swalker2001 wrote: ↑<span title="Tue May 07, 2019 2:15 am">5 years ago</span>
I would dearly love to hear
We Are The Lost in concert. It brings tears no matter how many times I have listened to it.
I totally second this wish. Me too, I find
We are the Lost heartbreakingly beautiful and I'll never understand why Robert didn't make us of the meaningful situation to bring it on stage last year for the anniversary of the end of WW I. Would it have been too political, I wonder? Since this did not happen when the circumstances were ideal, my hope that they will ever perform it live has distinctly decreased.
swalker2001 wrote: ↑<span title="Tue May 07, 2019 2:15 am">5 years ago</span>I'll stop by saying I think that it's possible many of the newest mini-angels could master
Touch The Sky. We don't have Mini-James anymore (and he wouldn't be so "mini" if we did) but the song would be a great way to get the newest miniboys acclimated to performing in front of a big audience.
I second this as well, but it's a difficult piece indeed. The dissonances have to be intonated absolutely "clean" (we call it that way in German), there is not much room to correct something without risking a bad, wrong sound. However, I would just jump of joy to get this one live!
swalker2001 wrote: ↑<span title="Tue May 07, 2019 2:15 am">5 years ago</span>So I ended up with more than three and I could pick them all I'm afraid. [...] See what I mean? I could list them all...such a hard topic.
I know exactly what you mean.
Egorbea2018 wrote: ↑<span title="Sat May 11, 2019 11:59 pm">5 years ago</span>I can add five more to your list. Is it possible you saw them in concert?
Following The Furby's documentation, these songs were sung live in this frequency:
Abide with me - 1x (Leiden, 2007)
Sanctissima - 40x (last time in 2012)
Sing Forever - 3x (2005)
Sing the story - 3x (2011)
Time (14x, last time in 2010)
Well, in fact my point was to filter out the songs which so far have exclusively existed as studio recordings, because here the question why they have never been performed live can have such diverse answers. Too risky? Not performable? The boys themselves don't enjoy the song? No confidence that the audience will care? And I am interested in them, because in this regard it puts us all, whether long- or shortterm fans, on the very same level: None of us has ever heard them live. That's a special feeling, I find, and a connection among us.
Btw, have you seen this
concert wishes thread, because it's a wonderful one to just wish, without any disturbance by handmade restrictions.
So as far as I can see,
Vespera wins, and that's really not a secret (no pun!
), and, to my joy and surprise,
Something Sings is apparently much cared for, too.
bachmahlerfan wrote: ↑<span title="Sun May 05, 2019 4:16 pm">5 years ago</span>
I would love to hear "Venite Adoremus" live, but I don't think it will happen. The vocals in the opening and closing sections have a rhythmically irregular, improvisational quality to them that would be very difficult to pull off in a live performance. Simplifying those sections for performance would destroy the effect of the original in my opinion.
Hm ... why not gather some courage and take on an improvisation on stage? As they told us in one of their blogs
"Coach journeys are actually great for us as a group. They are usually quite fun filled and it only takes the right tune on the radio to start us singing – it’s amazing how many harmony parts we can manage to make. As many of you know, as the choir we sing songs with many different voice parts so it’s great fun to take a tune and give it a Libera spin."
Honestly, I believe that, with adequate instruction by Robert and practice, they would be capable of navigating through the relevant passages of
Venite Adoremus. Some boys with a good ear could be the leading voices. I would love to see them improvising that way.
With even more focus on the bold ones.):
