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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Hallelujah
I have to say we totally ROCKED the concert! Don't you agree?
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Háskólakórinn heldur tónleika!
Háskólakórinn flytur verk Händels "Messías" á tvennum tónleikum í Neskirkju mánudag 24. og þriðjudag 25. nóvember.
Hljómsveitina munu skipa hljóðfæraleikarar úr Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands og einsöngvarar eru Sibylle Köll mezzosópran, Hlöðver Sigurðsson tenór, Valdimar Hilmarsson baritón og Þórunn Marinósdóttir sópran.
Miðaverð er 1500 krónur í forsölu hjá kórmeðlimum eða í gegnum kor(at)hi.is en 2000 krónur við dyrnar.
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The University Choir will perform Händel's Messiah in two concerts, on Monday the 24th and Tuesday the 25th of November at Neskirkja.
The orchestra will consist of members of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, and soloists are Sibylle Köll mezzosoprano, Hlöðver Sigurðsson tenor, Valdimar Hilmarsson baritone, and Þórunn Marinósdóttir soprano.
Tickets are 1500 isk if bought beforehand from choir members or via kor(at)hi.is, but 2000 isk at the door.
I happen to be in the choir, so if you wanna come, you can contact me at kag7 (at) hi (dot) is, or just call me - not gonna put my number here, though! If you know me, then you either already have my number or you can easily find it ;)
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Thursday, November 06, 2008
Celtic Woman - At the Céili
That's what ceilidh is all about! ;)
Ding Dong Merrily On High - Celtic Woman
Love this, too. Especially the "Gloria, hosanna in excelsis" part! One of my favourite Christmas songs.
Celtic Woman - O Come, All Ye Faithful
Celtic Woman - O Holy Night
Everyone, Christmas is here!!!
Celtic Woman - Scarborough Fair
I'm in YouTube-mood... just look what great things can be discovered there! I've never heard of the band Celtic Woman before, but they seem to be PRETTY good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Woman
Monday, November 03, 2008
There was a group in my Beat generation class today that delivered a presentation on Tom Waits (who was, in fact, heavily influenced by the Beats), and they showed us this video to exhibit his sense of humour. It's funny, please watch!
I think I probably posted this video before, around Christmas time '07, but I have to do it again now. Yesterday there was an article in the paper about Páll Óskar, the Icelandic pop star, and there was a list of the albums he has released. Two of those are a collaboration with the harp player Monika Abendroth. I have a few songs from those albums (which I of course purchased from tonlist.is - I don't pirate Icelandic music!), and they're all Christmas songs, soooo beautiful. Actually, one of them is an old madrigal (which technically is not supposed to be accompanied by music, but it's beautiful anyway) which I sang with the MR-choir back in '03-'04, and just loved. One of the things I loved about it was that there's a mezzo soprano part! I am a mezzo, but most songs don't have a special part for that voice, so I usually just sing soprano. It's so much fun being able to sing along to a polyphonic song and NOT sing the melody, hehe. Anyway. I made a mental note to listen to A Spaceman Came Traveling later, but only remembered it today. I listened to it twice in a row.
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Sunday, November 02, 2008
REM
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