ste1701fan wrote: ↑<span title="Thu Apr 26, 2018 12:40 pm">6 years ago</span>
The mass couple weeks ago at Buckfast Abby had a picture of the group performing there. 34 boys. Isaac (italy) & Alessandro (unknown) were missing due to other trips.
34 seems a quiet big number for e performance, but i'm sure Patrick has the figures for the size of the choir per concert=)))))) so the question is, will some of the newbies from the Buckfast Abby performance not take part in the Ely concert, but Isaac and Alessandro will join again? or will it be a total of 34+2 in Ely?
There were 34 boys in Ely 2017 and even 42 in London 2016. I don't know, if 42 is the record.
I don't actually know and haven't looked it up, but it would seem reasonable to me that Libera uses, as a rule, the spring concerts to have as many boys as possible in the line-up. Thus, the newbies of the Christmas concerts have already a little bit of experience, they increase their experience by another concert, there's not much traveling or staying overnight for the very young and new ones and not everyone of them has the chance to already join the concert tours.
So there's no better opportunity to have all of them on stage without the nervousness of the very first performance for the youngest.
dani wrote: ↑<span title="Thu Apr 26, 2018 12:29 am">6 years ago</span>
I always think Voca Me and Mysterium cancel each other out if they are played in the same concert as both are similar and they always sound better when they open the second half of the concert and it’s gotten dark outside. It just adds to the atmosphere to me.
Hm, I would rather say that for
Voca Me and
Recordare, but you are right, there is something similar in
Voca Me's and
Mysterium's atmosphere, as they are both very mysterious songs with quite some drama.
I will keep up my hope to have them both, as there were concerts where both of them were performed. Withouth having experienced it myself, only listening to other fans' concert stories,
Mysterium as opener of the second half seems the optimum also to me.
Voca Me in contrast is equally welcome to me at any place of the set list as long as it just
is performed at all.
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But I can relate to you saying that placing it right there as well as
Mysterium adds to the atmosphere.
dani wrote: ↑<span title="Thu Apr 26, 2018 12:29 am">6 years ago</span>
I can not imagine Secret being brought as it’s such a random choice of a song to bring back. If they wanted to do fan service it would be Vespera which fans have been asking for the last 5 years without any luck
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I agree with you. The chances for
Secret are negligibly small for the upcoming concert, unfortunately (although in London 2016 I asked Josh to speak for us
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). But I won't give up my hope. It would make be super happy.
@fan_de_LoK, from your statistics I gather that
We Are The Lost so far has never been performed live in a full concert, correct? I can only repeat myself that this would be
the year of all to take it into the concert set list. If Robert ever intended to perform this very beautiful song, it would be logical and perfect to do it now. It would convey a very particular meaning. I hope and hope and hope.
And I am always eager to hear brand new songs (by Robert ...
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). But although at my Libera beginning I considered it as ideal to have 3 of such new songs, I am now prepared to reduce it to 1 song, just because I believe that I can live on one new song for a while and, as there is no new CD in sight, waiting for the recording of more than 1, which I'm able to bear for a while, would be a torture.
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Therefore: One never-heard-before song and I'm satisfied.
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