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Thats two different [people, The black guy I hate to say is not George Crum George Speck. Its the other guy who is Native American and African. . If you think I'm lying just look at your own picture you posted in the video. George is wearing the hat.

More blessings Dady

More hate less love

4:51 a young ones…INDABA!

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Gorgeous!!!!!!! Need this message right now!

GRACIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Iconic. I used to sing this to my kids (a lot) haha. Thanks for posting.

"In many different idioms" is a wonderfully intriguing and frustrating remark, since you don't elaborate. In particular you don't speak of the influence of Vincent Perischetti on KL. "Vocal essence" without a choir singing seems to defeat the object! His native Wakefield connections (a chorister singing in All Saints Cathedral) were never severed. He wrote a Missa Brevis for Choir and Organ for Wakefield and the Festival Fanfare > was composed during August of 1968 and written for the inaugural West Riding Cathedrals Festival, which combined the three Yorkshire cathedral choirs of Sheffield, Bradford & Wakefield and took place on the 1 and 2 November that same year, hosted by Sheffield Cathedral. Graham Matthews, the then recently appointed organist of Sheffield Cathedral, writes how: ‘Knowing that Kenneth Leighton was associated with Wakefield Cathedral, I wrote to him personally about the forthcoming festival, suggesting the title ‘Festival Fanfare’ and requesting a five minute solo organ piece. This commission was promptly fulfilled to the letter.’ Matthews gave the Festival Fanfare its first two performances during the festival, as a voluntary for a festal evensong and as the opening work of a grand concert of the combined choirs with a Festival Orchestra. [Notes from Stephen Farr's Leighton recording CD]

Voice, movement, rhythm, bringing us all together! Great job!

I adore Gerald Finzi's music, it's often got real depth. Not a vocal work, but I recommend people to listen to the Eclogue for Piano and Strings.

Thanks for this! I’m currently learning the Nom d’Alain P&F and I’m just obsessed with Duruflé at the moment, so it was such a treat to find your really warm and affectionate presentation about both Marcel and Mme. D. Her tempi are so fiendishly fast - the d’Alain is quite a feat at the composer’s mm. but her recording makes that seem quite slow!!

This woman and her choir are a force of nature!

This is my favorite Melanie DaMore song yet!

You have been selected as “hymn of the day”. Thanks for posting!

This piece is such a timeless classic

Good Morning from East Point

I don't like the tonality of your piano, sorry if i am wrong

Probably the most beautiful and powerful piece and performance I have experienced this year. Wow.

Congratulations on a beautiful performance. I remember fondly the premiere over 20 years ago now!

Great video!!

Thank you for being amazing and performing my song with such mastery!!

I’m hoping you can help me. I remember singing a choral piece when i was in middle school that might have been by Distler, but for the life of me I cannot find a recording or even acknowledgement of this piece on his Wikipedia page. Chat GPt assures me it is OP 20 and here is the text below. Are you familiar and is there a recording you like? I am 29 and still remember feeling so empowered by this piece and I appreciate very much your brief and thoughtful historic reconnaissance of this composer. Here’s the text from “Im Munde des Drachen” by Hugo Distler: Im Munde des Drachen stehe ich, in der Macht des Bösen schwanke ich nicht. Ich stehe und singe, ich stehe und singe! In des Feindes Rachen wage ich mich, vor des Bösen Augen weiche ich nicht. Ich stehe und singe, ich stehe und singe! In der Welt, wo der Drache regieret, wo die Nacht des Bösen die Sonne verfinstert, da stehe ich und singe, da stehe ich und singe!

Hi Philip, I’ve been coming back to this video the last few days. I was fortunate to find it when I went looking for an interview with Sir Malcolm. I enjoyed your stories of him and I have been completely overtaken by his arrangement of the hymn. I keep coming back to the modulating middle section and I’m listening to it a lot because it’s helping me with my writing. This deserves a lot more views. He was something special. Of course I came to know who he was thorough his prelude and theme to the animated adaptation of watership down. Scratching the surface. All the best.

Looking forward to meeting Amy! Thank you Philip!

Tjack you Philip so much!👏

such mixed feeling listening to this great hymn..... yet masked Christians every one.... they sing of the freedom of Yahweh and yet they drank the kool-aid.... they never learned to question "the lie."

My dear, Mexico was only the name of the capital. The political entity was called the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and then Sumaya Was Newspanish, not Mexican. A bit of rigor is needed when studying history, please, and use the correct terminology.

My wish is that everyone would be a subscriber to VocalEssence, and each morning would start out with one glorious song by VE for them. For us. The world would be a much better place to live in for all. I know that the world is a better place for me just knowing that VocalEssence sings in it, even when I am not listening their song goes into the darkness and brings to it light. Thank you so much for the gift you share with us.

Watching the conductor is half the joy!

this is my favorite thing to watch!

At the end it’s literally feels like you’re falling asleep it’s amazing

I sang Yon's exquisite Missa Regina Pacis (in Eb, in honor of St Vincent Ferrer) in 1963 and '64, as a member of my church choir (I was 12) in NW Indiana. An overwhelming experience for a young musician-to-be. I am surprised and delighted to see a number of amateur performances posted on You-Tube...proving that the work's beauty lives on.

Thank you for sharing.... i was only looking for info regarding Ms Fannie Lou Hamer. But thanks to you, I got some much appreciated vocal coaching also!

holy shit

Thank you for this!

Acabo de escuchar esa pieza de Eric Whitacre, un compositor y director que honestamente no conocía hasta hoy, pero que me recomendó el otro día mi amigo Javi. ¡Tantos "voicings" que me han hecho recordar a mi querido Allan Holdsworth! Por ejemplo ese del minuto 0:55 al 0:59. Es lo mismo que el primer acorde de "House of Mirrors". Bueno, aquí es C(add4) y el de Allan es B(add4), pero es exactamente la misma disposición. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3uVd4qpm5ijoLc

For anyone looking Soprano solo starts around 5:09 and the bass Solo starts at exactly 1:00

you are a miracle Melanie ❤

A wonderful piece… seems like there could be more movement at the beginning … the answer and response … as waves flowing in and out at shoreline … the intonation is spot on ! Very well done ! Thompson would be proud.

What is the specification of the organ?

I came across this by chance - thank you G Phillip Schoultz III for a ray of sunshine across the pond this morning!

Eric Whitacre has said how much he admires the way Bach makes a palette of tonal colours from a chord to make a melody, and produce a mood. He also understands the human voice and the personality of a choir like Gustaf Holst, and shares Holst's love for educating and writing for young voices. So I think of Whitacre as "channelling " both Bach and Holst for the 21st century, and think those composers would both admire his music the way the rest of us here do.

THANK YOU for presenting the music .... so interesting and beautifully performed... to hear the serious side of Peter Schickele was very welcome.

I always say If Its Not Baroque Don't Fix It.

I absolutely love this piece and this particular performance of it. I listen to it over and over, and never get tired of it. Such an honor for anyone who was a part of this performance.

Here's an excerpt of David McK Williams' famous Easter Sunday performance edition of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion. People made trips from far and wide to hear these performances. The style was very different and the organ is very "orchestral" as Mr. Brunelle says. This was done in a grand dramatic style and no longer "in fashion". kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmmldoJ5rLOHibM&lc=Ugx8AAbuhm7owfXiFl14AaABAg I found it to be very moving, but I'm sure most folks will be "outraged" that he "did this" to Bach. I'm not one of them! It's how they did it back then.

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