I love that this super niche community comes together every year to freak out about beautiful choral music. See y’all in 2026 ❤️ #9LC

Always putting the MESS in “Messiaen” 💕 #9LC

Gah!! I just love starting the day like this. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! You are a beautiful bunch of nerds and geeks and it’s a pleasure to commune with you every year 🎄 #9LC

“DAY-I-TEE” 🎶 💕 #9LC

Why yes, G-flat is a more pleasant key than G, but is it more Christmasy is my question 🤔 #9LC

“Sp’rit” #9LC

I so appreciate how Hyde’s additions to the final verse are becoming standard #9LC

you want the WORD you WILL sit through the star-led chieftains! #9LC

Descant time!! #9LC

"When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled..." Tyrants are always afraid of love, terrified of grace and mercy because it undermines their coercive grip on power. By God's grace, the Herods of this world don't have the last word. #9lc 🕯️

This is literally the only time you’ll hear literally ALL the verses of O Come All Ye Faithful #9LC

And as I say every year, Rosephane Powell And The Word Was God at #9LC WHEN???

As I said last year… #9LC

Oh thank god, I was so worried that it was going to be one of the non-batshit arrangements of “I Saw Three Ships” #9LC

JOHN-JOHN! What is this SUMPTUOUS cadential figure??? #9LC

Unlike Berlioz the person, this tune does NOT give me creepy incel vibes #9LC

Say what you want about John Rutter, but the man actually has an audience and knows what they want, which more than a lot of composers can say #9LC

“GOOD tidings of GREAT joy” in case you were concerned about “BAD tidings of SUBPAR joy” #9LC

Love a Spooky Harmonization verse #9LC

The perfect delicately tossed off “-ia”s in this Britten 😋 #9LC

My undergrad (Iowa) choir director (Texan) was a HUGE anglophile and always made us pronounce it “Beth-lee-hem” #9LC

Now That's What I Call Bruckner™️ #9lc

“Jae-zyoo” #9LC

FYI, the Ave Maria is my favorite Bruckner (that nobody ever does because they think his only choral piece is Os Justi) #9LC

#9LC tradition of making me feel bad with a flawless rendition of The Lamb upheld

New carol is understatedly beautiful #9LC

🚨NEW CAROL ALERT NEW CAROL ALERT 🚨 #9LC

COMMISSION NEXT COMMISSION NEXT 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 #9LC

“Aye-Zaye-uh” #9LC

As a person who doesn’t really like the other common setting of “It came upon a midnight clear” …I might actually prefer the other melody 😬 #9LC

The way the tenors just RIPPED into that “glAWWWWry!” #9LC

“Now of Mary is born jeSUS” #9LC

Yesss Elizabeth. Fun fact, all hymns/carols in 6/8 are drinking somgs #9LC

sure, Adam and Eve ate the apple, but that chorister just ate #9lc

Ah yes, the tradition of the Token American Reader is upheld #9LC

I saw one documentary many many years ago (probs on the History Channel, so grain of salt) that said it would make more sense for the Tree of Knowledge to be a fig tree than an apple, and that’s always stuck with me #9LC

Whomst is this skilled young orator?? #9LC

What are we all doing while tuning in to #9LC? I’m slicing and boiling potatoes 🥔

Ugh, starting off strong with this Vaughan Williams. Love ya, Ralph ❤️ #9LC

“Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as he” So make sure at age 12, you run away from your parents while on a trip so you can go interrogate some clergy #9LC

Thinking about brave it is for OiRDC to not begin on a root position chord #9LC

Who’s ready?? #9LC

I cried at Bat Boy The Musical, but I did not cry at Wicked For Good. What does this say about me?

I just signed an agreement with a traditional music publisher. I know it will be good for the piece and its longevity, but I still feel like I just gave one of my children away

Bake-Off Producers in 2015: the 2nd round will test the bakers’ technical skill. A little challenging, but a strong home baker with good intuition should be able to figure out the basic components of this recipe BOPs in 2025: I hope one of them has a panic attack, cries, then collapses 🤩

Had blood work alongside my yearly physical (because I have 🌈risk factors🌈) The good news is that my nightly cookie habit is A1C-approved The bad news is that my nightly cookie habit is not lipid-panel-approved

[googles the sentence: “Is Michael Barbaro a messy bisexual?”]

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

Merry Figmas to all who observe!

Does anyone know of any compositions EXPLICITLY for UPRIGHT piano?