Video Information

• Choir: Matthew Curtis
• Piece: INVICTUS
• Composer:  Ivo Antognini
• Voices:  SATB some divisi
• Genres: A cappella, Contemporary
• "INVICTUS" by Swiss composer Ivo Antognini
  
  (...a tribute to Nelson Mandela)
  
  The piece was written for Defrost Youth Choir (Norway)
  Thomas Caplin, conductor
  
  (soon published by Alliance Music Publication...  more"INVICTUS" by Swiss composer Ivo Antognini
  
  (...a tribute to Nelson Mandela)
  
  The piece was written for Defrost Youth Choir (Norway)
  Thomas Caplin, conductor
  
  (soon published by Alliance Music Publications, Inc.)
  
  a poem by William Ernest Henley
  
  Out of the night that covers me,
  Black as the pit from pole to pole,
  I thank whatever gods may be
  For my unconquerable soul.
  
  In the fell clutch of circumstance
  I have not winced nor cried aloud.
  Under the bludgeonings of chance
  My head is bloody, but unbowed.
  
  Beyond this place of wrath and tears
  Looms but the Horror of the shade,
  And yet the menace of the years
  Finds and shall find me unafraid.
  
  It matters not how strait the gate,
  How charged with punishments the scroll,
  I am the master of my fate,
  I am the captain of my soul.  less