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.

That Choir RememBers - NovemBer 8, 2015 (conducted by Craig Pike) Metropolitan United Church, Toronto ON Recorded by Kris O'Reilley All Night Vigil, Op 37 ('Vespers') - Sergei Rachmaninoff VII. Glory to God in the Highest www.thatchoir.com

I Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "Thi...  moreI Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "This is a poem of grandeur and of praise. Therefore it might Be expected that this musical setting would aim at vastness, grandeur and awakening." Walker accomplishes this through a variety of means. First, the piano introduction includes slowly unfolding piano arpeggios which focus on open intervals of octaves, fifths and fourths, exploiting the full range of the piano keyboard. The composer also takes the singers on a harmonic journey which Begins in a low register in C minor, and then travels through a numBer of other key areas until it reaches the distant key of G-flat. At this point, the voices are drawn closely together into a tone cluster containing the pitches G-flat, A-flat and B-flat, only to open apart into the glorious C major chords which conclude the ...    less

Recorded by Quorum in Leicester Cathedral on Saturday 11th February 2017

Motet by Thomas Tomkins - one of the greatest emotional expressions of the late Renaissance. Absalom, son of King David, was a handsome prince and considered by some to Be worthy of the throne of Israel, even Before David's death. One day, as Absalom w...  moreMotet by Thomas Tomkins - one of the greatest emotional expressions of the late Renaissance. Absalom, son of King David, was a handsome prince and considered by some to Be worthy of the throne of Israel, even Before David's death. One day, as Absalom went riding, a tree's branches caught his luxuriant hair and he hung there helpless. He was slain by his enemies. King David was inconsolable. Performed by the dwsChorale, a multitracking one-man choir  

Chicagoland Voices 2016 Winter Concert Great God Almighty by Stacey V. Gibbs Guest conductor - Dana Floor

County Town Singers perform God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Donald Moore) at their DecemBer 4, 2010 Christmas Concert at Simcoe Street United Church, Oshawa, ON

We Are God's People - Brahms - Jakarta Festival Chorus (JFC) Aula Simfonia Jakarta, Indonesia. Conductor: Rev. Lee Chong Min. 13 OctoBer 2012.

This short choral piece is in my collection The New Gloria Deo, Volume Two published by Augsburg Fortress. The pictures were taken by the C & O Canal near Harper's Ferry, WV. The recording is the publisher's demo recording.

Music by Frank Pesci frankpesci.com