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Kaleidoscope

DarleneKoldenhoven's Variety Vocal-Sampler

"Darlene is amost extraordinary vocal talent.  The voice is true and pure and has thewidest possible range of styles at its command.  She also has the heart tobe able to put real meaning into a song and bring it to life...Beyond herimmense talent, she is totally professional and completely reliable, two ratherrare and invaluable qualities."
- Jeremy Lubbock, multi-Grammy winning arranger, composer for BarbaraStreisand, Celine Dion, and many more.

This is a demonstration of the type of singing I'm grateful to have done for some of the world's finest composers and producers in film, television, albums, commercials, and live recordings over the past ten years or so. These are just some of the excerpts from the full Kaleidoscope sampler which has additional sections of "seriously classical," "light-jazz & semi-classical," and an earlier variety sampler with other styles called VocalArt.  Of course, just when I thought I'd sung everything, I did a country - yodeling job just after I put this together!  Please start with part one. The style of singing and the part I've sung with additional work I've done is listed on the right.  Thanks for listening and enjoy the sampler.
 
If you are a person who hires vocalists and you'd like a hard copy of the entire sampler, please email me with your address and the type of work you do and I will send you the full Kaleidoscope vocal sampler for your files at no charge, of course. If your are a singer and would like me to produce your sampler in my studio, send me an e-mail with your contact information and I'd be happy to speak with you about producing your demo.
The following lists all the tracks on the demo CD. Note that audio is only available for the first Variety Spectrum 1 set (tracks 1-28)
Song Excerpt - Variety Spectrum1 (click name for`*/ samples inMP3 format)
1. SPOKEN PRELUDE & HEAVEN Voiceover & Breathy Intimate Pop - Solo
2. EMMANUEL Classic High-Sop./Low-Alto - Solo
3. ENERGIZER Scat Bach - Solo
4. NBC Jazzy - Top Group 6
5. HOLLYWOOD SQUARES Pop Rock - Duet Girl
6. OOH BABY Pop R&B - Solo
7. CLASSIC TRILL Classical - Solo
8. AFRICAN CHANT African - Top & Middle Group 12, Vocal Contractor
9. LIGHT OF MINE Church Gospel - Solo/Adlibs, Top Group 24, Ctr., Arranger
10. ANGEL'S PASTORALE Angelic Enya Choir - All Parts, Composer/Arranger
11. SALLEY GARDEN Celtic, Enya - Solo
12. PRAYER OF THE CHILDREN Celtic, Appalachian - Solo
13. LA FEMME NIKITA Dance, Sexy, French - Solo
14. MOMA BEGA Bulgarian Choir - All Parts
15. ARABIAN NIGHT Middle Eastern - Improvised Solo
16. JOSEPH'S QUESTION Wailing Adlibs - Solo, Composer/Arranger
17. TWENTY YEARS GIRL TIME Country Pop - Duet BG's
18. RIDE THE OPEN PRARIE Country Yodel - Solo
19. LOVE IS AN ACTION WORD Alternative Rock - Solo/Adlibs, Composer/Arranger
20. LIFE IS A CABARET Broadway Belit in Korean & English - Solo
21. NBC-FRASIER Jazzy - Top Group 6
22. OH LA LA! Cha-Cha-cha Young Sassy Italian Belt - Solo
23. WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE Teen Youth - Solo & TopGroup
24. LAUDAMUS TE Choir Boy - Solo
25. Y COMO MOR Spanish - Solo
26. THE LAST WORD YOU SAID Contemporary Music Theatre Ballad - Solo
27. DOME EPAIS Classical - Duet/Sop.II
28. ONE MINUTE WALTZ Classical Humoresque - Solo
29. HALLELUHAH Gospel R&B - Top Group 6, Contractor
30. ARIA (Based on Dome Epais) Semi-Classical - Live Duet Sop. Lead from Yanni, Live at the Acropolis
Variety Spectrum 2 - SeriouslyClassical
32. LOVE IS ENOUGH Jeremy Lubbock (English)
33. O MIL BABBINO CARO Puccini (Italian)
34. AMOR Richard Strauss (German, Live)
35. MARIA Jobim arr. Castroneves (Portuguese)
36. ALLAH'U'ABHA Graham Major (B'ahai, Solo/Sop.G8)
37. MODINHA Jobim arr. Castroneves (Portugese, Live)
38. DE LOS ALAMOS MADRE Rodrigo (Spanish, Live)
39. LA BERGERE AUX CHAMPS Cantaloube (French, Live)
40. IRIDESCENT WINGS Michel Colombier (English)
41. VOICES OF SPRING Johann Strauss (Italian)
Variety Spectrum 3  - Light Jazz & Semi-Classical
42. IPANEMA Jobim, arr. Oscar Castroneves (Portuguese)
43. AWAKENING Jeremy Lubbock
44. BOSSA NOVA David Steinberg (Scat)
45. SILENT NIGHT Arr. Darlene Koldenhoven (all parts)
46. O HOLY NIGHT Arr. J. Lubbock for Celine Dion (TopGrp 24/Ctr.)
47. PIE JESU Andrew Lloyd Weber, arr. Alex Wurman/Koldenhoven (all parts, voc. arr.)
48. HOW SHALL LOVE BE SPOKEN Jeremy Lubbock
49. GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN Arr. M. Vardey (All parts)
50. FREEFALL Clare Fischer (Scat, Lead Soprano Grp 6, Ctr.)
Variety Spectrum 4 - Vocal Art
51. KISS 108FM MEDLEY Start the Party Early (Rock, R&B, Solo & BG's, Comp./Arr), Inner Voices (a cappella, Solo & Trop Group 4)
52. PERFECT HARMONY (FILM) Choir Boy, Solo
53. PIONEER LASER DISCCLASSICAL MEDLEY Classical (Coloratura, Solo), Up On the Roof (Pop/Gospel, Solo & Top Group 6), TV's Funniest Commercials (Rap, Voiceover), Lincoln Mercury (E. Indian, Italian, etc., All Voices)
54. MEDLEY Grub Hollers (Inner Voices, Country, Solo), Miller Beer (Wailing Improv, All Parts)
55. MEDLEY Disney's Alladin & Abu Dolls (Voiceover), Beauty & The Beast (Musical Theatre, Solo), Internal Afffairs (Film, Whistle Tones/Very Lo & Mid, All Solos)
56. CAST A DEADLY SPELL (FILM) Sexy Jazz, Solo
57. MEDLEY Raleigh (Breathy, Enya, All Voices), Mercedes (MOR, Solo)
58. MEDLEY

Movie Trailer, Classical-High Lyric & Mezzo, Solo, Ford (Pretty Young French Solo), Balance of Power (Rock, Solo & BG's), Dreamer's Holiday (Jazz, Top, Group 4), Marisela (Spanish-pop, Top Group 3, CD), Lionel Richie (Child, Top Group 9, CD)
59. MEDLEY Angels We Have Heard (Pop-Jazz acappella, Top Group 4, Arr.), Boogie Woogie Santa Claus (CD, Pop-Jazz acappella, Top Group 4), Up On The Roof (Pop-Gospel, Solo & Top Gropu 6)

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