It’s All About The Music!
Playa Choir usually performs 4-6 pieces of music each year. The music varies in its style, energy and message depending on the theme that year and its place in the service. There is often a piece with a powerful message, a dramatic piece that touches your soul, and a rousing finale that gets everyone up and dancing! The music varies in its complexity with some pieces featuring classic SATB (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) 5 part harmony, and others with more basic structures. Many pieces feature solos.
Here you’ll find Sheet Music and Reference Recordings, so you can be prepared when your boots hit the ground. It helps tremendously to know your music in advance so you can focus on enjoying Burning Man when not in rehearsal. Aspiring soloists should come prepared. Soloists are chosen late in the week- often Friday or Saturday.
Choir Rehearsals are Burn Tuesday – Saturday 10:30am to 12:30pm. They often run over ’cause there’s so much to learn. If you’re new to the Choir, don’t worry there will be plenty of veteran section leaders to help. Playa Choir is radically inclusive- there are no auditions.
As we prepare for 2025: Tomorrow Today, keep an eye on this space frequently. Madi will often make revisions, so you’ll want the latest editions. Please print out your music to bring. There will be printed copies of each score available on-playa should you forget yours, or you find yourself sitting-in. But it helps to plan in advance and make sure you have the music you need.
All are welcome!
Music!
Superlove
Ok,choir… it’s our tearjerker ballad!
Thanks, as per usual, Purple Sunshine for suggesting this song. I know when I’m crying at the gym while listening on the stairclimber and I get shivers, then it’s usually a good sign it’s right for us…
Needs a solid and honest/vulnerable soloist, chorus repeats 3x. There’s a little SA vs.TB feature and a different, but pretty ending that could go some places on playa.
Also needs an instrumental soloist. Pretty much speaks to the moment in what is needed in our world.
Tempo may vary out there, as we do. Band parts forthcoming. Let me get the rest of the satb charts written and then I’ll circle back.
There are definite harmony differences between the original and my arrangement. Use theirs for a good soloist reference, but use mine for harmony parts. The harmonies are not the same!
Superlove – SATB Charts
Lacrimosa
We will be performing Mozart’s Lacrimosa with the Black Rock Philharmonic.
Lacrimosa – SATB Charts
We have been asked to sing Somebody to Love on that same show. As soon as I am done, teaching, I will make practice tracks.
Don’t Lose Sight
We are doing this one for sure. Arrangement is in the works.