Down in the River to Pray - Bel Canto Choir Vilnius

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LIVE by Bel Canto Choir Vilnius from the concert "Open to the World '18" (Dec. 2018).
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'Down in the River to Pray' (Traditional). Live by Bel Canto Choir Vilnius, conducted by Eric Whitacre, featuring Lina Dambrauskaitė (soprano). The Choir’s artistic director and conductor Dr. Egidijus Kaveckas. Live from the concert 'Open to the World. Eric Whitacre & Bel Canto Choir Vilnius. Together.’ at the Lithuanian National Philharmonics in Vilnius on December 10, 2018.
Credits: Audrius Valatkevičius (Executive Producer); Jonas Juozapaitis (Video Director); Šarūnas Burža (Director of Photography); Mykolas Lėckas (Lighting Design). Audio recorded by Grammy-nominated recording producer Vilius Keras at Baltic Mobile Recordings (www.bmr.lt).
For more information on the Choir, please visit its web site at chorasbelcanto.lt
'Down in the River to Pray' (amerikiečių tradcinė daina). Atlieka choras ‘Bel Canto‘, diriguojamas Eric Whitacre, ir Lina Dambrauskaitė (sopranas). Choro meno vadovas ir dirigentas Dr. Egidijus Kaveckas. Gyvai iš choro ‘Bel Canto’ koncerto 'Open to the World. Eric Whitacre ir choras Bel Canto. Kartu.‘ Lietuvos nacionalinėje filharmonijoje Vilniuje 2018 m. gruodžio 10 d.
Kūrybinė grupė: Audrius Valatkevičius (Vyriausias prodiuseris); Jonas Juozapaitis (Video režisierius); Šarūnas Burža (Vyriausias operatorius); Mykolas Lėckas (Šviesų dailininkas). Audio įrašą atliko Grammy nominuotas garso režisierius Vilius Keras iš ‘Baltic Mobile Recordings’ (www.bmr.lt).
Daugiau informacijos apie chorą: chorasbelcanto.lt

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@josephshields939 12 часов назад

Every time I hear this song, I get something in my eye.

@rhondaboncutter5812 4 месяца назад

As a kid in Kentucky, heard people across the road of my Grandparents house sing this song as someone was Baptised!

@kaydol6436 6 дней назад

As a 80 yr old women from Ashland,Kentucky. I remember seeing the baptizing myself as a child. ☝️✝️ 🙏🏼

@deborahmcmindes6812 2 года назад

Love the conductor’s style! He elicits the mood he wants from the choir, and the audience!

@eva_pilot 2 года назад

*even atheists like me have to admit this is a BANGER*

@abbigailcarr2725 2 года назад

Atheists can’t help but sing this while mopping the floor

@shawnpruitt4670 Год назад

@@abbigailcarr2725 beautiful folk song straight from the beautiful Kentucky Appalachian hills that I love with all my soul if it wasn't from the churches and black blues/soul music we wouldn't of had this beautiful folk music

@nTrylo Год назад

It’s a slave song. We should all respect it deep in our hearts.

@Mara36832 2 месяца назад

Atheism does not exist

@ChristineWooley-ot9pm 10 дней назад

I pray it brings you to Jesus Christ. Not organized religion. The way, the truth, the life.Jesus Christ.

@maryamvalley9525 Год назад

This conductor is on another level. To make a sad song like this happy is just unreal.

@coolfeet1 Год назад

This isn't necessarily a sad song, it's a song about slaves escaping to freedom

@ChristineWooley-ot9pm Месяц назад

I love this song! Praise Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. This is awesome!!

@gordonnusz6574 2 года назад

Years ago, in the 1970's, we had elderly neighbors who were WWII refugees from Vilnius. They shared their harrowing experiences with us many times. How I would have loved to share this video with them to show them that their homeland was free again and capable of joy! Beautifully done! I loved watching the usually staid singers break into broad smiles and joyous movement.

@audriusvalatkevicius690 2 года назад

❤️

@lynettemacdonald3957 8 месяцев назад

How wonderful, the smiles and clapping to that beautiful song was so amazing.❤

@Chihi101 3 года назад

that’s some top notch audience conducting

@katcie34 4 года назад

No one: Eric Whitacre: WOO

@jeri8853 3 года назад

They we all feeling it!!! The choir could hardly hold still!!., love it!!.,💕

@justincase2071 3 года назад

Love it! Never seen a choir song with clapping. Well done.

@flayvrr1119 3 года назад

Haven’t u seen sister act hahahah

@carmendebenedictis-larue6250 3 года назад

What choirs have you been seeing? I have so much to show you and open your eyes to

@theohbg1380 3 года назад

Even though I don't believe in God, the energy of this song/ performance makes me think that having faith is a good thing. ps. only version that brings tears to my eyes.

@happylady2055 3 года назад

Agree.

@muggsspongedice 3 года назад

your eternal spirit is appealing to your soul there is YHVH -- this why we cry from within to without

@sierrajacks9831 2 года назад

Agree

@holly7869 2 года назад

I agree completely. Be sure and watch Alison Krauss's cover of this song

@kaydol6436 6 дней назад

Come aboard brother! ☝️

@davekanak 2 года назад

You are all so brilliant beautiful and blessed! Don't stop singing...the world needs it. :)

@wornoutwrench8128 9 месяцев назад

Wow, just wow, with a side of goosebumps.

@thelmajohnson985 2 месяца назад

That is so beautiful 😍❤😊

@warrenhuff7349 2 месяца назад

Absolutely beautiful singing by all!

@Podgurje123 2 месяца назад

I love this fantastic performance, full of warmth and free spirit! You're great, guys!

@AndreasJohanns 3 года назад

What a Master Class in all things Eric! Look at his whole body movement, the clapping that he started...and then he stopped it. BTW, notice that even the choir members showed surprise. Such a great video.

@anissalovell 3 года назад

at 2:05 that was funny 🤣 when he says whoo. He's really got the beat going. Everyone is shaking the ENTIRE stage!!!

@cacampbell3654 3 года назад

Love the change of that one word in the lyrics!!! 👌🏾🌟🎉💥🥳🥰

@coolfeet1 Год назад

Wait which word was changed?

@ldyoung7938 3 года назад

Love it! Love it! Thank you guys so much! God's Blessings to All! Stay safe! Love to All from rural Mississippi, USA!

@olieantonetti7393 2 года назад

Nothing more expressive then when humanity comes together to sing about G-d and His messenger to bring hope to His children. Hope!

@cecild.9314 3 года назад

Awesome ladies and gentlemen. Loved it. Jan.16 ,2021.

@Ticonderoga444 4 года назад

Wow! I love this. Sawyer from Lost is cool. He knows his shi.t

@sandi1263 6 месяцев назад

I love this song!

@kbahr214 2 месяца назад

As one of my favorite pieces of music- this arrangement and execution is breathtaking. So beautiful and elegant and powerful!!! I wish it were available on Apple Music

@arrjay2662 6 месяцев назад

How can you not feel His Spirit.

@lindaross783 2 месяца назад

Wonderful

@cedarpoplar7443 3 года назад

I love you. You have made my soul proud again. Thank you very much.

@dylanrashell3703 3 года назад

Wow. Just, wow.

@lynettemacdonald3957 3 месяца назад

Absolutely beautiful and joyful.

@samuelreynolds9542 Год назад

That was awesome y'all 🙂👍

@toddgeisinger2634 Год назад

Very good amen

@peterhanke7231 6 месяцев назад

Ein großer Respekt von mir Peter ☺️. Wundervoll ✨️❤️🤘✨️👌👍. Ein liebes Dankeschön dafür 👌.

@Rainmaker65 2 года назад

I thought I recognized Eric. If this is his arrangement, it skews from what I would consider his normal. Even so, fantastic job.

@noodengr3three825 2 месяца назад

I wish I could have gone to one of their concerts when I was in Vilnius in Sept 2022

@JH-kw8zy 8 месяцев назад

They get it! 🥹

@karenlogan7021 3 года назад

Lovely, uplifting rendition 💕

@martinfalls6614 3 года назад

Clapping, YES! This is praise. This is encouragement. This is old music dating back to the oppression of enslaved black folk in 1860s US (hence the clapping, with Eric on the downbeat). Respect! See Isaiah 55:12. Plenty of ethereal stuff from composer/conductor Eric Whitacre on RU-vid if that's your jam (mine too.) Don't forget this is a Lithuanian choir. Spot-on English. (Can you sing in Lithuanian?) Unity, brothers and sisters. Thanks, Eric and choir. We need this now.

@CaesarInVa 3 года назад

Wow, I didn't think it was possible but somehow someone still managed to introduce racism and slavery into the comment feed. Well done! Give yourself a gold star for your SJW wokeness. Now, to get serious, people were clapping to religious melodies well before slavery was introduced to the US, so please, let's give the wokeness a break and just enjoy the music, ok??? Oh, one ore thing, it's kind racist to suggest as your comment seems to that clapping to religious melodies was strictly a black thing. Ever hear of the Quakers or the Mennonites?

@rickkernell2486 3 года назад

I think that you need to do more homework on the origin of this song. I have spent many years researching the beginnings of black music especially religious music. This piece has very few, if any, of the characteristic modalities of early black music. What I have found is that this work is completely consistent with harmonies, cadence and structure of the Second Great Awakening church music, probably of Upper Appalachian origin.

@allwynbarboza9 Год назад

Awesomeness...Amen.....

@charlesmckinven9651 3 года назад

To God be the glory! ✝️

@colinkillian9265 2 года назад

DUES VULT..

@eyraudpa 3 года назад

This choir and Éric are incredible and the song I've sung in so many choirs so emotional ! Thanks !!!

@keco2nd 4 года назад

오~~ 정말 은혜롭습니다. 주님! 저희 기도를 들으시어 저희들의 앞길을 밝혀 주시고 올바른 길로 인도하소서. 당신의 피조물이요, 한 형제자매인 이 인류가 부디 아버지의 뜻을 따라 사랑과 평화의 길을 걷게 하소서... 성부와 성자와 성령의 이름으로... 아멘.

@mihaeladelibas723 3 года назад

WOW! Amazing!!!

@MF-nv4xo Месяц назад

This is a very hard song to do. I'm no choir nerd, but the harmonizing needs to be exact. And you nailed that perfectly

@jarosawwidelski9303 2 года назад

Amazing.......

@user-rj4tz6ek4b Месяц назад

Fantastic version of this song. I have sung it with this group and they are great!!!

@marcebeatbox4680 2 года назад

Simplemente Hermoso 💕

@jeri8853 3 года назад

Love 💕 it!!! Wonderful!! Ty!!

@calebsansom8673 Год назад

I've always loved this song❤️❤️🙏🙏

@antm64 Год назад

I love that the director is doing his best to get the audience to coordinate on the same beat...some people just can't do it. LOVE the enthusiasm of this director and the smiles on everyone!! I have always loved this old song...moves my very soul. Beautifully performed! Love that European and Eastern European audiences can all clap in unison when they want to show their appreciation for a wonderful performance...USA has yet to figure out that one! Ha! HA!

@abrahamites5441 2 года назад

Fantastic Love it. Thank you

@cfs9828 15 дней назад

Awesome!

@bossjewls 4 года назад

Absolutely amazing ♥️♥️♥️

@BearWolf21 Месяц назад

Bella!

@Sjappelientje 2 года назад

The conductor...!!

@staganomal9447 3 года назад

Awesome

@frankJacksonmusakali 4 года назад

gosh I love Erick Whitacre

@TheCuriousNoob 2 года назад

The conductor looks like the Matt mercer of choir conductors! Well done

@augustacallmill6233 Год назад

Wow

@JM-yb3qs 2 года назад

i love it!

@vaughnslavin9784 2 месяца назад

Thank you!

@peterconnell1462 Месяц назад

Beautiful performance

@rickkernell2486 3 года назад

In addition to the amazing harmonies, there are a lot of beautiful women in the Choir...

@ldyoung7938 2 года назад

Ain't that the truth!!

@franallfriends9537 3 месяца назад

I think and pray for Alfonsas Svarinskas (1925-2014), Lithuanian hero, pastor and chaplain. Perm-35 is not forgotten.

@jonefre 4 года назад

Beautiful! I'd love to hear you guys sing 'Jubilate Deo' by Dan Forrest. :) I think you'd have a lot of fun with it!

@davekanak 2 года назад

"Down To The River To Pray" As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the starry crown? Good Lord show me the way! O sisters let's go down Let's go down, come on down O sisters let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the robe & crown? Good Lord show me the way O brothers let's go down Let's go down, come on down Come on brothers, let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the starry crown? Good Lord show me the way O fathers let's go down Let's go down, come on down O fathers let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the robe and crown? Good Lord show me the way O mothers let's go down Come on down, don't you wanna go down? Come on mothers, let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the starry crown? Good Lord show me the way O sinners, let's go down Let's go down, come on down O sinners, let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the robe and crown? Good Lord show me the way

@peterhanke7231 6 месяцев назад

Respekt für Ihren Text. Achtung von meinerseits. 👍👌. Ein lieber Gruß von mir aus Sachsen .

@walquirialobato5313 2 года назад

Lindona!

@audriusvalatkevicius690 2 года назад

❤️❤️❤️

@samgreenwood8313 3 года назад

People that don't like the clapping w this song- clearly don't understand it, or its history. Stop critiquing when you have no experience or knowledge in the field. It was excellently done

@rickkernell2486 3 года назад

This is an example of a Second Great Awakening song and so the stomping and clapping are definitely part of the music...

@Roadrunner4447 2 года назад

Amen and Amen

@kathrynaraguz4816 2 года назад

I loved it.... but i was really saying '' please don't fall off the stage'' he got awefully close

@maryamvalley9525 Год назад

They turned a really sad song very happy. Anyone who cant appreciate that doesn't deserve to be there.

@mitchellsmith4690 7 месяцев назад

Stop telling people they have to share all your cultural referents, or accept them.

@Tony-kc8zy Год назад

Look at the faces as they sing.

@edunetto1 3 года назад

woooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

@lawrencevandenberg7725 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, yeah, 'n all that, but the solo is the song's heart--an invocation, more than an invite, to prayer and surrender, more than to a hootenanny...

@ferdinand5384 2 года назад

Does anyone know where I can find this arrangement. Love the energy!!!

@holyspiritandkevin8441 3 года назад

That was excellent. Where is this Vilnius place?

@TarvoMetspalu 3 года назад

Lithuania, Baltic States

@andriaprokopa8106 3 года назад

what is the arragement of this edition?

@NotDecided420 4 года назад

Did they cut out the "sinners" line? Lovely song. A little too old testament in it's original version for my liking. I don't like being called a sinner. 😂

@mjcard 3 года назад

We are all imperfect. That’s what sinners means.

@cacampbell3654 3 года назад

@@mjcard The word “sinners” in English is complex and highly charged. Please don’t assume you know what that word means *for everyone*! You do not.

@mjcard 3 года назад

@@cacampbell3654 Do tell.

@johnpaulburgueno326 3 года назад

@@cacampbell3654 everyone has sinned Jesus died for all our sins, there is only one perfect person and that is Jesus.

@seang9401 3 месяца назад

That's cool Jamie Lannister grew his hand back...

@matts156 4 года назад

Lina has been working out or something because she looks amazing!

@ankewunder7092 7 месяцев назад

Ich weine gerade... 😔

@joshuacollier563 3 года назад

No lie didn’t like the guy at first but he started killing it at one point

@Nemanja314 2 года назад

Hey Americans, this should be your national anthem :)

@tendanimusengwa6761 2 года назад

The audience clapping at different times lolll

@fbagbey 3 года назад

Love it. Do not mind the clapping too much. Would, to me, would be more spiritual without the clapping. Compare the feeling after the clapping stops. Powerful. Thank you, Bel Canto Choir Vilnius, from North Carolina!

@aminaalquhaar9682 2 года назад

The history of this song--the clapping/thumping/swaying, etc. is true to its historical roots-- like a ringshout. Check that out on Smithsonian RU-vid and lookup the purpose and history of ringshouts

@CharlesReiche 3 года назад

Sounds better inside of a grain bin.

@emiliebailey9287 4 года назад

it scares me a lot how the audience was clapping in unison after the performance

@audriusvalatkevicius690 4 года назад

Emilie Bailey why???

@turtleruski1915 4 года назад

Oh my god I can hear it.

@Bratishk-a 3 года назад

Kinda easy to scare you 😂

@paologaggioli139 4 года назад

qualcuno sa di chi è questo arrangiamento!?

@andriusgailiunas3307 4 года назад

Jefferson Johnson :)

@paologaggioli139 4 года назад

@@andriusgailiunas3307 TKS!

@paologaggioli139 4 года назад

@@andriusgailiunas3307 do you know where I can find the score!?

@andriusgailiunas3307 4 года назад

@@paologaggioli139 To be honest, I don't see anywhere where it can be purchased... I guess you could maybe try contacting Jefferson Johnson directly via email?

@paologaggioli139 4 года назад

@@andriusgailiunas3307 Good information! I tried to search the net but it is actually not there: I will write directly to Johnson. Thank you

@Cardassiaprime 3 года назад

great song, well performed. Clapping no need, really I mean Really.

@aminaalquhaar9682 2 года назад

The clapping/stomping is authentic to the origins African/Southern Tradition of the song, as is the audience "congregational" participation.

@scottboring1192 3 года назад

Down to the river to pray, not down in the river

@aminaalquhaar9682 2 года назад

Baptism is part of the religious roots of this song. Yes, people are baptised in the river--praying. I watched it as a child. He rendered this song in a style true to its roots. That's probably why the choir did such a good job; he explained the context.

@rafathebroken9083 2 года назад

even jews like this performance ;)

@lindsey7204 4 года назад

I have never seen a conductor ruin a performance faster with clapping

@alessandrolazzari7937 4 года назад

Ahahaha !! Eric Whitacre a conductor ?! Probably he is better than anyone else in clapping hands...surely better than you my dear...

@staganomal9447 3 года назад

There’s always one negatory in the reply list and that unfortunately is you Lindsey, he didn’t ruin it he made it

@awakaty 4 месяца назад

the conductor reminds me of Prince Charming Charming in SCHRECK. I didn't like his performance 😀 But fortunately, the choir is excellent, I like this song very munch 🤗

@BenGamingShorts Год назад

Dont fuckin clap.

@kamelloloco 3 года назад

This song is a Chirstian song!! and the Choir Vilnius changed the last part: Instead of "sinners lets come down", they sang "people lets come down". Cheap group that only pretends to sell ... (Spanish): Esta canción es una canción cristiana!! Y el coro Vilnius cambió la última parte: en vez de "pecadores lets come down" , ellos cantaron "people lets come down". Grupo barato que pretende sólo vender...

@Fourthircondirst 4 года назад

No video is worth a 30 second intro.

@kitlangwarjriwarjri4639 2 года назад

Hv heard better performance

@carmendebenedictis-larue6250 3 года назад

Honestly I can tell this is a crowd full of white people bc that clapping was hella off for no reason. I'm totally joking guys. This was beautifully done but I really wish the crowd would pull it together a bit