Bravo! Sibley High School, West St. Paul, MN 1970. Our director, Gar Lockrem, studied under Paul Christiansen at Concordia, Moorhead. We performed that song at graduation. I’m still deeply moved by this song all these years later (2024).
I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. I play the piano and organ. Today (May 27, The Day of Pentecost), I played this as the Closing Hymn. It is #627 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. It is #627 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. And two girls in my church were confirmed today.
The middle section ("As birds in the morning sing God's praise ...") is still published (I have a recent copy), but most choirs omit it, probably because they omit it at St. Olaf. We always included the middle section in the Samford University A Cappella Choir, and I really like that section. It also helps the piece make more sense musically, because at the end, when the sopranos are singing "Yea, were every tree endowed with speech, " it is the melody from that middle section, which Christiansen now combines with the original hymn tune. It is quite effective. Our director, Dr. L. Gene Black, just passed away two months ago. He was a student of Jan Koski, who had been a student of Olaf C. Christiansen.
maestroz25 Yes, I am very glad I decided to get my undergraduate degree there. Got my master's in Choral Conducting from the University of Southern Mississippi: also a great choral program!
@Jesus Gomez: This is the edited version of this piece. You are right: in older editions of the work, there are about 4 extra pages of a development section, but Olaf Christiansen decided he did not want to perform that section any more around 1960. This became the form that is published in the St. Olaf Choir Series today.
It's me, again. And this is to all denominations: If 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18;5:1-11 is your Scripture of the Day, this is a good hymn to compliment it.
Sang this in High School, Grand Rapids, MN in 1970. Can still sing every word.
Bravo! Sibley High School, West St. Paul, MN 1970. Our director, Gar Lockrem, studied under Paul Christiansen at Concordia, Moorhead. We performed that song at graduation. I’m still deeply moved by this song all these years later (2024).
I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. I play the piano and organ. Today (May 27, The Day of Pentecost), I played this as the Closing Hymn. It is #627 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. It is #627 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. And two girls in my church were confirmed today.
Rene Clausen directed my college choir in 1985 at West Texas St. University.
Sunrise from dawn to full day. Brilliant.
The middle section ("As birds in the morning sing God's praise ...") is still published (I have a recent copy), but most choirs omit it, probably because they omit it at St. Olaf. We always included the middle section in the Samford University A Cappella Choir, and I really like that section. It also helps the piece make more sense musically, because at the end, when the sopranos are singing "Yea, were every tree endowed with speech, " it is the melody from that middle section, which Christiansen now combines with the original hymn tune. It is quite effective. Our director, Dr. L. Gene Black, just passed away two months ago. He was a student of Jan Koski, who had been a student of Olaf C. Christiansen.
I recall singing at Samford U on tour with PJC in 1975. They have a great choral tradition there.
maestroz25 Yes, I am very glad I decided to get my undergraduate degree there. Got my master's in Choral Conducting from the University of Southern Mississippi: also a great choral program!
@Jesus Gomez: This is the edited version of this piece. You are right: in older editions of the work, there are about 4 extra pages of a development section, but Olaf Christiansen decided he did not want to perform that section any more around 1960. This became the form that is published in the St. Olaf Choir Series today.
It's me, again. And this is to all denominations: If 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18;5:1-11 is your Scripture of the Day, this is a good hymn to compliment it.
What is the range of those voices ? And controlled !
Not the BEST quality, but I still got shivers!!
This recording is missing the middle section...
3:00 = glorious
Or complement...whatever.