This was my favorite choral group of singers at the time. Here I am now in 2024 and it's still my favorite. They really conveyed the emotion of the song with an extremely awesome conductor. I hope everyone got the flowers they deserved for this. Just bringing beauty into the world ❤
So very beautiful! I was in a production of "The Tender Land" several years ago, and the greatest gift the director gave to the chorus was to include us in "The Promise of Living". One of the most beautiful pieces of music I've had the privilege to sing.
Fabulous! Aaron Copland would have been quite proud of your rendition of his choral masterpiece. "The Promise of Living" never fails to bring tears to my eyes. It's so uplifting, and full of hope and beauty
TBH, Bob, Copland and Everett hoped their opera would be seen as a bit more controversial and satirical. But they had not reckoned on the impact of the third artist, who may or may not have been known to them or recognised by them, but who was there anyway. That was the Holy Spirit, who takes the piece into transcendent mode. The immense complexity He/It achieves is not of the kind that makes a person want to question or ponder or say "how clever that is!", but of the kind that makes a person want to see, feel and love and understand without even understanding. And that's the point. How do we get excitement, enthusiasm, renewed passion for life out of nostalgia and longing and melancholy? Difficult for us to imagine how, even as that is what we experience; but a piece of cake for the Paraclete, who heals as He/It inspires, cleanses, imbues truth, forgives, advocates, comforts, supports and enlightens.
The only one I have watched on TH-cam where the conductor subdivides the 3/2 with the quarter note that has been throughout. First in the piece, quarter = quarter and then quarter = dotted quarter, which is what is right before this. He stays in tempo. Many conductors take these two measures much, much slower, but that is not how it is written. Copland does not indicate a ritard until the end. Thank you, Maestro Clausen!
Concordia, a small liberal arts college on the cold prairie of northwestern Minnesota, is known for awesome music and choral programs. Today a beacon of light from far away, needed in this dark time.
why does he suddenly start conducting slower as the basses come in? The score indicates crotchet = dotted crotchet as the meter changes there, but does not give a new tempo. Otherwise an enjoyable performance.
God forbid a conductor make any artistic interpretations in music. I'd say if René Clausen takes a different tempo, he has more than forty years and plenty of awards to back up his artistic interpretations. What a dull world we would live in if the only purpose of making music was to try to recreate the exact same product that is always performed.
Knowing Rene Clausen's reputation as both a composer and choral conductor, I am quite willing to trust his interpretation. Furthermore, having sung for Aaron Copland back in the day, I remember him willing to entertain an artistic discussion that played out in music.
@@waynecrannell4601 alas the conductor misses the boat on this one. It’s not an “interpretation”, it’s a mis-fire. Double timing the tempo on the final two measures of the chorus? Bad choice.
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Such a lovely, spare & gentle performance...
Yet so powerful from living the way the lord intended depicted
This was my favorite choral group of singers at the time. Here I am now in 2024 and it's still my favorite. They really conveyed the emotion of the song with an extremely awesome conductor. I hope everyone got the flowers they deserved for this. Just bringing beauty into the world ❤
So very beautiful! I was in a production of "The Tender Land" several years ago, and the greatest gift the director gave to the chorus was to include us in "The Promise of Living". One of the most beautiful pieces of music I've had the privilege to sing.
Minnesota has some amazing University choirs, especially Moorehead and St. Olaf. Basses here are superlative.
Nice performance. I’ve loved this for twenty+ years. I’ve never seen a performance of this with piano for four hands. I loved it.
Fabulous! Aaron Copland would have been quite proud of your rendition of his choral masterpiece. "The Promise of Living" never fails to bring tears to my eyes. It's so uplifting, and full of hope and beauty
TBH, Bob, Copland and Everett hoped their opera would be seen as a bit more controversial and satirical. But they had not reckoned on the impact of the third artist, who may or may not have been known to them or recognised by them, but who was there anyway. That was the Holy Spirit, who takes the piece into transcendent mode. The immense complexity He/It achieves is not of the kind that makes a person want to question or ponder or say "how clever that is!", but of the kind that makes a person want to see, feel and love and understand without even understanding.
And that's the point.
How do we get excitement, enthusiasm, renewed passion for life out of nostalgia and longing and melancholy? Difficult for us to imagine how, even as that is what we experience; but a piece of cake for the Paraclete, who heals as He/It inspires, cleanses, imbues truth, forgives, advocates, comforts, supports and enlightens.
The only one I have watched on TH-cam where the conductor subdivides the 3/2 with the quarter note that has been throughout.
First in the piece, quarter = quarter and then quarter = dotted quarter, which is what is right before this. He stays in tempo. Many conductors take these two measures much, much slower, but that is not how it is written. Copland does not indicate a ritard until the end. Thank you, Maestro Clausen!
Concordia, a small liberal arts college on the cold prairie of northwestern Minnesota, is known for awesome music and choral programs. Today a beacon of light from far away, needed in this dark time.
Love the hair on the red head guy, awesome, y'all sound great.
Finest piece of music ever composed and certainly preferable vvith a chorus singing.
But ... with a little inspiring help for Copland and Everett from the Holy Spirit, who loved them as He/It loves us...
Cant beat a classic
Bravo!
Hermoso!!!!
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where can I find the music?
why does he suddenly start conducting slower as the basses come in? The score indicates crotchet = dotted crotchet as the meter changes there, but does not give a new tempo. Otherwise an enjoyable performance.
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Exactly. Those who know… will never get tired of this.
2:15 🥹
Listen to Copland himself conducting the orchestral suite. Listen to the tempi Copland used. Then listen to this recording.
God forbid a conductor make any artistic interpretations in music. I'd say if René Clausen takes a different tempo, he has more than forty years and plenty of awards to back up his artistic interpretations. What a dull world we would live in if the only purpose of making music was to try to recreate the exact same product that is always performed.
Knowing Rene Clausen's reputation as both a composer and choral conductor, I am quite willing to trust his interpretation. Furthermore, having sung for Aaron Copland back in the day, I remember him willing to entertain an artistic discussion that played out in music.
@@waynecrannell4601 alas the conductor misses the boat on this one. It’s not an “interpretation”, it’s a mis-fire. Double timing the tempo on the final two measures of the chorus? Bad choice.