I know very well how much audiences enjoy hearing the familiar hymns and songs they know and love at Holiday concerts. My goal is to revisit these lyrics and create a new musical framework for them, one which enables the singers and audiences to hear and appreciate the lyrics through a new musical “lens” that expresses the meaning of the text in settings “new” and meaningful to the ear and mind.I strive to write a musical setting for the essence and mood of the lyrics and create an arrangement that is enjoyable and fun for a chorus to rehearse and perform and for the audience to enjoy on first hearing without “missing” too much the traditional settings with all their personal meaning.
In subsequent blog postings I’ll talk about my intentions for individual new melodic arrangements for the Holidays in English, Hebrew and Yiddish.
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