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Jan. 5th, 2015 11:02 pmChoir rehearsals started tonight for our spring session. We are doing the Haydn Creation, which is the story of Genesis as sung by a choir of angels and looks like it's going to be pretty fun, even if it is one of those pieces where the soloists get all the really cool parts. I'm enjoying it so far.
But you know what I really want to sing? A giant dramatic choral work based on my creation myth. Because how awesome would that be? It would be totally awesome, that is the answer.
( Here is a brief retelling of the Norse creation myth for those who may not know it. )
That's a pretty great story, right? I mean,the beginning of Genesis is pretty cool but it doesn't have giants or building worlds out of bones or primordial cows. You could make a hell of a big orchestral chorale work out of that story. A basso profundo soloist for Ymir, a mezzo or an alto for Audhulma, a bass-baritone-tenor trio for the son of Bor (the tenor* singing Odin gets at least one aria to himself). It opens with a loud wordless dissonant chorus that represents the primal chaos - women as fire, men as ice, opposing lines - that gradually resolves into the still peace of the Ginnungagap. The chorus sings the flood too, and then they sing behind the trio as they build with Ymir's body. Then there's a final triumphant choral movement describing the awe of the first sunrise over the new worlds. (Yeah, I know, we didn't cover Sunna and Mani. Whatever, artistic license.) It could be amazing. Someone should write that so I can sing in it.
(And then they should write something about the creation of Ask and Embla, because that is my favorite myth. And there should be at least half as many chorale works about the Ragnarok as there are requiems - "an axe-age, a sword-age, shields will be cloven, a wind-age, a wolf-age, before the world's ruin." Who doesn't want that set to music?)
Basically, sometimes, I would like to sing impressive chorale works that aren't about Jesus.
*Yeah, the tenor. Hjarrandi, the Screamer, and Jalk, the Gelding - Odin should be sung by a tenor.
But you know what I really want to sing? A giant dramatic choral work based on my creation myth. Because how awesome would that be? It would be totally awesome, that is the answer.
( Here is a brief retelling of the Norse creation myth for those who may not know it. )That's a pretty great story, right? I mean,the beginning of Genesis is pretty cool but it doesn't have giants or building worlds out of bones or primordial cows. You could make a hell of a big orchestral chorale work out of that story. A basso profundo soloist for Ymir, a mezzo or an alto for Audhulma, a bass-baritone-tenor trio for the son of Bor (the tenor* singing Odin gets at least one aria to himself). It opens with a loud wordless dissonant chorus that represents the primal chaos - women as fire, men as ice, opposing lines - that gradually resolves into the still peace of the Ginnungagap. The chorus sings the flood too, and then they sing behind the trio as they build with Ymir's body. Then there's a final triumphant choral movement describing the awe of the first sunrise over the new worlds. (Yeah, I know, we didn't cover Sunna and Mani. Whatever, artistic license.) It could be amazing. Someone should write that so I can sing in it.
(And then they should write something about the creation of Ask and Embla, because that is my favorite myth. And there should be at least half as many chorale works about the Ragnarok as there are requiems - "an axe-age, a sword-age, shields will be cloven, a wind-age, a wolf-age, before the world's ruin." Who doesn't want that set to music?)
Basically, sometimes, I would like to sing impressive chorale works that aren't about Jesus.
*Yeah, the tenor. Hjarrandi, the Screamer, and Jalk, the Gelding - Odin should be sung by a tenor.
