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unusual facts about Blessed Be God, A Cappella



A Red, Red Rose

Four modern choral arrangements include a four-part, a cappella version by David Dickau, an intimate, Irish folk music-influenced setting, also SATB a cappella, by Matthew Brown ("A Red, Red Rose," published by Santa Barbara Music), an accompanied SATB setting by James Mulholland as well as a broader version by American composer René Clausen.

Agostino Agazzari

His madrigals, on the other hand, are a cappella, in the late Renaissance style, so Agazzari simultaneously showed extreme progressive tendencies as well as some more conservative ones: unusually, his progressive music was sacred, and his conservative was secular, a situation almost unique among composers of the early Baroque.

Blessed Be God, A Cappella

It is nine (9) choral arrangements of popular religious songs by Arnold Zamora for Chorus Paulinus in 1999.

Castle Infinity

The new wave a cappella group The Bobs provided several original songs for the soundtrack.

Cold, Cold Heart

During the credits of the 2013 video game Batman: Arkham Origins, the Joker, voiced by Troy Baker, can be heard ominously singing an a cappella of this song while being returned to his cell at Blackgate Penitentiary.

Dessa

Dessa is a founding member of The Boy Sopranos, an almost all-female a cappella group, with frequent collaborators Jessy Greene, Aby Wolf and others.

Don't Suppose

The B-side of the single, "O.T.T. (Over The Top)", was never released on an album; it was a studio version of "Over the Top", an a cappella track partially sung by Limahl with Nick Beggs during the concert filmed for the VHS and Laserdisc release of Kajagoogoo's White Feathers Tour.

Fairmont Senior High School

The Fairmont Senior Madrigal Chamber Choir, a renaissance style a cappella choir, has won numerous all-around Festivals of Music choral competitions in places such as Montreal, New York City, and Williamsburg.

J. Pearl

After high school, and while studying pre-Med in New York's Columbia University, she became part of the university's a cappella group called the Columbia Clefhangers.

Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur

Daniel-Lesur's best-known composition is the a cappella choral work, Le Cantique des Cantiques, a setting for 12 voices of parts of the Song of Songs, interspersed with Latin verses and New Testament texts.

Life in One Day

Jones, along with Afrodiziak who contributed backing vocals on the original, performed "Life in One Day" in an a cappella style live at the Shaftsbury Theatre in London as part of a series of music/alternative comedy shows held in April 1986 by the charity Comic Relief.

Margareta Bengtson

Margareta Bengtson (born 1966) (formerly Margareta Jalkéus, having married and divorced Anders Jalkeus) is the former soprano of The Real Group, a professional a cappella vocal jazz quintet from Sweden.

Men with Guns

The various styles include: cumbias, the Colombian dance music; a brass band; an orquestra, of Mayan culture; Peruvian Susana Baca singing a cappella; El General's funky hip-hop; and Mason Daring's bass marimba and Spanish guitar-driven score.

Monday, Monday

Wilson Phillips three times: a modern rock take on their album, California (2004) and an a cappella single version the same year, and a straightforward take paying tribute to the original on album Dedicated (2012)

Monika Frimmer

In 2002, she founded together with Christa Bonhoff, Dantes Diwiak and Peter Kooy a quartet Tanto Canto to sing rarely performed music a cappella, with piano or with ensemble.

So Get Up

In 1994, the UK edition of the single (now as A side), had a few remixes by Danny Tenaglia and Junior Vasquez as well as an original mix and a cappella version.

Steven Gerber

During his years as a graduate student, he wrote serial and non-twelve-tone works, such as the a cappella choral works "Dylan Thomas Settings" and "Illuminations" (Rimbaud), and throughout the remainder of the 1970s most of his works were twelve-tone.

Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice

The film uses concert footage, archival stills and interviews, to chronicle the history and music of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a Grammy Award-winning African American female a cappella group with musical roots combining jazz, blues and sacred songs of the black church such as spirituals, hymns, and gospel.

The Full Monteverdi

The film's reception was largely favourable, particularly from classical music critics, though some found La Bouchardière's matching of contemporary realism with Renaissance a cappella music uncomfortable; most acclaimed it for its innovation, fidelity to the spirit of the original music and unrelenting emotional depth.

Virpi Moskari

Virpi Moskari is a Mezzo-soprano, and a founder member of the Finnish a cappella group, Rajaton.

Wearing My Rolex

An a cappella version of "Wearing My Rolex", performed by the main cast, featured in the original Royal Court Theatre production of Laura Wade's stage play Posh (2010).

Where Them Girls At

An early version of the song featuring a cappella vocals was obtained by computer hackers, through accessing Guetta's recording studio's Wi-Fi connection.

Yuba City bus disaster

A 1950 Crown bus operated by Student Transportation Lines, Inc. had been chartered to carry the Yuba City High School a cappella choir from Yuba City to Miramonte High School in Orinda for a friendship day involving the choirs of the two schools.


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