"Ye shall have a song" by Randall Thompson - sung by the Chicago Chamber Choir

This was at our 3rd and final concert of our spring season, entitled "Burst out Singing", at Court Street United Methodist Church, Rockford, IL, Sunday April 14, 2013. Our two previous performances had been in Chicago and Evanston. Conductor, Timm Adams.
Sadly, the beginning of this is cut off. It starts in about half way down the first page of the piece. However, it's still worth a watch.
This uplifting work is an excerpt from Thompson's "The Peaceable Kingdom" - inspired by Edward Hicks's painting and based on a text from Isaiah 30:29. The opening speaks of our ability to sing being a gift from God: "Ye shall have a song", which brings us holiness, peace, solemnity, reverence, but also "gladness of heart" and then it invites us, with the dance-like ending, to come joyfully to God, "into the mountain of the Lord." This portrays the elevation that singing can create, allowing us to meditate; to reach a higher state of being.
Randall Thompson (1899 -- 1984), an American composer, was a professor of Music at Harvard and Leonard Bernstein was one of his students. He was also a choral director and best known for his choral works.

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You know i am watching. this was pretty good. good balance and INTONATION. Y'all know i am big on that. keep it up kids. Oh and... Timm? Nice bald spot!!! albert Irwin