How Can I Keep from Singing - NYC Virtual Choir and Orchestra 

This expresses how I feel about life after being saved by Jesus Christ.

There is absolutely Nothing like singing in a chorus or choir. It's not just the melding of the music. It's the melding of the human spirit. CHORUS/CHOIRS FOREVER!!!!!!!!

My tears flow freely. My fears rush out of my eyes, my voice raised high and clear even though I am alone. I can't keep from singing, no I can't. I so miss my choir, miss the elastics in my music folder snapping at the most inopportune time, miss kicking my water bottle under a pew. God, I need to sing! Thank you!

I'm a Haitian Catholic Roman Priest. I like so much this religious song. I learned it when I visited Lexington, Virginia in July 2011.

As a retired choir director, it made me weep for missing my many choirs past. What a lovely arrangement. Singing together is magic. Thanks for reminding us of that.

this song has carried me through many trials and troubles, and at 85 I have had my share of them, but always this song has lifted me to better heights and I am able to face life with hope and have a reason to go in singing, awesome words of hope in our creator

I'm about four years late, but the harmony starting at 2:37 is just goated

A mansion to stay,, a barn full of grains, a huge bank balance, fine clothings----Life is empty without songs, without music in praise to Almighty. Heartfelt appreciation& thanks to one & all for such a beautiful video.

Life has been a struggle the past year or so. My wife and I met in our college chorus, we sang in our church choir, and performed around the county, but she died this past summer. I may not have a great voice but singing brings me joy. I try to go back to this performance to bring me back to music. Great song and these musicians, especially Guiliana Sarullo, show how much music can mean to them and all of us. And, Guiliana does double duty both singing and playing flute. Thank you, all of you.

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I had this song stuck in my head from church, and tried to find a recording on RU-vid. THIS is the most beautiful performance of the song that I have ever heard. Thank you

Where are there 80 people in the universe that do not like this! Really!

Christ is always with us! I see him all around me everyday in the smiles of others, in the birds, butterflies, bumblebees and wildflowers growing up without any ones help but God’s! He gives us these amazing things to let us know that He is there with even during the darkest times! Thank you for this BEAUTIFUL video thank you made! I miss being in my choir sooo much but it lifted me up today and I shared it with my children. God bless each and everyone one of you and your families and we WILL get through this with God’s help! Love to you all♥️✝️

2:51 thats my mom one up from bottom left love her great job!

This was just gorgeous. Thank you so much. I was going to say simply gorgeous but there is nothing simple here. I cannot imagine all the work this took in post-production to create this video, matching singers and instrumentalists, adjusting sound levels, and creating the video. It was worth every second. I miss hearing people sing and play instruments together so much. This rendition of this beautiful hymn made me cry and feel utter joy at the same time (As Lily Tomlin's Edith Ann says, "two feelings for the price of one!"). I so appreciate everyone's contributions to this creation.

Through healing tears, on this, the day of my father's passing, I thank you all.

We sang this song at my mom's funeral in October. This is such a joyous version. Thank you!

Oh, GOD I miss my choir!!! thank you for this. you brought me to tears.

I feel blessed to have been a part of this amazing project..... THANK YOU!!!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

"Since LOVE is Lord of Heaven and Earth, how can I keep from singing..."?

Technology has finally proven its real worth...to bring so many of us together in a purely joyous celebration of beauty and hope. I am a habitue of the concert and recital hall, and this gathering of musicians is thrilling to me! Is this the new iteration of "chamber" music. Thank you.

What a wonderful arrangement of one of my favourite hymn tunes! Kudos to all who participated-- I don't get tired of watching this. Blessings and good wishes to you all from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

I keep watching this, and cry each time... Thanks for letting us take part.

While though the tempest round me roars, I know the truth, it liveth. And though the darkness round me close, songs in the night it giveth.

I can't remember a time in my life when there wasn't singing. I am 74 and miss this so very much. I have always loved this song and the arrangement is stunning. I am trying to produce one of these with my own choir{ I have a choir of about 70 voices} and watching this only made me want to do it more. I was not able to really sing along, but perhaps the lump will be more gone during the second time! Thank you so much for this!

Now I’m feeling it: the peace and unity of the whole of creation. Bless you all singers and players.

Gratitude to all the talented loving people who made this. It does honor to our dear ones. (A.A. A.Ž!)

BEAUTIFUL. The most amazing performance I've heard since this pandemic. The energy of each performer comes through. Bravo!

This song is the very heart and soul of one of my favorite Finnish hymns that I've been wishing all the English speaking world could enjoy... Then this week I found this one!!!! It's so much the impression of the song "Maa on niin kaunis" which of course is sung to the tune of "Fairest Lord Jesus" but with totally different words. If anyone wants to listen to that one, you're in for a treat. And you can find a translation if you search. Music is so beautiful, especially when used to praise our Savior and Creator, who is blessed forever, and coming soon. Great job with this, everyone! Maranatha!!!

I keep watching this, eyes closed sometimes, singing along sometimes. It's always been one of my uplifting go-to songs, but these musicians have taken it to a new level with their joyful and heartfelt rendition. HUGEST of thanks to you all!

It was the summer of 1998, in suburban Chicago. at Loyola Hospital. Clinical Pastoral Education, basic course. One of my colleagues/fellow students was named Amy, a Lutheran/ELCA seminary student from Iowa. The first time I heard this song was at a local church, where she led Sunday worship and preached a mighty fine sermon. I was thrilled at this wonderful hymn, never forgot that experience, and enjoy it to this day. I also have used it in my worship ministry. God Bless Amy, and all who serve the Lord. And thanks be to God for this awesome video gift!!

This beautiful rendition of Robert Lowry's hymn made my spirit soar and my eyes moisten. As a choral singer, I love the synergy that emerges when voices and instruments meld to create an uplifting experience - shivers and all. BRAVO for this production and all the participants. You truly have shown us the light at the end of this dark tunnel we are experiencing. May we all find the will and the grace to live and sing in harmony and love our neighbors far and wide.

One hundred plus voices singing as one! Just sublime! A lovely hymn and every verse of the hymn is special, especially "no storm can shake my inmost calm, I hear the music ringing. I hear an echo in my soul, how I can keep from singing' I drift off to sleep singing those words silently in my head and as I rouse from my sleep those same words are with me. Virtual choir and orchestra, thank you.

Our Lord is our only hope in this sin cursed earth. Come Lord Jesus and renew faith in you.

Love, love this performance and every soul in it. I’ve experienced it quite a few times over the past year and feel like I know everyone! 😊 it’s a very good thing as I’ve been having hard times the past couple of years and this sometimes helps my spirit.

These long weeks of isolation have truly been blessed by getting to see videos like this. Thank you so much to all of you who are able to figure out the technology that makes performances like this possible. I miss singing in my church choir so much that I can't help but have tears listening to these videos, wishing I could do the same. Blessings to all of the singers and instrumentalists for lifting our spirits and giving us hope that someday we can all sing together again.

I want to sing along, but I can't stop the tears long enough to get all the way through it. What a gift.

Thank you to all the wonderful musicians who contributed to this video. It filled my heart with joy. May God bless you all, and I hope you will all remain safe and well, and, of course, keep singing!

I love this presentation. I can listen to it over and over. Thanks for all your work to encourage many.

One of the most beautiful renditions of this lovely hymn I have ever heard! It lifted my soul!

It's amazing how we can all still connect and be One Voice in spirit! Bravo!!! 🙌🏾

I listen to this every time I'm feeling low, especially during the pandemic. It lifts my spirits, and keeps me singing, too.

I sang in a concert with Nebraska Weselyn University last night, and this was one of the songs

All those beautiful, singing faces, and the great instrumentalists. Thanks, everyone. We need this! 😊❤️🎶🙏🏼

Never heard this song before , nearly passed it by , but its a great song, and this is the best virtual choir on youtbe .

Thank you so much. This song sustains me. Blesses and holds me. Let’s keep singing.

Thank you Adam, Matt, Jessica, Joe and the whole heap of the rest of you for being brave in singing/playing solo into your cell phone or laptop so this could be achieved! LOVE this so much. GRATEFUL.

I can't stop watching....and SINGING! Bravo and thanks for the blessing!

It’s amazing the power of technology to draw people together. The absolute joy of singers’ smiling faces, moving to the music and a fantastic arrangement. Viewed in Ireland. Thoroughly loved it.

The human spirit is irrepressible. Thanks for sharing this,.

How can I keep from singing! Throughout the paindemic (yes - pain…) this recording kept me afloat filling me with hope. Uplifted! I missed singing with my choir so much I could not sing without sobbing, so I relied on you and the lyrics of this piece of music to keep me grounded. Can’t thank you enough for all the beauty and spirit you brought to me and our upside down world. Thanks 🙏 Bless each of you always.

God bless all the musical people of all ages, who dedicate yourselves to your craft and do what you do to bring joy to us all, and all the technical wizards who figured out how to bring us these celebrations of life and spirit! Music lifts us all!

The joy in this video is so infectious I literally can not help but sing along!

Tears of joy, gratitude and amazement! Thank you so much for your gift of music and illustrating the beautiful way in which humanity is interconnected!

I've been making some peace with the notion of worship without singing. Then I came across this and remembered that my faith was formed as much in choir as in church. Now, I don't know what we are going to do when we get back to church. But also, I think in all of this I've also not truly grieved what has been lost...I've been trying to fight it off. But this helps me, if only to remind me of what keeps me hopeful and to remind me of what I want to reclaim when 'normalcy' returns.

This piece and each musician have made a huge impact on my life and I listen to this multiple times a day. Heartfelt thank you! By this I am now stirred and encouraged to join others and sing in my first upcoming virtual concert. Health and Blessings to all.

This is in the UU hymnal and always one of my favorites to sing! I love the arrangement with the instruments. I also play trombone, so would have to decide which- sing or play! Thanks so much, I came across this by 'accident' but I really needed something uplifting.

What an uplifting and heart-soothing rendition of one of my favorite hymns! Right now, I am homebound, but, in the past, I have sung in church choirs as well as directed them. Singing with others, in a congregation or a choir, is one of the things I miss the very most. I am deeply grateful to every one of you who were involved in making this in any way, especially for sharing your talents, time and hard work as you created this video; listening to it, singing along with it has brought the Spirit of the Lord into my home and heart, and this spiritual gift has helped to make my Sabbath feel more like a Sabbath. May the Lord bless and keep each of you, and may He continue to inspire and lead the Podd Brothers in their writing and arranging of other, sacred pieces.

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Wonderful! Brings tears to my eyes. ♥️

I teach PreK-5 Music in a small Catholic school in FL. My 2nd and 3rd grade students are so captivated by this song, they asked to learn it. The message is timeless and so comforting. Thank you.

Beautiful. Your music actually gave me goosebumps. So moving and helpful in these trying times! Thank you!

This beautiful work of art has surely turned great sadness into joy.....may all of us never keep from singing!

This made me cry at the beauty of these voices. Please keep singing! ❤️

Just before discovering this hymn rendition, my son was perusing an 1883 hymnal in my collection (Gospel Hymns Consolidated) that had this hymn title with a different melody. He was so taken by the hymn that he looked it up on RU-vid and found this lovely rendition. The lyrics in my hymnal were attributed to "Anon." But while the lyrics of this virtual choir rendition are almost entirely lifted from the 1883 hymn, the meaning is entirely different in that hymnal: My life flows on in endless song Above earth's lamentation I hear the sweet tho' far-off hymn That hails a new creation Through all the tumult and the strife I hear the music ringing It finds an echo in my soul How can I keep from singing What though my joys and comforts die The Lord my Saviour liveth What though the darkness gather round Songs in the night He giveth No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that refuge clinging Since Christ is Lord of heav'n and earth How can I keep from singing I lift my eyes the cloud grows thin I see the blue above it And day by day this pathway smooths Since first I learned to love it The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart A fountain ever springing All things are mine since I am His How can I keep from singing While I absolutely love the NYC Virtual Choir musical rendition of this hymn, it saddens me that there has evidently been a conscious effort somewhere along the way since 1883 to conceal the anonymous author's real source for singing. Somehow, our growing post-Christian world has drifted away from what once gave life, in my view, a much deeper and significant meaning.

Beautiful rendition of the Robert Wadsworth Lowry hymn. May God be praised.

Just what its all about! Thank you for this wonderful, uplifting performance, so moving, and just what we all need right now. Hurray for the NYC Virtual Choir and Orchestra!

I love this song and this is such a gorgeous arrangement of it. Well done! Singing in a choir is such a soul-full experience and seeing this beautiful video reminds me that so many of us across the country and around the world are aching for the time when we can sing together in person again. But, as choristers always do, we sing anyway in whatever way we can because we know that it is necessary and healing for us and for the world.

I shared this tune with my Waldorf choir this winter. I am so happy to hear this wonderful version online. Thank you! Love, Love and Love.

This was gorgeous -- such a treat.

So inspiring. Glad the virus has not kept all these musicians from singing and playing. Thanks.

Thank you each and every one....my sisters and brothers in New York! What a totally uplifting experience during this difficult pandemic. Please, never stop making your music....it has filled at least one soul across the country in California.

Thank you for sharing this beautiful, hopeful musical collaboration. It made my heart sing!

Thank you for this beautiful performance of an uplifting song.

Such beautiful talent, musicians and singers! I am astounded, and I listen to this particular song every day, more if I need to - this music speaks to the soul itself.

What a wonderful elixir. It lifts my heart and gives hope.

This song kept me alive during the lockdown and still it does. Beautiful human voices singing about light and hope. Thank you! LOVE

Amazing it boost my morale to continue singing in the worship service for the glory of the Lord.. God bless you all..

I have not sung in a choir for many years..this made me yearn for those wonderful days. Many thanks for this wonderful video, the sound, harmonies and love were fabulous!

Thank you for this timely reminder and encouragement :) "Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights." Habakkuk 3:17-19

How can I keep from crying.......salve to the soul. Bless you for doing this.

This is so very beautiful. Thank you for making me smile last night and then tear up this morning when I rewatched and considered my son's high school choir where they are being told that they might not be able to 'safely' sing together when our high school figures out how to resume in August. All of you have touched hearts with this effort.

Thank you for this expression of gratitude and joy to start our day.Thank you for redirecting my thoughts from challenges to the love and joy of our Savior. What a wonderful, selfless thing for all of you to do for all of us. Today, I will sing.

the best of humankind!!!

I listen over and over again, an never get tired of this arrangement

This video includes people of all races, that's why it is so beautiful

Thank you for sharing your talents, voice, and spirit with the rest of us!

That was gorgeous, incredible, awesome...Need I go on? Thank you for such heavenly music.

Really, truly mind blowing. ❤️❤️❤️

This is beautiful. Tears and goosebumps.

No music is completely secular. Music is a gift of spirit.

🐝 What joy this brings! Thanks for showing everyone (love the twins on four-hand piano) involved in this beautiful arrangement and production. I am longing to sing with my choir again. This made sequestration more bearable.

So beautiful and uplifting! Thanks from OHIO!

Watching this the Holy Spirit helps me to see that on our own we may have a gift but how much more beautiful when all those gifts are put together to create a beautiful harmony for God's glory!

This is great guys - Music DOES bring us all together! (Crowle Singers - UK)

Thank you for keeping on singing. You are all a thing of beauty and joy!

Sing out like a bird! Be free as God intended. "Let my people go!" God is saying celebrate and sing praises. You made it through 2020. You will overcome evil, all of it.

Beautifully performed by a whole lot of fine musicians. Just what we all need just now.

So much talent! So inspiring! Bravo!

Still listening great Christian song.