Gospel Music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other. Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what remains, and look forward to what's coming next...let praise and worship God.

Choir of the Earth's August 2022 Concert Performance of Slava! - five pieces of stunning Orthodox Church Music, including: ● Hymn of Praise, Rachmaninoff ● Ukrainian Prayer, John Rutter CBE ● Otche Nash (Our Father), Kedrov ● Shchedryk, a traditiona...  moreChoir of the Earth's August 2022 Concert Performance of Slava! - five pieces of stunning Orthodox Church Music, including: ● Hymn of Praise, Rachmaninoff ● Ukrainian Prayer, John Rutter CBE ● Otche Nash (Our Father), Kedrov ● Shchedryk, a traditional Ukrainian folk song ● Hymn of the Cherubim, Tchaikovsky ● Outro & Credits  

In choral Music, I found my tool for social change. Growing up in a Latin American country with a sociologist mother, I witnessed social injustice firsthand. I gained class consciousness and experienced crises personally. I'm talking about financial crise...

A powerful declaration for freedom and equality, Rich Campbell’s “Border” is angular, emotional, and desperate. the text draws from (and paraphrases) several sources: contemporary media, Emma Lazarus’ “the New Colossus,” the Bible’s Matthew 25:31-40, curr...  moreA powerful declaration for freedom and equality, Rich Campbell’s “Border” is angular, emotional, and desperate. the text draws from (and paraphrases) several sources: contemporary media, Emma Lazarus’ “the New Colossus,” the Bible’s Matthew 25:31-40, currency, and others. the changing meters of “Border” fill the work with an up-tempo, rhythmic energy that propels it forward. Campbell’s piece hardly relents, even as the pace slows this work presses forward with a colorful and often modal harmonic language. “Border” is a call for justice, empathy and compassion, a summons to our collective conscience.  less

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   My main skill is as a teacher of songs to those who don’t read Music.   Photo by elfsternberg   Other Choir leaders have different s...

【wow! 合唱】音樂會 時間/ 2014年9月20日 地點/ 大東文化藝術中心 指揮/ 張成璞 伴奏/ 許溎芳 詩: Dylan Thomas 曲: 黃俊達 the hand that signed the paper the hand that signed the paper felled a city; 簽署文件的手，摧毀了一座城市； Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, 強權在握的五隻手指，令人窒...  more【wow! 合唱】音樂會 時間/ 2014年9月20日 地點/ 大東文化藝術中心 指揮/ 張成璞 伴奏/ 許溎芳 詩: Dylan Thomas 曲: 黃俊達 the hand that signed the paper the hand that signed the paper felled a city; 簽署文件的手，摧毀了一座城市； Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, 強權在握的五隻手指，令人窒息， Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; 倍增了死亡的境界，半分了一個國家； these five kings did a king to death. 五位強權者聯手扼殺了一個國王。 the mighty hand leads to a sloping shoulder, 這神聖的手搭著垂落的肩膀， the finger joints are cramped with chalk; 指關節如石膏般僵硬； A goose’s quill has put an end to murder 一支鵝絨筆成就了屠殺， That put an end to talk. 因而終結了對話。 the hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, 簽署條約的手，帶來了瘟疫， And famine grew, and locusts came; 也帶來了饑荒和蝗禍； Great is the hand that holds dominion over 多了不起的手啊， Man by a scribbled name. 藉由潦草的簽名，統治著人類。 the five kings count the dead but do not soften 五位國王數算著死去的靈魂 the crusted wound nor stroke the brow; 既不安慰結痂的傷口，也不輕撫受傷的額頭； A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven; 這隻手掌管了天地，也主宰著憐憫； Hands have no...    less

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Te Deum Chamber Choir www.te-deum.org Live performance, November 13, 2016 Village Presbyterian Church, Prairie Village, Kansas

"La mia ombra" for youth Choir (SABar) and piano Music by Roberto Brisotto Lyrics by Laura Novello Coro Giovani del Contrà conductor: Jessica Lot piano: Giovanni Furlan Live recording 6/5/2023 Cantagiovani 2023 Chiesa di San Benedetto - Salerno (ITALIA)