St. Olaf Choir - "His Light In Us" - Kim André Arnesen

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His Light In Us (Premiere Performance)
Music by Kim André Arnesen, Words by Euan Tait
The St. Olaf Choir
Anton Armstrong, Conductor
God’s distant call
Flares in the night,
So long expected, so longed for;
And all my life,
Christ called my name,
And now at last, I’ll answer Him.
Refrain:
Renewed, his hope,
His light in us,
Incarnate, fragile,
Our Lord appears,
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Eternal,
So perfect,
His cry of changeless love.
Alive, awake,
His call is here:
It is the crying of the Child;
I know Christ’s call,
Its hidden flame,
It makes my spirit flare with hope!
Refrain
This root, this stem, this flowering Love,
This mustard seed, it grows to the greatest tree,
The birds of souls have nested there.
The light of the night
Now blazes at dawn!
You’ve lead me here,
O little child,
Your being singing with God’s life.
The kingdom sings,
It choirs with earth,
All creation lives Christ’s peace.
Refrain
Copyright 2016 St. Olaf College
Words and Music Posted by permission of the composer and lyricist.

[@janicelarkins5142]

Pristine. Drawn to the throne in worship.

[@Churchcantor]

God I wish I could be young again and go back to my year singing with them in 1990-91, Anton's first year as director. Best year of my life.

[@dv6000islame]

This is so beautiful. Seeing the choir holding hands and singing with such obvious love and joy in their faces moved me to tears. Thank you for sharing the light of Christ's love through this music! Such love and light is what's needed to combat the darkness and confusion of our times.

[@drKAP11]

Man 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@stevenlevin7235]

Eternal... so perfect! ... Dear heavenly Father, thank you... so very, very much... for sending your one and only Son! Jesus! Who saves his people... from their sins!

[@davidlwebb324]

Exquisite

[@ToledoWingNut]

The focus, the joy on the faces. Thank you, St.Olaf, yet again.

[@joejackson5177]

This is exquisite. I listen to it again and again. Beautiful harmonies, masterfully conducted, infused with beauty. Thank you!

[@ThomasMcDdonald]

What I need every Christmas. A good or great choir gives you chills. God bless Anton and his fine choir.

[@KenWAnderson]

Well disciplined, unified with intentional diction - besides just being wonderfully musical - marks this choir as superlative. Here's a choir that other singers and choral directors should hear and emulate.

[@matts156]

Absolutely. You can hear every consonant, every vanishing vowel, and understand every word.

[@markwyse7925]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@quickfoxxes]

Anton Armstrong brings a spiritual magic to all of the performances he conducts. God bless you brother for what you contribute to the spiritual well-being to so many other souls thirsting for the beauty of choral performance. St. Olaf offers the very best academic choir which can be shared with those in other countries as the best our country can offer. Thank you and again, bless you for the repertoire, the rehearsal and performance techniques you share.

[@sigbjrnbjanes4896]

Svært vakkert og fremført med innlevelse. God balanse

[@stageluvr91]

I imagine this is what the angels sound like when they sing. So beautiful!

[@constanceelizabeth9943]

My heart sings with joy! ❤️ Thank you…

[@ronaldheister9961]

Amazing sound. The choir is a whole different level, spot on, most enlightening and a true tribute to Christ our Saviour. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[@laurariba5663]

❤ Chills and tears every time I listen to your music!!❤ Thank you!!

[@jamesmaxson2306]

Gorgeous piece

[@susanflakes6968]

The pure in heart see GOD...Matthew 5:8...

[@willcosper1696]

Such a beautiful piece praising our Father. Especially love the piano part at 0:42

[@gregj831]

That's the most beautiful sound I've ever heard. This Choir is on a whole other level.

[@garywebb6417]

Bravo. I could listen to this without stopping. It brings me to such a state of peace. Thank you St. Olaf

[@maryschoonover92]

Beautiful!

[@davidl8094]

Beautiful. Thank you for this...

[@belindafraser2692]

Perfection

[@matts156]

The soprano 1s really get to shine toward the end with their high note at 4:49, and it sounded angelic!

[@joanmarie8209]

Beautiful thank you

[@lizzapaolia959]

God bless the great Nordic ladies 😀. Beautiful ❤️❤️

[@ericbergmueller2981]

This is so nice! I always look forward to seeing the St. Olaf choir on TV during the Holidays. I have discovered so many wonderful choral music pieces through you group. Thank you!

[@alicegobelin4287]

Truly beautiful and heart-warming...❤

[@KenWAnderson]

For choir members and choir directors wanting an example of how to sing chorally with properly-necessary (excellent) diction - this is it. Beautifully musical besides. Bravo!

[@peterwingate3999]

This helps to fix what is broken, and find what is lost.

[@matts156]

Dr. Armstrong has been our guest several times over the years. Every time we work with him, I learn new and valuable things about choral singing, all of which can be heard in droves in this choir's singing.

[@JenniferGBWhiting]

Arnesen's ineffable composition-and an exquisite performance.

[@olegirl2000]

What a gorgeous song. Tears in my eyes... sang with St. Olaf Choir 16 years ago...

[@gregj831]

What an honor that would have been.

[@robbevineau2337]

Thank you, Olegirl! I have heard every St.Olaf Choir, since 1970.

[@ToledoWingNut]

What a privilege. To be a part of such beauty.

[@bobareebop]

I love how they hold hands!

[@KenWAnderson]

Superlative in an abundance of ways! Bravissimo! Keep it up St. Olaf.

[@awesomenessaf]

This sound has so much depth and moving part of the song is smooth and the words are so crisp. Keep doing what you are doing

[@ManagerGuy1]

I love this! Its what Jesus Heaven must sound like! I hope...

[@jeffreyhoward879]

I just love what the St Olaf Choir do and Anton Armstrong is a master choral conductor. So glad we can hear all this beautiful music online. Only sad I can't get to Minnesota to hear it all in person.

[@JoMichaelScheibe]

Beatutifully sung Anton and St. Olaf.... what a joy to listen to you .....Thank you!

[@JeanieJohnston]

WOW! Absolutely beautiful! I listened to this over and over. Kim Andre Arnesen's work is absolutely breathtaking. I love how the choir moves with the emotion of the music.

[@sherylobrien3860]

I absolutely agree with you....again...my favorite little Norski friend!

[@marks.nelson284]

An impeccable I Jesu Navn: the perfect collaboration of words to music composition and music performance. So sensitively interpreted and performed by the great conductor Anton Armstrong, an upcoming great piano accompany pedagogy example Garrett Bond, and no other than the epitome of Midwest Lutheran Choir Sound, The St. Olaf Choir. Experience aural bliss as you hear , feel, and see " His Light In Us ". The thirtysomething Kim Arnesen a compassionate, creative, composer is not only Norwegian but also world class. He can only add to this grand and glorious Song by having it promulgate and send forth a Hellige Song ( Holy Spirit )

[@maricafasolato7060]

Ferma il cuore da quanto è bello! ❤

[@davidhunt3656]

A true “one voice” sound

[@susanflakes6968]

All is UNDER THE BLOOD OF JESUS...NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST US WILL PROSPER...WE WILL ONLY SEE THE WICKED PUNISHED...in JESUS name! Thank YOU! LORD! MANY ARE THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE RIGHTEOUS..BUT THE LORD DELIVERS OUT OF THEM ALL..THANK YOU! LORD! For the manifestation NOW (Ephesians 3:20-21) of YOUR WORD which goes forth to accomplish its purpose...

[@yevgeniyi5488]

so expressive, wow!

[@ddill51]

Peace, peace, beautiful peace!!

[@timirish2563]

This makes me want to plan an especially simple, tranquil and musical Christmas--six months from now.

[@christinesanken]

Oh, these youthful voices! I have goosebumps.

[@djdramaviocest8022]

i felt myself whenever i listen to the whole songs in the Board

[@wendyrobson9683]

Very soothing and uplifting! Great to hear at anytime but so much needed in todays' world. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year all!

[@janbenton9921]

Magnificently performed. This is one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard. I sent it to our music director and I am looking forward to our singing it this Christmas.

[@juliestevens6931]

We are singing this in the next couple of weeks. It is truly beautiful. I hope we do it justice. We are pretty good, but not on St. Olaf's level.

[@shorty4539]

Bravo St. Olaf! I wish I lived in MN. I'd be at every concert.

[@dontyoufretnow]

I live in the same beautiful town where ST Olaf is located. What a gift to be able to hear their music...a 7 minute drive from my house. I am blessed.

[@jeanninemurray6539]

@@dontyoufretnow You are so blessed to be near. I'm 11 hour drive away - Ohio. A trip to visit the campus in Minnesota and hear them in concert is on my bucket list.

[@susanflakes6968]

If I am asleep just come on..but you are close enough to come on now.

[@kenthorne1777]

Stunningly beautiful!

[@Piermont-dp8yj]

Gorgeous! Sublime!

[@JohnYiuwing]

Sublime! This evening, I have listened to this gracious, gorgeous and grand piece and performance, several times. It gladdens the heart.

[@matthewthomforde5990]

Absolutely beautiful!!!!!

[@XMaplexrblx]

So beautiful hearing all the parts and the dynamics!!! God is so good!!

[@6sheldon]

Just wow

[@maricafasolato7060]

❤

[@silpoll]

Bravo! ❤️🎵

[@margiehaynes3006]

❤️🎶

[@TheAllBlue139]

You are awesome! Greetings from Croatia ^^

[@markyspinto]

OMG can I come sing with you all next Christmas?

[@p.ryanbowen2357]

Lovely, lovely, and nicely done. But the camera work at 1:36 makes the swaying look like it is multiple feet in every direction!

[@Real6God]

👍

[@johnpriehl1944]

The singing tradition at St. Olaf is as alive and well as it was fifty years ago when I first them. What I find amazing in this video is the accompanist seems to be missing the little finger on his left hand. His playing is very sensitive and seems unaffected by the situation.

[@ThePepperh]

I stopped it at 5:14 and counted a full complement of ten fingers!

[@kimestella]

Hi St. Olaf Choir. How and where can I purchase this recording or the album where this recording is included? The site specified in the video is not working anymore. Thanks

[@stolaf]

Hello Kim - A recording of this Christmas Festival performance is available here: bit.ly/2P38Awr Thank you for asking!

[@DavidoffGustav]

2 yrs

[@susanflakes6968]

Touch not HIS ANOINTED nor DO HIS PROPHETS ANY HARM...CONSEQUENCES...in JESUS name! Thank YOU! LORD!...SELAH...want to make it worse? I don't think so...

[@matt.carolrunge5837]

H

[@janeteimstad9394]

Beautiful music, but once I noticed it, I found the way the choir swayed from side to side a huge distraction!

[@StephenGauger]

Janet Eimstad: They may have started it at St. Olaf, but college choirs across the Midwest are holding hands and moving with the music. I personally like it, but I suspect there is a deeper musical significance: the singer singing with one’s whole body, the choir singing as one body. I think it makes for music from the heart, music that touches the soul.

[@margaretsimmondswoodley3423]

Beautiful singing, as always ....but please stop the swaying, which makes me feel queasy!

[@zacharylavender1568]

Beautiful tone, however their diction is not very good!

[@eugeneclasby746]

You are correct. Words are mush.

[@sritchie8049]

There is no other choir that can come close to this ethereal sound!

[@janmcguire5268]

So amazing!

[@Retriever-nk8nl]

❤