Mixed Choir (SMezATBarB)
- Level 3
SKU:
BA.BA11397
Composed
by Ash Pournouri, Avicii,
Etta James, Leroy
Kirkland, and Pearl
Woods. Edited by Hans
Vainikainen. Arranged by
Hans Vainikainen.
Stapled. Choral score. 12
pages. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA11397_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA11397).
ISBN 9790006568598.
39.7 x 21 cm inches. Text
Language: English. Text:
Bergling, Tim / James,
Etta / Woods, Pearl /
Kirkland, Leroy /
Pournouri,
Ash.
“Oh,
sometimes I get a good
feeling, yeah
Get a
feeling that I never,
never, never, never had
before …”
In
its original form,
“Levels” is more of
an instrumental number
featuring a short passage
from a song by
soul-singer Etta James.
The energy of this
exhilarating electro-pop
piece with the inimitable
Avicii sound is an
ear-catching delight and
brings audiences to their
feet: a good time is
guaranteed!
Th
e editor:
Hans
Vainikainen (b. 1976)
hails from a new
generation of conductors
in the Swedish choral
tradition. His conducting
repertoire covers a wide
range of genres and eras,
from Mahler’s Eighth
Symphony to the Swedish
DJ Avicii. In 2005 he won
the Swedish Conductors’
Prize, and two years
later he was appointed
artistic director of the
Katarina kyrka, the home
of Katarinakörerna, one
of Sweden’s largest
choral
societies.
Hans
Vainikainen heads
Stockholm’s
Katarinakörerna with
more than 500 singers in
various combinations.
Their programmes cover
both sacred and secular
music. In his search for
suitable arrangements,
his eye fell on one the
world’s best-known pop
artists, Tim Bergling,
known professionally as
Avicii. He then arranged
three of Avicii’s best
songs for classical
choirs, intending them to
be encore
pieces.
“Hey
Brother”, “Levels”
and “Without you” are
now available for
six-part mixed or female
choir. The arrangements
offer a wide variety of
vocal and choral
possibilities and
attention has been paid
that all parts are of the
same musical standard.
Whether homophonic or
unisono, they artfully
intertwine from one
passage to the next.
However, for all their
sophistication the
arrangements remain
manageable and easy to
learn, displaying the
typical groove of each
Avicii song within a
multi-layered
texture.
