Lass="view_more">D'ror Yikra A wonderful arrangement by prominent Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun (b.1922), of three traditional oriental versions of this famous medieval poetic text. read more - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehezkel_Braun The Jerusalem Oratorio Cham...  Lass="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreLass="view_more" style="display:none;">D'ror Yikra A wonderful arrangement by prominent Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun (b.1922), of three traditional oriental versions of this famous medieval poetic text. read more - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehezkel_Braun The Jerusalem Oratorio Chamber Choir conducted by Ronen Borshevsky. Recording apeared on a CD which won the Golden Orpheus Award of the French Academy for best vocal music CD for 2007. For more info and purchase - http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-seventh-gate/dp/B001IRSOWK Write us - oratorio.jerusalem@gmail.com Text Translation: He will proclaim freedom for all his children / and will keep you as the apple of his eye Pleasant is your name and will not be destroyed / repose and rest on the Sabbath day Seek my sanctuary and my home / give me a sign of deliverance Plant a vine in my vineyard / look to my people, hear their laments Tread the wine-press in Bozrah / and in Babylon that city of might Crush my enemies in anger and fury / on the day when I cry, hear my voice P...    Lass="view_less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less

Lass="view_more">PRAIRIE SPRING by Greg Bartholomew A setting for SAB choir of the poem by Willa Cather. With optional piano accompaniment. Recording by Matthew Curtis (Choral Tracks). Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of fron...  Lass="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreLass="view_more" style="display:none;">PRAIRIE SPRING by Greg Bartholomew A setting for SAB choir of the poem by Willa Cather. With optional piano accompaniment. Recording by Matthew Curtis (Choral Tracks). Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. Prairie Spring was first published in 1913 as the prologue to the novel O Pioneers! Sheet music is available from J. W. Pepper: https://www.jwpepper.com/11208222.item PRAIRIE SPRING Evening and the flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, the growing weeds, The toiling horses, the tired men; The long empty roads, Sullen fires of sunset, fading, The eternal, unresponsive sky. Against all this, Youth, Flaming like the wild roses, Singing like the larks over the plowed fields, FLashing like a star out of the twilight; Youth with its insupportable sweetness, Its fierce necessity, Its shar...    Lass="view_less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   There’s always a strange sense of calm that descends on the choir before a Concert.     People seem unusually relaxed and more peo...

Westminster Christian Academy Concert Choir Prima Voce March 25, 2021 "If I Can Sing, I Still Am Free" Composer: Rich Campbell Text: Sara Teasdale "Refuge" Conductor: Allen Schwamb

"Eraclito.." by Roberto Brisotto (1972). A Choral composition based on a text by the greek poet Callimaco concerning the sorrow, the mourning and the memory. Coro "Note Blu" di San Ponziano - Roma Dir. Marina Mungai

The Alma HS Chamber Choir, directed by Mat Whitworth sings "Sunset" at the 2013 Arkansas All-State Music Conference in Feb. 2013. Music by Jonathan Adams, Text by H.P. Lovecraft.