part 2 of concerts as ac choir go on stage.by all means i'd have loved it if not for the fact that they have a lot of baltic stuff.seems like whitacre rights have been the sole monopoly of VJChoir,and a friend had tipped me off earlier that their conductor wasn't mr kwei.all the more you should check out its worth...silly

AC Choir

Diffusa est Gratia,Jacobus Gallus-short and sweet.coincidentally they will visit his old office at Olomouc in November.but never trust them to get me a Sigma shirt.i won't accept it...juz jk

River Qing Jiang,Leong Yoon Pin-sounds like a symphony...i dunno which,but the middle loud part is flanked by the two soft tones

Sunset,LYP-commissioned by CCA branch.they got Indian,Malay ,Chinese and english lyrics,all rojak together.instrumental reminiscence aside,it sounded like every part was abruptly stopped before each new movement

Kastie Tadia,arr Steven Stammetz-Latvian sad tune which sounded so poignant,no need to learn Latvian.but u need french anyway

PokPok Alimpako-very childish,very funny and the end ended up in laughter,so much so court protocol was broken by LOL

AC Alumnia

before i start i observed something unusual.they bring in a book each...

O magnum Mysterium,Willy Byrd-quite cosmo in its days...it's traditional church music at its best

Benedictus Dominus,Carl Nielsen-first try and another good church tune,lest we are reminded of AC's Methodist heritage

The Beatitudes,Damijan Mocnik-oddly i thought it would be in slovenian.but it's english and another of my fave tunes

I Will,John Lennon and Paul McCartney-if it's merely a choral accapella remix of the song,allow me to point out the male solo tenor that's highly unusual,unlike last week's performance

Polska and Fugue in F Minor,Jaakko Mantyjarvi-they have a penchant for Finns too...and it doesn't sound like a nokia ringtone as claimed...oof

As You Are-smooth and harmonically rich,as said in the programme.

Sagastipean-i think i snored through it..but at least it could be a lullaby

AC combined choir(i particularly like the D which was intended to look like something which came out of Iceland)

Salmo 150(Psalms 150),Ermani Aguiar-rapid,but there's some samba fused inside 4 u.who says church hymns are serious

Lux Aeterna,Edward Elgar-it's more traditional...which's better

Toccata Para Coro,Jesus Pinzon-exciting and nonsensical.i believe it's more of a deejaying class

Suite de Lorca,Einojuhani Rautavaara-a finn remixing Lorca?funny...but at least he didn't turn that into finnish...but i could only catch the following words:cordoba,aeee,malaguena(historically important place in spain,screech,death in spanish).stylish though even though i'd rather be at seville,valencia or madrid.gonna give cordoba a try

Song for Athene,John Tavener-very slow,very stylish and very quiet.love it too

Rondo Lapponico-last piece of regulation time...geez i kinda couldn't concentrate maybe becoz i sneaked out but trust ac choir to do well in voice control

at least there's an encore...