Same! After I heard the intro to the hallelujah part and after we practiced singing it, I turned to my choir teacher and told him that was my new favorite song we sang
We sing this song every year at the final concert and this is my choir directors last year after 13 years. I'm crying already. The story behind this song is heartbreaking one too. A school had no choir program and someone came and made an amazing one out of nothing, then in a shooting the teacher was killed. This was for the teacher. My teacher tells us the story every year....
I never knew the history of this song, but I've always known it was special. In my opinion it is one of the most beautiful and soul shaking pieces of sound ever written! 💖
Yes my choir teacher had the varsity men’s choir sing it and he told us the story and watching their performance literally changed my life. Mind you this happened about 2 years ago and I still think about it...
Our choir sang this in a Cathedral in New York City. I don't think any of us realized how beautiful this song is until our voices echoed through the halls at 2:43. Almost every one of us had tears coming down our faces during that moment. Very, very powerful song with so many memories.
When we sang this, I never wanted this part to end because today with all the division, in that moment we were all hurting together without judgement but empathy and understanding and it was so beautiful. It was a time to let all frustration out and we were joyful and at peace by the end. Love this song❤️
I sang this song my sophomore year of high school and we performed it with the entire music department at the high school. Whenever I hear this it gives me chills. What a piece.
my choir is doing this in a month and i am slightly (very) concerned about how we're gonna get it right in time LMFAOOO. i'm an alto and i'm pretty sure the altos are at least mostly good and prepared and the sopranos and tenors even are i think. but the basses get their timing so bad sometimes and sing all the wrong notes so im a lil concerned but yeah right!! if we sounded half as good id be happy HAHA
this is really quite well done. The best version, I think. So often, the beginning is over-directed, and the accompanist is following rather than leading. Wonderfully accompanied here, however. I think the blend is magnificent, especially in the beginning harmonies. Here, the singers and accompaniment outshine the director, which is as it should be, as it means he's already put in his work. The musicians have command of this piece, without a doubt. Thank you!
I’ve performed this song twice. Once during my sophomore year of high school with my favorite music teacher I’ve ever had. A year later, that teacher left, but I passed my audition to get into a county-wide choir concert, and we performed this song again. I remember being so excited because this was by far my favorite piece we had ever done with him. I’ll never forget this song.
As a BSU Concert Choir alum, I am SO proud of the amazing sound that I'm hearing coming from this group. My fondest memories from college were concerts and rehearsals with the Concert Choir and Chamber Choir. Treasure these times in your life. They won't last forever. So glad to have the chance to sing with such talented musicians!
We will be singing this amazing piece with my choir in a few days. This will be our first concert after a year and a half break, because of the damn pandemic and this is the perfect song as a come back anthem! You sang it perfectly, good job guys. Never let the music die in you! Greetings from Johns Creek Chorale, GA.
Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of this performance, I love this song so much and I love to see that people care about this piece and choirs in general 🙂
We performed this every year at a county wide choral festival and this year was my last year. this song holds so much meaning to me and it makes me soooo emotional. i love it and i will miss high school choir so much. #tenorsquad
The District 4 PMEA choir had performed this song, it's is absolutely beuatiful! I love the lyrics, "Let music never die in me, forever let my spirit sing" is one of the best lines ever. and the imagery of desperity of life without music and how music in life brings everything alive and makes it beautiful, is just so wonderful.
preformed it at my junior year mosaic concert with all music groups, band, orchestra, choirs, so amazing. literally chills and sobbed. as a soprano one that high note at the end just gets me 😩
I sang this song at my last chorus concert in high school and I remember crying when I performed it and I honestly forgot about his piece until I rediscovered it years later and it makes me sob even more now, especially knowing how it feels to be on a stage bearing your soul with this beautiful artwork and leaving an audience moved and in awe. Theres nothing like it and I will cherish those memories 💙
i never got to sing with high schoolers in middle school, but once in 8th grade my high school’s Jazz Choir came in and sang a bit, it was chilling to hear
was supposed to do this song with a county choir before ms. corona decided otherwise. the story behind this song is so sad and this song just makes me so emotional. wish i was able to perform this with my choir in front of an audience
Takes me back to Junior year of high school. Miss my high school choir so much. Remember how much focus and emotion I had during this piece. Happy to have found a video that is similar to what my choir sounded like.
Here I am 6 months later replying to my old comment. Will always miss my high school choir. My choir in college just is not the same. Wish we sang songs like I did in high school.
I sang this song with all the other middle and high school male choirs back in probably 96. I was in 6th grade. By far the greatest piece that I ever sang in choir. Man I wish I had the old VHS tape it was recorded on even though I'd still be missing a VCR.
I sang this with Eastern US Music Camp in summer of 2013. This song made me finally decide to study music in college, even though I was apprehensive about it beforehand.
I sang this wayyyy back in 2004 with my high school select choir. We traveled a lot and participated in competitions. I remember we got gold with distinction. This has always been my favorite peice to sing. Such a powerful peice!
This is the grand finale song and every spring concert every year this will be the first time I’m going to a spring concert as an alumni and has been thinking about the song so thankful to find this video
I love this song so much, it is my favorite song I've ever sang in choir, but covid took our opportunity to perform it in spring 2020. I am so sad that I never got to perform this song in a choir, and I hope I can someday.
i just sang this for PMEA (Pennsylvania Music Educators Association) Honors Choir as a Sop 1, and it was absolutely my favorite piece in the concert, especially measures 50-60 :)
@@joshayuniverse3538 our high school has 2 choirs and the one I'm in there only me and one other guy that sings tenor 1 and the other one I would probably say has maybe 3 tenor 1's, idk because ive never been in it and me and someone else I would like to say are 5he best but idk
Our highschool director is retiring this year and this is our last song we will sing. This was his first and now last song he will ever teach.... I'm not crying I don't know what you mean...
It is by far one of the better songs I have learned to sing. That group (in my opinion was off) but not by much. I'll see if I can find a download of our good sofing it. I swear it sounds so much better.
Very well done! Very good choir, pianist and conductor!!! Thank you for posting, can anyone please name the composer, publisher and publishing-number? Would like to perform this great composition even in Germany. Thanks!
Out highschool dos that for our choir back in 06 and personally I think we sounded better. I heard a few individuals come in early on he second verse. But still all around a good job.
I remember in the middle of my choir concert a girl decided it was okay to talk and it was heared by everyone, ruining the whole event. Fucking asshole, she ended up being kicked for the rest of year.
The ONLY reason this piece is not lasting the test of time is because every choir who sings it, sings it way too slow. It's taxing on the both singer and listener.
I think it varies widely. We sang the song a bit slower than this, but picked up the tempo by the second part of the song and was very obvious where the meaning and the focus was.. The separation in the song for us was certainly longer, just shy of sounding like it was actually finished.
Glittery Potatos ty! Have you ever heard of their competitions? They are world wide ones I remember on my first trip in eighth grade this school came from Australia and I'm in America and they got the lowest scores I was so sad for them
+blunk778 we arent good enough to enter sadly. The seniors are leaving, which means we're getting different voices in and its just gonna be a mess. best we can do right now is just state competitions. but, Australians have their own ways of performing which means some American ears have no clue or something. or its that they just suck lel
nice tone but needs better diction (shadow vowels). choirs should be 60%men 40% women. a few voices stick out. 3 in men and 6 in women. no muicallity. OMEA rating 2 i would give.
TheStickGuitarMan, please just appreciate! Who knows it just might improve your stix, and before you say it. We all could do with a little improvement, if not perfection.
By far my favorite song I've ever sang in choir. It's so powerful that it makes me feel in awe every time I hear it, no matter how often I hear it.
Same. My choir is doing it rn. Low key wanna cry every time I sing it
Same! After I heard the intro to the hallelujah part and after we practiced singing it, I turned to my choir teacher and told him that was my new favorite song we sang
“Let music never die in me, forever let my spirit sing” - such an amazing lyric. Did this for PMEA 2016, one of my favorite pieces ever
We sing this song every year at the final concert and this is my choir directors last year after 13 years. I'm crying already. The story behind this song is heartbreaking one too.
A school had no choir program and someone came and made an amazing one out of nothing, then in a shooting the teacher was killed. This was for the teacher.
My teacher tells us the story every year....
We love Mrs. K💜
I never knew the history of this song, but I've always known it was special. In my opinion it is one of the most beautiful and soul shaking pieces of sound ever written! 💖
PWHS?
I’m so
Yes my choir teacher had the varsity men’s choir sing it and he told us the story and watching their performance literally changed my life. Mind you this happened about 2 years ago and I still think about it...
Our choir sang this in a Cathedral in New York City. I don't think any of us realized how beautiful this song is until our voices echoed through the halls at 2:43. Almost every one of us had tears coming down our faces during that moment. Very, very powerful song with so many memories.
omg wow. i can imagine that moment
its such a powerful song, so good
When we sang this, I never wanted this part to end because today with all the division, in that moment we were all hurting together without judgement but empathy and understanding and it was so beautiful. It was a time to let all frustration out and we were joyful and at peace by the end. Love this song❤️
Wow, I miss choir
Same here
Me too
I got to sing this under the direction of Jospeh Martin (the composer) himself while he accompanied. It was amazing
I sang this song my sophomore year of high school and we performed it with the entire music department at the high school. Whenever I hear this it gives me chills. What a piece.
My choir did this and if we sounded half as good as that I’d be happy
my choir is doing this in a month and i am slightly (very) concerned about how we're gonna get it right in time LMFAOOO. i'm an alto and i'm pretty sure the altos are at least mostly good and prepared and the sopranos and tenors even are i think. but the basses get their timing so bad sometimes and sing all the wrong notes so im a lil concerned but yeah right!! if we sounded half as good id be happy HAHA
this is really quite well done. The best version, I think. So often, the beginning is over-directed, and the accompanist is following rather than leading. Wonderfully accompanied here, however. I think the blend is magnificent, especially in the beginning harmonies. Here, the singers and accompaniment outshine the director, which is as it should be, as it means he's already put in his work. The musicians have command of this piece, without a doubt. Thank you!
I sang this as a soprano 1 in the Arizona Southeast Regional Choir this year. One of my favorite pieces I've ever done in choir ❤️
same:))
I get emotional every time I hear this song, it's just so beautiful and it holds a special place in me.
I’ve performed this song twice. Once during my sophomore year of high school with my favorite music teacher I’ve ever had. A year later, that teacher left, but I passed my audition to get into a county-wide choir concert, and we performed this song again. I remember being so excited because this was by far my favorite piece we had ever done with him. I’ll never forget this song.
Awake my soul and sing. Shouting Loud Of He:(the Lord Our God: And ,Father !
As a BSU Concert Choir alum, I am SO proud of the amazing sound that I'm hearing coming from this group. My fondest memories from college were concerts and rehearsals with the Concert Choir and Chamber Choir. Treasure these times in your life. They won't last forever. So glad to have the chance to sing with such talented musicians!
This was the concert that I got in trouble for wearing a red flower in my hair lol
i can see you lol
just curious!! what's your voice part haha. and the red flower is pretty >:(
Lol how ironic
Molly Catherine I was a floating first soprano, you can hear me on the high harmonies lol
You rebel
I recently sang this for regional choir. Gave me butterflies, and even cried a little. It is a very powerful song
We will be singing this amazing piece with my choir in a few days. This will be our first concert after a year and a half break, because of the damn pandemic and this is the perfect song as a come back anthem! You sang it perfectly, good job guys. Never let the music die in you! Greetings from Johns Creek Chorale, GA.
Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of this performance, I love this song so much and I love to see that people care about this piece and choirs in general 🙂
holy WOW. CHILLS EVERY TIME.
Dr. Andrew Crow is one of the most artistic and tasteful conductors of choirs I have ever had the honor of singing with. He is special...
Dr. Crow is the best
We performed this every year at a county wide choral festival and this year was my last year. this song holds so much meaning to me and it makes me soooo emotional. i love it and i will miss high school choir so much. #tenorsquad
Zane Yates we did to #soprano
We did too #basssquad
#tenorsquad forever
Represent #Tenorsquad
#Barrysquad
If anyone from Taft stumbles across this, I miss you guys.
The District 4 PMEA choir had performed this song, it's is absolutely beuatiful! I love the lyrics, "Let music never die in me, forever let my spirit sing" is one of the best lines ever. and the imagery of desperity of life without music and how music in life brings everything alive and makes it beautiful, is just so wonderful.
Caitlyn Shoop funny I’m in District 1 PMEA Choir and this year we are doing it for Honors Choir, really beautiful.
preformed it at my junior year mosaic concert with all music groups, band, orchestra, choirs, so amazing. literally chills and sobbed. as a soprano one that high note at the end just gets me 😩
Thank you for the memories. Great song
I sang this song at my last chorus concert in high school and I remember crying when I performed it and I honestly forgot about his piece until I rediscovered it years later and it makes me sob even more now, especially knowing how it feels to be on a stage bearing your soul with this beautiful artwork and leaving an audience moved and in awe. Theres nothing like it and I will cherish those memories 💙
I had the opportunity to sing this with the high school choir in middle school, to this day this piece brings chills down my spine.
i never got to sing with high schoolers in middle school, but once in 8th grade my high school’s Jazz Choir came in and sang a bit, it was chilling to hear
was supposed to do this song with a county choir before ms. corona decided otherwise. the story behind this song is so sad and this song just makes me so emotional. wish i was able to perform this with my choir in front of an audience
Takes me back to Junior year of high school. Miss my high school choir so much. Remember how much focus and emotion I had during this piece. Happy to have found a video that is similar to what my choir sounded like.
Here I am 6 months later replying to my old comment. Will always miss my high school choir. My choir in college just is not the same. Wish we sang songs like I did in high school.
I sang this song with all the other middle and high school male choirs back in probably 96. I was in 6th grade. By far the greatest piece that I ever sang in choir. Man I wish I had the old VHS tape it was recorded on even though I'd still be missing a VCR.
We did this song when I was in high school, 15? years ago. It still gives me goosebumps. Such a stunning piece.
I sang this as a high school senior. Best fall concert.
My director has taught for 30 years and the last 20 this song has been preformed. Its so amazing.
My school's director decided that our all male high school choir will be singing this... RIP
It actually sounds great with a men's choir
+Erik Edwards At first I didn't think it would sound as good, but we are wrapping up the piece now and its by far one of my favorites to sing.
It was originally composed for Men's Choir! I sang the premiere!
We have to memorize it for our audition
I just sang it last spring for my all male high school choir. By far my favorite song we sang.
I sang this with Eastern US Music Camp in summer of 2013. This song made me finally decide to study music in college, even though I was apprehensive about it beforehand.
Just beautiful.
My all-time favorite song my HS chamber choir ever sang. BEAUTIFULLY done!
Our choir sang this, I sang soprano 1
girl same
I sang this wayyyy back in 2004 with my high school select choir. We traveled a lot and participated in competitions. I remember we got gold with distinction. This has always been my favorite peice to sing. Such a powerful peice!
Good lord it will be 15 yrs ago In march 2020 when I sang this my Jr.Yr in Choir....
I go to a choir camp at my state university, we did this two years ago and I just fall in love with this song over and over the more I listen to it
This is the grand finale song and every spring concert every year this will be the first time I’m going to a spring concert as an alumni and has been thinking about the song so thankful to find this video
I used to sing this with a Men's Chorus some years ago, but the end of this gave me chills. Love this piece by Mr. Joe Martin.
I love this this song! And you all do it so well!
Watching in 2022, remembering the goosebumps from performing this song with my old high school choir. Such a powerful piece!
We are singing this song for our next concert and I really love this piece
my favorite choral director just gave us this song today. im very excited to begin singing this, it is the most beautiful piece ive ever heard.
I love this song my choir is going to sing it and I'm so excited!!!😁✌
Really moved by the sacred harmonic!
I love this song so much, it is my favorite song I've ever sang in choir, but covid took our opportunity to perform it in spring 2020. I am so sad that I never got to perform this song in a choir, and I hope I can someday.
Welcome Ball State University! Blessings!
i just sang this for PMEA (Pennsylvania Music Educators Association) Honors Choir as a Sop 1, and it was absolutely my favorite piece in the concert, especially measures 50-60 :)
I'm singing this in my middle school choir and personality it's one of my favorite songs we are singing ^^
Man... that means ur a highschooler now. I just entered high school and this is our first co cert song
One of my fave all region songs 2009
Beautiful! Still my favorite song we ever performed in Chorale from 2004-2008
Beautiful.. well done !
I dream that we are. Silence. Freed!
In my choir we hit the “no alleluia” a lot better then the sopranos and I’m a tenor
MrMr RamenNoodles Lol I love tenors😂 they’re the most interesting part
Same dude love being a tenor 1
@@CrystalizedKat Damn straight!! My high school choir has 3 tenors right now and we carry hard!
@@joshayuniverse3538 our high school has 2 choirs and the one I'm in there only me and one other guy that sings tenor 1 and the other one I would probably say has maybe 3 tenor 1's, idk because ive never been in it and me and someone else I would like to say are 5he best but idk
Joshay Universe last year my choirs 3 tenors somehow outsang us 6 basses, haha..
We sang this for our spring concert. Perfect for us since we weren't able to have an in-person concert for two concerts
“Let music never die in me” ❤
Sang this song quite a few times. It always felt wonderfull
This is my showchoirs ballad for our 2021-22 show, i cannot wait for our first actually run through
i can NOT wait to perform this in a few months…
I was getting really in to this and then someone sneezed at 3:10 and it broke my musical concentration. Lol.
SAME
Now was it a sneeze or cough?
FINALLY a choir that leans into those dissonant chords before resolving them
We just finished performing this song. It is such a magnificent piece.
Favorite song in choir. Powerful
Favorite chorus song ever
Mine too.
Oh. No. I miss. Chores
no alleluia brings tears every single time
We’re singing this in a choir concert soon, it’s an amazing song!!
Our highschool director is retiring this year and this is our last song we will sing. This was his first and now last song he will ever teach.... I'm not crying I don't know what you mean...
welp my middle school is gonna be doing this with a highschool I'm screwed, pray for me
Alex is a tuatara no ur not
You’d be screwed if u were in hs
Our choir sung this for festival (LGPE) and got all ones 🥳
This was kind of our signature song in my hs choir. Quite the workout
what i would give to sing this song for my senior year that i lost to covid ❤️❤️
Start your own choir & do it! And may God give you back the time you’ve lost ❤️
We are singing this so choir rn and I’m tenor 1 it’s so hard it’s up there
It is by far one of the better songs I have learned to sing. That group (in my opinion was off) but not by much. I'll see if I can find a download of our good sofing it. I swear it sounds so much better.
I cri evry tim
Very well done! Very good choir, pianist and conductor!!! Thank you for posting, can anyone please name the composer, publisher and publishing-number? Would like to perform this great composition even in Germany. Thanks!
The Awakening by Joseph Martin
www.jwpepper.com/The-Awakening/3027786.item#/
Chills
Who elses choir teacher stretched the last note just for fun and made you all purple and gasping for air an1 hour before performing
Out highschool dos that for our choir back in 06 and personally I think we sounded better. I heard a few individuals come in early on he second verse. But still all around a good job.
i was supposed to sing this for my choirs concert this year but it got cancelled :(
When my choir did this, I would go so hard at the end (as a soprano 1) that I’d get lightheaded lol
4:00-4:55is the best part of the song
2:25 on 😭😭😭
I remember in the middle of my choir concert a girl decided it was okay to talk and it was heared by everyone, ruining the whole event. Fucking asshole, she ended up being kicked for the rest of year.
2:35
Does anyone know who the conductor is? I’m a current bsu mused major and we’re doing this song again.
Belford + Loeb = Donnie
The ONLY reason this piece is not lasting the test of time is because every choir who sings it, sings it way too slow. It's taxing on the both singer and listener.
3:09 someone es sick
this was so fast
blunk778 this is how you're supposed to sing it.
Seems more meaningful if it's slower you really feel the somber feelings of the mourning of her
I think it varies widely. We sang the song a bit slower than this, but picked up the tempo by the second part of the song and was very obvious where the meaning and the focus was.. The separation in the song for us was certainly longer, just shy of sounding like it was actually finished.
Samohi 2005
Stupid smart phone doesn't keep up with what I type.
they did better than my chior xD
mine went to a world strides on stage festival and almost got a perfect score with this song
+blunk778 really? we're going to state this friday. but like. congrats !
Glittery Potatos ty! Have you ever heard of their competitions? They are world wide ones I remember on my first trip in eighth grade this school came from Australia and I'm in America and they got the lowest scores I was so sad for them
+blunk778 we arent good enough to enter sadly. The seniors are leaving, which means we're getting different voices in and its just gonna be a mess. best we can do right now is just state competitions. but, Australians have their own ways of performing which means some American ears have no clue or something. or its that they just suck lel
Glittery Potatos it helps just to go even if you don't win because each group gets a small clinic with one of the judges who are doctors in music
nice tone but needs better diction (shadow vowels). choirs should be 60%men 40% women. a few voices stick out. 3 in men and 6 in women. no muicallity. OMEA rating 2 i would give.
i would give a OMEA 3 rating.
+TheStickGuitarMan Your amazing! you have very keen ears!
+Mary Potter That and very good headphones XD
It’s really hard to get more skilled guys than girls in choir.
TheStickGuitarMan, please just appreciate! Who knows it just might improve your stix, and before you say it. We all could do with a little improvement, if not perfection.
Disappointing and mechanical