching. Because Simon is supposed to be a diamond in the rough who had no formal vocal training prior to starting at Hillerska a little over a month previously. So he would have the raw talent, but not the trained “choral/classical” sound.

But the first time watching the show, every solo of Simon’s made me think “This guy isn’t credible.” I just never admitted it because i know a lot of my fellow fans adore Omar’s music and his voice.

[lydiaplain]

The easiest part of making this video was to write the music..🎼 😅

The suggestions were made by my followers from all socials. ❤️

🙏 Thank you so much for all the response on this.. 😍

A minor harmonic was a delight to start this project with. ✨🎼

I hope the next ones won't take me as much time to complete as this one.. 😅

💬 Feel free to suggest more keys you'd like me to write with next..

[plutooonium]

never get me talking about latin pronunciations i *will* start rambling about the differences between ecclesiastical and classical latin because i’m pretty knowledgeable on the subject just by way of having both taken latin and having sung multiple pieces in latin

[haveyouheardthisband]

[cupophrogs]

I just got back from a concert so have a miscellaneous scribble of a choral nerd spotting the local music spider @ark-fork

[potato-on-your-head]

hunger games ballad of songbirds and snakes was SO DELIGHTFULLY FUCKED UP FROM START TO FINISH. absolutely loved it. it was the exactly appropriate amount of horrifying. this is a movie about the villains and how truly fucked up their minds and motivations are and how that directly led to the Panem and hunger games we see by Katniss’s time. the few good people are quashed by the evil ones NOT BECAUSE OF INDIVIDUAL VILLAINY but because the SYSTEM is so horribly corrupt and oppressive and individually they can’t change those systems and it’ll take until the massive collective efforts in the second rebellion for that to happen. Snow is humanized without ever being redeemed; it shows he was not born evil but went from this traumatized little kid to a conniving calculating bastard man willing to cast off said humanity for the sake of his ambitions of power and control. CONTROL - the books hit this home, but a sense of control is what makes him feel powerful, as someone who grew up under the shadow of war watching people starve in the Capitol streets and he himself going hungry for most of his life. and then the movie takes all that into account and shows what he becomes and says “cool motive still murder.” it was so well done I’m losing my mind

[spacelazarwolf]

i will never forgive the choral world for getting its hands on “i believe in the sun”, a poem scratched on the wall in a concentration camp by a jewish prisoner during the holocaust, and turning it into a feel-good “credo” (yes, one composer literally called it a fucking CREDO, which is a CHRISTIAN prayer/declaration of faith). i’m singing it with a choir i’m in and this is the first time i have ever sung it on a concert that also programmed a jewish composer. this is in fact the second concert ever in my entire academic and professional career where i’ve sung jewish music by a jewish composer, but you bet your ass i’ve sung and heard “even when he is silent” dozens of times in multiple settings and never once do they mention that it was a jew who wrote this poem or what the words truly mean. never once do people discuss the context of this poem and the horrors the author endured.

the line that sticks out to me is “i believe in love, even when i feel it not” because so many people claim to relate to that line or want to believe that it’s about the treatment the people who were tortured and murdered in the holocaust endured, but something i would like to very aggressively and unkindly remind y’all is that the rest of the world knew what was happening and was complicit or actively helped the nazis. that line “even when i feel it not” to me isn’t just about the nazis. it’s about the people who turned their backs on their jewish friends and neighbors when the time came to take a stand. it’s about the millions of people who watched while millions of jews, romani, queer, and disabled people were systematically murdered and did absolutely nothing. that line isn’t fucking about when you’re feeling kinda lonely.

anyway i am so so so SO fucking tired of non jews programming this fucking piece. please, if you are a director or choir teacher of any kind, please stop programming this piece. or if you absolutely must, you should also be programming pieces by jewish composers as well, and you should be talking extensively with your choir and the audience about the context of this piece. stop only consuming art by and about dead jews and start appreciating and respecting us while we’re alive.