Choir conductor since 1986. Arranger and composer of mainly choral music. Pianist and singer. Conductor of the Morgana Chamber Choir in The Hague, The Netherlands. Also occupied as writer and Web Developer. Living together with the great soprano and vocal teacher Sheila van Rheenen. We have two children.
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Conductor's Rehearsal diary (Repetitie dagboek) Writed on 2010-05-29 by Taco Sorgdrager I updated design and content
of my Wordpress weblog
"Conductor's
Rehearsal diary". Here
you can find articles about
music, interpretation of choir
music pieces, and of the
rehearsals of the Morgana
Chamber choir. The weblog is
in Dutch. Conductor's Rehearsal
diary (Repetitie dagboek)
Concert Morgana Chamber choir Writed on 2010-05-11 by Taco Sorgdrager On June 20th 2010, the Morgana
Chamber choir will perform
several pieces during a
concert in The Bosbeskapel in
The Hague:
Bach's motet "Jesu
meine Freude (BWV 227) will be
sung A capella (without Basso
Continuo). Furthermore
Hindemith's "6
Chansons nach Rilke", and
Mäntyjärvi's
"Come away, Death"
(from his 4 Shakespeare
songs).
There will also be 2 choir
improvisations, and work of
conductor Taco Sorgdrager (3
Rilke songs).
Revised version of Sounds of silence arrangement Writed on 2010-05-05 by Taco Sorgdrager In April 2010 I received a
message from the Fandante
Chamber choir in Hungary. They
performed the arrangement,
using the version that I
published on free-scores.com
in April 2008. Taking in the
piece, the choir encountered
some editorial mistakes in
measures 104-109 (the last
part). Some words were missing
or placed wrongly, and the
'time management'
didn't really fit.
The Fandante Chamber choir
found its own working
solution, which sounds very
good (you can hear their
performance of the arrangement
on its page on
free-scores.com). But when I
looked into their solution,
made possible by the assistent
conductor Sándor
Dániel Molnár
sending me the sheet music of
the version they used, the
'time management'
still didn't fit. I saw
downbeat notes in upbeat
measure parts. This really
forced me to revise the
existing version into
something right.
The conductor of the Fandante
Chamber choir, Tamás
Melegh, also interpreted the
arrangement outstandingly. He
added some rhythmic changes in
measures 49-50, on the words
"speaking" and
"listening". Instead
of the 2 eight notes, he used
a dotted eight note and a
sixteenth note. This rhytmical
variation is also mirrored in
measures 64 and 67, twice on
the word "without".
I adopted these very beautiful
rhytmical additions in this
revision, and want to thank
Tamás Melegh for his
amazing musical insight.
For the detail freaks: I
corrected the bass part in
measure 51, where the division
of the word
"listening" was not
logical. I added an extra a
flat eight note for the
syllable "e" in
"list-e-ning".
This revision is published on
free-scores.com in may 2010.
Anyone who has downloaded the
previous version, should
really consider downloading
and using this revised
version, for it contains
important corrections.
Live on the fly performance of Silent Night Writed on 2009-12-23 by Taco Sorgdrager 6 members of the Morgana
Chamber Choir recorded an
unrehearsed third verse of my
arrangement of Silent Night.
The recording was made during
the rehearsal on 21 december
2009. It was snowing heavily
outside for the second day,
which was the reason the other
choir members couldn't
make it.
Our tenor was also not able to
come, therefore I filled in
his part (don't blame me
though: I'm not a tenor,
but a bariton)
Live performance of "Ich habe viele Brüder" (piano version) Writed on 2008-12-10 by Taco Sorgdrager I added an extra MP3 of
"Ich habe viele
Brüder". It is a
live recording of the piano
version of the piece.
Allthough you don't hear
it, it was recorded in a
church with at least hundred
people listening, during a
concert of the Morgana
Madrigal Choir. What you do
hear however, is the sqeaking
of the piano chair. Besides
that, the piano is slightly
out of tune, but nevertheless:
I think it's worth to
have it listened to.
Arrangement of Silent Night Writed on 2008-11-30 by Taco Sorgdrager Two days ago, I added my
SATB-arrangement of
"Silent Night"
("Stille Nacht") to
Free-scores.com. I wrote it
last year, somewhere in
October 2007, after a
rehearsal with one of my
choirs.
The original melody of this
famous Christmas song is of
course composed by Franz
Gruber (on a text written by
Joseph Mohr), and performed by
them for the first time in
1818, in the church of the
village Oberndorf in
Austria.
On the website
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~sounds
capes/
VOLUME02/Silent_Night_History.
shtml you can find some nice
background information on the
song.
I publish my arrangement under
my own name here, not out of
arrogance, but because I can
imagine Mr. Gruber might not
completely agree with what I
did to his melody.
So, that's why what I do
with music, is to be found
under my name. However, with
this statement I do not in any
way mean that others should
act like me. Publishing an
arrangement of a well known
song under the name of the
original composer is allso a
sign of modesty with which I
can agree totally.
Update of MP3 and PDF of "Ich habe viele Brüder" Writed on 2008-11-30 by Taco Sorgdrager I made a new MP3 and PDF of my
piece "Ich habe viele
Brüder", for Alto
solo and Choir SATB. The text
was written by the German poet
Rainer Maria Rilke. It is the
third poem from his "Book
of Hours" ("Das
Stundenbuch"), which was
published around 1900.
The previous MP3 was of a very
poor sound quality. The new
one is better, allthough it
remains a digital version and
not a live recording.
The piece was performed
recently by my choir
"Morgana Madrigal
Choir" in The Hague, The
Netherlands, and had a great
reception.
Why doesn't anyone comment on my music? Writed on 2008-11-29 by Taco Sorgdrager Considering the download facts
of -for instance- my
arrangement of the Sounds of
Silence, which is by now
downloaded 2004 times (and the
mp3 listened to1106 times),
I'm wondering why nobody
writes any comment about my
music?
Poems from Rilke's "Stundenbuch" sung by Morgana Madrigal Choir Writed on 2008-09-30 by Taco Sorgdrager On november 16th 2008, a
concert by the Morgana
Madrigal Choir will take place
in The Hague, The Netherlands.
A major part of the program
consists of choral works by
conductor and composer Taco
Sorgdrager. He has put to
music 7 poems from "Das
Stundenbuch" (The Book of
Hours) by the Czech-German
poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Five
of those pieces will have
their first public
performance.
The other part of the program
consists of English and French
Renaissance music, with a
focus on Thomas Morley abd
Francois Regnard. The Regnard
pieces each are performed in
connection to musically
related pieces by other French
Renaissance composers, like
Olrando di Lasso, Claudin de
Sermisy, Josquin Desprez and
Clemens non Papa.
For detailed information: see
the website
www.morganamadrigaalkoor.nl
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Interest : Skill level : good music!! i enjoy jazz,
Christmas music, and this is a
great combination of the two
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