I gave the recording from this year’s Boston solstice a listen and disliked it—I feel bad about saying this, and am pushing through that bad feeling not due to unkind intent, but because I imagine you want access to negative feedback as well as positive. It feels like the same reason I dislike the original tune of [] Wrote The Rocks and prefer the Alex Federici version (https://humanistculture.bandcamp.com/track/god-wrote-the-world). In both cases, the tune I like less seems meandering, overly jazzy, and out of sync with the serious/gritty character of the lyrics.
I agree that singing the original tune of Level Up as a group wouldn’t work for the reasons you name—I heard that the Bay Area solstice asks the audience to be quiet while the choir performs it, which seems good to me.
am pushing through that bad feeling not due to unkind intent, but because I imagine you want access to negative feedback as well as positive
Thanks! Confirming that this is what I want!
I heard that the Bay Area solstice asks the audience to be quiet while the choir performs it, which seems good to me.
I do think that having choir-only pieces works well in some contexts, but it’s not something we like to do at our event. When we’ve tried doing it we mostly get the feedback that people want to sing along, which makes sense to me given the rest of the aesthetic of the Boston event.
I gave the recording from this year’s Boston solstice a listen and disliked it—I feel bad about saying this, and am pushing through that bad feeling not due to unkind intent, but because I imagine you want access to negative feedback as well as positive. It feels like the same reason I dislike the original tune of [] Wrote The Rocks and prefer the Alex Federici version (https://humanistculture.bandcamp.com/track/god-wrote-the-world). In both cases, the tune I like less seems meandering, overly jazzy, and out of sync with the serious/gritty character of the lyrics.
I agree that singing the original tune of Level Up as a group wouldn’t work for the reasons you name—I heard that the Bay Area solstice asks the audience to be quiet while the choir performs it, which seems good to me.
Thanks! Confirming that this is what I want!
I do think that having choir-only pieces works well in some contexts, but it’s not something we like to do at our event. When we’ve tried doing it we mostly get the feedback that people want to sing along, which makes sense to me given the rest of the aesthetic of the Boston event.