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How Can I Keep From Singing?
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Four Part Mixed Choir
I rarely arrange existing pieces, but was asked to set this well known tune for the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles for their virtual choir during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic. Though I was unfamiliar with the song, the poetry about resilience and finding beauty and music during times of strife spoke to me as an important message during a year when choirs across the world suddenly stopped singing together. The additional beats I added during the long notes were, in part, to allow for a sense of rubato in a performance medium that required singers to perform with a click track. This metric stretching also allows for the soloists to embellish their melodic lines as they see fit, which soloists are encouraged to do.
-Fahad Siadat
I rarely arrange existing pieces, but was asked to set this well known tune for the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles for their virtual choir during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic. Though I was unfamiliar with the song, the poetry about resilience and finding beauty and music during times of strife spoke to me as an important message during a year when choirs across the world suddenly stopped singing together. The additional beats I added during the long notes were, in part, to allow for a sense of rubato in a performance medium that required singers to perform with a click track. This metric stretching also allows for the soloists to embellish their melodic lines as they see fit, which soloists are encouraged to do.
-Fahad Siadat
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