Video Information

• Choir: Downtown Voices
• Piece: Dark Night of the Soul
• Composer:  Ola Gjeilo
• Conductor:  Stephen Sands
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: Classical
• Downtown Voices (http://DowntownVoices.net)
  NOVUS New York
  Trinity Wall Street, New York City
  
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  NOVUS New York
  Trinity Wall Street, New York City
  
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  Stephen Sands, conductor (http://StephenSands.net)
  Amy Schroeder, violin
  Jennifer Liu, violin
  Jessica Meyer, violin
  Mike Nicolas, cello
  Mitchell Vines, pianist
  Elizabeth Bates, soprano
  
  Ola Gjeilo’s Dark and Luminous Night portrays the passage of the soul from mortality to its union
  with God. Based on the 16th century poem by a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, St. John
  of the Cross, the piece depicts a soul leaving its “still house” and venturing into the night. Seemingly fearless, the soul is guided out of the darkness by the light of love; Luminous Night reveals the soul’s fulfillment.
  
  Lyrics: St. John of the Cross
  
  One dark night,
  fired with love’s urgent longings
  – ah, the sheer grace! –
  I went out unseen,
  my house being now all stilled.
  In darkness, and secure,
  by the secret ladder, disguised,
  – ah,  less