pipechoir 10.18.24 by pipechoir

many thanks to Spirit Furnace for the beautiful set

pipechoir was made up of the voices of Mo, Martha, Lucy, Clare, Philip, Julia, Charlotte, and Joseph, and the many other sweet people who came to lend Voice and Ear and Hand For Scrambling Down The Bank and Shoulder For Boost Up Into The Pipe and Candle and Lighter and Coat For Sitting-On.

most of the rounds that were sung were taught to the Finegan family by their mother Clare, with the exception of Rose, Rose which came from Luther and When You Were Born which came from G.

... row, row, row your boat
... Spirit Furnace (solo)
... heigh, ho, nobody home // rose, rose // that Pasternak poem from apres moi that martha loves
... i see his blood upon the rose (Bedford)
... jubilate deo
... scarborough fair (Finegan)
... kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
... when you were born
... bogoroditse dyevo (Rachmaninoff)
... we hear from a tin whistle
... light on the brook (Finegan)
... leave her, johnny
... my rooster's dead // le coq est mort

pipechoir was directed by Julia Finegan and recorded, mixed, and mastered by Robin Ong

philadelphia community choir


organized by julia finegan