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[orichalcum]

Hey choral singers...

So, I'm reading 2 Kings for teaching, and just came across the section where Isaiah prophesies: "Some of your own sons who are born to you shall be taken away; they shall be eunuchs in the palace of Babylon." (2 Kings 20:18).

This reminded me of once having heard a piece of choral music which included a resounding section that went, I think, "They shall be EU-NUCHS!" My offhand memory is Yale Glee Club, but that could be wrong. Anyways, it was somewhat racy but great fun and I really liked it. Does anyone know what the heck I'm remembering?

Comments

[amethyst73.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds exciting....

.. though maybe not in the way the chorus would like it to be. A page and a half a capella?? Wow, that's long!

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think we did OK... but yeah, it's an adventure. It's a bit of a misleading page and a half, I think—it's only about 30 seconds, as I time myself doing it (from memory, so I might have miss-timed it, but that seems about right). And fortunately for the choir, nobody knows what the pitch relation of the next orchestral entrance to the final note of the choir section is. :-D