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MASS NUMBERS

Kwangena Tina Bo
University of Pretoria Youth Choir - includes dancing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-bB0kz2W2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAmQzMfjEn4

Pompeii
Original - Bastille
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m326LNIRB3k

Choral arrangement
Pompeii (SATB Choir) - Arranged by Jacob Narverud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dQFmEesYfg

MASS NUMBERS OLDER LISTENING LINKS:
  One Million Voices 
  One Million Voices SATB Score

Brian Tate wrote the original sketch for this piece last summer on the day of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings with Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford testifying. The recording is from a multi-choir concert he conducted in Kingston this past Spring, with three combined choirs. Enjoy!

  Take Down These Walls  - Brian Tate
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUFdcvhgRvo

Victoria Choral Society Concert - Chamber Choir & Bella Voce

Franz Schubert: Mass No. 2 in G Major:
UC Davis Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pVu0A4Nu4Q
 
This Thirsty Land
5 movements with individual links
https://app.box.com/s/oce9cjtsmlxpypfms1i9dhnein7ixt6l

BELLA VOCE

Praise His Holy Name
SATB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoqtHXNc_x8

SSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhniQF0FZYs

BELLA VOCE OLDER LISTENING LINKS:
  Breath of Winter 
  Studio Choir - SATB
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxprxySQxYE

  2018 Pioneer Conference Choir
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwitOL2LVHc

  Inscription of Hope 
  High School Choir
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wwQK7VnPRI
 
  Bel Canto (BEAUTIFUL vowels & sound)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udyf0_FmQ2o
 
  *Cello & oboe accompaniment.  We will have a narrator.
 
  LAVC College Choir (with an orchestra)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIrFv_mwzxI
The performance of this piece is dedicated to the people of Japan who have suffered from earthquakes, tsunami and nuclear disaster.  Undiminished by these, they and their friends throughout the world keep hope alive through the promise of sunshine, happiness, love and peace.  Performed during the Baroque Bash concert at the Los Angeles Valley College Main Stage Theatre

​Dolce Melodia

Exultate Justi
Studio Choir - SSA
https://www.musicroom.com/product/hl08748688/exultate-justi-arr-russell-l-robinson-ssa.aspx

Studio Choir - SATB
https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=10048535

Hotaru Koi (Ho Firefly)
Young girl group SSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHVm6YkWr3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlsCOYQuMS8

Salmo 150
SSA-Singapore children’s choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH40H0I_il8

DOLCE MELODIA OLDER LISTENING LINKS:
 
Cradle Hymn - BYU
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jKvI2bCbkI 


  Live recording by the Nidaros Cathedral Girls´ Choir
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74yXqPbj1yk

  With Visual of Nidaros Cathedral Girls’ Choir 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F003sSzpwS0

CHAMBER

Waitin’ on the World to Change:
John Mayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBIxScJ5rlY
 
Our Arrangement - Hayes Singers (okay!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr1XPii1hEw

WOMEN'S CHOIR

Lollipop: Original - By the “Chordettes” 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYoRaxgOE0

Our Arrangement - Emerson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STI7e6KeGSM
 
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough:
Original - By “Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell” 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz-UvQYAmbg

Our Arrangement - Emerson (SATB Version) - mass choreo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMcHWJEkj1g
 
Our Arrangement - Emerson (SATB Version)  - choreo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlAqXmODzmg

​JAZZ WAVE

Woods
WOODS Part - tracks
WOODS CHART AND DEMO
Woods Marsh.pdf
File Size: 721 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

WOODS PART MINUS TRACKS
Route 66 - Kirby Shaw High School Jazz Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd5j_V3_hRY

Route 66 - Dick Averre
The Manhattan Transfer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQwb4SpNuKo

Trashin’ The Camp - Moses Hogan
Disney’s Tarzan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-VqEnvDKbw

Nixa HS Chamber Singers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCetiaEx3yY

Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard 
​New York Voices Version
Super great harmonies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVJkq3ABBZc

Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard 
Paul Simon Version with Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VrKro8djw

​JAZZ WAVE OLDER LISTENING LINKS:
   Jazz Festival High School Choir 
   ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMptilyYubg

   Blues Skies: Ella Fitzgerald Edition
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epRXoS_P0lk

   SATB Version
   ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2-ay4DSJ1o

   3 Part Mixed - Exact arrangement! 
   ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16JzGGzmA6c

   Don’t Know Why: Norah Jones Original
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4dxvguQDk

​JAZZ À LATTÉ

Sway
Oak Bay CD-2017 - #17
Listening Sample
https://www.jwpepper.com/Sway/10010117.item#/submit

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqnZ1N1LmwE
Better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgyznDuRSlc

Cry Me a River: 
Oak Bay CD-2017 - #16

From the Kirby Shaw website (there are beeps, but a quality recording.  Search for title)
http://www.kirbyshaw.com/search.php

Bumble Bee
Real group:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn2haP5aQmg

​MMEA Women's All State Choir 2012-2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9-eRwlsg_k​


JAZZ À LATTÉ OLDER LISTENING LINKS:
   The End Of The World
   ​Jackie Burns
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj8w2ou-x_s

   Skeeter Davis (country)
   ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonLd-32ns4

   Carpenters
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLKyftDEbds

   Steppin’ out with my baby:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6NGgduWff4


​JAZZ EXPRESS

Jazz Express 
Over the Rainbow

https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=3004074

Small Adult Ensemble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8lBMWS6G1U

One Note Samba
https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=10092484

Very Concert Choir- One Note Samba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU5TgUdliv0

JAZZ EXPRESS OLDER LISTENING LINKS:
​   Don’t Get Around Much Anymore: Sam Cooke - The Man who Invented Soul
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAS2PUNamMc

   Studio Singers with our Arrangement
   https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=10022564

   Loco-Motion: Carole King
   ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5McEdptRG8

Vocal Jazz Solo IDEAS

Sing LIKE your chosen STAR!
 
You Tube typically has a LOT of options.  Many have WORDS on the screen versions available also.
 
A special thanks to Leah and Hadley for compiling these lists.  They are a fantastic resource!
 
FEMALE SINGERS:
 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Ci3Zljwt5OboGQQWj59RrWgu8UDDhil 
 
MALE SINGERS:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Ci3Zljwt5NNJjgxfqZ0033WJOtCSngv
 
MIXED playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcsY8kPvlv5ojdtOudy2yA1m8l14a76lt
 
Here is a list of some SUGGESTIONS FOR JAZZ SINGERS (Almost anything sung by the following fit in the jazz idiom):
 
Classic Female Jazz Singers:
Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Natalie Cole, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, Etta James, Sarah Vaughan
 
Contemporary Female Jazz Singers:
Diana Krall, Nikki Yanofsky, Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson, Norah Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Esperanza Spalding, Jane Monheit, and Madeline Peyroux
 
The following article in “jazz.com” has a great article on some contemporary jazz artists.
http://www.jazz.com/dozens/the-dozens-12-jazz-divas-you-need-to-know
 
Classic Male Jazz Singers:
Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Joe Williams, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Nat King Cole, and Chet Baker
 
Contemporary Male Jazz Singers:
Michael Buble, Gregory Porter, Harry Connick Jr, Kurt Elling (scats), Sachal Vasandani, John Pizzerelli, Bobby McFerrin, Frank D’Rone, Giacomo Gates (known for his scatting)
 
We have a lot of CDs in our choir collection if you STILL need more options!
 
Have fun!  
  • ABOUT
  • SAFETY PLAN
  • EVENTS
    • TRIPS
  • LISTENING LINKS
  • CHOIR PROGRAM 2020-2021
    • TIMETABLE
  • NEWS
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  • UNIFORMS
  • CONTACT
  • GRAD 2020 PHOTOS