Spine-tingling arrangement of ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’
A lush arrangement for SAATTB voice perfect for choir and vocal groups
I arranged the song for my amateur Eclipse Choir and we recorded in it Abbey Road Studios. I’m proud of how rich it sounds and I think a lot of vocal groups and choirs will embrace it too. The sheet music for SAATTB vocal groups and choirs is now published on Sheet Music Plus.
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To me this is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.
Majesty and vulnerability, wrapped in the utmost tenderness.
I wrote an arrangement for voice following an evening coaching my choir. During the warm up I got them to harmonise in tones apart, and the balance and tuning was so accurate in one moment that an artificial harmonic sprung out, two octaves higher. Just as a rainbow appears when light splits, it felt as if sound had created its own rainbow. It was magic so I wanted to write something that drew them back to that moment. The four tones appear in the second stanza of that arrangement – “there… at my command”.
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Beautiful arrangement, Jim. x
Vauxhall Cross next 😉
Lol!
Gorgeous arrangement 🙂 x
A lovely arrangement Jim….very moving. As always, it was a joy to listen to Eclipse Choir.