Concordia Choir: Light of Clear Blue Morning

The Concordia Choir of Moorhead, Minnesota, conducted by René Clausen, performs Light of a Clear Blue Morning (Dolly Parton, arr. Craig Hella Johnson) at Lagerquist Concert Hall, Tacoma, Washington on Feb. 26, 2014.
Deb Harris, flute and Sarah Raeker, soprano soloist.
The Choir is performing in black robes as this song was part of a 4-piece non-violence set.
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Composer René Clausen
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Hal Leonard Publishing
Choral octavo is here:
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Light of a Clear Blue Morning - Dolly Parton, arr. Craig Hella Johnson
It’s been a long dark night,
And I’ve been waiting for the morning.
It’s been a long hard fight,
But I see a brand-new day a-dawning.
I’ve been looking for the sunshine
‘cause I ain’t seen it in so long.
Everything’s gonna work out fine.
Everything’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be okay.
I can see the light of a clear blue morning.
I can see the light of a brand-new day.

[@graemegibson5120]

2:39 THAT is how you do that section of the piece! Love how they took their time moving through the chords, feeling every shift and nuance. So good!

[@HeyRuth]

Wow! What a phenomenal performance, especially by the soloist, Sarah Raeker! Gorgeous voice, flawless delivery!!!

[@jimsnyder5692]

I am so moved by this song, arrangement, and the performance of the soloist. You are all to be commended

[@switzerfamily9727]

Got the chance to perform this at Carnegie Hall and this was my favorite piece of the whole set. So many great crunchy bass moments to seek the teeth into!

[@Jakejohnbirch]

The little lady's voice is magical, 1:20 gave me chills

[@AliceSinYT]

I get chills everyday

[@lovesings2us]

I love how slow and deeply soulful this version is. Thank you for posting it.

[@jahman514]

Absolutely phenomenal.

[@lauraconway2214]

Love choirs. These guys are talented.

[@meboneme1]

Dolly would be proud!

[@Selfemployedmildautisticperfor]

loving the coer still on the flute intro love how that was included my spouse plays many flutes including panflute would love to have dolly hear us cove rher stuff looks like a nice mx 1st time ever hearng ths song i have my volumesu p its a little faint but still pretty

[@sandih4741]

Beautiful rendition. The description says Rene Clausen is the composer. You need to credit Dolly.

[@robertperez2262]

Clausen is the conductor, no? Arr by Craig Hella Johnson, originally performed by Dolly Parton

[@mrtlg0824]

💜💜💜

[@DocRossow]

You have the wrong composer listed in the notes for this beautiful video. The conductor is Rene Clausen, the composer is Dolly Parton.

[@TheConcordiaChoir]

We appreciate your concern! That is a link to René Clausen's website, it is not a composer credit. It's listing him as a composer, not saying he did this song. In the first sentence of the description, Dolly Parton is correctly attributed as the composer of the piece and Craig Hella Johnson as the arranger.

[@elizabethschauer7548]

Lovely! Curious as to why the one page of this arrangement is left out?

[@ipl4yanepiphone]

Elizabeth Schauer scrolled down here to make sure I wasn’t the only one who thought this

[@bassmanxan3544]

Amazon B1 basses!!!

[@jhughes4765]

Beautiful .....but need to credit Dolly Parton as the songwriter. She wrote this back in 1976.

[@austinberndl3462]

how old is that girl in the white dress

[@sirasy]

why is that so important?