VOCES8: Good Night, Dear Heart by Dan Forrest

[@justinewhite-hadley3138]

Perfection. ❤ Our choir is learning this song. The story behind it is heartbreaking. A couple was in the process of adopting a little 4 yr old girl from Ethiopia when she got terribly ill and passed away. She never knew how loved she was from afar. Their brother in law wrote this for them after seeing the words on Mark Twain's daughter's headstone. It truly is a song of love and heartbreak. ❤

[@KrayZRyder]

This is exactly why KZbin needs a love button, not just a like and unlike.I can't even imagine this beautiful a sound. Heavenly.

[@richardseewald4739]

I shall now wipe the tears and absorb this beauty again.

[@WadeHarmanwlh]

There is no better vocal group. Such beautiful people.

[@donnaj9964]

Music to break the heart...and then mend it again. Thank you.

[@TimMiddleton]

As an adoptive parent myself, this story has touched me very much.

[@newmonikermusic]

Same.

[@waltsmith9583]

What a wonderful story told by Dan Forest of this composition so beautifully rendered by Voces8. Love

[@brucealan6932]

What an AWESOME way to say Good Night to a Lady you are chatting with !!! Thank You !

[@kalilavolkov9594]

Ditto to the love button! Oh my heavens, how Voces8 blesses the world. (Thanks to all of the incredible composers they choose of course.)

[@jeffgorham8819]

Every time I hear a new song by this group, the more I appreciate seeing them perform in person a few years ago. Bravo the you all!

[@carlgeenen1654]

How could anything be more beautiful? VOCES8 never ceases to bring us beauty and joy. Sung so perfectly. Bravo and thank you.

[@SimoneBernaldo-vc8hu]

Voces8 you always touch my heart so deeply❤ thank you

[@edship4146]

We saw them last night Oct. 10 in Houston at Rice University. They were outstanding. The audience gave them multiple standing ovations.

[@alyosha.f.karamazov]

I was there too! Incredible. ❤

[@newmonikermusic]

This is so incredibly beautiful. This will be playing in my head all week. I do hope this is on the program when I see Voces8 perform live in 2 days! I am so looking forward to it!

[@BrickyardBoiler]

This performance is now the absolute standard for this piece! Thank you, Dan Forrest. Thank you VOCES8!

[@erwinneve4192]

Fantastic music. Fantastic choir. I sing it with my octet.

[@MariaNew-cg1tw]

So very, very beautiful. Thank you.

[@zacharylavender]

Absolutely lovely!

[@matthewmurdick]

Don't know that I've ever heard (or will ever hear again) a group so perfectly perfect. Bravo. Thanks for sharing your gift with the world, and for your foundation that allows others to explore their full potential as artists.

[@DBBahnospherix-BahnAtmospherix]

Sehr schön

[@nopped7084]

One of my teachers is good friends with Dan Forrest and from what he heard directly was that Dan Forrest found this as the prime example of what his piece can provide. Truly a wonderful performance.

[@dirgamcbirink6836]

finally Voces8 sing this song.....🥰

[@domenicabux894]

Grazie, buonanotte Voces8✨💫✨

[@leannamanuel1118]

A stunning piece of music, performed with such grace and sensitivity. Thank you for sharing this.

[@steveowen6830]

This is what perfection sounds like.

[@biggyiggy]

Beautiful as always. Love listening to you guys!

[@brihath0805]

Gorgeous! I love Dan Forrest's music and VOCES8!

[@herminelorang8068]

Barny ist Direktor und Conductor, er ist ein wundervoller Künstler. Schauen Sie genau hin. Er dirigiert mit seinen Augen und seiner Mimik.

[@liavandam8871]

Soothing melody. Thank you for your beautiful voices and sound.

[@handelhan7264]

Beautiful sound

[@arianswets]

I love this piece!!!!!

[@andrewnoteric]

I did not know that story! It adds so much to this beautiful piece.

[@jenniferhiemstra5228]

Ohhhhhh I came across this song a few years ago, and it quickly became a favorite, this is STUPENDOUS 😍

[@YannDortindeguey]

Sublime… Thank you 🙏

[@yjuenna]

How wonderful to experience God's radiance here through you. Blessings to you all.....🌌🌟

[@bluebelt224]

One of my favorite Dan Forrest pieces - became enchanted with it in high school and my love for it has never wavered, and Voces8 of course performs it magnificently! Bravissimo!

[@malc121]

Beautiful performance by you all 👏🏻❤️

[@chih-chaoyang5290]

This is so beautiful!! Can't get any better!!

[@mylessalmon2569]

Another wonderful performance. Great harmony.

[@lucianamattanathome9821]

Lindo, lindo, lindo. Gratidão.

[@yurykondratyev1596]

Grazie! Thanks! Замечательно, Спасибо! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@danieburger2723]

As usual totally sublime ❤

[@proCreationSound]

Beautiful! Thank you 😊

[@erwinneve4192]

this is really fantastic! voces8! We heard you live in tilburg last year. That was quite an experience. chapeaux!!! Keep singing please.👍😀

[@shimi_raikkonen]

This is on my daily playlist. Hope to hear this at a live performance, someday.

[@aminesoufari]

Merveilleux ! Bravo à tous !

[@ianhendra4836]

Sublime... thank you once more.

[@crytical_gerald]

Awww Such beautiful singing ❤

[@teunvanbergen3122]

What a performance again, and what a fantastisc song, de tone, balance, the singing, great fan of you all!! hope to see you very soon again in Eindhoven...you were fantastic last time. Many thanks for alle the music

[@cmaitre2]

Que c'est beau ! ❤❤❤❤

[@peterawilliams]

YOUR THE BEST THING SINCE SLICE BREAD ....i just can't stop listening to your perfect coral renditions of many of my favorite songs ( Singing with 12 and also a big choir about 50) THE RANGE OF YOUR SONGS IS IMMENCE) i ALSO I LIKE YOUR ACCIENT MUSIC WITH TRUMPET (i have written before on some videos but no word ccome out lost for words

[@durhamgrigg3125]

Thank you Voces 8 and Dan Forrest. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@miquelom]

We already know that God is everywhere, only that in some places his Presence is more evident.

[@bleujbirdpot-o-sky339]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ no words!❤❤❤❤❤

[@SempreGumby]

Dan Forrest! I click - surprise it's VOCES8!

[@aremysanchez2946]

Los amo ❤, ya quería escuchar esto con ustedes

[@jeffnewton4103]

Brilliant. As always.

[@GonzagueClermont]

Je l'attendais depuis longtemps ! Merci !

[@kevinkaouthomn]

Still fitting the bells on the new additions... ;) 🦌 Congrats, again! 🎶 #pegasus

[@sarahsingsforchrist]

Classic choir song ❤😭

[@laurelvig]

Absolutely gorgeous! :)

[@francoismolline9652]

Wonderful

[@Roantraveling]

Amazing voices love it

[@lyndamorgan4581]

As always - just lovely! ❤

[@trime1851]

Eight angels singing!

[@nursemily]

Lovely. Thank you.

[@lifeaccordingtocactus1311]

I type this with tears. I'm an Australian Singer/Songwriter/Composer living in Utah, USA. The mastery of your instruments; the unity of your performance; the sum of your sound has changed me this night. (I just bought tickets to your IA concert next year. Perhaps you could sing "Good Night, Dear Heart for a dumb Australian carpenter?)

[@luciasona2231]

Le voci angeliche sono tornate e insieme alla luna crescente mi augurano una buona notte. Grazie ❤

[@mariasassin8268]

A beautiful song with such a sad story behind it...

[@michaelshepherd8521]

What is the story?

[@mariasassin8268]

​@@michaelshepherd8521 under the title you will find the button More or something similar, there you can find the story.

[@greekgirlsings]

One of Dan’s most beloved choral pieces, this short a cappella piece was written as a response to the death of an infant girl in Ethiopia who was about to be adopted by the composer’s brother and sister-in-law. Program Note: (May be freely copied for printing in programs, papers, etc.) Screen Shot 2014-03-12 at 4.12.04 PMA few years ago, my brother and his wife found out that the four month old girl that they were soon to adopt from Ethiopia had fallen ill and passed away. They had been making plans for her, staring endlessly at her picture, and loving her from across the ocean, so the news was devastating. God’s plans were not for her to ever see the people who had loved her from halfway around the world, but for her to be taken instead to His loving arms. For me, life circumstances (whether euphoric or tragic) don’t usually translate into musical inspiration; the two typically remain separate. The night they received this news, though, I found myself longing to pour out a musical elegy. My search for a suitable text led me to a picture from a cemetery in my hometown (Elmira, NY), where the great American author Mark Twain and his family are buried. My brother and I, from our youth, have known the poem that Twain placed on the tombstone of his beloved daughter Susy, when she died unexpectedly at age 24 and left him heartbroken. I was stunned by the bittersweet irony of this text being from our hometown, and in honor of a beloved daughter who died unexpectedly. I wrote this setting that night; it was quickly added to an upcoming concert and premiered only one week later, as an elegy for Etsegenet and a reminder of the orphans of Ethiopia. -Dan Forrest

[@greekgirlsings]

Just beyond tragic…

[@kao7976]

@@michaelshepherd8521 I believe that the original lyrics for the song come from a poem that Mark Twain wrote for his daughter’s grave when she passed away. She was 24 years old.

[@corlisscrabtree3647]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@timothymalone7067]

Beautifully mournful

[@DanSingsHymns]

The overtones at 3:20 lend such an etherial effect!

[@kanealoha]

Stunning

[@chrisodonnell7022]

Kori does a great job here. Wishing her luck in the selection process.

[@ChrisH-q5i]

This made me think of the famous poem by Victor Hugo about walking to his daughter's grave. She died by drowning aged just 19 and pregnant. It is a very moving poem and there are more than a few English translations (some better than others). Perhaps someone could set this poem to music. Or perhaps someone already has.

[@emilycastaneda2647]

true story i sand with them in high school 🥺

[@branislavpesev3239]

🎉🎉🎉 😊😊😊 !!!

[@gritamozoliene1273]

❤❤❤

[@wacawlubinski5218]

❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

[@evelynap9728]

It is G O L D E N

[@brucecampbell6133]

🙏

[@jondoyle44]

2:33 ❤❤❤

[@corocorachannel4235]

When are you comming to Germany again? You are one of those things in life, you must have seen

[@thoughtspiremusic6669]

So bezaubernd!

[@paularutecaeiro7806]

❤

[@thomashamela612]

🌸🌸🎶🥰👏💐❣️

[@Babbajune]

Ethereal ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@2wheelz3504]

I love Voces8. I have seen them live at Messiah University in America and the King's Singers in Virginia this past year. For the songs sung in English, I could understand the words of the KS while I never got the words of V8. V8 is all about musicality and tone and no one does it better. But, it would be nice to be able to have more focus on the lyrics. It wouldn't hurt to include a few more popular songs in their repertoire either. Love both groups.

[@矢村]

肃然起敬🧚🧚🧚🧚🧚🧚🧚🧚⏲️🏞️

[@frednerk8366]

Lovely, but what happened to Molly?

[@VOCES8]

Molly has left the group. We are currently auditioning for her successor, and expect to make an appointment in the next few months.

[@d_g8302]

🥰👍🏼🥰👍🏼🥰👍🏼🥰

[@maron3008]

🥰

[@shimi_raikkonen]

Looking forward to seeing who will fill the vacant spot, left by Molly.

[@molemontagnard435]

🎉

[@pputnam100]

Very nice. Where is the blonde who always smiles while she sings?? Looks like a new counter tenor too?? Wish I knew the stories behind personal changes

[@MerricMaker]

Is the blonde gal the new Mezzo? I'm confused, since the stuff about the upcoming tour has Molly on the publicity photos.

[@carlosrcc5822]

🎶🎶🎶🌈🧘🏻‍♂️🙏

[@יואלרובינשטיין]

May i ask how do you manage to close vowels strech time and sound with no conducting in a super clean way?? like seriusly how do you do it?

[@BlaBla-lm1gu]

Please, lux aeterna by ily matthew

[@donyvette3496]

TEXT “Good Night Dear Heart” Text by Robert Richardson and 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.