In music… A tribute to Ellie!
November 16th, 2008Throughout my secondary school years, I was heavily involved within the musical life of the school. This included a Christmas carol service, where there would be all sorts of different music, ranging from a slightly painful school orchestra, to a soul band, to a choir. One thing that always made Christmas begin for me, was when Ellie sang a solo at the carol service, which she did every year that she was at the school (I think?!) For those of you who have never heard her sing, Ellie has a beautiful voice. I loved all of the solos that she did, but these two had a profound impact on me. The first is O Holy Night, one of my favourite ever songs. There are many terrible renditions of this but this one by Il Divo (legends) is a good one.
The second, is a version of Ave Maria - in this case, sung by Hayley Westenra - unfortunately the sound quality makes it a little piercing, but I have a recording of it that is beautiful.
November 16th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Ahh thanks Nai! Listening to those two recordings took me back! This year I’ve joined the Christmas Choir for Trent Vineyard’s carol service and it’s brought so many memories flooding back of ‘Balcatraz’ and rehearsals with Mr Pope/Tamlyn (legends!) and of course the morning off school to rehearse at church! With red tinsel in our pony tails!! Those were the days… I can’t sing ‘O Come All Ya Faithful’ without breaking into the descant at the end and thinking of choir days! xx
November 17th, 2008 at 11:05 am
[...] I’m beginning to think of Christmas. I’ve spotted a couple of blogs which mentioned carols or the Trinity carol service at the Racecourse, so it got me thinking again about my favourite [...]
November 17th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Hi there. You’ve got me thinking about favourite carols now.
This is my favourite recording of O Holy Night:
http://atkin.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/favourite-christmas-carols-in-no-particular-order/
And this is another favourite Christmas carol sung by a great singer:
http://atkin.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/a-fine-tenor-singing-a-favourite-christmas-carol/
Thanks, Rob.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:40 am
I really enjoyed the Hayley Westenra version of Ave Maria, as well as the beautiful church setting.
Here is another BEAUTIFUL Christmas song for your to check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqqlaTRBxas
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