Alleluia - Randall Thompson (South Dakota State University Concert Choir)
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- "Alleluia" by Randall Thompson (1899 - 1984), performed by the South Dakota State University Concert Choir at the Spring Festival of Music at the Performing Arts Center at South Dakota State University. April 23rd, 2010.
My sincerest apologies about the last 16 bars or so getting cut off. This version of the file is the only one I was able to locate =(
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Still one of the most beautiful choir pieces, even though it has been 30 years since I’ve had the absolute pleasure of singing it. How I will always cherish it and the memories it evokes.💗
Old "Alleluia" by Randall Thompson always be NEW when we sing it well... love this performance very much...Alleluia....God Bless
We sang this in high school with an excellent director that emphasized dynamics and staying on key. Just kept thinking sharp and we ended on key. Thompson was a choral genius--just a magnificent piece. And this is a very nice performance.
My director always tells the other sopranos the same thing! GO ABOOOOOVE THE NOTE! *Gestures above head*
@@hannahlomara6517 Ironically, though, sopranos typically have more problems with going sharp than flat. Well, at least our choir did. :-)
Thank you!!! My High school choir sang this in 1986 for a State Competition !! They sang sang two other songs before this one. It was pretty cool!! We got "Home field advantage!!" It was at our school!! All of my good friends in 1986 at Alief Elsik High school... ( Houston, TX.) Won State!! Out of all of the schools in Texas that year!!! They did a FABULOUS job just like this school did!! Gosh.... I miss my high school friends!! They were so TALENTED!! THANKS for Posting!!!!
I sang this 1973 with the choir at Commonwealth School in Boston. I was a poor kid from NYC given a scholarship to attend this amazing school. It was a profound experience singing this, and I am moved listening to it now.
Such a wonderful performance of a treasured choir piece!
I’m in choir at school and we are currently working on this piece for our Christmas concert. I’m an alto and this song is positively gorgeous and this choir performs it so well! Great job all!
Sang this in University (UCD) chorus in the early 60s. Thank you for sharing it. I still remember many of the soprano parts and enjoyed trying to sing along.
My HS choir sang this in the early 70's and I still remember the alto part!! Your choir did a wonderful job, I agree with James Barclay, it was beautifully performed. Thank you for posting!
Hrmesing My HS choir sung this back in the 80s and I also still remember the alto part. Great performance, absolutely beautiful.
@@garvinw6791 @Hrmesing This is quite a popular piece & about as close being a universal staple of choral repertoire as any choral work!
It was composed to be performed by an entire student body (certainly not all "singers") after only one rehearsal- that's why there's only one word! Of course you still remember it, it's very simple & easy!
That is NOT meant as a criticism of the piece whatsoever! In fact, the other reason you remember it is because it is beautiful & emotionally captivating, and all of the parts are very well written to be melodic...
You guys did absolutely wonderful remember singing this back in school and this exactly what this song should like. Not one note was sharp or flat ..
Evocative, beautiful, and polished. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thought of this song tonight and decided to look for a performance. I sang this while I was in a mixed chorus in a PUBLIC high school in NY in 1964. I doubt any public school would allow that today, which is unfortunate. I remember memorizing my part, 2d tenor, as we performed without sheet music. That was in 1964 and I still remember singing it, it was such a beautiful piece. The South Dakota Choir did it justice!
+nocusr Fortunately there are plenty of high schools that are allowed to sing sacred music (including the one in which I teach choir :) )
+kinigit yes my public high school choir also sang this when I was a member in 2002 and just performed it last week again when I returned for the first time years.
performed at NY a few ears back (2010?) at Carnegie hall with this song, there's some high schools that still allow this kinda song to be done. We also did the moses hogen elijah rock which was tons of fun lol.
Hi Nocusr. I realize your comment is 2 years old but I just saw it. I too sang this in an A cappella choir in a public high school in San Francisco in 1964.
This is late, but although state public schools might not do this, my northern state select choir is singing it this year!
Thank you for your compliment! I can't speak for all high school choirs but I'd say it's safe to assume most college choirs perform much more throughout any given school year than a high school choir. Add to that the fact that many of the singers in a college choir are music majors who are already memorizing buttloads of music and you find that memorizing everything becomes less realistic. You can expose a college choir to more music at a much quicker pace if you aren't always trying to memorize
I LITERALLY CANNOT WAIT TO BE IN A COLLEGE CHOIR, IM ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT LEARNING NEW SONGS IN THE MIDDLE OF LEARNING OTHER ONES!! I'm starting as a freshman this year studying music in college and I'm auditioning for the chamber choir. I doubt i'll make it, given that freshmen are admitted on rare occasions, but what should stop me from trying?
Nicely performed - it is part of my playlist. However I not sure I agree with your assessment about sheet music in front of choral performances.. I believe memorization of the words & most important the musical voice line is crucial to the music. But most importantly in well disciplined choirs their eyes are focused entirely on the conductor, not turning pages & looking at words or their own musical line part. If a conductor is truly expressive with his hands & face and demands eye attention, lstening focus & phrasing, it is crucial for a fine performance. I think if they are well practiced & rehearsed they don't require the music in front of them. A Joyous Noel to You & Yours! From Leo in the town of Alamosa in the beautiful San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado! Play Leo's Christmas Garyskiman L on RUclips - a huge Christmas music playlist with Great Variety! 🎅🦌☃🎄🎁🎵
Now that I am a collegiate conductor, I agree that I would like my ensemble to sing as much from memory as possible, but stand by my statement 10yr ago that it isn’t always feasible under all circumstances. I also wonder that-if it’s crucial for a fine performance that the music be memorized-doesn’t that imply that most instrumental ensembles are incapable of producing a fine performance?
Thanks for your reply. I can only say that the choral organizations at Concordia & St Olaf, probably among the top college choirs in the World I think you would agree, never perform with sheet music in front of them as well as many other fine choirs I have heard live and on videos - why it that? As far as intrumental music is concerned that is a whole different ball game I do believe, but maybe if they learned to memorize from the beginning that might change, eh? It is only my thoughts & observations, I am not a musical scholar like you. Best Christmas wishes to you & your Family. A Joyous Noel to You & Yours! From Leo in the town of Alamosa in the beautiful San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado! Play Leo's Christmas Garyskiman L on RUclips - a huge Christmas music playlist with Great Variety! 🎅🦌☃🎄🎁🎵@@JerronJorgensen
I keep hearing ooone little tenor pop out. I'm not insulting, I love hearing the little quirks in a choir. I always imagine them in a classroom setting talking about it but it keeps happening anyway lol. Adorable, and incredibly presented. I love it!
Also noticing the director trying to speed them up at certain points (I know when they're supposed to happen because I'm performing this rn) my choir loves to make everything a funeral dirge, and director is ALWAYS speeding us up.
Beautifully rendered. It had all the essentials; good tempo, good choral blend, good phrasing and articulation, good use of dynamics, and thoughtfully prepared. This was truly a joy to hear and watch!!!
Pitch?
I'm going to teach this to my school Gospel choir, as we do anthems along with traditional and contemporary sacred music
beautiful performance... but what is so hard about getting off paper on this? I sang this in high school... we were off paper when we performed it (unbeknownst to our fearless director) when he announced that we were about to perform a difficult song not normally attempted by many college choirs due to the dynamics, we all closed our folders and put them on the risers in unison then began to sing.
This is a beautiful performance and kudos to the choir.
Your choir director was not being especially genuine... LOL
This piece is ubiquitous in the American choral repertoire- virtually everyone performs this. And, it was specifically composed NOT to be difficult because it was to be performed by an entire student body (many of whom were not 'singers') after only a single rehearsal.
This is just beautiful, I'm singing this for my school choir
Won a choir competition with this extraordinary piece...Stephen Koch, Choir Director, J.H. Rose High School...Greenville, NC
Awesome share! Love this song
Glad I ran across this rendition. Excellent. Very mature sound and thank you for the special attention to dynamics (especially internal).
I was confirmed as a Catholic on Easter Vigil (April 7, 2012) and the choir performed this magnificent piece. Obviously I needed to hear it again, and turned to RUclips. Thank you.
warm and welcome.....even for me amature....just dont have the guts to click it away....the choirds are so in balance wonderfull!!!!!
sang this in high school. we were required tomemorize the piece. as a choir, we performed this at an ajudication in london , summer 1971, and were awarded a perfect score. our director was denis lauffer. he was our choir cirector throughout high school. and we performed many challenging works, most notable among them was ralph von williams "toward the unknown region" which was a poem by walk whitman which was put to music by williams. it was an incredibly difficult piece to learn.
currently singing along to it, sounds amazing, im singing it for my chorus and I LOVE THIS SONG.
Thank you for sharing this amazing recording.
my high school's learning this song right now. it's amazing, but really hard. thanks for posting this on youtube, they did great :))
Faith endures,
Hope sustains,
Loving cures,
And God remains.
Performed by the A Cappella chorus under the direction of Dr. Wayne Hinds at Lubbock Christian in the 70s - powerful!
Thank you very much. The director is Dr. Steven Grives, previously of South Dakota State University, currently of DePaul University
Thanks for posting this, Jerron.
Wonderful conducting!
Thank you for the kind comment Brian, I am sure Dr. Grives would appreciate hearing that. He did not leave on sabbatical, he has left permanently. I am no longer at South Dakota State University but I imagine he certainly is missed!
Thank you for the compliment!
My high school choir memorized the whole song and got an excellent rating yeah its hard St first but once u learn it is will come to u
I wish my choir was rated in their normal performances. We were supposed to attend a clinic in Florida this year, but Covid-19 canceled that for us... Along with universal studios 🙁. I agree it's a pretty challenging song, and I had to spend some extra time to learn it, but once you got it, it just makes sense. I don't know, that might just be my musical brain
Uhmmm... How does nobody seem to be aware of the fact that this piece was specifically written to be easy!? Because it was to be performed after just one sorry rehearsal by a large group including many non-'singers'! That's why there's only one word! LOL
It's hard to keep the correct intonation going on this work. This choir is excellent.
WOW! They are good!
It is interesting to read below that while most commentators seem to be more happy than is seemly to share their own successes with this piece, they have missed the fact that this otherwise excellent choir have dropped a whole semitone during their performance.
Very perceptive! I remember previous wonderful conductors, under whom I sang, criticizing and correcting us for this aspect. One of them, Dan Krynack, Harrisburg Mens' Chorus, had perfect pitch. I do not, so I hum the starting pitch and then advance the video and go to the closing chord's pitch...
I noticed this as well! I sang this for my choir earlier this year and immediately noticed something here was off.
"A whole half-tone" LOL!
Really?! Who says that?
So, would you say their pitch fell by half a semi-final instead of a quarter-tone? If so, why the convoluted and unnecessary complication involving the multiplication of fractions?!
Losing "A whole half step" over the course of 5 minutes is something that very few people without absolute pitch would be able to perceive consistently without the aid of any external pitch reference (including themselves humming along).
Your comment is basically just bitter, petty, empty criticism. The fact that their sinking pitch was so gradual that only one other individual claimed to notice it serves as good evidence supporting my assessment!
@@carolineb.5280 Really?! That makes no sense whatsoever! LOL
How could you possibly notice "immediately" something which happens gradually over the course of the entire anthem!?
If something was off from the beginning, then perhaps they didn't actually go flat at all? LOL
Or perhaps they started off half of a semi-final tone flat, and then lost two thirds of a whole tone? !?
@@DJJonPattrsn22 I could give you the bar where it happened, but too long ago now. My point is that all comments comment on their own performance yet again, even in the replies. Y'all have missed THIS performance yet again!
Yay, a recording at a tempo I like.
Sublime.
The bald man is an amazing conductor.
YES !!!
I agree with you! why are so many choir music lovers such a-holes...pardon my french. gosh. almost everyone here on youtube thinks they know the best and cant just enjoy anything! I did this piece in college at osu and we did it pretty well. I think this rendition is beautiful!!
It's so beautiful but it's also Difficult ! OH GOD !
One of my favorites to sing
So beautifully performed. Randall Thompson could possibly have had them perform in his presence. Unfortunately, this is what you get for acoustics when you let mathematicians and computer scientists design performance halls, not for live performance, but for recording and 'all round' duty. They should have done what others did before them: bring in some old Italian designer to say "Build it like this." Still a great performance worthy of any and all.
This piece is deceptively hard, as several people pointed out. I've heard too many memorized performances of choral music that are completely robotic and un-musical, that's never been the be all and end all for me.
Jerron, just wanted to tell you that S.D. State is most likely missing Dr. Grives. Heard the choir. Is he doing a sabatical at DePaul or is he now going to stay there permanently? Wonderful selection very, very well done!
I'm fine, thank you.
Wonderful. Who is the director?
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Men, those basses, let them change rythm! They're kinda slowing... Except for that, great execution :)