Ola Gjeilo - Song of the Universal

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  • Опубликовано: 14 ноя 2014
  • One of my favorite musical pieces composed in the 21st Century!
    For SSAA Choir, Piano, and String Orchestra.
    Performed by the Women of Westminster Symphonic Choir/Ola Gjeilo, piano/Dr. Amanda Quist, cond.
    Lyrics by Walt Whitman
    Pictures by Mike Ring
    Sheet music can by purchased at: www.jwpepper.com/Song-of-the-Univ…tem#.U1qCmMfPbA0
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Комментарии • 147

  • @juliawalder8037
    @juliawalder8037 Год назад +19

    It’s been five months since I’ve performed this song at the spring choir concert I love this song so much 😢

  • @johnpaul8938
    @johnpaul8938 2 года назад +9

    This song just resonates to my whole being. I can’t help but shed some tears

  • @laurenj432
    @laurenj432 4 года назад +35

    Found out I got into the bachelor of vocal music education at My University and this is a great song to celebrate🥺

    • @mosart7025
      @mosart7025 3 года назад +5

      Congratulations!! Hope you exceed your dreams!

    • @laurenj432
      @laurenj432 3 года назад +2

      mosart Thank you so much. I hope you exceed your dreams as well. I also love how you used the word exceed, it’s subtle but means a lot💕💖❤️💛

    • @mikeringmusic21
      @mikeringmusic21  3 года назад +4

      Yes it is! Congrats. We need people like you to pursue your music goals and keep it alive for our youth and communities - especially after how terrible the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the classical music world :(

    • @laurenj432
      @laurenj432 3 года назад +2

      Mike Ring Thank you and I agree! The arts definitely need more funding overall and Covid is definitely going to take a toll :(

  • @sirshrooma
    @sirshrooma 4 года назад +10

    I sang in a composition that included a bass and tenor line a few years ago (I myself a bass II at the time) and it was eye watering. Beautiful. To this day when I quietly do the bass line over this song it gives me goose bumps...

  • @williamdias6487
    @williamdias6487 5 лет назад +10

    ....tears falling from my eyes while listening to this piece...thoughts flying far...far away!

  • @matts156
    @matts156 5 лет назад +28

    We worked with Ola last year and I got to talk to him and his (very) lovely girlfriend. They are both very kind, friendly, down-to-earth people who I really enjoyed getting to know. I'm anxious to work with him again both because of his beautiful music and his great personality.

    • @twinkletoes22221
      @twinkletoes22221 4 года назад +2

      you are very lucky indeed

    • @susannestechow
      @susannestechow Год назад +1

      I have already supposed that the both are really very nice people, modest, friendly, simply nice.

  • @chantal1811
    @chantal1811 6 лет назад +6

    At the end of the "king's choice" movie 2016, TREMENDOUSLY BEAUTIFUL !!!

  • @alanburnham9832
    @alanburnham9832 5 лет назад +7

    Ola Gjeilo's music as the power of the human spirit, it lifts me from depression to the light. Thank you sir!

  • @katieforrest8488
    @katieforrest8488 5 лет назад +6

    This piece compels a listener to contemplate the Universal Christ, with ears, mind, heart, and soul!

  • @mikeringmusic21
    @mikeringmusic21  3 года назад +50

    I don't know about you guys, but I am very much missing live classical music in concert halls, bands on stages, theatre productions, and beautiful works sung like this one in churches.

    • @NightHawkward
      @NightHawkward 3 года назад

      I totally relate.

    • @jesseenoch861
      @jesseenoch861 2 года назад

      instablaster...

    • @darkwaters1010
      @darkwaters1010 2 года назад

      Agreed

    • @zzzcocopepe
      @zzzcocopepe Год назад

      I love O Fortuna. It's a prayer to the goddess, in a way. It's lamenting fate.

    • @elisaa9981
      @elisaa9981 Месяц назад

      It's been three years, but you still can't find a recording of this particular piece on (my go-to) Spotify, so thank you for keeping this on RUclips.

  • @rayholstein7108
    @rayholstein7108 9 лет назад +26

    Mr. Gjeilo continues to amaze me. He melds old classical with modern and soulful thought. A whole new level!

  • @RaymundusLeonardo
    @RaymundusLeonardo 7 лет назад +58

    And God said, "Let there be beauty," and there was music..

    • @amyrye4485
      @amyrye4485 7 лет назад +2

      Raymundus Leonardo Amen!!!! Well said

    • @andyfield7397
      @andyfield7397 4 года назад +1

      Aaaaawww, lovely 😏

    • @andyfield7397
      @andyfield7397 4 года назад

      try Sissel's 'like an angel passing through my room" if you like this sort of thing

    • @seesritual8990
      @seesritual8990 3 года назад +2

      But satan invented the cough

    • @boyisun
      @boyisun 2 года назад

      @@seesritual8990 laughing out loud!

  • @ajk3455
    @ajk3455 8 лет назад +7

    I'm so happy I will have a chance to sing it next month. :))

  • @db7001
    @db7001 4 года назад +2

    I heard this on the radio this morning on the way to the coffee shop so I could work on my thesis that I am writing on... Walt Whitman! I guess it's a sign to dig in to my work today!

  • @christinaderinconada
    @christinaderinconada 5 лет назад +5

    Ola! You blow me away with your music. Absolutely divine and soul grabbing! Thank you for being!

  • @chikodiossai6429
    @chikodiossai6429 4 года назад +5

    This draws at my heartstrings

  • @gabenavarette8342
    @gabenavarette8342 2 года назад +1

    my senior select choir competed with this piece during our national competition run back in 2019, and i always find myself coming back to it. truly amazing.

  • @randomwny
    @randomwny 7 лет назад +34

    *picks up jaw off the floor*

  • @abracadabra324
    @abracadabra324 7 лет назад +8

    The ending is epic!

    • @KellyPedro
      @KellyPedro 3 года назад

      It is more than epic. It has a joy that seems above the world.

  • @twinkletoes22221
    @twinkletoes22221 4 года назад +2

    thank you .. how beautiful and so what the world needs.. protection for all animals and humans to get it right beginning with the right music.

  • @ltyr2002
    @ltyr2002 9 лет назад +21

    Incredibly beautiful! Ola Gjeilo is truly inspired!

  • @AW-uo9lg
    @AW-uo9lg 6 лет назад +6

    4:05, and 7:41 are my favorite parts, just imagine a celestial battle with this music!! EPIC!

  • @frjimt2286
    @frjimt2286 4 года назад +39

    Come, said the Muse,
    Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,
    Sing me the Universal.
    In this broad Earth of ours,
    Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
    Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
    Nestles the seed Perfection.
    By every life a share, or more or less,
    None born but it is born-conceal’d or unconceal’d, the seed is waiting.
    Give me, O God, to sing that thought!
    Give me-give him or her I love, this quenchless faith
    In Thy ensemble. Whatever else withheld, withhold not from us,
    Belief in plan of Thee enclosed in Time and Space;
    Health, peace, salvation universal.
    All, all for Immortality!
    Love, like the light, silently wrapping all!
    Nature’s amelioration blessing all!
    The blossoms, fruits of ages-orchards divine and certain;
    Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to spiritual Images ripening.
    - Walt Whitman

  • @MargaretMagor81g
    @MargaretMagor81g 9 лет назад +9

    A wonderful rendition of the music of one of my favourite modern composers.

    • @amyrye4485
      @amyrye4485 7 лет назад

      Margaret Magor I definitely see why he is, mine too

  • @wakeup4396
    @wakeup4396 Месяц назад

    Beauty. I love all of you, my fellow travelers.

  • @Louri_
    @Louri_ 4 года назад +3

    Authentic celestial music!

  • @marianaionescu6880
    @marianaionescu6880 2 года назад

    With A GOOD CELESTIAL HEART , ... and MUSIC , ... in a New Year 2022!
    My Gratitude!🌹💕

  • @finolahepworth5554
    @finolahepworth5554 6 лет назад +3

    Only music like this can express the inexpressible Thank you for being such a voice,
    Wondrous

  • @marganewc
    @marganewc 7 лет назад +5

    Thank you so much for sharing this. He is one of the greatest contemporary composers, his music is balm to the soul.

  • @omraamwordsoflight
    @omraamwordsoflight 2 года назад +1

    Beautiful music and beautiful photos, very moving poem by Walt Whitman. Thanks for sharing.

  • @stevenichols8887
    @stevenichols8887 8 месяцев назад +1

    All the chills

  • @user-xv5bj2vz2q
    @user-xv5bj2vz2q 10 месяцев назад +1

    요번에 연주하게 되서 들으러 왔어요
    곡이 웅장 장엄하고 너무 좋네요 잘 들을께요 감사합니다❤

  • @jeaniejohnston8295
    @jeaniejohnston8295 2 года назад +1

    Vakkert musik! Tusen Takk Ola! It's like entering heaven!

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 Год назад

    This one takes me to another place.. escape! Unlimited possibilities and adventures but with perfect oeace attending...fearless in the face of changes..and yes, utter contentment...trusting HIM...

  • @Xivics
    @Xivics 9 лет назад +5

    Its beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

  • @moniatommasini2628
    @moniatommasini2628 7 лет назад +1

    Brano magnifico su testo bellissimo. Grazie per aver dato vita a questo incanto.

  • @matuskrnac4534
    @matuskrnac4534 7 лет назад +2

    During listen this song, my soul flying in clouds, thank you, producer :-)

  • @brianbaumgarn5795
    @brianbaumgarn5795 6 лет назад +1

    Ola is so talented! It is always good to have another great composer gracing us with important stuff.

  • @bghormley
    @bghormley 9 месяцев назад

    So so beautiful...one of my favorite modern pieces

  • @alchemicalweddings7489
    @alchemicalweddings7489 4 года назад +2

    truly sublime, what a gift!

  • @melinalestunff3574
    @melinalestunff3574 4 года назад +1

    Elle est trop belle💖💖😘😘

  • @ltyr-mr2if
    @ltyr-mr2if 8 лет назад +2

    No words! Tears!

  • @warunichandrasena1866
    @warunichandrasena1866 6 лет назад +1

    This is one of my favorite peice of Ola Gjeilo

  • @marianaionescu6880
    @marianaionescu6880 2 года назад

    Merry Christmas!
    Thank You ,for beautiful Winter Songs!

  • @susannestechow
    @susannestechow Год назад

    I have already supposed that the both are truly very nice people. Modest, friendly, simply nice.

  • @teresamorley8376
    @teresamorley8376 8 лет назад

    Blown away by this incredible music.

  • @jl8217
    @jl8217 10 месяцев назад

    I just came across this by chance, what a lovely piece!

  • @brianna_903
    @brianna_903 4 года назад +37

    Shoutout to that one guy who coughed in the beginning. Way to go, pal 👏🙄

    • @hajirahsyed846
      @hajirahsyed846 4 года назад +3

      Ahahahaha i thought i was the only one who heard it lol

    • @awaitthegroom
      @awaitthegroom 3 года назад +1

      we now have masks for the purpose of stifling coughs in music performance

  • @swimmad1
    @swimmad1 6 лет назад

    I love this composer. Beautiful piece.

  • @joshfrench9503
    @joshfrench9503 8 лет назад +2

    Awesome!!!

  • @staranimation9386
    @staranimation9386 9 месяцев назад +2

    “Come,” said the muse.

  • @brendanr.ogorman3586
    @brendanr.ogorman3586 3 года назад

    Beautiful!

  • @irenediaz605
    @irenediaz605 4 года назад +1

    this is amazing,

  • @verixanc
    @verixanc 7 лет назад

    marvelous!!

  • @nikossoupas1084
    @nikossoupas1084 4 года назад +1

    I'm crying!!!

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 11 месяцев назад

    I am indeed looking through a NEW LENS at cues from the LORD...this song is outstanding.. as well as geographic in character...

  • @sigridadam4520
    @sigridadam4520 3 года назад

    Sehr schön...Danke

  • @danielatapia3533
    @danielatapia3533 5 лет назад

    WOW just...WOW!

  • @RobertBCornell
    @RobertBCornell 3 года назад

    Mike, thank you for this lovely gift to us! It was so wonderful to see your pictures and the words of Whitman as the music plays.
    Blessings! Robert Cornell

    • @mikeringmusic21
      @mikeringmusic21  3 года назад

      Thanks Robert! But the real gift is not from me - but from Ola Gjeilo :)

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 Год назад

    This one is my favorite today...

  • @TheOneBlackKidd
    @TheOneBlackKidd 2 года назад +1

    Hi, I'm back like 7 yes later and now I cant stop listening to 7:42

  • @kyndallthompson3453
    @kyndallthompson3453 9 лет назад +13

    So pretty... We're singing this in choir - 39 pages long haha

    • @WilliamFord972
      @WilliamFord972 9 лет назад +1

      It only seems that long because of the way choral scores are printed.
      It's probably--like--7-10 pages for the other instruments.

    • @MayaNieberger5213
      @MayaNieberger5213 9 лет назад +1

      At least we probably won't have to memorize the whole thing!
      Its so beautiful...
      Hi Kyndall! :)

    • @SitaraWinters3697
      @SitaraWinters3697 9 лет назад

      Kyndall Thompson Haha I looked this up after the concert because it's so pretty.

    • @mkubani5127
      @mkubani5127 6 лет назад

      No actually there are only 2 pages without voice- its a very long song

    • @payetonburfield5241
      @payetonburfield5241 5 лет назад

      Ours is 54 pages

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 11 месяцев назад

    This song is playing at 12:34...the LORD has quickened me at 11:11 and 12:12 as well...Praise GOD! in JESUS name! Thank YOU! LORD! We are in HIS TIME....KAIROS.....

  • @maureenkelly7771
    @maureenkelly7771 4 года назад

    wow. just so powerful

  • @cosettegarzon5322
    @cosettegarzon5322 7 лет назад +3

    Anybody else notice the tempo lag in the beginning? Still sounds amazing regardless! Great tone ladies

    • @cacvpc
      @cacvpc 4 года назад

      Yes. It was pulling my brain to hear the dysfunction, and I had to stop listening.

  • @elisabethragner5239
    @elisabethragner5239 6 лет назад +1

    Vakkert!

  • @kate2326
    @kate2326 7 лет назад +1

    I've been there! It's incredible. There are no mountains where I live, so to be suddenly surrounded by huge mountains stretching into the sky was surreal.

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 9 месяцев назад

    And, two of them know where I've been..I really want to be sensitive about the whole mess...but you know someone has to stop LOOKING AWAY...

  • @klaus2506
    @klaus2506 2 года назад +1

    the most iconic cough

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 Год назад

    Ola, among many other giftings..you are a Geographical Composer/Artist/Landscaper....

  • @jjmoe8233
    @jjmoe8233 3 года назад

    Reminds me of an finished version of final song at "gabriellas sång" at the Theater at the end.

  • @WilliamFord972
    @WilliamFord972 9 лет назад +14

    That cough though @ 0:30

    • @FieldTechIV
      @FieldTechIV 6 лет назад +1

      It diminishes the quality of the recording. You can find a better version on youtube and amazon (see album Magnificat).

  • @Luca-gj9xn
    @Luca-gj9xn 3 года назад +1

    You are very good and Gjeilo is a truly genius! My choir sang "The Rose" and "Days of Beauty" with new arrangements, both adapting for mixed choir, with male and female voices and making spectacular videos! We were able to reach the same Gjeilo who was thrilled. Write this in the search: you will surely like them!
    Corale Novarmonia - The Rose (O. Gjeilo)
    Corale Novarmonia - Days of Beauty (O. Gjeilo) SATB Choir

  • @zzzcocopepe
    @zzzcocopepe Год назад +1

    Came here from INFJ Moment. It always makes me cry for some reason

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 11 месяцев назад

    Erick has been purposely left in the dark here and really not wanted...pray about @ calling and clarifying. or you might want to just meet in person. I introduced your music to him...he plays piano and loves it...that's how GOD favored me with him...

  • @mailam7672
    @mailam7672 6 лет назад +1

    Check out the Sheldon high school performing this song!! We put in a lot of effort into it, hope u enjoy! 😊😊😊

  • @nicoemta
    @nicoemta 7 лет назад +2

    Credits song for The King's Choice or Kongens nei

  • @atbaritone
    @atbaritone Год назад

    Ola Gjielo, the discerning person's Christopher Tin.

  • @susannestechow
    @susannestechow Год назад

    Where is this landscape located? Probably USA, but where?

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 Год назад

    Vacuum...praying for a miracle in JESUS name! Thank YOU! LORD!

  • @clarkboykin5984
    @clarkboykin5984 2 года назад

    Ditto for all the wonderful comments about the music. I think Mike deserves kudos for the wonderful photographs and their (and the lyrics') presentation. I'm curious about the general location(s). South America?

    • @mikeringmusic21
      @mikeringmusic21  Год назад

      Hi. Yes, a lot of the pictures were from Peru but some were also from Yosemite Nat' Park.

  • @classicbird2627
    @classicbird2627 6 лет назад +1

    A wonderful piece indeed. But in this recording I get the impression that the choir is always a bit behind the music in terms of tempo. But maybe that this is even meant to be?

  • @redsaens2823
    @redsaens2823 3 года назад +1

    7:41

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 11 месяцев назад

    GOD IS IN CONTROL...that's enough...HIS WILL, HIS PLAN..HIS TIMIMG in JESUS name! Thank YOU! LORD!

  • @kurmaymiralay
    @kurmaymiralay 5 лет назад +1

    What is song name at 1.20

  • @Mark_Dyer1
    @Mark_Dyer1 8 лет назад +5

    Never heard of this composer before. Thank you for the upload. Are the photographs taken in the High Andes?

    • @mikeringmusic21
      @mikeringmusic21  8 лет назад +4

      Machu Picchu, around Peru, Yosemite Nat Park, a few other parks and hikes in the west. I travel a lot!

    • @jeanneely2413
      @jeanneely2413 4 года назад

      @@mikeringmusic21 And I'm sure I saw a picture of Art Hill, the name of the hill in front of the St Louis Art Museum, no?

    • @mikeringmusic21
      @mikeringmusic21  4 года назад

      @@jeanneely2413 Yes that's right! Very random photograph.

  • @tamalocal
    @tamalocal 9 лет назад +8

    there is a better version of this song without the coughing, it's done by Trondheimsolistene, on the album Magnificat, a great recording.

    • @emily_dupont_peterson
      @emily_dupont_peterson 8 лет назад

      +Ilias Music Thank you SO MUCH for the recommendation. What a superb album!

    • @FieldTechIV
      @FieldTechIV 6 лет назад

      @Ilias Music I just looked it up, that is a better recording, thanks!

  • @southernbiscuits1275
    @southernbiscuits1275 4 года назад +1

    I love this piece of music but why is there no good performance of it on RUclips? On this recording there almost seems to be a time lag between the various groups of performers. The sound quality is horrendous. This work deserves better.

    • @alexlindsay2325
      @alexlindsay2325 4 года назад

      This link will take you to a wonderful album called "Magnificat." At the very end it has "The Song of the Universal." I believe it is performed in Norway. I trust you will find it a very clear, crisp recording done by very fine musicians. music.ruclips.net/p/OLAK5uy_nOM486qO0SzFnDS-6_UAmnqXLanJdi2iM

  • @Grandguisier
    @Grandguisier 7 лет назад +4

    "Joy of Painting" in Tönen (will jetzt nicht 'Musik' sagen ...).

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 Год назад

    Ephesians 4:16 in JESUS name! Thank YOU! LORD! I will follow you...

  • @lizpolaris
    @lizpolaris 3 месяца назад

    I don't see this as a choir piece. This is a sweeping orchestral piece, apparently meant as background music for a nature documentary. Then there's some voices sort of humming along. Even in this recording, you can't understand a word of the poetic Whitman - and I have the choir part in front of me. This is a dull, repetitive mess of a piece but I wouldn't by any stretch call this a song.

  • @annskinner8467
    @annskinner8467 8 лет назад

    Is the font Papyrus?

  • @elmorya100
    @elmorya100 2 года назад

    Metoo

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 9 месяцев назад

    FYI today former pastors reconnected with me on FB...THEY ARE A WONDERFUL CLEAN UP CREW..you might not call them "Higher Level"..but they are a lot higher than you think.
    .

  • @hajnatucic2291
    @hajnatucic2291 5 лет назад

    Unbelieveable ...complex, vibrating, inspirational, maby with delicate chinese inspirations ?

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 11 месяцев назад

    Vladi, the JOY of the LORD is your strength...that's scripture...do you want to.miss the Fullnes of the Life HE has given to Satisfy you with fulfilled promises because you just went through a "fiery trial" and you made it to the other side without "lightening"?...Come on...look up and smile...uour REDEMPTOON DRAWETH NIGH...scripture says your latter days will be far greater than the former.. something to enjoy in the present (don't miss your present!!!! Its here!!!!) ENJOY! Your present!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂

  • @scottforesman7968
    @scottforesman7968 Год назад +1

    People with coughs should STAY HOME

  • @westsidewarrior1972
    @westsidewarrior1972 7 лет назад +1

    man, whoever was coughing should have been shown the door

  • @susanflakes6968
    @susanflakes6968 11 месяцев назад

    Your label is MWWTW because the LORD said, you were WELL WORTH THE WAIT...HE should know...

  • @matts156
    @matts156 4 года назад

    I just want to slap the representatives of the National Tuberculosis Society in the audience.