I sang at the BCS National Championship game!

[jlh]

I've been a member of this site for quite awhile and have shared my .02 cents on a lot of topics and quite a few of my piano recordings are in the audition room.  I'm not sure though if you guys know I also sing professionally...

I thought I'd share with you that on Monday night I sang "God Bless America" with the Phoenix Chorale as part of the 2011 Tostitos BCS National Championship pregame show.  This was in front of a crowd of nearly 100,000 in the stadium as well as an audience of 27.3 million ESPN viewers (highest ever cable ratings!)!

What an experience!  Here's a video for you to watch on youtube..  I'm the guy on the far left.

Hope you enjoy!  

Did any of you see the show?

[retrouvailles]

I didn't watch the game, namely because college football is one of the most overrated things ever, and football sucks, but congrats to you all the same for taking part in this. That's quite an experience to do something like that in front of so many people.

[birba]

That was wonderful!!!!  What a group!  Living over in Italy now for so long, I miss those choral groups that only the good ol'US of A can produce.  Such a pure sound and complete blending of the individual voices into one.  Really fantastic!

[scottmcc]

excellent singing, and I've always been a fan of that song.  Mr Berlin would be happy to hear his song performed so well.

[oxy60]

Really good work. I also checked out your Gregorian which was even better and a whole lot more difficult. Congratulations!

[fleetfingers]

Beautiful singing - thanks for sharing it with us! My husband watched the game, but football's not really my thing. If I'd known there would be music, maybe I'd have tuned in. I love that song.

So, you live in the Phoenix area? Me, too.

[jlh]

Really good work. I also checked out your Gregorian which was even better and a whole lot more difficult. Congratulations!

Thanks!  What is this Gregorian of which you speak? 

[jlh]

Beautiful singing - thanks for sharing it with us! My husband watched the game, but football's not really my thing. If I'd known there would be music, maybe I'd have tuned in. I love that song.

So, you live in the Phoenix area? Me, too.

Cool!  If you're in Phoenix, you should go see some of the 5th USASU Bosendorfer and Schimmel International piano competition which is going on this week until Saturday!  I was able to hear a few competitors last night.  I believe there are 29 countries(?) represented this year. Here's the website for the competition:

https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/pianocompetition/2011/

[oxy60]

Thanks!  What is this Gregorian of which you speak? 

Right next to your video on youtube. The singers look the same and I think I saw you over on the left where you stood at the game (tenors?). It starts with a soprano solo from a balcony. Run a search on Youtube for your group.

[fleetfingers]

Cool!  If you're in Phoenix, you should go see some of the 5th USASU Bosendorfer and Schimmel International piano competition which is going on this week until Saturday!  I was able to hear a few competitors last night.  I believe there are 29 countries(?) represented this year. Here's the website for the competition:

https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/pianocompetition/2011/

I had heard about this but didn't realize it was this week, so thanks! I'm planning on going to some of the recitals tomorrow.

[jlh]

Right next to your video on youtube. The singers look the same and I think I saw you over on the left where you stood at the game (tenors?). It starts with a soprano solo from a balcony. Run a search on Youtube for your group.

Ah thanks!  Yes that's a wonderful piece called Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae by Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi.  That piece was inspired by the MS Estonia disaster of 1994, when 852 people went down with the ship. We (known as Phoenix Bach Choir at the time) recorded this on our CD "Eternal Rest".  https://phoenixchorale.org/recordings/eternal-rest/

There's also a youtube of me playing the piano with the Phoenix Chorale at the Northwest ACDA convention last year in Seattle.  Here's Morten Lauridsen's Sure on this Shining Night:

Josh

[john11inc]

Congratulations on that, although ughhhhhhhhhh.

I live in Alabama; any moment I can get that isn't cluttered by sounds of hicks talking about Auburn or Crimson Tide is blessed.  And now you have polluted PS with more of it D:

[oxy60]

Ah thanks!  Yes that's a wonderful piece called Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae by Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi.  That piece was inspired by the MS Estonia disaster of 1994, when 852 people went down with the ship. We (known as Phoenix Bach Choir at the time) recorded this on our CD "Eternal Rest".  https://phoenixchorale.org/recordings/eternal-rest/

There's also a youtube of me playing the piano with the Phoenix Chorale at the Northwest ACDA convention last year in Seattle.  Here's Morten Lauridsen's Sure on this Shining Night:

Indeed that was a terrible tragedy but easily preventable. The bow door must be secured before you apply forward power. Had the captain called down and got a confirmation no sinking would have occured..

Keep up the good work!
Josh