Great song....I sing the bass and its really cool...hard to explain but usually the bass hits the bottom root note but on this piece it goes to a lower harmony which seems weird at first and you usually dont hear that in SATB but once you get the notes and sing it smoothly it really grabs onto you. Makes you feel good. Hard to explain but people with ears that can hear it and feel it know what I mean.
7 years later and this song is just wow, the different emotions that you get with it. Almost close to the 5 stages of grief. Or the willingness to just let go and move on. This song is almost like a friend's message. But which friend? All I now it's a friend. Or someone you love dearly or someone who you respect. This song also ends in a beautiful note as telling us to transform that pain into something beautiful, as a sign of our own growth.
I feel profound gratitude to Don Macdonald, and all performers of this transcendent piece. This music has a tremendous power to lift our hearts if we will let it! I will be forever grateful..
Don, I'm going to purchase this for my Chamber Choir. We will take it on tour to Poland this May. I hope with all my heart we make it there to sing it before we all dissolve. Grace to you and Peace for your most wonderful talents. Daniel Craig
My choir will be singing this piece (as a virtual choir) this semester. When my director showed it to us yesterday, I almost started crying because of the time we're living through right now (which of course is why my director is having us sing it) so naturally I showed it to my friend who also almost cried.
I know this was like 7 years ago... but for a concert, my local highschool performed this song as well as "Conversion of Saul". They're very different pieces, but they're both beautiful. I got a front row seat to the heart-pounding, soul-aching grief in some of those highschoolers' voices. I don't know any of them very well, but I could tell they were silently weeping for something. Something different for each person, no doubt. They poured out their souls and the performance was indescribably angelic. Something about this song makes me want to cry and hold my family close to me, yet it also reminds me of self-love and self-worth, something many people struggle with. love yourself like a lover. Thank you for this beautiful piece, I'm sure I'll be returning many times to hear it again.
my school's choir is doing this and I'm so excited to hear such a beautiful piece. Next year I'll be old enough to audition but I wish I could sing it with them :'(
Stunning. And it’s incredible how the different voicings are arranged separately and thoughtfully. Each of the three have different elements that make them unique and beautiful.
I do not know how I found this video.... but what I DO know is that riding around the beautiful landscape of Red Dead Redemption 2 while listening to this brought tears to my eyes, which not much does.
Perfect joining of magnificent words and music. None of us knows exactly how long we have, only that our time is finite. Whether for just a reminder to connect with special people in our lives in light of that, or for that time we discover that we may be in a process of passing on, I hope that this composition can become part of many individual and group contemplative moments.
Great song ! Very talented composer! I'm a founding member of the Choeur de chambre du Québec and i'd love to sing a piece in french, if you have any !
I have to wonder how this was recorded. On one hand it sound like a vocoder but on the other it sound like each line was sung individually and then put together (when lyrics diverge) so I guess it's a combination of the two?
For me its panned so that the tenor lines are in the left ear (obviously tenor 1 louder since it has the melody) and bass/baritone in right ear (bass louder cause who doesn't love that low end)
Does anyone know how one would go about making a recording like this? I'm looking to record some of my works this way but I have no idea where to begin.
Lynsie Jones Get a good mic, and record different layers of you singing. The hard part is just not messing up and making sure you stay in time with each recording. Not going to fast or slow.
I love this composition and this performance in particular, its wonderful. I can listen to it over and over, but this one thing bugs me every time. The singers deliver a very tight and unified sound throughout the piece, but when the 1st tenors sing "cause theres no use running cause the storms still coming" there is a slight scoop up into the lyric "com-[ing]" He should be still singing the E-natural from the previous note "still". This pitch bend temporarily takes me out of the atmosphere that this piece delivers so nicely. I think a little stress on the first syllable of "coming" would have served just fine if emphasis was desired there. Again, beautiful piece.
I think the scoop is fine. It sounds nice and adds movement to the melody. I think improvisations like these should be more common and people should stop having a pole up their ass about what the page says.
