Abide - Dan Forrest/Jake Adam York

Dan Forrest's setting of Jake Adam York's poem, "Abide", performed by the BJU Chorale, April 2016. Published by Hinshaw Music.

[@BenjaminNaman]

My college just performed this tonight. I went to my car and immediately searched for a recording. It's music like this that fules my desire to become a film composer. This piece touched me very much. Simply Breathtaking.

[@oucutie1]

Dan Forests music is ethereal! Straight from Gods pen to earths paper!

[@jessicathompson8365]

That's the War Memorial Chapel in my alma mater, BJU! I have sung in that chapel, and it is a gorgeous experience.

[@eustace98]

Great Composition, I am enthused to resurrect my choir...

[@TimMackFamilyEnterprises]

Forrest & Rutter, are two of my many favorite contemporary choral composers.

[@waltertheus3467]

At our church we have sung many, many pieces by Forrest and Rutter over the years (including the Rutter Gloria and Requiem). Recently we have sung a lot of music by Phillip Stopford, a young English composer who writes very much in the Anglican tradition. He led a two day workshop for our choir late last summer. He is churning out a lot of music, and it is uniformly good. You can find it on KZbin.

[@Jenifer.flute20]

Werd

[@RZMc]

Rutter is "contemporary"?

[@abicheleadugba3662]

“Forgive me if I forget with the birdsong and the day’s last glow folding into the hands of the trees, forgive me the few syllables of the autumn crickets, the year’s last firefly winking like a penny in the shoulder’s weeds, if I forget the hour, if I forget the day as the evening star pours out its whiskey over the gravel and asphalt I’ve walked for years alone, if I startle when you put your hand in mine, if I wonder how long your light has taken to reach me here.”

[@ninaalfa797]

I was invited after a long day at work to listen to the choral of Millikin school performing at a church in Decatur IL. They performed this hymn at that time and it was the first time I have heard of it , and all I can say that I could feel my soul being lifted out of my body to somewhere magical. These are the most touching words I have heard in a hymn and the melody is multiplying the words by like a thousand. We all have these moments where we forget the beauty of what is around us, Busy with life, stress ,errands and sadness but this hymn always reminds me of how beautiful this world is and that it is worth living for.. if there is heaven and an after life , this is how angels would sound like ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@susannluckmann7705]

It sounds like a very nice "Feierabend" 🥰

[@galaga8769]

I sang this with my choir and it is amazing.

[@georgiagrace8829]

i got to listen to this song for the first time at a choral festival just a few days ago. i cried. what a beautiful piece.

[@bigoof2508]

I will never forget hearing this song for the first time in my highschool chorus, how this song stunned me with its beauty and still does. Unfortunately we didn’t sing it for our concert and I graduated but I will never forget this song or my highschool chorus, the best part of school by far! :(

[@eleazarevanmoeljono8804]

Forgive me if I forget with the birdsong and the day’s last glow folding into the hands of the trees, forgive me the few syllables of the autumn crickets, the year’s last firefly winking like a penny in the shoulder’s weeds, if I forget the hour, if I forget the day as the evening star pours out its whiskey over the gravel and asphalt I’ve walked for years alone, if I startle when you put your hand in mine, if I wonder how long your light has taken to reach me here. -Jake Adam York

[@Fonzygirr]

Eleazar Evan Moeljono thank you!

[@eleazarevanmoeljono8804]

Fonzygirr you're welcome. 😁

[@halwilliams1682]

I used to sit in War Memorial Chapel and look at those paintings by Benjamin West. Never dreamed that such beautiful music would come from there.

[@KeithFinkFamilyFarm]

Amazing! Fabulous, Dr. Cook and choir.

[@sarnicm]

just beauty at her best

[@8toberistAlt]

four years ago my school choir sang this song. i have never forgotten it and i dont think i ever will. i have so many fond memories of this piece

[@ariahhernandez2957]

singing this in my choral class and I'm a soprano and they are really good it is hard to sing these notes absolutely love love love this song its so beautiful

[@texomahog]

Going to do this in the Fall. Absolutely beautiful.

[@craigevins5068]

Dan Forrest and the BJU chorale are unmatched in their professionalism and excellence. But, the camera work the BJU people do at War Memorial Chapel tops this off. The paintings-the placing of the cameras is exquisite. Every detail is thought about at BJU. Makes this not just about the sound but the pictures as well.

[@gialollobrigida1713]

Its beauty brings me to tears...

[@chaarlesbechtler5065]

Beautiful, Dan Forest at his usual best!

[@msatolentino]

beautifully made, gloriously sung....thank you...

[@amandamader3872]

Ethereal composition...beautiful sung and played.

[@willberman1562]

I sang this in my sophomore year of high school, and I’m so grateful I did. Performing it changed me into the singer I am today. This is the hardest song I’ve ever sung in a choir, as well as my favorite.

[@Icemansam44]

It’s like the Olympic marathon for singers. That’s what my friends who have sung it said.

[@willberman1562]

@@Icemansam44 marathon runners get water while they run tho lmao

[@mlfclevel]

Stunningly beautiful

[@Roc1n]

I am so impressed the more I listen to this composer. Good performance as well. This piece reminds me of fall for some reason. But wow, I mean something great, I'm excited to hear more. The chord structure in bits throughout remind me of Whitacre. The whispers are a nice touch. Bravo to BJU.

[@archie11941]

Me too and it's 2019. How have I missed his music? I know, today's directors.

[@Jenifer.flute20]

Everything I've heard from Dan Forrest is amazing, I've yet to be disappointed. This last season alone, we sang Lux: The Dawn From On High, and Requiem For The Living, and the first season I joined the Salt Lake Choral Artists, we sang his arrangement of O Little Town of Bethlehem, which started a love affair with his music.

[@henryikeakhe3815]

Heavenly....Beautiful rendition.

[@sarahs.9217]

Oh my gosh, this is the BJU choir!! I sang with them as a high schooler! Absolutely amazing conductor/teacher, amazing singers, beautiful room! It’s called the Warhall something or other

[@savs6762]

War Memorial Chapel. Best place to sing ever.

[@Icemansam44]

Wow that’s so cool!

[@pietroricchiuti5062]

Meraviglioso...Buon Natale Dan Forrest!

[@scholaezike2850]

This is so heavenly!

[@meganrozinski3592]

Yes, altos!

[@timfalch1969]

The accompanist here has such great touch!

[@kenmatesevac]

She's actually the wife of the conductor. They work quite well together.

[@jefferdavecagubcob6819]

I got goosebumps. :)

[@jamalscott7293]

I love dan forest my favorite composer 😍😍💕💕 omg this is breath taking 💖

[@LeonardoLLeuci]

The first time I ever heard a piece by Dan Forrest was my junior year of high school. I was in a choir in New York and the men were doing one piece and the women were doing Psalm 8 (Adonai Adonenu) to be performed in Carnegie Hall. The way that piece resonated through that space was like nothing I’d ever experienced.

[@nellyhoccarzh6083]

композитор прекрасно выражает свои замыслы через хоровое звучание, композиция действительно певучая, музыка полны философского спокойствия, как бы отстранена от жизненных перипитий...славит свет высокого человеческого духа

[@alisalavine1052]

Love the alto solo. Actually, I love the alto part period!

[@marielharris1827]

perfection

[@andywaynick5201]

Beautiful text, beautiful composition, beautiful performance. Is there anything that Dan Forrest touches that does not become beautiful? If so, I have yet to hear it.

[@oucutie1]

Andy Waynick Am new to Dan Forrest so have much learning to do, however, from what I have heard so far, his transcriptions and compositions seem to not have emanated from this earth. I do believe Dr. Forrest receives his inspiration from the other side.

[@eleazarevanmoeljono8804]

Forgive me, O Lord!

[@Fonzygirr]

Eleazar Evan Moeljono before you utter a word, he knows just what you'll say! Praise be to God! Be blessed.

[@user-uo2qy9ki1g]

Juste magnifique !

[@katieforrest8488]

These concertos are so influenced by the dance, I can't sit still! Even my eybrows are dancing!

[@marcelussantos7917]

Love

[@andressanchez9427]

es muy bueno en inglés porque te lo aprendes

[@aglyvert66]

What a nice composition! And a good execution

[@_wade_morgan]

BJU has the most beautiful buildings known to man

[@TimChampion1112]

BRAVO

[@hannahscott5576]

Overall it is beautiful! Flawless harmonies. One thing that I would fix is the slight sliding on the word "abide" sung by the sopranos.

[@bluejwolf8698]

Really fun to learn. Sight reading this is another story. The amount of accidentals is strange and the amount of key changes makes it harder. But it is a good song, and has some real good harmonies

[@Dark_Knight950]

Very good

[@Icemansam44]

Put this in Reach remaster as the main title theme sequence or in a new ODST

[@brunodelconte]

Vaya!

[@calbobb5867]

Who is the pianist?

[@susanflakes6968]

12:12...

[@richardmathew2020]

Beautiful musical score but the text is lost in poor, horrible choral diction. Lyrical text is totally lost in this performance - how sad!

[@rngaming8033]

Overall good but that tenor part gets kind of drown out and you can't hear

[@patrickosinski9681]

RN Gaming that’s the story for any choir lol.

[@richardmathew2020]

Dynamics extremely well executed but diction and enunciation totally unintelligible. Extraordinary accompaniment.

[@kentonunruh48]

Don’t wanna brag but this is the place to do it. Dan Forest wrote my schools alma matter🥱