Lasciatemi morire, a song by Claudio Monteverdi, could be considered, by some, to be the very first emo song as the title translates “Let me die”. Lasciatemi morire was one of the first Italian songs I ever learned in college. Jeff Nolte, my second voice teacher, taught me that when […]Read more »
Classical
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“Is My Team Ploughing”, a haunting poem by Alfred Edward Housman was set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, the version I did under the overpass. Is My Team Ploughing is the third song in the cycle “On Wenlock Edge” created by Vaughan Williams and is my favorite version of […]Read more »
The Trumpet Shall Sound, the triumphant Aria for Bass is my favorite song from my most favorite Oratorio, “The Messiah”. The Trumpet Shall Sound is not only triumphant because of the Bass, but because of the prophetic promise found in the Bible (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). Handel’s libretto (or text) was […]Read more »
Pie Jesu is one of the most well known song from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Requiem”. It was a piece I became familiar with during my college years. Pie Jesu was a piece that I first noticed during my time in college with my fraternity brothers (OAS…AAS…LLS). Phi Mu Alpha’s “black […]Read more »