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Choral Cacophony Podcast #6 - Fair Sailing in French
Choral Cacophony Podcast
English - September 25, 2017 12:00 - 4 minutes - 3.91 MBMusic Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Some of the trickiest navigation for a singer can be pronunciation. You can feel like you are thrown about like a canoe in a storm, especially if you are working in another language. To avoid drowning, you need skill - and to be in control.
As a bilingual choir, we regularly sing songs in both French and English - as well as in many other languages.
To ensure we have the correct pronunciation, we always try to get help from experts -- people who study or first language is the one we are working in. Many years ago, we learned that there are two ways to pronounce Latin - one for speaking and one for singing!
We have been so fortunate to have choir members from many cultures, who speak German, Finnish, Spanish, French - and even proper English! We also reached out to experts to sing the Huron Carol properly in the original Wyandot language.
Here is a little sample of Pierre working on pronunciation of a small part of the popular French Christmas Carol, Tous Le Ciel Reluit (All the Heavens Glow).
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Pierre Massie started our a cappella choir in 1977 while a music student at Ottawa University. The Stairwell Carollers are ranked with the best of Ontario choirs, winning both the 2010 and 2013 Ontario Music Festival Association competitions.
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