franciscanheart Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxMoxNVMIXE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Credo in Deum Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Didn't you hear it? It's the noise of the New Springtime! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 I don't know what just happened. ... my ears... my ears! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 There is nothing in the world worse than a children's choir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Well, I have to say that they are quite talented -- and adorable. ... but why?! Why is there a synthesizer? ahhhhhh!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritasluxmea Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 They're a secular boys choir from England. They're more known for new-agey type music, but they have done several covers of Ave Maria. They make albums and go on tour and that sort of thing. Kind of like a fancy, large boy band. http://www.libera.org.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-WkdQT47eY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Credo in Deum Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 I know they're not Catholic, but Kings College is far more superior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bus Station Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 There is nothing in the world worse than a children's choir. I know this is not true, because one time Lady Gaga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 There is nothing in the world worse than a children's choir. It's debatable, to be honest. Children's choirs are ghastly, but it might be worse listening to me try and sing The Phantom of the Opera. Again, it's up for debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seven77 Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Enigma in concert? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCuT Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 (edited) Its a boys choir. Not abnormal. Those kids have mad skills. You know how hard it is to sing with that control at such a young age? Edited August 24, 2014 by CrossCuT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AveMariaPurissima Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxMoxNVMIXE We learned this song when I was in the convent, as well as Libera's "Locus Iste" Sanctus. :saint: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puellapaschalis Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 The sound of talented boy choristers. They audition competitively for places at choir schools (often boarding) at larger churches and cathedrals up and down the country. The training and timetable is tough, with practises and services six or seven days a week. There is an enormous (Anglican) repertoire, varying in difficulty, and these kids can sing the toughest of them with barely a week's rehearsal time - on top of their school work, homework, individual training, solitary practise, &c. In the holidays (which begin only after Christmas Day, or Easter Sunday, because they're required at school for services), they're recording or are on tour. This usually stops once the voice has broken, which means that they've got enormous amounts of professional and personal experience before they are teenagers. They win scholarships to the best schools and universities in the country. If they pursue a professional career they have experience, knowledge of repertoire, and connections to go with the hard work they still do throughout their lives. And they get bullied by the general public because boys who sing are 'sissies'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCuT Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Peeps are unable to appreciate the finer things...or the amount of skill as well as practice that these boys go through. I love boy choirs. Their particular pitch and tone is very beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puellapaschalis Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Peeps are unable to appreciate the finer things...or the amount of skill as well as practice that these boys go through. I love boy choirs. Their particular pitch and tone is very beautiful! Let's just say I bit my tongue and fingers for several days after first reading this thread. I was in an Anglican-pattern chapel choir as an undergraduate: services six mornings and two evenings a week, and rehearsals on two other evenings. That's about half the workload of these kids around the age of ten years old. I learnt the very hard and humiliating way that you take that music to your room and you learn those notes because it's one to a part and God help you if you duff up Evensong. Many of my undergrad friends despise the various directions the Anglican communion is going on - but the current state of Catholic liturgy (with the exception of Westminster Cathedral, perhaps) they despise even more, and that's what put them off considering conversion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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