Oh Shenandoah - Across the Wide Missouri

Gimnazija Kranj Christmas Concert 2016 - American Night. In sold out Gallus Hall (Cankarjev dom, Slovenia) The Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra and Girls Choir perfomed an american folk song from 19th century: Oh Shenandoah or Across the Wide Missouri. Our kids and their friends played and sang this work of art stunningly. Solo voice is an amazing young slovenian soprano: Ernestina Jošt. The Concert was sold out in record time of 3 minutes (1500 seats). It was magic musical and artistic experience. Chorus master and conductor: Erik Šmid; Headmaster: mag. Franc Rozman; head of production: Gegor Jeraša; Concert master: Nejc Avbelj; Concert and film director: Primož Zevnik
solo sopran: Ernestina Jošt
slovenian translation: prof. Biba Kodek
arrangement: sister Diana Novak (Ursulines of the Roman Union Abbey Ljubljana) - ursulinke.rkc.si/
Production:
VPK PRO: technical:
Husmir Deljanin, Gregor Zupan, Boštjan Tršek, Jan Ješe, Žiga Ban, Zdene Kuzmič;
creative: - Florijan Skubic / videomix; cameras: Petar Stokić, Leo Vučimilović, Gregor Pregrad, Boštjan Župevc, Bojan Žalec, Mirko Kalafatić Tibor Pavlič, Matej Zagorc / crane operation
MOPS:
Marjan Cerar
Gimnazija Kranj Film Crew:
Juš Hrastnik, Aljaž Lavtižar, Jaša Krč, Andraž Žnidar, Živa Bertoncelj, Andraž Stariha
Floral: Tina Karba and Marko Trilar (www.yasmin.si/)
Scenography and Design: Jernej Kejžar (Puhart)
Tone:
tone master: Mitja Krže
Master:
Studio Klopotec (Iztok Zupan)
Light: Janez Kocjan
Direction:
Primož Zevnik ([e-mail])
Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra:
Concert master: Nejc Avbelj
Orchestra president and operational manager: Dan Ažman
FLAVTE/FLUTES: Vita Benko, Zarja Hude, Katja Stanovšek, Neža Čadež, Neža Peternel, Brina Robnik Kobal, Pia Krumpestar, Mya Prešeren McCann, Manca Teran; PIKOLO/PICCOLO: Katjuša Rupnik; OBOE/ENGLISH HORN: Pavli Kac, Ana Stoschicki; KLARINETI/CLARINTES: Nadja Drakslar, Robert Bone, Peter Franc Letonja, Aiden Franko, Drejc Flajnik, Klara Polajnar, Domen Kos; BAS KLARINET/BASS CLARINET: Jan Šifrer; FAGOTI/BASSOON: Arpad Balasz Piri, Miha Petkovšek; ROGOVI/FRENCH HORNS: Mihajlo Bulajić, Tadej Kopitar, Miha Lončar, Aljaž Praprotnik; TROBENTE/TRUMPETS: Aleš Klančar, Blaž Avbar, Leon Pokeržnik, Oskar Šubic; POZAVNE/TROMBONES: Domen Gantar, Žan Škrjanec, Jernej Zatler, Filip Istenič; TUBA: Tilen Oblak; TOLKALA/PERCUSSION: Vid Ušeničnik, Jernej Gabrijel, Dan Ažman Pistotnik, Miha Ogris; VIOLINE 1/1st VIOLINS: Nejc Avbelj, Oskar Longyka, Eugenia Murtazeva, Ana Krpan, Dejan Gregorič, Vid Sajovic, Jerica Kozole, Marija Šimec, Matija Udovič, Tjaša Gorjanc, Vera Magdevska, Katarina Miklavčič; VIOLINE 2/2nd VIOLINS: Uroš Bičanin, Klara Gruden, Eva Dukarič, Ajda Porenta, Tonka Pogačnik, Barbara Štimec, Peter Jud, Viviana Rogina, Anja Jakun, Maruša Lučič Bolka, Lara Bogataj, Lana Grbič; VIOLE/VIOLAS: Špela Pirnat, Anuša Plesničar, Neža Papler, Neža Sečnik, Jurij Gracej, Hana Lavrinc, Vanja Kojić, Tilen Udovič, Matic Kokošinek, Urša Žun; VIOLONČELA/CELLOS: Katarina Kozjek, Alenka Piotrowicz , Lucija Grošelj, Nika Vremšak, Arslan Hamidulin, Lucija Rupert, Ana Zupan, Katarina Minatti; KONTRABASI/DOUBLE BASSES: Miha Firšt , Janez Krevel, Arthur Piotrowicz , Andrej Kašić; HARFA/HARP: Urša Rihtaršič; SAKSOFONI/SAXOPHONES: Juš Lesjak, Gal Grobovšek, Martin Verbič, Urša Uršič; KITARA/GUITAR: Urh Zupan, Luka Štibelj; BAS KITARA/BASS GUITAR: Karim Zajec, Rok Klančar; KLAVIR/PIANO: Katja Jerič, Liza Rozman, Rok Zupanc, Monika Podlogar, Eva Zupan, Samo Hude, Karmen Jošt; HARMONIKA/ACCORDION: Ana Lombar
GIMNAZIJA KRANJ GIRLS CHOIR
SOPRAN/SOPRANO: Klavdija Koren, Ana Marija Arko, Zala Ribnikar, Ema Ažbe, Ana Koprivnikar, Neža Majnik, Tea Aljaž, Brina Avsec, Tina Urh, Anja Škorc, Ajda Puzin, Julija Rogelj, Lina Peharc, Nina Žumer, Lea Krampl, Manca Peternel, Maja Pogačnik, Evelina Stare, Danaja Kejžar; ALT/ALTO: Anja Kleindienst, Žana Robič, Saša Peterlin, Nika Mali, Kaja Železnikar, Ema Jelenc, Regina Selan, Kristina Čop, Ana Žerovnik, Anja Horvat, Eva Kern, Monika Rozman, Laura Gašperšič, Ana Lombar, Rea Legat, Ela Štirn, Ana Bertoncelj, Marija Pogačnik, Ema Soklič
Gimnazija Kranj Technical Crew:
Gal Nagode (head of operation); Gaber Krč; Jerneja Rotar; Gašper Csipo;Jan Božič; Juš Hrastnik; Dorjan Zorman; Katarina Vodnik; Lan Julij Zadravec; Beni Plut; Janže Šilc; Andraž Žnidar; Lea Kern; Aljaž Lavtižar; Andraž Stariha; Žiga Perčič

[@silkyway6575]

She sure hits those high notes beautifully and perfectly.

[@ralphgar3690]

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SONG!

[@hiltonvalleytraining1850]

A haunting song. It tells of longing and loneliness for a cherished home. And it speaks through the centuries.

[@sailordog1414]

Sublime. Thank you!

[@keithgraham4747]

So beautiful I can hardly stand it. Brilliant. Soul wrenching.

[@sfgregs]

The beauty of the entire orchestra and choir is mind-blowing. From voices to faces to smiles, it is good to see something about humanity that is beautiful for a change. Congratulations to all.

[@brooke4627]

And beautifully put yourself Mr Gregorio!

[@jorgemontefusco650]

Beauty and talent too. Right from God’s hands.

[@carolynelang6424]

Makes me cry to hear this beautiful music

[@ralphgar3690]

GOD BLESS U CAROLYN

[@johnwallace4408]

Surely, the World stood in Peace this day 💖

[@bbjones5698]

The best version I've ever found.

[@user-zb9of2ip8d]

Jim Erb of the University of Richmond wrote this arrangement. He was as wonderful and beautiful as his arrangement. It fills my heart to think of him.`

[@raymarsh2326]

@@user-zb9of2ip8d😊

[@DEETALEH]

lovely in so many ways, and she's singing one of the best of the U.S. folk songs!

[@nstix2009xitsn]

What a beautiful song. That wasn't the first time I'd heard it, but Ernestina Jošt gave the best performance of it I've yet heard.

[@patriciahiggins9188]

This song always makes me cry

[@juerg5662]

One of the most beautiful versions of this wonderful song ... !

[@williamowsley9771]

One of my favorite songs. I will never see home again mn😢

[@agramsci]

My mother used to sing this song to me when I was a child. This is a really beautiful arrangement and performance.

[@graham1281]

One of THE most delightful versions of this lovely old song i've heard yet !! ♥♥♥♥♥

[@priscilladwight8547]

You make me weep, Ernestina! Your voice so pure! And the choir of angels! So so sweeet!!! Orchestra perfect!!!!!!!!! Absolutely, lovely... I'm listening to it again now... THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@James-ll3jb]

Utterly astonishing😢

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Her inspirational singing voice is a lullaby of my soul , and full of admiration tribute and deep emotion

[@thepimp8485]

That oboe player killed and her voice is simply angelic

[@gerlindejantscher7742]

Ein wunderschönes Gesamtkunstwerk, das tolle Orchester und die grandiose Ernestina😍🤩👏👏👏🎼🎻

[@woodenseagull1899]

It is what is good in the USA. It is along the lines of a hymn. Brilliantly done....

[@juligrlee556]

Thank you Ernestina Jost for all your beautiful gifts to the world.

[@DevvynSkyes]

I sang this song in my choir in high school. Its a beautiful song ♥️🎵

[@angelakrusvar9180]

Hi,Very beautiful and inspiring song Bravo Bravo! Lep pozdrav iz Australije 🤗🤗🤗

[@lucianoagricolo]

Brava l'orchestra, bravo il coro ma Ernestina è un vero miracolo della natura, una voce angelica, veramente meravigliosa.

[@priscilladwight8547]

Truly, this is Heaven... This is what Heaven sounds like... XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO LOVE IT. Thank you so much.

[@adolfocasas1603]

Haven't heard this song since I was a kid. I used to sing while in school with others..so many memories..

[@conradinhawaii7856]

This just HAS to be the most beautiful performance of this old traditional American ballad that I have ever heard... and it is Sooo beautiful to watch as well, everyone from the lovely Ernestina to the young ladies in the chorus to the wonderful musicians in the orchestra. I learned this lovely old song when I was a kid in the 1950s, when a chorus of which I was a member performed it at recitals at our church on several occasions. My mother, the choir director, (also the pianist, and organist) insisted that we all know the story of the lyrics, of the fur trader traveling on the Missouri River and the Native American chief's daughter with whom he was in love , and her father, Shenandoah. And my mother insisted that we memorize the lyrics, as with every piece we performed. No pages rattling or dropping to the floor... and eye contact with our audience... our parents and the congregation. And I still remember every word of the lyrics to this day. It is also where I first learned Mr. Dvořák's "Když mne stará matka" ("Songs My Mother Taught Me", in the English language version which we sang), which Ernestina and members of this orchestra and chorus have also performed and recorded beautifully in a rare music video titled "Last Journey Home". So this is a very emotional and wonderful experience for me every time I play this beautiful performance by Ernestina and this superb orchestra and chorus. 💖💖😊

[@ronaldcammarata3422]

Just to be clear, this is a ballad version of a traditional shanty song.

[@conradinhawaii7856]

@@ronaldcammarata3422 It has been around since the 1790s or Very early 1800s. The origin of it and the writer or writers are unknown.

[@SkyRunner21]

This makes me cry every time... what a powerful piece of art... it only shows how far we've come as a species...

[@cynthiaalfaro1917]

It means perfect star ⭐ Christ

[@adrianmonk4440]

Que; ??; How Far ?? We just kill with more precision & faster. 100s of Billions of Dollars daily subjugate people globally.

[@feurzauber]

What a amazing orchestra and singer !

[@anthonymarsano5468]

she is terriffffferic what a voice comes once in a life time

[@sharonshelton1515]

Beautiful lyric soprano voice.

[@stevepilley]

orchestras like many individual instruments are beautiful to look upon as well as to listen to.

[@debimallough6425]

I will follow YOU like the River. I love you James williams

[@dhenschel4]

Such a beautiful performance, I have played it over 10 times and can shed no more tears. Shout out to the oboe and harp soloists who likely took a bow after the clip was cut. Their melody places this song squarely in that period of american history.

[@sherryparriott1163]

One forgets to breathe.....so lovely!❤️

[@satarello]

such a beautifull woman with the beautifull voice..I love it !!

[@jkgou1]

Thank you very much for such a great performance

[@ignaciaforteza7731]

Thank you, thank you, so moving!

[@richardpedersen9189]

Love that !!!

[@rogerbrookes3515]

Utterly beautiful.

[@lizzapaolia959]

Wow, amazing 😀 what a beautiful voice. Your all amazingly talented. God bless.

[@nanmilgrom8420]

So beautiful so comforting

[@victorbaruzzini4768]

Beautiful! The wide Missouri flows only 5 km from where I live.

[@mz11111]

You are lucky. Where exactly do you live ?

[@hilndr3279]

And the Shenandoah is at the bottom of my mountain.

[@amrogers4]

I live near Hannibal. Crossed the wide Missouri countless times :)

[@priscilladwight8547]

Just listened again, my loves.... ahhhhhhhh, this is Heaven for sure... sooooo beautiful!

[@gabrielemigliorini8180]

fantastic!!!

[@debratyrrell4349]

VERY VERY BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[@larryurbon9550]

Charming to hear this song with her accent!

[@fredbentley4944]

Very beautiful vocals and arrangement. !

[@formalthread479-minecraft5]

I got asmr from that! Absolutely beautiful! My choir is singing this at our concert, and the baritones have the melody! I just happen to be the only baritone who wants to sing properly! It will be like a solo!

[@MrYves1948]

Quelle merveilleuse chanteuse...Un grand moment de plaisir...bravo

[@yonghuang5731]

Stunning amazing. So young, so beautiful!

[@davidwolf226]

Wow... a truly beautiful rendition!

[@Hclambake]

WOW - WOW - WOW!

[@anacarmen384]

Wonderful...

[@regisaureliosuarezalvez6369]

Bravo bravo!! Varias veces la escucho y emociona el alma de ver y oír tanta belleza musical plena de juventud!! Gracias por tanta dulzura y con amor espiritual los abrazo a todos!!👏👏👏👏

[@giovanniuscidda5650]

this is the best I've never heard before

[@shouko6735]

She sounds just like an angel 😇 💕🥺

[@raymondefouanon9930]

Quelle voix !!! Et quels aigus . BRAVISSIMA SIGNORINA BELLA❤️❤️❤️

[@billycullen6832]

Stunning!

[@GERDASO]

Beautiful, precioso!!!!

[@scottski51]

This is fairly.... Spectacular !! Well done !

[@miguelurdaci7884]

ay, la añoranza y la belleza!

[@geraldgregg3023]

Absolutely beautiful

[@orangeblueandlavenda]

Wonderful saprano

[@brianmcgahey756]

You all nailed it. Great!

[@ChrisKopchik]

Really beautiful. Thanks!

[@pierre-gabrieljobin9450]

Wonderful young soprano. Best of luck for your future career.

[@davhuf3496]

Lovely!

[@MaZEEZaM]

This is wonderful.

[@edyputra3921]

Very beautifull song..❤️❤️❤️

[@dontrellholland3214]

Not sure why I’m going back listening to my middle school choral arrangement

[@ovichitayat5796]

beautiful.

[@michaelbradley1001]

Wonderful performance! Monsieur Zevnik’s goal, in his words, was to create an "amazing musical journey into heart of American soul, which I experienced during my cycling trip from Boston to Seattle.” He is succeeding. The origins of Oh Shenandoah Across the Wide Missouri are obscure but stem from the early part of the nineteenth century. The music meant different things to different groups. But to my ancestors who escaped the wars and famine of Europe it represented the journey to a new life free from all those horrors. And it is just a beautiful song sung by a beautiful lady. Bravo Mr. Zevnik, can’t wait to see what comes next!

[@denisrapp2441]

une tres belle voix et la chanson of course

[@billg7602]

Want to steal an Americans heart, just sing Shenandoah

[@yvescostard6721]

Merveilleux...bravo...

[@davidkettell5726]

As an ex vocalist who got the boot as soon as my soprano broke i loved this and i have never seen so many beautiful girls in one place ?

[@Lordnelson137]

Not what I thought it was going to be when I came here, but a very beautiful version - with the required emotional effect :-) Loved it!

[@eldorado5123]

c'est très beau ,très émouvant ,bravo

[@theressamurphy2996]

Thank you so much...tears here from the beauty of the song and their angelic voices ❤️

[@jefbeuken4790]

Wat een genot om te horen en te zien. Geweldig.

[@louquatorze]

Une voix très juste et cristalline Très belle interprétation

[@rafikbaladi6555]

This was mesmerizing. Zevnikov's touch where he clings to several bar, tenaciously, before he plunges into the revelation. Here, like a sneaky prelude (but awesome) with a persistent dominate note on the cello/counter-base then gently revealing the mystery of his interpretation. Bravo!

[@Buckblacket]

Ahahahaha you tried to hard to get a heart....

[@conradinhawaii7856]

@tog hoath He doesn't know what he was trying to say, Tog, let alone spell. Trolls seldom do. 🤔😩

[@conradinhawaii7856]

I agree with you about the violas and cellos (and contrabass ?) carrying that one long note throughout the first verse and well into the whole piece. Actually, those string musicians pretty much set the mood for this whole ballad, portraying (in my mind) the beautiful, so-slowly-moving upper Missouri River in the American Dakota territory, where the story of this ballad takes place. A beautiful orchestral arrangement by Primož, for sure. He seems to have a habit of doing that. 😊 And of course, it helps to have this superb orchestra and chorus, and the amazing Ernestina to make it happen. 💖😊

[@eisenfaust6767]

Da hört man, es gibt Engel...

[@janethu9169]

Beautiful

[@donaldyounger3384]

Beautiful. So very impressive!

[@manfredisenberg2669]

Sehr, schön

[@gregoryglading1517]

It’s amazing how well Slovenian Ernestina Jost can interpret this purely American song. The only person to sing this song better is American Jo Stafford, arguably the greatest female popular genre singer ever. You’re in great company Ernestina

[@Muzunguorlik]

Bravo ❗👏 Bravo ❗👏Bravo ❗👏👌❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@mariabeinhorn1613]

Sooooo schön

[@02887727356]

theres hope for us all yet

[@erikansori]

Oh Shenandoah, I hear you calling, Hi-o, you rolling river. Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Hi-o, I'm bound away. 'Cross the wide, Mis-sou-ri. Mis-sou-ri, She's a mighty river, Hi-o, you rolling river. When she rolls down, her topsails shiver, Hi-o, I'm bound away, 'Cross the wide, Mis-sou-ri .Farewell my dearest, I'm bound to leave you, Hi-o, you rolling river. Oh Shenandoah, I'll not deceive you, Hi-o, I'm bound away. 'Cross the wide Mis-sou-ri. END

[@erikansori]

@tog hoath thanks for your reply, all of that, i very love this song.

[@dreajp]

I remember singing this with my chorus class.

[@AEZAKM1]

same

[@conradinhawaii7856]

Yup... same here, sixty years ago. Still remember every word and note. We didn't do it Quite as well as Ernestina and this beautiful orchestra and chorus, though !... 😌🤣🙄

[@georgetunstill2341]

Same here @@conradinhawaii7856, Aezakmi, and Luscious Angel. Some forty-something years ago when I was in high school although we probably weren't as good as Ernestina and the chorus.

[@amrogers4]

Ditto. It's always brought me to tears. Everytime I cross the River, which isn't far from where I live, I fantasize about the love story that inspired this timeless masterpiece

[@Caeroni]

She is a Star!!

[@chenningsen1]

Jefferson City tornado just happened. Jefferson City is Missouri's capital city, located directly on the banks of the Missouri river. Its difficult to hear this song right now, considering the damage done to so many lives and properties.

[@christinefee7670]

a lovely voice

[@user-em4ry3vc9h]

너무 아름답다.

[@user-zp6jg8bg5o]

,너무 아름다워요!쌩큐!

[@moo22ify]

Exquisite. The origins of the song may be the time of the Louisiana Purchase, when Bonaparte transferred the midcontinental territories to Jefferson. The Shenandoah may be name of a chief, not the river in the Appalachians. Shenandoah may have had a geomorphological meaning common to many native languages of the Algonquian family. It means sprucy stream, i.e., a stream flowing beside high hills, mountains or cliffs, thereby chilled by their shadow and resulting in a subarctic microclimate with boreal flora. Such a microclimate within a larger temperate climate is common in the Appalachian mountains, but can also be found in the Black Hills and the Missouri Breaks.

[@key2seventhree349]

that's just your opinion, and that's all it is ...

[@conradinhawaii7856]

Sorry, Matthew, but your comment is pure buffalo chips. This old, traditional American ballad has absolutely Zero to do with the Louisiana Purchase, the Appalachians, "geomorphological" nonsense, "sprucy streams", "subarctic microclimates with boreal flora" (Oh, Brrrrother ! 😊🤣), or ANYthing other than the story told in the original verses going back to its earliest origins in the early 1800s. The story is of a fur trader traveling on the Missouri River who has fallen in love with the daughter of a Native American tribal chief, "Shenandoah", whose nation lives on the banks of the upper Missouri in what was then the Dakota territories. It has been "...seven long years since last I saw you", and he longs to reunite with his love, not knowing if her father will allow it or even if she is still "available". I have known this story since I first learned the song in the mid' 1950s when we performed it in a children's chorus and my mother, our choir director and pianist, insisted that all of us kids know the story of the ballad we were going to perform (The traditional 1800s lyrics... long before the "modified" Bob Dylan version ). So you can take my word for it, or you can look it up. And, by the way... "looking stuff up" is always good policy before posting on KZbin, if you do not wish to appear as an ignorant dolt before those of us who actually Do "know stuff about stuff"... especially early-American music, and also, in this case, Ernestina and this wonderful Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra and Choruses, with whom you are also obviously completely unfamiliar. 😊🤔

[@key2seventhree349]

@@conradinhawaii7856 - Well the origin of the song is "Southern" i can tell ya' that much ...

[@key2seventhree349]

@@conradinhawaii7856 -Yeah you think you know something...fool.

[@conradinhawaii7856]

@@key2seventhree349 Waaall... more than YOU, for damned sure. But in your case, that obviously would take Very little effort! And for you to insist that "Shenandoah" has "Southern" origins tells everyone reading these comments everything they need to know about your lack of intellect and astounding level of ignorance. 🙄🤣