This is one of my favorite hymns, thank you UW Eau Claire, may God bless you all this Christmas season. I need the message of this song so much right now.
My chorale just sang this as part of a recovery concert to heal from Hurricane Harvey, which Houstonians are still reeling from 3 months later. Your chorus, with all those bright young faces will be my go-to when I want to remember this, one of my favorite choral songs of all time. (And you memorized it!)
The famous text by Newman has an irregular metre, and so fits no standard hymn tune. This concert setting is superb and worthy, and the performance nuanced and brilliant. Thanks guys!
I am accompnaying this currently - I am NO slouch but the piano part is MONSTROUS - stretchy broken chords for 20 pages - oh, yes, there is some singing going on while I play!
The text is worth locating and reading. It was written by JH Newman in his darkest hour, realising that he could hardly remain in the Church of England, and overcome by illness while sojourning in Italy.
This is one of my favorite hymns, thank you UW Eau Claire, may God bless you all this Christmas season. I need the message of this song so much right now.
My chorale just sang this as part of a recovery concert to heal from Hurricane Harvey, which Houstonians are still reeling from 3 months later. Your chorus, with all those bright young faces will be my go-to when I want to remember this, one of my favorite choral songs of all time. (And you memorized it!)
The famous text by Newman has an irregular metre, and so fits no standard hymn tune. This concert setting is superb and worthy, and the performance nuanced and brilliant. Thanks guys!
This is beautiful.
5:34-6:03 one of those sopranos is PHENOMENAL
I am accompnaying this currently - I am NO slouch but the piano part is MONSTROUS - stretchy broken chords for 20 pages - oh, yes, there is some singing going on while I play!
The sopranos as a whole SECTION excel on this. #concertchoir79-80
Lyrics
pretty but can't clearly understand the words.
The text is worth locating and reading. It was written by JH Newman in his darkest hour, realising that he could hardly remain in the Church of England, and overcome by illness while sojourning in Italy.