The Awesomeness of the King's Singers

This week; I got to meet The King's Singers... and WOW!! It was amazing!!!! They were so nice and pretty much just radiated awesomeness. But... let's begin at the beginning... the masterclass.

Monday they came for a masterclass with the choir. It was so cool. We sang two songs for them, one we sang on our last concert, the other we had learned the week before. And, not to brag, but they loved us. I learned alot about singing in a choir and had a lot of fun. Afterwards they were kind enough to take a few pictures with us.

Tuesday was the concert, a boy was it something!!! The first set were the more classical pieces of their repertoire. They did alot of more madrigal type pieces which were amazing!! How they all keep their part so well and stay in tune, I'll never know. My favorite from that set was 'Jenny Jones' it was hauntingly beautiful, the emotion they put into their singing coupled with beautiful harmonies and their vocal blend was fantastic!!!

After the intermission they did some pieces from the lighter/more popular side of their repertoire. They sang 'I'm Yours' pretty well, and a really good rendition of Harry Connick Juniors 'Recipe for Love'. They also sang a really amusing piece about being a train, and Micheal Buble's 'Home' and that was fantastic. But the best was 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' mainly because the really cute bass sang something other then a boring bass line and he has a really hot voice.

After the concert they came out into the lobby and we got to take pictures and get autographs.

This is the bass Johnathan Howard, and boy was I smitten (along with every other girl in the department), and really; he's a bass (instant win), only twenty-three years old (I know I'm shocked too!), is British(a.k.a. accent=win) and is adorable!!! Need I say more? And no I don't feel ashamed about being smitten.

This is Christopher Gabbitas, the second baritone. To me he seemed a little stand-off-ish but that's most likely attributed to the fact that I talked to him after what I'm sure was a really long day and he's British. But he still posed for a picture with me and signed my program :) 

This is Philip Lawson, the first baritone. He was awesome!!! So friendly and welcoming, he didn't mind taking photos and signing my program and even chatted with me for a while, he's very witty I discovered.

This is Paul Phoenix, the tenor. I think he was my favorite; he sang 'I'm Yours' wonderfully and was hilarious. He was also very expressive which added so much to the performance.

This is Timothy Wayne-Wright, he's a counter-tenor. He was pretty cool, a really sweet guy. And really cute... but he's a counter-tenor ... and married :(

And finally this is David Hurley, the first counter-tenor. He's also really cool. He was really animated and personable on stage. He also gave us alot of good pointers on Monday.

After the concert a bunch of us went to Denny's and that was a blast!!!! It was so sweet, we talked and ate and just chilled; and of course we talked music, which was awesome. We talked about everything from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, to which songs were in which scales, to why Dr. Bradshaw would write a piece with the time signature 3+3+2 over 8 and why the same song would that a time signature AND key signature that would change every three measures and then why he would make us sing it!!!! I love talking music out of the classroom. All in all it was a really great night!!! And one I won't be forgetting soon!! :D