Cierro los ojos y me transporto ,año 1995, coro de la u.de Tarapacá, como si fuera ayer...y veo a mi compañeros algunos que ya no están interpretando este tema...me.lleva al pasado😢
Always excellence with Robert Shaw and his talented vocalists. A superb acapella choral arrangement indeed! Outstanding choral directing. Wow - powerful & beautiful. This is excellence in choral literature & performance.A Joyous Noel to You & Yours! From Leo in the town of Alamosa in the beautiful San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado USA. Check out Leo's Christmas on RU-vid (Garyskiman L) 🎅🤶🦌❄☃🎵🎄🎁✨
From the first note to the last, your mind is elevated with the beauty and precision of Robert Shaw Chorale along with the outstanding singers is beyond description. My mind can only wander and enjoy every moment of the excellence of the singers and musicians. I could never get tired of listening to the perfection and coordination of the vocal excellence that uplifts me no matter how many times I listen.
When you have perfection in harmony and the singers are also outstanding as if it were just one body of harmony with the ability to captivate the audience, then you have the ultimate in listening pleasure.
I could listen a hundred times and still feel that I needed to hear the songs again. Thank you we needed to hear this today, with all that is going on in the world. Blessings to everyone who hears and believes.
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So lovely to hear this again. Sang this under Alice Parker in PA Regional District Chorus way back in 1970? Still recall the entrances. Singing together is a powerful force, especially singing such great arrangements with the greatest coaches.
Weston Noble programmed this piece for our 1973 Luther College Nordic Choir tour of then communist Romania and Czechoslovakia after Shaw told Weston of the profound effect this had on audiences when the Shaw Chorale toured the Soviet Union. I would have to say our soloist was more than equal to the task. Mezzo Karen Gesme, now Karen Brunnsen, sang this wonderfully. Karen went on to a remarkable solo career as well as a distinguished teaching career at Northwestern University.
People listening to this recording may wonder why the picture on the screen is of a choir. The choir is the Campion Academy Concert Choir of 1961 and the photo is from the dust jacket of the LP record cut by the choir that year. When we were on tour, Lynn would sometimes play the piano while the rest of us were taking a break from singing so this piece was included in the recording of the choir repertoire. I’m at the far end of the back row in the picture and Lynn - a senior at Campion Academy that year - is to my right. Dr. Charles Lynn Wheeler, pianist and music professor, passed away from brain cancer on April 11, 2019, at age 75, his family at his side. He was born in Lebanon, Oregon, the oldest of five children and only son of Charles Bland Wheeler and Roberta Willa (Eberman) Wheeler. He grew up on a farm near Brownsville, Oregon. Lynn is survived by his wife of 52 years Charlaine (Amey) Wheeler of Roseville, California, his only daughter Charlynn Cundy and only granddaughter, Cassandra Lynn Cundy of Fair Oaks, California. He is also survived by his four sisters: Deanna Russell and Kathy Otis of Brownsville, Oregon; Jill Hauptman of Lebanon, Oregon; and Jan Sheets of Newkirk, Oklahoma; as well as eight nieces and nephews. For 51 years Lynn taught in Seventh-day Adventist schools. He started his teaching career at two academies: Campion in Loveland, Colorado (1960 - 61) and Portland Adventist in Portland, Oregon (1966 - 67). He also taught at Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University) in Takoma Park, Maryland (1967 - 71), and Pacific Union College in Angwin, California (1971 - 2017). For 24 of those years he chaired PUC’s Department of Music, and he officially retired June 30, 2017. After his official retirement, he continued teaching piano lessons as a Professor Emeritus until December 2017. Lynn started piano lessons at age 8 from a neighbor, Ruth Lafayette, near Brownsville, Oregon. He went on to study with notable teachers such as Blythe Owen and Bruce Ashton at Walla Walla College (now Walla Walla University) where he majored in music education with piano performance, graduating in 1966. While there, he met Charlaine Amey, a secretarial science major and music minor. They married August 14, 1966, in Portland, Oregon. They have performed piano duets and duos through the years in the U.S. and Canada. While teaching at CUC, Lynn completed a Master of Music in piano performance at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. (1970) studying with Leon Fleischer, Stewart Gordon, and Lili Krause. Lynn completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance at the University of Oregon in 1976, where he studied with Francis Bittner, and later Bernard Abramowitch and Julian White in the San Francisco Bay Area. While at PUC, Lynn conducted piano master classes, spring piano festivals, and summer teacher master classes. As chair of Department of Music he led in the upgrading of the department’s keyboard instruments and in gaining membership to Pi Kappa Lambda, the national music honor society of which he was a member. He served as the representative for the National Association of Schools of Music and as an evaluator for NASM in over twenty reviews of colleges and universities in the United States. He enjoyed teaching piano and music history, performing and accompanying. He practiced long hours preparing a concerto a year in advance, memorizing from the back to the front of the music score, and spending long hours in rehearsals. Audiences watched in awe as his ten fingers flew over 66 black and white keys-whether he was playing a concerto with an orchestra, accompanying a string quartet/quintet or vocal/instrumental soloist, or playing a novelty song with an orange used to play the right hand melody. He served as president of both the Napa Branch of the Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC) and District Seven (Redwood Empire) of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT). He is a charter member of the International Adventist Musicians Association (IAMA) and has served as its president since 2009. Lynn is listed in the Piano Guild U.S.A. Hall of Fame, Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, the International Who’s Who in Music and Musicians Directory, American Keyboard Artists, and Who’s Who in Entertainment. None of the above accomplishments were as important to him as the many students Lynn taught through the years who are now scattered around the world teaching others the joy of music and piano, blessing others with their talents. He and his wife invited hundreds of students to their home over the years; some of them still call Lynn and Char their “PUC mom and dad” which is a real honor with fond memories. Lynn enjoyed gardening, cooking, birding, and hiking. Over the years, he hiked much of the Pacific Crest Trail, and climbed Yosemite’s Half Dome in one day to celebrate his 70th birthday. Lynn also enjoyed history, and he and his sisters were the grand marshals in the annual Brownsville Oregon Pioneer Picnic Parade held in June 2017. He also loved to travel. Because he taught music history, his favorite place to travel was Europe. Lynn planned trips to help his daughter see all 50 states (many via Greyhound bus with a required duet performance) and all but one of the Canadian provinces. Lynn requested a private family burial at Sandridge Cemetery near Lebanon, Oregon, overlooking Peterson Butte where he used to climb as a boy.
