Sure on this Shining Night - University of Utah Singers

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    The University of Utah Singers perform "Sure on this Shining Night" by Morten Lauridsen live in concert October 26, 2008 in Libby Gardner concert hall, under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred. Laurel Enke-Piano.
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Komentáře • 82

  • @williamfrederick8983
    @williamfrederick8983 Před 11 lety +23

    First - this choir is outstanding... Absolutly professional. Second - this song is perhaps THE loveliest choral piece that I have ever heard. I have listened to it many times as it has helped me cope with the loss of my brother through suicide. It gives me a sense of profound peace. Thank you for posting this.

    • @lauraduncan418
      @lauraduncan418 Před 9 měsíci

      Gives me goosebumps every time I sing it! Beautiful 🎵 🎶 🎵

  • @handyatmusic
    @handyatmusic Před 7 lety +10

    This performance does EVERYTHING right. You can stop looking now.

  • @brianbaumgarn5795
    @brianbaumgarn5795 Před 10 lety +18

    Only a little over fifty words and Lauridsen's simple vocal arrangement can take us to the place where we imagine, feel and see the shadows of the stars. What a performance U. of Utah Singers!!

  • @debbieastle6407
    @debbieastle6407 Před 3 lety +4

    I LOVE this song. Lauridsen is awesome. His music is not for rookies.

    • @garywait3231
      @garywait3231 Před rokem

      " ...not for rookies" -- you're quite right, as, having sung this and other of Lourdsen's beautiful choral compositions, I can attest; though I sometimes have to struggle to keep my emotions in cheque due to the exquisite union of music and word.

  • @kubikpt
    @kubikpt Před 12 lety +9

    This song is beautiful, but many credits to the interpreters as well: what a fantastic sound and phrasing! Congratulations to all: conductor, choir and pianist.

  • @budv9bv
    @budv9bv Před 12 lety +8

    If this isn't the best version of this song I've ever heard, then I'm missing out! Absolutely beautiful!!

  • @heathtanner64
    @heathtanner64 Před 9 lety +10

    The best recording of this song. I listen to it on a regular basis. It gives me so much peace.

  • @jondoyle44
    @jondoyle44 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Love this ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. I particularly like the take on the very last note which keeps the singers singing until the piano finishes unlike some other versions.

  • @cooldude2648
    @cooldude2648 Před 11 lety +10

    The playing with tempos in this rendition is breathtaking! I literally felt myself eagerly awaiting the resolve of every suspension held just a fraction of a beat longer. Wow, what a beautiful performance of a gorgeous tune

  • @KyThymer
    @KyThymer Před 8 lety +26

    I have listened to a number of recordings of this piece, and I keep returning to this one. One of my favorite composers, one of my favorite pieces. This interpretation, the tempo, the dynamics, the beautiful expression of the words and music... this exquisite performance has my heart over all the others I've heard.

    • @MrDuboce
      @MrDuboce Před 2 lety

      Ditto, I've heard this performed dozens of times; this is absolutely the best. The youthfulness of the singers, who are wonderfully mature in voice, make a difference. It's stunning. Superior conducting.

  • @CENTRALISLIPCONCERTCHOIR
    @CENTRALISLIPCONCERTCHOIR Před 11 lety +9

    This beautiful performance just makes one want to bow their heads in appreciation of its beauty. Absolutely gorgeous, beautiful work.

  • @Kline123456789
    @Kline123456789 Před 12 lety +1

    There is a song Im looking for and if anyone who reads this can help I'd be very thankful. I once found a song online years ago by mistake. I dont even know how I found it but it was the most beautiful song Id ever heard. All I remember is this. The choir sang.. Welcoming the day I will hear you say. Arent you glad that you are walking through this world with me. Walk throuugh this world with me and then youll see. How lovely life can be. How fresh and new. And thats all I heard

  • @bartonstrauss6519
    @bartonstrauss6519 Před 10 lety +10

    Performed this with my school and boy was it beautiful, even more so being its not on speakers but in person. This arrangement can give you chills.

  • @annmidkiff4185
    @annmidkiff4185 Před 4 lety +6

    Hauntingly beautiful! One of my very, very favorite choral pieces! Superior~

  • @kseismoloj
    @kseismoloj Před 12 lety +3

    What beautiful music! I feel as though I have died and gone to heaven! It is hard to believe that this piece has been posted here for almost 3 years and only has just over 7,000 views. Thank you U of U Singers for posting this.

  • @claireherring4788
    @claireherring4788 Před 10 lety +8

    Beautiful job University of Utah Singers! Bravo!!! Gorgeous! I love this song so much that I decided it would be played at my funeral (but sung by Milliken University's choir, sorry). The text is taken from a poem called "Description of Elysium" (heaven) from James Agee's first book Permit Me Voyage. I believe it is a metaphor for death (the late year lies down the north; all is healed, all is health; high summer holds the earth--hearts all whole). The late year (old age); high summer (youth) holds the earth. Sure on this shining night, kindness must watch for me this side the ground (that is, under ground). Wonderful imagery!

  • @leadtrumpet14
    @leadtrumpet14 Před 12 lety +3

    I love the lift right before "hearts all whole", brings back memories.

  • @shorty4539
    @shorty4539 Před 8 lety +17

    This is the best performance of this song on youtube! Incredible balance, intonation and emotion. I love the diction and the pace as well. So many take this song much too fast or as a dirge. Wonderful job!

  • @michaelmarcelschick692
    @michaelmarcelschick692 Před 8 měsíci

    An hour of glory in the history of music - pure magic

  • @garywait3231
    @garywait3231 Před rokem

    I hope the angels in Heaven sing this lovely anthem as sensitivity as these earthly angels do !

  • @marleelindon4624
    @marleelindon4624 Před 6 lety +5

    This is an amazing performance of an amazing piece of music, set to amazing poetry. Thank you, thank you. You were in the zone. All of you (of course), piano too. I return to this again and again - ah. (signed) a fellow-musician and fellow-human

  • @oucutie1
    @oucutie1 Před 6 lety +2

    The U of U Singers can’t be beat (and that includes MoTab.) This group is perfectly balanced and their accompanist is perfectly wonderful. Dr. Allred conducts this group with great sensitivity and makes sure every performance meets his high standards. He has succeeded!!!

    • @oucutie1
      @oucutie1 Před 6 lety

      The sound engineers can take
      good share of credit for the excellent fidelity of the U of U presentations. The sound quality has never disappointed.

  • @robinwatling1031
    @robinwatling1031 Před rokem

    If this piece of music doesn't touch your soul ??????????

  • @Sirracco
    @Sirracco Před 10 lety +3

    This performance never gets old.

  • @dawnarosanna
    @dawnarosanna Před 8 lety +3

    Thee best recording of this piece.

  • @CDugan7
    @CDugan7 Před 6 lety

    Not only is the group singing beautifully, the conductor is mesmerizing to watch. All around masterful performance, one of my favorites on the web

  • @MrBaritone84
    @MrBaritone84 Před 12 lety +1

    Sang this last spring with Weber State Choirs! One of the most beautiful pieces I've ever sung.

  • @reginstravels
    @reginstravels Před rokem

    The best choral performance ever.

  • @eslonhindundu5720
    @eslonhindundu5720 Před 12 lety +1

    this song brings alot of memory...

  • @trevortomah8508
    @trevortomah8508 Před 2 lety

    Divinely sweet and beautiful, blessed hymnal, thanks for sharing the music.

  • @Teddyb1939
    @Teddyb1939 Před 8 lety +3

    Again,such beauty in music.

  • @EmilyJoMusic96
    @EmilyJoMusic96 Před 10 lety

    I am singing this is my high school choir right now and I am absolutely in love with it!

  • @hubertkuss71
    @hubertkuss71 Před 6 lety +1

    eine der besten interpretationen der dynamik dieses liedes! Danke!!

  • @MrDuboce
    @MrDuboce Před 2 lety

    Gorgeous. Wonderful sopranos.

  • @brianbaumgarn5795
    @brianbaumgarn5795 Před 9 lety +7

    If you listen to Lauridsen and don't feel it deep in the marrow, I truly feel sorry for you. Barton and Claire are so right. As a Christian, I think there is enough substance in those 57 words and Morten Lauridsen's music to meditate on and feel epiphany for a lifetime. The poem may be pantheistic but is all about sensing our souls in the NOW!

  • @jedjethro
    @jedjethro Před 11 lety +1

    One of the best versions right here!

  • @shawardara
    @shawardara Před 12 lety

    this is beautiful - artistry in composition and true musicality in performance - what a collaboration! In humility, BRAVO!

  • @emiliebova
    @emiliebova Před 7 lety +1

    Heavenly. Performance and music.

  • @2010theo
    @2010theo Před 14 lety

    i love this song. we have to sing it this year. i absolutely love it!!

  • @buhnanak
    @buhnanak Před 12 lety +1

    this is just gorgeous.

  • @buhrandonzz
    @buhrandonzz Před 14 lety +11

    The poem was written by a WWII fighter pilot (or a pilot from a war) flying over lands where he fought years ago and seeing the lands and people healed.
    It's quite touching.

    • @thomasromano9321
      @thomasromano9321 Před 3 lety +1

      I didn't know American writer James Agee was a World War ll pilot. He wrote the poem.

    • @martinkalin537
      @martinkalin537 Před 3 lety +1

      The poem was written in 1934.

  • @hansjorggrab6581
    @hansjorggrab6581 Před 4 lety

    Wunderbar, bin tief berührt.

  • @evasclippa8449
    @evasclippa8449 Před 2 lety

    I was struggling to find a recording of this that captured the feeling I had when my chorus sang it a number of years ago. I listened to I think four or five before I found this one, and you did it perfectly--the subtlety and nuance and the play with dynamics were all wonderful. Thank you for sharing this; it gives me chills every time, and sometimes brings a tear to my eye.

  • @SourLifeSaver
    @SourLifeSaver Před 14 lety +1

    im singing this song TOMORROW on monday ahhhhh

  • @johnscolton
    @johnscolton Před 10 lety

    Beautiful!

  • @okIamdoingthis
    @okIamdoingthis Před 12 lety

    All of your recordings are wonderful, especially this one!

  • @johnhoy6635
    @johnhoy6635 Před 7 lety

    Beautiful

  • @kimkirkman73
    @kimkirkman73 Před 12 lety

    you guys totally rocked this. Excellent way in which the words dictate the lengths of each quaver. It almost takes on a billy joelesque quality. Awesome. Much better than the other more metronomic versions around

  • @marysueeasteregg
    @marysueeasteregg Před 8 lety +4

    to Kathy Jones Boulier: The text used in both pieces was published in 1934 by journalist/poet/screenwriter/novelist James Agee -- as a *poem*, *not* as lyrics for a song. Lauridsen had as much "right" to borrow the words/title as did Samuel Barber. Any rights to the text would belong to Agee's estate or publisher, not to Barber. In classical music it is commonplace for multiple composers to write musical settings of the same preexisting text. (And very rare, btw, for a classical composer to write his/her own text, the way pop music or musical theatre composers commonly do.) For example, multiple composers -- Thomas Arne, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hubert Parry, John Rutter, Ronald Corp and Elsie Bollinger -- have composed musical settings for the poem "When icicles hang by the wall" from Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare. Similarly, at least eleven composers have used Goethe's poem "Der Erlkonig," the best known musical setting being that by Franz Schubert.

  • @chaver1114
    @chaver1114 Před 12 lety +1

    There is a reason why there are no dislikes.

  • @isabellashamoun9812
    @isabellashamoun9812 Před 9 lety +1

    Really Great Job

  • @janetsmith2600
    @janetsmith2600 Před 4 lety

    Do you know how good you are? Even the group up/down the road (MoTab) can’t always compare. (Might does not always make right.) You are a very special group of singers! Don’t change a thing! Accolades to your accompanist!!!!

  • @gruppoemmanuele9223
    @gruppoemmanuele9223 Před 11 lety

    esecuzione fantastica, bravissimi !!!

  • @Teddyb1939
    @Teddyb1939 Před 8 lety +1

    Lovely comments already,I will just add BEAUTIFUl.

  • @kris10espo
    @kris10espo Před 10 lety +1

    Perfrct!

  • @homoignobilis
    @homoignobilis Před 10 lety +1

    Absolutely beautiful. I bet many musicians who perform this consider it analagous to praying. Exquisite. Well done and think you all who made this You Tube possible. There is a recording of Lausidsen's vocal works done by the Bob Jones University choir. (Yes, THAT Bob Jones U. in Kentucky)

    • @brolobear
      @brolobear Před 6 lety

      Bob Jones University is in South Carolina.

  • @marysueeasteregg
    @marysueeasteregg Před 10 lety +1

    The poster who says "the poem was written by a WWII fighter pilot (or a pilot from a war) flying over lands where he fought years ago and seeing the lands and people healed" is incorrect. Agee, an American, was born in 1909, too late for him to have fought in WWI; & the poem was published in 1934, before the start of WWII. I can find nothing about Agee having been a pilot, or a soldier. But he did visit Europe in the mid 1920's, when he was a teenager. Perhaps he visited lands still healing from the ravages of WWI?

  • @bkeels002
    @bkeels002 Před 11 lety +4

    Might get shot for this, but I actually prefer this performance over the Polyphony recording.

  • @Coffeebreak951
    @Coffeebreak951 Před 12 lety

    You could always e-mail the University!

  • @oucutie1
    @oucutie1 Před 6 lety +1

    A moment in time when God Almighty spoke to Dr. Lauridsen directly. A sublime partnership was formed. God/Agee/Lauridsen. You want proof? Listen and hear.

  • @ferdimlg
    @ferdimlg Před 15 lety +1

    Hi UofUtah Singers!
    Hearing this song for first time by Lauridsen made me cry. The melody is so wonderful. I just very do love it especially sang by Uof Utah Singers. Anyway I have a question about the lyric of this song. Anyone (maybe the singers of Utah Singers) know what this poem talk about? What is sure on the shining night? Is it talk about Christmas? or what kind of night? Sorry i just dont know....thank you very much for the helping.

  • @Kline123456789
    @Kline123456789 Před 11 lety

    How am I missing it?

  • @ohhellfire2728
    @ohhellfire2728 Před 4 lety

    1:52 TH

  • @BillSalem
    @BillSalem Před 7 lety

    Gorgeous performance of a very beautiful piece. Though I was still disappointed that it wasn't the Barber.

  • @ChristopherNowlan
    @ChristopherNowlan Před 12 lety

    Musical rapture.

  • @icu109
    @icu109 Před 8 lety +1

    so what happened to Samuel Barber? I thought the song by this name was his since 1938 when he wrote Sure on this shining night, song for voice & piano (also arr. for voice, orchestra, chorus & piano), Op. 13/3 - the one I learned back in High School as a soloist. Beautiful song, but shouldn't have used same name as another composer. Just saying.

    • @lionsmaine1238
      @lionsmaine1238 Před 8 lety +3

      +Kathy Jones Boulier Plenty of composers use the same name for songs of the same setting. Do you know how many different arrangements of "O magnum mysterium" and "Ave Maria" there are of the same name? They're both arranged for the same text there's no reason to choose a different name.

    • @mags6784
      @mags6784 Před 8 lety +3

      +Warwick van Ede rude

    • @BillSalem
      @BillSalem Před 7 lety

      + van Ede -- I myself was looking for the Barber. This is not bad. But, really, Barber is a master.

    • @cegr76
      @cegr76 Před 5 lety

      @@BillSalem Just looked it up...wow.

    • @janetsmith2600
      @janetsmith2600 Před 4 lety

      Warwick van Ede Your post bears witness to the words "all is healed". I hope that you will be included in the word "all."

  • @cegr76
    @cegr76 Před 5 lety +2

    The pause before the last word of the sentence (0:56) has always bothered me.