When the Earth Stands Still (SATB, SSAA, TTBB)

[@davidbobowski3604]

I sang this SATB and it was absolutely gorgeous, but this TTBB version is a whole different kind of beautiful.

[@brennam2073]

I agree!

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

I like it, reminded me of Ulver's album "Shadows of the Sun". A shame our choir won't sing TTBB, because we're a SATB and SSAA. :(

[@speedyspeeds]

So this existed for 8 years and I only just discovered it today. This one broke me and I wept like a damn baby. Bravo! On a most excellent work.

[@memyselfishness]

I'm in a TTBB choir doing this piece, and it's become one of my favorite pieces of all time.

[@Elitomioka1803]

When my choir director showed this to us it made me(Freshman) and three classmates(Freshman, and two seniors)cry

[@akanda50]

I feel profound gratitude to Don Macdonald, and all performers of this transcendent piece. This music has a tremendous power to lift our hearts if we will let it! I will be forever grateful..

[@coolcup3758]

7 years later and this song is just wow, the different emotions that you get with it. Almost close to the 5 stages of grief. Or the willingness to just let go and move on. This song is almost like a friend's message. But which friend? All I now it's a friend. Or someone you love dearly or someone who you respect. This song also ends in a beautiful note as telling us to transform that pain into something beautiful, as a sign of our own growth.

[@carliquiel]

i'm so happy that my choir director found you.

[@thebeezdeezz]

Carli Q Omg same my choir teacher found this beauty and our chamber choir is singing it SSAA

[@kainoaireland4791]

Same TTBB

[@markluebbers5781]

Great song....I sing the bass and its really cool...hard to explain but usually the bass hits the bottom root note but on this piece it goes to a lower harmony which seems weird at first and you usually dont hear that in SATB but once you get the notes and sing it smoothly it really grabs onto you. Makes you feel good. Hard to explain but people with ears that can hear it and feel it know what I mean.

[@Jakeroo767]

Yes I definitely know what you mean. It is so surreal!!

[@TopCurls]

Basses understand lol

[@נמרודלוריא]

where can I find notes for this

[@cocoapuff_x]

@@נמרודלוריאsearch up bass clef notes or treble clef notes on a staff and then play it on a piano or a piano app

[@rowanwhistler]

Don, I'm going to purchase this for my Chamber Choir. We will take it on tour to Poland this May. I hope with all my heart we make it there to sing it before we all dissolve. Grace to you and Peace for your most wonderful talents. Daniel Craig

[@ItsWaffleTime]

My choir will be singing this piece (as a virtual choir) this semester. When my director showed it to us yesterday, I almost started crying because of the time we're living through right now (which of course is why my director is having us sing it) so naturally I showed it to my friend who also almost cried.

[@dragonsaddicted4126]

okay i've been doing choir for almost ten years now and this is the best piece i've ever sung. it's got a real special place in my heart

[@imtoolazytocomeupwithaclev2323]

I do not know how I found this video.... but what I DO know is that riding around the beautiful landscape of Red Dead Redemption 2 while listening to this brought tears to my eyes, which not much does.

[@robbabcock_]

Why does this not have a quarter million subs? Beautiful song.

[@dannehboi316]

We're doing this song this year, and I just can't get enough of it.

[@hermigranger9749]

my school's choir is doing this and I'm so excited to hear such a beautiful piece. Next year I'll be old enough to audition but I wish I could sing it with them :'(

[@boop9884]

I know this was like 7 years ago... but for a concert, my local highschool performed this song as well as "Conversion of Saul". They're very different pieces, but they're both beautiful. I got a front row seat to the heart-pounding, soul-aching grief in some of those highschoolers' voices. I don't know any of them very well, but I could tell they were silently weeping for something. Something different for each person, no doubt. They poured out their souls and the performance was indescribably angelic. Something about this song makes me want to cry and hold my family close to me, yet it also reminds me of self-love and self-worth, something many people struggle with. love yourself like a lover. Thank you for this beautiful piece, I'm sure I'll be returning many times to hear it again.

[@mattparksmusic]

Stunning. And it’s incredible how the different voicings are arranged separately and thoughtfully. Each of the three have different elements that make them unique and beautiful.

[@HarringtonTribal]

LOVELY arrangement and performance!

[@2live1slifewell]

Perfect joining of magnificent words and music. None of us knows exactly how long we have, only that our time is finite. Whether for just a reminder to connect with special people in our lives in light of that, or for that time we discover that we may be in a process of passing on, I hope that this composition can become part of many individual and group contemplative moments.

[@sammiehjaay]

Absolutely beautiful, I love this.

[@MineskyVA]

Our Bass Cleff Ensemble just sang this for our Spring Concert. I can't stop listening to it

[@spookybeans]

This is absolutely mesmerizing and lovely

[@cierradunham4296]

My school has a few different choir classes and one of them did this song they were so good!!

[@aarontheepic]

Beautiful

[@IrisPerth]

Oh my gosh I can’t stop listening to this! It’s lovely in every arr but my favourite is this TTBB.

[@fjnaruwo28]

So beautiful...

[@samhud82]

Such a BEAUTIFUL piece...

[@rockymountainchamberchoir]

Very beautiful!

[@GuillaumePoulin]

Great song ! Very talented composer! I'm a founding member of the Choeur de chambre du Québec and i'd love to sing a piece in french, if you have any !

[@isaac-fe6qy]

gorgeous omg

[@israel120298]

Our chamber just got this song and Selenes boat and I couldn’t be more in love

[@ellie2042]

We’re doing this song for a trombone quartet and I love it

[@johannjosefwehrli9146]

der Tenor ist wie nur Kopfstimme, hervorragend.

[@bayden1503]

Im ur 1,000th subscriber 🥳

[@stormvortex3040]

My male vocal choir will be singing this for our regions solo and ensemble, I hope we can bring it to state and maybe even all state

[@stormvortex3040]

Thank you for making such a beautiful piece

[@LITERALLYSPidERpunk161]

Absolute GAS

[@77lovestosing]

WOW.

[@georgew4629]

woweee

[@johnnyjuarez4738]

nice

[@aarontheepic]

Damn I can barely hear the tenor 2 line at some points. Maybe just my headphones

[@MazzyMadness]

Aaron Norcia I was thinking that too

[@vinnymusic7048]

For me its panned so that the tenor lines are in the left ear (obviously tenor 1 louder since it has the melody) and bass/baritone in right ear (bass louder cause who doesn't love that low end)

[@katarinagorse6668]

I have to wonder how this was recorded. On one hand it sound like a vocoder but on the other it sound like each line was sung individually and then put together (when lyrics diverge) so I guess it's a combination of the two?

[@Nicolasgomezcolon]

Hello! I just emailed you about this piece :)

[@killian7292]

Does anyone know how one would go about making a recording like this? I'm looking to record some of my works this way but I have no idea where to begin.

[@isaacnewby6366]

Lynsie Jones Get a good mic, and record different layers of you singing. The hard part is just not messing up and making sure you stay in time with each recording. Not going to fast or slow.

[@killian7292]

Isaac Newbles I'm just not sure what software to be using. Would Audacity work?

[@isaacnewby6366]

Lynsie Jones it can. It's the best free one at least. If you wanted to spend money, you'd have to research what sofware would suit you best.

[@killian7292]

Isaac Newbles thank you for your help!!

[@isaacnewby6366]

Lynsie Jones no problem!!

[@NatNatNutmeg]

Ow

[@romanhalos]

I love this composition and this performance in particular, its wonderful. I can listen to it over and over, but this one thing bugs me every time. The singers deliver a very tight and unified sound throughout the piece, but when the 1st tenors sing "cause theres no use running cause the storms still coming" there is a slight scoop up into the lyric "com-[ing]" He should be still singing the E-natural from the previous note "still". This pitch bend temporarily takes me out of the atmosphere that this piece delivers so nicely. I think a little stress on the first syllable of "coming" would have served just fine if emphasis was desired there. Again, beautiful piece.

[@vinnymusic7048]

I think the scoop is fine. It sounds nice and adds movement to the melody. I think improvisations like these should be more common and people should stop having a pole up their ass about what the page says.

[@dear_totheheart]

Wish it wasn't autotuned, otherwise it'd be very pretty

[@jonah4982]

it's not autotuned, it's just all parts are sung by the same person

[@dear_totheheart]

It sounds fake

[@jonah4982]

it's because all parts are sung by the same person, and the voice harmonizing with itself creates that effect

[@dear_totheheart]

Alright, regardless, it sounds fake, flat, and unfortunately to my ears, not beautiful because of the contemporary tone its sung in

[@sethroy4318]

deartotheheart It IS a contemporary piece thus sung in contemporary style. Even the rhythm is a capella pop. Take it or leave it