Peace of Wild Things - Stellenbosch University Chamber Choir

Peace of Wild Things - Jake Runestad
Text: Wendell Berry
Conductor: Martin Berger
Accompanist: Carmen van Renssen
Performed by the Stellenbosch University Chamber Choir
Recorded in the Endler Hall, Stellenbosch University Department of Music 2018
*this was the first time we experimented with recording audio and video separately. Unfortunately this led to some synchronisation problems.

[@zoe.m.e.w]

my choir is singing this song for our next concert and i’m so excited

[@kerryhollenbeck8044]

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

[@jillcrandall9211]

I was SO excited to see this title - thinking it was Szymko's composition of this poem, one of my all time favorite pieces. This performance won me over. Maybe it's just my all time favorite poem. Well done!

[@amberskies1227]

Jake Runestad’s my favorite :)

[@susandeason1356]

So beautiful. This choir touches my heart and soul

[@a.scheepers8923]

Well done!!

[@haoxianglin749]

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