this really is gorgeous...all the american choir performances on youtube zip thru this masterpiece. this is the first meditative approach. thank you for posting this small miracle of a performance!
@schnittersd15 жыл бұрын
the best on youtube!!!! ecxelent!
@buzzbaybear16 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!- the only performance of this piece on youtube in the slow and contempletive spirit Thompson intended. This peice was written soon after the Nazi occupation of France when the future of the free world was in doubt. He was moved so by these events that when he was commissioned by Koussevitzky to write a festival fanfare peice for voices for the new Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood he instead wrote this sad, plaintive prayer saying that a fanfare was not appropriate for the times