Good Night, Dear Heart (SSAA) with Dan Forrest, piano

Performance by Bel Canto at 2015 Hinshaw Celebration; Dr. Bill Young, conducting.

[@300reimer]

I will never understand how anyone can perform this music without just breaking down and sobbing like a baby. I'm a grown man crying.

[@Fox1nDen]

Every choral piece he writes is that beautiful, yes.

[@nikkira78]

Training for years and when you sing in a choir you have to be extremely focused on your parts... you're basically distracted. LOL

[@keithbarlow5170]

The church choir sang this at my mother's memorial service. It is such a perfect song for her and it was a heartfelt tribute. I come back to this video to remember. Thank you.

[@mrs_sarahbelle6950]

Singing this piece, with this choir, was such a privilege. Thank you Dan Forrest, for such a beautiful piece of music. :)

[@tannerwinchester]

mrs_sarahbelle this concert was one of the most beautiful I’ve been to. I sure miss the old Hinshaw conferences!

[@yvettegarnham8003]

There are a few pieces I come back to every few years. This is one that moves me completely. This recording is incredible. Thank you.

[@frjimt2286]

Warm Summer Sun BY MARK TWAIN Warm summer sun, Shine kindly here, Warm southern wind, Blow softly here. Green sod above, Lie light, lie light. Good night, dear heart, Good night, good night. Adapted from Robert Richardson's poem “Annette.” Death of a child.... Heartache

[@madamvaudelune3298]

Break the pieces of this frozen heart/too afraid to weep, lest my weeping tear the sky apart/ Blistering, a silence where a thousand voices cry/ too bereft to utter sound lest aether quail beneath a pall on high/ Lest grief itself fall short it's name to prove/ And words die on the lips of she who lost such love/ 'My God why hast Thou me forsaken?'/ Cried He who never yet bore it all/ And in that moment dreaded blackness / Mans own sin stood forth in dread recall/ Oh He who made the Sun burn out my heart, in mercy or in death destroy my pain/ Oh light of Lights for he who loved this worldtrods not again.

[@DanForrestMusic]

What poem is this?

[@madamvaudelune3298]

@@DanForrestMusic My own. I have not titled it. I wrote it thinking of he who is lost to me, he who sleeps now down where my arms cannot hold him. Cold and formaldehyde leather the two lips that once kissed, once gave pleasure, once spoke my name with ardorous devotion; blind, sewn shut, the two gem lenses that pierced with green-blue fire any pretense that I did not want him, always, in the quiet night. I am illiterate. No 'he is gone' do I understand in any language of men. Only the wet and dying thing, the world's grief contagion, black throated aborted misery that screams its one its last,, its only cry,knows the language of my lost forever.

[@madamvaudelune3298]

@@DanForrestMusic I tried to hear the beauty. And in every note a tinted sunset And. In every threaded bar the breath that somehow linger in a memory pressed between the now and the was/ Eternity lives somewhere between the heart and the metronome, each beating the progress of smiles, tears and. the silent looks of lovers. I tried to hear the beauty But the notes became my soul, lost somewhere in a tinted sunset.

[@OscarLimaMike]

Dan your music is sublime.... thank you.

[@markim2545]

Just beautiful

[@stefanoroncoroni6494]

Fantastico, emozionante

[@diegofernandomartin2766]

Como músico me gustaría mucho conocer al Dr. Dan Forrest. Su trabajo es muy inspirador para quienes amamos la música. Gracias por sus vídeos!

[@manuel_530]

This is the most beautiful, most loveliest version of this song I have ever heard.

[@astriddragneel5196]

you should listen to the SATB version, specifically the one done by the University of Oregon chamber choir. It actually brought tears to my eyes when I heard it the first time

[@anthonyharris5624]

great song I'm singing this right now in my chamber choir group

[@deannamacdougall1754]

Amazing and moving piece of music. Stunningly beautiful!

[@davidlwebb324]

Stunningly beautiful

[@nicolechaney6114]

gorgeous

[@tiffanijernigan5654]

Just did this song for competition. Absolutely stunning piece of music.

[@patriziacalabresi4523]

Beautiful! Bravo!!!

[@Roc1n]

I like the flavor of line and momentum within your pieces. I can't wait to hear each new composition. Geez new favorite...

[@beatrizdemello5370]

good memories of Westminster Conducting Institute 2016...

[@mariajosegoncalves3449]

Absolutely beautiful!❤

[@canyoubelievethis220]

This choir is amazing. Have heard them sing other pieces and they do an awesome job. There is one soprano's voice that stands out from the rest of the choir. It gives me goose bumps. So awesome. Sounds like she's crying when she sings. Would love to hear her sing a solo. Wow! Thanks for sharing.

[@carolnelson8459]

Mi Picasso actually when singing with a choir no voice should stand out. I also heard her voice and to me, she sang too sharp but that's my opinion.

[@hollandfive]

absolutely heavenly!

[@KevinECarmona]

So beautiful 🥺

[@seattlecub1]

Beautiful!

[@mgbman1964]

Magnificent.

[@ashleykistler331]

Really beautiful!

[@MrThk8]

Beautiful.....

[@BryanKujawa1]

so good!

[@mariajosegoncalves3449]

Amazing performance !❤

[@theresa950]

Awesome!

[@friendsofstedmundschurchfa3301]

Sublime

[@msleilakeith]

lovely ,lyrical and so peacefull!Well done!

[@josebatutas]

Espectacular

[@rebeccaduren1405]

Good singing

[@xtcultrex]

Dan, please make this available for SATB !!!!!!!

[@jalenborne4261]

Well you calls have been answered. My chorus is doing it right now.

[@xtcultrex]

We have it now as well for our spring concert tribute to the founder of our chorus who passed away a few year's ago at a relatively young age

[@davewhy4]

So nice to hear beautiful, in perfect tune singing! So much singing today is too pushed and it is flat! This is a sweet relief!

[@Deba7777]

This piece is such a tender, compassionate and patient picture of a dedicated lover. Like a tender lullaby after a tango, where the lovers fall into one another's arms in peaceful exhaustion. Exquisite!

[@zacharylavender1568]

I'm having a difficult time understanding the text...

[@glammygrammy414]

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here, Warm southern wind, blow softly, here. Green sod above.. lie light.. lie light. Good night, dear heart.. good night.

[@bobschaaf2549]

I hope this piece is paying your mortgage. It should.

[@geoffstemen3652]

nothing against the person attached, but i am very irritated by the head in the way of the keyboard.

[@mentalbreakdance1322]

The only audible part is the soprano line

[@emilybecker3842]

If u had a musically trained ear you could hear all the parts

[@ZipplyZane]

The other parts are definitely there, and pretty strongly so. But it is a bit harder to hear because the piano part is louder than the choir.