When we performed this 20 years ago, I couldn't get through the song without tears. And listening to it today, it brings tears to my eyes. This song is the epitome of perfection. It heals.
I might have heard you singing with this fine choir in Grand Rapids, MN in the Myles Reif Center back then. I wonder if you were with them then. Beautiful then and now.
@@brockdoesyoutubev254 I don't know if you will see this a year later, either, but for whatever it's worth, I don't think the OP is saying he was in this recording, which the description says was made in 2012, just a day before it was uploaded to TH-cam and just two years before Kyle's post. I don't think he is even saying he was in this choir, just that whatever choir he was in twenty years before his post (now 28 years ago) also performed the same song.
15 years ago we sang this at my high school spring concert (senior year) and it was magnificent. I will never forget the moment I almost broke out in tears, on stage. This song is truly so beautiful. 💜
I have to say, this is a wonderful version of this song. The choir weaving to and fro was causing motion sickness effect though, for me . The singing, is beautiful . I will listen again with my eyes closed.
let's coin a new word for this unique kind musical performance brilliance: MOUSAMATOPOEIA -- may i also pursuade you to listen to Elvis' "Mystery Train" to compare and contrast? Listen for the whistle :)
I wish I could find a better recording of this particular performance. This is the most pure unison I have ever heard in my life in a live performance!
St. Olaf in Dt. Olaf Minnesota not only gives awesome music performances that bring you tears. Renowned in its history and have traveled Internationally. I watch them every year and am overjoyed each time.
Listen to St. Olaf’s choir singing “Night of Silence/ Silent Night”...one, if not the, most amazing versions of this Christmas classic EVER...absolutely stunning.
What a special GIFT! They are simply angelic like. I can only wonder what the angels in Heaven must truly sound like. This is a little taste of Heaven. How could u not be brought to tears listening to it?✌️💗✌️💗
This was my favorite song in all state four years ago. Sadly the stage was so hot and I got overheated. If I had opened my mouth to sing, I would have puked. I’m still sad I never got to sing it.
This is the second piece of music that has ever made me cry and not only did I cry, I wept. This song is so emotional and was so beautifully performed. Thank you for sharing your wonderful God-given voices.
I am a graduate of Luther College which has its own traditions but I appreciate the perfection of St. Olaf's choirs. Both institutions as well as all the ELCA church schools use music as an expression of God's wonder, grace and beauty. I am blessed by this music. Thank you.
their tone and blend is absolutely beautiful. perfection. absolute perfection. My choir is doing this song and I hope for it to be as beautiful as this.
I feel fortunate to live in the upper midwest where St. Olaf, Concordia, Bethel, Luther, and Wartburg are, just to start the list of awesome choirs. Many have Christmas concerts that are broadcast on Public TV and those are wonderful to see again and again.
Splendidly beautiful. I always felt like choirs underutilized the Bass 2 line in this song, perhaps because most choirs don't have men with that kind of range. But if you've got it, let it rip, and that's exactly what you guys did. Fantastic.
Im 13 years old. I live in Michigan! I am in a choir in my school and we are singing this song! We are an amazing choir, and even though we are 7th and 8th graders, we are amazing!
I remember myself sitting and listening to our high school choir.. This beautiful song brings so much memories .. it was in 2005 when i auditioned and joined Imus Institute Pitch Choir .. And it's 2020 ..i still listen to it.. thanks for this wonderful performance, St. Olaf Choir. Perfect for me.
This speaks to the heart, Anton Armstrong. From a Lutheran church choir, to what this ensemble is and means today. It was a privilege to sing under F. Melius's son Paul C. Christiansen, Olaf's brother, from 1983 to 1985. We, too, concluded every performance with Beautiful Savior. In a conducting lesson given by Paul Christiansen at Concordia he shared a bit about his time in Europe. Like his father in Leizig and the Thomanerchor, Paul J. Christiansen studied abroad, too, and immersed himself in Gregorian chant at the Solesmes Abbey. I still clearly remember 36 yrs later him sharing how he sat on a park bench one day, maybe in Paris, and saw a newspaper page lifted up by a slight gust of wind, and how it settled down from above him, swinging lazily down: "This," he said, "is how to phrase plainchant - just this way." (based on my recollection)
I have loved the music of the St Olaf's choir for along time. This version of this piece is so good. My high school choir sang this piece in 1969. I have missed hearing it. Thank-you so much for sharing it.
This song is AMAZING!!!! I love how they made the song so fluent and so solid. I love it. I give this a superior. Wonderful job St. Olaf Choir. Well done
If this isn't, the most beautiful rendition of this song then I would really love to hear anything else out there. This Choir is superior! I have to tip my hat to the Director and the Choir, as a whole. Unbelievably beautiful to listen to. Takes my mind back to my days on the Stillwater River in the Miami Valley in SW Ohio.
greg j For a solo version this is my absolute favorite; www.google.com/amp/s/ratiocinativa.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/shenandoah-sung-by-peter-hollens/amp/. It's a slightly faster tempo which I absolutely love!
Simply amazing! I have sung this arrangement in my choir (a high school choir) and I thought we were alright, but boy! Anton Armstrong and his choir just blew us out of the water! The amount of passion put into this song by every single choir member is simply awe-inspiring, let alone Dr. Armstrong's obvious passion for this piece. I have been in a choir directed by Anton Armstrong, and he really is just amazing :) I hope our High School Choir can put as much passion into our music as this choir!
This is beautiful. We sang this in choir when I was in high school many years ago. Not a dry eye in the house. When it's done right, it's incredibly moving to witness. Thanks for sharing this!
I did this my sophomore year in high school. I wish my director would let us do this song again, same with the awakening. Oh this song gives me chills!
Beautiful! I sang this in high school choir, thanks for letting me relive some of those memories. One of my all time favorites we ever did. And one of the most memorable.. even 30 years later!
A good choral blending, a very well managed dynamics of the song, good articulation of the words, generally , a good choir performing good music, hey this is good work.
this song brings back a lot of memories... I sang this in high school choir. This sounds great on the video but to really experience the beauty of this song you must experience it in person or even better as part of the choir. I will never forget this song!
Oh God.... This got me all misty eyed. This reminds me of something from the portuguese literature. It's been writen by Fernando Pessoa (who's probably the most philosophical poet I know) "God wants Man dreams The deed is born" This video is a proof of it!
The best arrangement of a truly great melody by the great composer Anonymous. I've sung this one and it's so beautiful. Only marred by someone singing along for some reason in the audience.
This is my favorite version of that song. How I wish I was there when they sang that piece. It's a different experience when you hear it live. It'll give you goosebumps and it might even make you shed a tear.
We did this version of Shenandoah for a choir performance when I was in the 1st grade. I'm 24 now and it's been in my head ever since. This is the first time I've found the version we learned and I'm actually tearing up at the moment. So gorgeous.
My high school choir performed this arrangement and in all my years singing it is still one of my favorites. I found myself singing along to the alto part :)
2:53 where the soprano's start the Oh Shenandoah line, and the 2nd's and Alto's repeat up to the 3:00 mark gives me goose bumps and tears. That part is the icing on the cake, and even thinking back to when we performed this back in school, this was always my favorite part.
I sang this arrangement of "Shenandoah" for State Honor Choir in Oklahoma when I was a senior at Norman High School in 1985. It's one of the most beautiful and difficult arrangements I ever sang.
Beautiful I been out of school for 10 years and I sang this song my 7th grade year at the solo and ensemble and we got first place with this song love it
Wish I could have the opportunity to sing this in a big choir again. Squandered my opportunity by not learning it to the point of confidence when it comes to coming in as an alto at that canon part. Wow, you guys held that last note to fade so beautifully!
Love watching this knowing I have friends performing in this choir. Maybe my favorite version of this arrangement. The blend and tone is impeccable. Pure perfection. :)
I was honored to be a part of the state chorale many years ago when I was in high school. We sang this version of this song. This is the first time I have ever heard it because I never saw a recording from our concert. Thank you for the memories!
I sang this in my high school choir. It still gives me chills.
Aegis ASMR same
Same here. One of my favorites we ever did. That and The Battle of Jericho.
Me too ❤
Same here
yea same here. one of my favorite pieces i sung.
When we performed this 20 years ago, I couldn't get through the song without tears. And listening to it today, it brings tears to my eyes. This song is the epitome of perfection. It heals.
Who are you in the choir (not expecting response as this was 7 years ago lmao)
It gives me shivers
I might have heard you singing with this fine choir in Grand Rapids, MN in the Myles Reif Center back then. I wonder if you were with them then. Beautiful then and now.
me, cleaning the kitchen today while listening to this song 😭😭😭😭
@@brockdoesyoutubev254 I don't know if you will see this a year later, either, but for whatever it's worth, I don't think the OP is saying he was in this recording, which the description says was made in 2012, just a day before it was uploaded to TH-cam and just two years before Kyle's post. I don't think he is even saying he was in this choir, just that whatever choir he was in twenty years before his post (now 28 years ago) also performed the same song.
15 years ago we sang this at my high school spring concert (senior year) and it was magnificent. I will never forget the moment I almost broke out in tears, on stage. This song is truly so beautiful. 💜
when this opens up with all the parts I cannot even deal. The beauty.......
I have to say, this is a wonderful version of this song. The choir weaving to and fro was causing motion sickness
effect though, for me . The singing, is beautiful .
I will listen again with my eyes closed.
I'm so happy to be singing Tenor 1 in this piece
Super cool!
Any better recordings of the same arrangement? It's quite something.
Spoopy I sang this 2 years ago I was a tenor 2 in this song
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The male voices are exquisite. Very impressive.
I love how the whole choir undulates as one big vocal pipe organ. It feels like a river in motion. Beautiful!
YES!!! INDEED!! JUST like a river!
let's coin a new word for this unique kind musical performance brilliance: MOUSAMATOPOEIA -- may i also pursuade you to listen to Elvis' "Mystery Train" to compare and contrast? Listen for the whistle :)
One of the timeless gems in choral literature. So beautifully done.
I wish I could find a better recording of this particular performance. This is the most pure unison I have ever heard in my life in a live performance!
This choir has an amazing recording of this song on a CD titled "Voices - a Contemporary Choral Collection" published by Windham Hill in 1995.
th-cam.com/video/e0yJ5QqeSAI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=V8aQVkuygzQYRhUl
This will blow you away!!
St. Olaf in Dt. Olaf Minnesota not only gives awesome music performances that bring you tears. Renowned in its history and have traveled Internationally. I watch them every year and am overjoyed each time.
Listen to St. Olaf’s choir singing “Night of Silence/ Silent Night”...one, if not the, most amazing versions of this Christmas classic EVER...absolutely stunning.
What a special GIFT! They are simply angelic like. I can only wonder what the angels in Heaven must truly sound like. This is a little taste of Heaven. How could u not be brought to tears listening to it?✌️💗✌️💗
Do you know Rose Nylund?
the chord from the men at 3:01 ….gets me every time. chills. tears. purely angelic
A man that loved a woman that could never have her.
A broken heart that could never heal .
I think it's about homesickness.
My God, the incredible resonance at 1:30 gives me chills EVERY TIME! Just WOW. Can't get enough of this arrangement.
Do you know what this arrangement is called? And how I can find all the parts for it
I'm doing this song for allstate. Every time I sing it with a choir my heart melts and I get the chills, it's one of the best feelings in the world.
+Olivia Marquez im in all state too and we are doing this song too
This was my favorite song in all state four years ago. Sadly the stage was so hot and I got overheated. If I had opened my mouth to sing, I would have puked. I’m still sad I never got to sing it.
I'm singing this in middle school, its a highschool level. We're really proud
This is the second piece of music that has ever made me cry and not only did I cry, I wept. This song is so emotional and was so beautifully performed. Thank you for sharing your wonderful God-given voices.
This choir is soooooo talented. There is a lot of gifted individuals in there. And as ONE there simply angelic. So beautiful!
I am a graduate of Luther College which has its own traditions but I appreciate the perfection of St. Olaf's choirs. Both institutions as well as all the ELCA church schools use music as an expression of God's wonder, grace and beauty. I am blessed by this music. Thank you.
I heartily agree with everything you wrote. Being an ELCA church member myself, this music lifts my spirit.
their tone and blend is absolutely beautiful. perfection. absolute perfection. My choir is doing this song and I hope for it to be as beautiful as this.
Yess, I was about to comment on the same! They do sound like ONE!
I feel fortunate to live in the upper midwest where St. Olaf, Concordia, Bethel, Luther, and Wartburg are, just to start the list of awesome choirs. Many have Christmas concerts that are broadcast on Public TV and those are wonderful to see again and again.
Same. St Olaf is about 10 minutes south of where I live in Farmington. Such an amazing program
Seamless!......Amazing discipline!....Super Choir!..Even the subtle wave of purple robes illustrate the waves of the "wide Missouri."
I was only comparing the robes to waves of the Missouri River. I already knew the point you're making.
I needed to hear this beautiful song today. Thank you everyone involved. It is healing indeed.
Splendidly beautiful. I always felt like choirs underutilized the Bass 2 line in this song, perhaps because most choirs don't have men with that kind of range. But if you've got it, let it rip, and that's exactly what you guys did. Fantastic.
Im 13 years old. I live in Michigan! I am in a choir in my school and we are singing this song! We are an amazing choir, and even though we are 7th and 8th graders, we are amazing!
We sang this in my choir. It is one of the most beautiful peices of music ever written and makes me love God and America. This is AWESOME.
Dear St Olaf Choir,
Never change.
Love, Jeremiah
I remember myself sitting and listening to our high school choir.. This beautiful song brings so much memories .. it was in 2005 when i auditioned and joined Imus Institute Pitch Choir ..
And it's 2020 ..i still listen to it.. thanks for this wonderful performance, St. Olaf Choir. Perfect for me.
This speaks to the heart, Anton Armstrong. From a Lutheran church choir, to what this ensemble is and means today.
It was a privilege to sing under F. Melius's son Paul C. Christiansen, Olaf's brother, from 1983 to 1985. We, too, concluded every performance with Beautiful Savior. In a conducting lesson given by Paul Christiansen at Concordia he shared a bit about his time in Europe. Like his father in Leizig and the Thomanerchor, Paul J. Christiansen studied abroad, too, and immersed himself in Gregorian chant at the Solesmes Abbey. I still clearly remember 36 yrs later him sharing how he sat on a park bench one day, maybe in Paris, and saw a newspaper page lifted up by a slight gust of wind, and how it settled down from above him, swinging lazily down: "This," he said, "is how to phrase plainchant - just this way." (based on my recollection)
One of the best collegiate choirs in the world! So lovely and pure...
Russ Guy really?!
The men make me melt. Warming my heart. bbbbbeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuutifuuuuuuuuuul
The most pure version of this songI have ever had the pleasure of listening to. Brings me to tears and gives me joy🎉
I can see the water flowing! The sound is perfect. What a great and magnificent choir are you!
Absolutely Brilliant! damn good choir.
I have loved the music of the St Olaf's choir for along time. This version of this piece is so good. My high school choir sang this piece in 1969. I have missed hearing it. Thank-you so much for sharing it.
Wonderful to see the swaying of the singers, all of them, but apparently because each one of them felt the serenity on his or own. Uncontrived.
nice couch at 2.13 listnening to heaven ... Beautiful does not start to describe it!
This song is AMAZING!!!! I love how they made the song so fluent and so solid. I love it. I give this a superior. Wonderful job St. Olaf Choir. Well done
If this isn't, the most beautiful rendition of this song then I would really love to hear anything else out there. This Choir is superior! I have to tip my hat to the Director and the Choir, as a whole. Unbelievably beautiful to listen to. Takes my mind back to my days on the Stillwater River in the Miami Valley in SW Ohio.
I think the when Sissel sang this song, it was much better. But this definitely is the best choir rendition of the song I have heard.
Very impressive! I'd love to have a CD.
greg j For a solo version this is my absolute favorite; www.google.com/amp/s/ratiocinativa.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/shenandoah-sung-by-peter-hollens/amp/.
It's a slightly faster tempo which I absolutely love!
Standing Tall and Looking Proud........OUTSTANDING !!!!
My favorite arrangement of this song to sing and to hear. St. Olaf is always top notch.
Heavenly voices.......
Amen haleluya
This is a truly inspiring choral rendition of Shenandoah. It lifts the soul and brings peace into the world. It is truly beautiful.
Simply amazing! I have sung this arrangement in my choir (a high school choir) and I thought we were alright, but boy! Anton Armstrong and his choir just blew us out of the water! The amount of passion put into this song by every single choir member is simply awe-inspiring, let alone Dr. Armstrong's obvious passion for this piece. I have been in a choir directed by Anton Armstrong, and he really is just amazing :) I hope our High School Choir can put as much passion into our music as this choir!
I loved singing this at St. Olaf ♥️
One of the most beautiful pieces of work I've ever heard! :)
So beautiful! It brings tears to my eyes. The middle section sounds like rolling water. Wonderful.
This is beautiful.
We sang this in choir when I was in high school many years ago. Not a dry eye in the house. When it's done right, it's incredibly moving to witness.
Thanks for sharing this!
Wow! I’m hypnotized by the sounds of this group, near perfection. Great song Shenandoah - a classic!
Beautifully sung. This song has much deeper meaning than most know
I did this my sophomore year in high school. I wish my director would let us do this song again, same with the awakening. Oh this song gives me chills!
13 years ago I stood in that choir. T'was one of the most remarkable experiences of my life.
My God, how absolutely beautiful.....those onions, they are everywhere for some reason.
Beautiful! I sang this in high school choir, thanks for letting me relive some of those memories. One of my all time favorites we ever did. And one of the most memorable.. even 30 years later!
A good choral blending, a very well managed dynamics of the song, good articulation of the words, generally , a good choir performing good music, hey this is good work.
Absolutely gorgeous! I sang this with my community chorus, but this is way out of our league. Wonderful choir and director.
My choir is performing this at our next concert, and I can only hope that we sound half as good as this. Wow.
Beautiful performance.. Fantastic
Cosmo B. ķ
One of my favorite pieces back in high school choir, got me chills everytime i sing.
this song brings back a lot of memories... I sang this in high school choir. This sounds great on the video but to really experience the beauty of this song you must experience it in person or even better as part of the choir. I will never forget this song!
All the nice Harmony brings chills to me very beautiful
Oh God.... This got me all misty eyed.
This reminds me of something from the portuguese literature. It's been writen by Fernando Pessoa (who's probably the most philosophical poet I know)
"God wants
Man dreams
The deed is born"
This video is a proof of it!
This is one of the most beautiful choirs I've ever heard!
We sang this in 9th grade in choir... now i'm 20 and started college and I miss highschool, the simpler life and my old highschool friends...
The best arrangement of a truly great melody by the great composer Anonymous. I've sung this one and it's so beautiful. Only marred by someone singing along for some reason in the audience.
This is fucking beautiful. I have no other words to comprehend what I've just heard. Bravo!
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 loved this then 20 something years ago love it now 🥰😘
You know a song is beautiful when you start crying (which I am doing right now.) INCREDIBLY well done!
This is my favorite version of that song. How I wish I was there when they sang that piece. It's a different experience when you hear it live. It'll give you goosebumps and it might even make you shed a tear.
this piece (the james erb arrangement) always makes me bawl like a baby. soooo beautiful. and lovely performance here!
We did this version of Shenandoah for a choir performance when I was in the 1st grade. I'm 24 now and it's been in my head ever since. This is the first time I've found the version we learned and I'm actually tearing up at the moment. So gorgeous.
I'm surprised you had men who could hit the low c in first grade!
I know right? Maybe it had something to do with the cafeteria food
Amy Ashcraft same here! im 22 now and have been known to randomly belt out "shenandooaaaahhh" lol!
My high school choir performed this arrangement and in all my years singing it is still one of my favorites. I found myself singing along to the alto part :)
I first heard this song while watching the movie The Good Sheppard. This is a beautiful song and well done imho.
LOVE THIS SONG! Great version!
Well that is a fabulous performance. Well done choir and music director both.
We are singing this in my choir and going to contest with this in Oklahoma its really powerful.
This is the most beautiful arrangement I've heard, and this performance is flawless. The choir's skills are awesome!
Absolutely gorgeous
Simply glorious
2:53 where the soprano's start the Oh Shenandoah line, and the 2nd's and Alto's repeat up to the 3:00 mark gives me goose bumps and tears. That part is the icing on the cake, and even thinking back to when we performed this back in school, this was always my favorite part.
Absolute chills.
Beautiful 3
Beautiful! We did this in High School. Love this arrangement.
Outstanding !
I sang this arrangement of "Shenandoah" for State Honor Choir in Oklahoma when I was a senior at Norman High School in 1985. It's one of the most beautiful and difficult arrangements I ever sang.
I hear that! 1991 all state Kansas choir...want to find out who arranged it...bet that person has arranged several phenomenal songs..
I picked to sing this song for my school's vocal competition and I never regretted it!! Such a beautiful piece ❤️
Lindo, lindo! Cantei essa música no Coro do São Bento em Salvador Bahia .
eu cantei em u coral quando ainda era uma criança... saudades :')
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Beautiful I been out of school for 10 years and I sang this song my 7th grade year at the solo and ensemble and we got first place with this song love it
This is my favorite song from choir days. Your performance brought tears. Thank you for doing this song justice.
Awesome performance just awesome
This is one of the best and beautiful U.S anthem ,it's just beautiful .I First heard in it Oliver Stone's movie "Nixon"
Truly Amazing! Perfect performance.
This is very good,the balance
I agree, it always brings tears to my eyes....loved it ever since we sung it in high school choir
Wish I could have the opportunity to sing this in a big choir again. Squandered my opportunity by not learning it to the point of confidence when it comes to coming in as an alto at that canon part.
Wow, you guys held that last note to fade so beautifully!
Sublime. No other word suffices.
Love watching this knowing I have friends performing in this choir. Maybe my favorite version of this arrangement. The blend and tone is impeccable. Pure perfection. :)
Beautiful and pure. America
Gorgeous- sounds like a prayer.
Wow wow wow beautiful!
I was honored to be a part of the state chorale many years ago when I was in high school. We sang this version of this song. This is the first time I have ever heard it because I never saw a recording from our concert.
Thank you for the memories!
Really beautiful
Chills! Love the bass.