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Making Music Together
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Singing Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloe”
I sang in the tenor section of the Big Choir directed by Ian Morton. I remember Northrup Auditorium and doing Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloe”. I have the recording. Antal Dorati conducted us and the Minneapolis Symphony.
Samuel Baez
Warming up the bagpipes
Marching in a Winter Carnival Parade with the bagpipe band at eight degrees below zero. As we approached the reviewing stand, the front line ran ahead to a bar to warm up the pipes so they would work as we passed the stand.
Barbara James Schue
Staying on pitch for “Daphnis and Chloe”
Some of my most memorable academic moments were spent off-campus, performing. The choir did “Daphnis and Chloe” by Ravel at the University of Minnesota with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting. There were no words, just syllables like ‘ah’, for the voices were just another instrument. We recorded it during some long and arduous hours, struggling to stay on pitch during an extensive a cappella section so that our pitch matched the horns when they came in. No wonder current recordings of the “Daphnis” lack the choral part!
Carol Smythe McClellan
The band’s southern Minnesota road tour
Freshman year I took band, and we went on a road tour in southern Minnesota, playing concerts in high school auditoriums. The highlight of that trip was performing in my hometown of Sherburne before lots of people I knew.
Carol Smythe McClellan
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