Weekly Photo Challenge: Harmony
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As a singer I am enthralled by harmony. It is the core of my musical experience. For 12 seasons I was a soprano member of the world-renown Toronto Mendelssohn Choir ~ one of the highlights of my life so far.
What always amazed me was how 180 people from diverse walks of life and experience could come together and perform the works of the great composers ~ Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Vaughan Williams, Handel, et al ~ in perfect harmony. Our love for music the common ground upon which we walked to create moving moments in the choral repertoire ~ for the audience and for ourselves.
The rich texture of our individual lives coloured our voices, which the conductor then sculpted into the beautiful, warm, clear sound for which the choir is famous.
Similarly, these images depict the organ pipes of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. They illustrate how diverse textures and materials, when crafted by expert hands, can work in harmony to produce unimaginable visual beauty.
Visiting this great church has been one of the highlights of my travels thus far.
For me where there is harmony, whether in nature or in those things crafted by the loving intention of the human heart, there is peace.
I love harmony.
Thanks for visiting …
Dorothy
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©Dorothy Chiotti … All Rights Reserved 2016
Eyes to Heart 
The first image is stunning! Great take on. 🙂
Thank you … 🙂
Wonderful images…and I may have seen you perform in Toronto – how cool is that!!! 🙂
Hey! That’s really cool. My TMC journey was 1989 to 2001. When did you hear them?
I started going to their concerts in 1997…
Well then, I would have waved to you … 😉
Don’t you just love the connections through blogging…waving back now 🙂
😊 … Do you have a favourite choral work or moment at a TMC performance?
I ALWAYS loved the Christmas performances… I’m no longer in Toronto (moved to Prince Edward County, 2-1/2 hours east of the city).
I hope to go an see their performance of Ravel’s Daphnis & Chloe in June.
I listen to a wide variety of music. Classical, contemporary, country, jazz, rock.
Messiah is a wonder. I must have sung at least 60 performances and it moved me every time. And the a cappella works have always been a favourite. “Lo, How a Rose e’er Blooming'” etc. … Is this Ravel performance in the TSO programming?
Yes, TMC are making a guest appearance.
http://www.tmchoir.org/2015-16-season/
Choral performances are so moving…I’m usually brought to tears with the emotions the music provokes.
I can’t sing a note…I was never very good, but a couple of nasty throat infections left me coughing every time I try to sing now…even when I sing alone in the car 😞….so I take my enjoyment listening to others.
I used to work for a member of the Roy Thompson & Massey Hall Board…as well as the Tafelmusik Board. I was in heaven!
So glad to have found this common bond with you. See! … More harmony through music. I love it!!! 💖
My musical tastes are also quite eclectic … Much like yours with the occasional opera thrown in as a nod to the part they played in my formative years.
These images express a real harmony that almost brings the classical masters’ music to my ears. Congratulations!
Thank you. So glad you got so much from them. 😊
Perfectly glorious and harmonious photos! 🙂
Thank you … 😊
I’ve always wished I had a good voice for singing, alas it is not. And I’m pretty sure I’m tone deaf, despite growing up with a musical father and playing piano and singing in the church choir. My talents are in other areas. It makes me happy to read that others have found their gifts. Lovely photos and interpretation of the theme.
Thank you. 😊
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Dorothy, the first and third photos, with their colors, are stunning, Dorothy! Music to my eyes. 🙂
janet
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