Here is the full version of The Awakening written by Joseph M. Martin and beautifully performed by the Montana All-State Choir. The music begins at 1:22
We sang this song my freshman year in high school choir. I cried every time we rehearsed it, every chord just struck me and made my whole body shiver. The hands down best song I know and one of the only songs we nailed in every aspect. And we sang it with so much heart, we all felt what the song was saying and everyone was in the moment. When we preformed it at our concert and had to retire it, I cried even more. This was not a song I wanted to put down, back on a shelf, and never look at again. I'm trying to get my choir director to let us sing it for this year, my senior year, for one last hoorah. I came into this school with this wonderful piece and I'd like to take it with me. At no other moment will I ever feel as connected to a group of people than I did when we were singing that song. This performance is great, it brings back memories and tears to my eyes once more. If your choir is thinking of preforming it, then stop now and say yes. You will not regret making this piece a part of your choir experience. Much love, good day (:
My teacher refuses to do it again even just look at it for fun. But we'll revisit one of our Requiems instead just cause. Oh well, I guess. Another great piece is HoriZons. Beautiful, if you've a capable choir. If your choir isn't up to par, Per say, you won't be able to capture the mood right. Another personal favorite among the rest of my choir is Omnia Sol. So simple but it brings tears still. That's our choir tradition. ♡ I think I'm spelling these all correctly... I'm too tired rn to double check lol
***** We were able to keep singing the song for graduations each year. Ive been out of highschool for a good 6 years now and my choir teacher is now retiring from highschool. So now i get to go back with alot of others and sing this song for him! I know what you mean though this is one of the most beautiful songs we sang in choir.
Music has always been my passion. We are singing this in choir (im a high school senior). And I plan on becoming a music therapist. A few weeks ago I felt very discouraged, and failed at everything. I even considered giving up music. During choir rehersal that day we were running through this song. And at the end when we sing "let music never die in me" i started crying as I realized how much I love music, and how stupid I was for almost giving it up. I got a great score in NYSSMA last weekend, and my last high school choir concert is next week. And I'm even more determined to become a music therapist. I may forget my choir songs as the years pass. But this is one I will alwahs remember.
I can't listen to this song and not tear up. it's such a great piece. It's full of fantastic memories for me, it pretty much sums up the time I spent in high school choir.
Amazing piece! True story: (excluding the concert) my freshman year we did this piece at my high school. It was always one of my favorite pieces. In my section (tenor) couple seniors always called this piece “the cakening “ and this is because we would always blare our “let’s bake, let’s bake a cake and sing” and so on at 7.00 and it is to this day one of my favorite memories of choir. It makes being a freshman much more relaxing with seniors like we had
Every time we rehearse this song, I end up crying. It's my amazing choir teacher's last year... The song is a very fitting song for her last year... I'll miss her so much..
Singing this Senior year in high school brought me to tears. The summer before senior year my mom died and I had little going for me, so when we sang this song it reminded me that the world is beautiful and I'm not alone as long as there's music in it💕 that was 3 years ago and I still remember every note and lyric I contributed to the masterpiece 🎶 let music never die in me!
This is my absolute favorite song that we performed my entire school choir career (from 6th grade to senior year.) The emotions this song brought out of every person in our honor choir was chilling. We never worked so hard to make a song perfect before. I remember perfecting the “alleluia” on each section. When we performed at our high school I remember freaking out the 5th graders in the front row because of the whispering part. We enjoyed that this song moved people that weren’t just in choir. On my last week of high school I still remember one of the other students going to the piano while everyone was talking loudly, turned away from the piano. She started playing the opening keys and every person that sang that song stopped talking mid sentence. At that point it had been atleast a full year since we had performed it. Needless to say we sang every cord with so much enthusiasm. It’s been 5 almost 6 full years and I would bet that everyone in our choir still knows the opening cords and would sing our hearts out to this amazing piece.
I love this song a lot. I'm a junior in high and my school choirs & I sang this as a combined choir last week at our spring concert! Everyone loves this song.
Did this song in chorus! And I don’t know why but it hit me and it was my favorite I did out of the three years I did chorus and the many concerts!! Like i don’t know why!! This song just oof 🥰🥰🥰🥰😩❤️❤️
We did this my senior year of high school in choir. Everyone was so excited to finally get to do it after years of listening to the recording that my choir teacher had. It was amazing!
My choir and I sang this for Districts and State for class A and we received straight ones both times. This was a main song, our best song. But do you know why that is? Because we sang it with a lot more energy and emotion then this. Don't get me wrong, this is a beautiful song and I'm happy to hear it again. But it sounds like you guys just sang it exactly how it was writen, no movement on the notes where there should have been, and it's very anti climatic. The times where it should be nice and loud then suddenly quiet. None of that happens. I'm half way through the song right now and I stopped to type this. I'm gonna listen to the last half. I pray the ending is just as amazing as it should be, our ending was so amazing we made all three of the judges cry and all of the other choirs out there listening to us standing up as the clap and cheer for us.
haha you sound like my old choir conductor. I did this my senior year last year in our school's top choir. The choir stopped competing in NYSMA because it kept just getting gold with distinction so I don't know if we would make judges cry, but we definitely had to put emotion into it, even if it was fake, just so our conductor would shut up haha. We also did it faster but he always seemed to speed things up. But I don't think you should judge other people, sometimes it's not enough to just listen, you can get a sense by just watching too. And even so, it was our insane conductor that made our school so musically renowned, it's what made us so good even though we hated them. Maybe this choir doesn't have someone pushing them so hard.
I sang this in 7th grade choir. My first year of being in choir in fact. It was one of the first songs I sang realizing that I love music and I love singing. Now I’m onto my second year of varsity choir going into my sophomore year. Life really is good!
I remember my freshman year singing this song at cordova high and every time I sung this song I just felt in love with this song because it sounds so good and relaxing
This is the song that my school's concert and chamber choirs perform at Graduation. It has great sentimental meaning for me. It's beautifully performed, and I didn't really hear too much of the guys in the beginning, but it evened out over the next few pages.
This is by far one of my favorite songs. Did this as a large men’s ensemble piece and loved it and next year I’ll be a choir president and I shall conduct this as my final song
It’s an on going tradition for like 20 years now that at the last choir concert all the choirs join the chamber choir on stage and we sing it. It’s lit not gonna lie
I performed this song in high school and that was 15 years ago. That's the kind of impact this song has. Arts programs are so crucial to successful education. As much as I appreciate live versions of songs, I really want a SATB version of a studio recording. Does anyone have a link? Thanks.
In my senior year of high school, they were considering cutting the music programs altogether. Our choir director had us sing this song during our last concert to make a statement. They didn't end up cutting music. That was in the spring of 2000, and this song still has a huge impact on me.
iv never heard a better performance of this song EVER!! this just brought me to tears...singing this is highschool choir just really makes me apprietiate the beauty of the piece. there is so much meaning behind this song.
If you are the only one singing an octave lower (which I assume is what you meant by the general, "sing lower" phrase) then you sound like an idiot in the choir. When bass 1s and 2s harmonize, it sounds wonderful.
Far3288 Never make assumptions. By lowest voice, I mean that I'm the only bass that sings the low splits. While I can sing half an octave lower than the others, I don't unless it is written in the music.
Thanks for sharing! I'm looking for program info from your Montana 2016 All State Chorus, and unfortunately, am not having much luck. Any leads would be most appreciated. (I'm specifically looking for the name of the conductor and the pieces performed by the highest level SATB group. This is in conjunction with dissertation research for the University of Georgia.) Thanks in advance!
This is a choir full of gorgeous voices and this is a beautiful piece. I hate to quibble with one single thing about it, but I was very disappointed in the tempo. It was SO VERY SLOW that it took away from a lot of the beauty and passion in the piece. I kept waiting for the AWAKENING to occur, which never happened for me! The singing was so very beautiful, the accompanist obviously plays with brilliance, but it was very disappointingly S L O W. In all sections!. I mean, like falling asleep slow in parts. Other than tha one of the best renditions I have heard--- the voices are so very good, and the blend and balance of the voices was near perfection. But especially at the end, I did not BELIEVE the siners when they were talking about replacing emptiness with" joy and glorious sound." Remember the part "let music never die in me!" .. I was afraid it was going to.
I think you guys should work on feeling the words more. You sang them beautifully, but "no alleluia, not one hosanna" should sound angry and powerful, because that's the last thing you want to lose. Just constructive criticism. Other than that, I thought it was AMAZING! Keep up the good work!
The ONLY reason this piece is not lasting the test of time is because every choir who sings it, sings it way too slow. It's taxing on the both singer and listener. Can you hear the choir BEGGING to move it along.... there ya go! more of that.
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We sang this song my freshman year in high school choir. I cried every time we rehearsed it, every chord just struck me and made my whole body shiver. The hands down best song I know and one of the only songs we nailed in every aspect.
And we sang it with so much heart, we all felt what the song was saying and everyone was in the moment. When we preformed it at our concert and had to retire it, I cried even more. This was not a song I wanted to put down, back on a shelf, and never look at again.
I'm trying to get my choir director to let us sing it for this year, my senior year, for one last hoorah. I came into this school with this wonderful piece and I'd like to take it with me. At no other moment will I ever feel as connected to a group of people than I did when we were singing that song. This performance is great, it brings back memories and tears to my eyes once more.
If your choir is thinking of preforming it, then stop now and say yes. You will not regret making this piece a part of your choir experience. Much love, good day (:
I sang this in my freshman choir TOO. Love this song...I'm a sophomore this year. How coincidental ;)
At my high school it's a tradition that we sing it every year for our February concert.
I wish that was what my high school did. *sigh*
My teacher refuses to do it again even just look at it for fun. But we'll revisit one of our Requiems instead just cause. Oh well, I guess.
Another great piece is HoriZons. Beautiful, if you've a capable choir. If your choir isn't up to par, Per say, you won't be able to capture the mood right.
Another personal favorite among the rest of my choir is Omnia Sol. So simple but it brings tears still. That's our choir tradition. ♡
I think I'm spelling these all correctly... I'm too tired rn to double check lol
***** We were able to keep singing the song for graduations each year. Ive been out of highschool for a good 6 years now and my choir teacher is now retiring from highschool. So now i get to go back with alot of others and sing this song for him! I know what you mean though this is one of the most beautiful songs we sang in choir.
Music has always been my passion. We are singing this in choir (im a high school senior). And I plan on becoming a music therapist. A few weeks ago I felt very discouraged, and failed at everything. I even considered giving up music. During choir rehersal that day we were running through this song. And at the end when we sing "let music never die in me" i started crying as I realized how much I love music, and how stupid I was for almost giving it up. I got a great score in NYSSMA last weekend, and my last high school choir concert is next week. And I'm even more determined to become a music therapist. I may forget my choir songs as the years pass. But this is one I will alwahs remember.
The no alleluahs will always make have the same effect on me. It was just so powerful and I enjoyed singing it with my choir.
in fact the music starts at 1:34
I can't listen to this song and not tear up. it's such a great piece. It's full of fantastic memories for me, it pretty much sums up the time I spent in high school choir.
We sang this at our honor choir then we sang it ourselves for our own choir. Still my favorite piece I've ever sang.
I'm doing this for my freshman year spring concert, and it is by far one of my favourite songs I have ever done
Amazing piece! True story: (excluding the concert) my freshman year we did this piece at my high school. It was always one of my favorite pieces. In my section (tenor) couple seniors always called this piece “the cakening “ and this is because we would always blare our “let’s bake, let’s bake a cake and sing” and so on at 7.00 and it is to this day one of my favorite memories of choir. It makes being a freshman much more relaxing with seniors like we had
Every time we rehearse this song, I end up crying. It's my amazing choir teacher's last year... The song is a very fitting song for her last year... I'll miss her so much..
Reymo this year is my choir teacher’s last year as well, and I’m only a sophomore :(
Singing this Senior year in high school brought me to tears. The summer before senior year my mom died and I had little going for me, so when we sang this song it reminded me that the world is beautiful and I'm not alone as long as there's music in it💕 that was 3 years ago and I still remember every note and lyric I contributed to the masterpiece 🎶 let music never die in me!
Absolutely beautiful! The music is magic and the words are what we need to hear. Listen, listen, listen.
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This is my absolute favorite song that we performed my entire school choir career (from 6th grade to senior year.)
The emotions this song brought out of every person in our honor choir was chilling. We never worked so hard to make a song perfect before. I remember perfecting the “alleluia” on each section.
When we performed at our high school I remember freaking out the 5th graders in the front row because of the whispering part. We enjoyed that this song moved people that weren’t just in choir.
On my last week of high school I still remember one of the other students going to the piano while everyone was talking loudly, turned away from the piano. She started playing the opening keys and every person that sang that song stopped talking mid sentence. At that point it had been atleast a full year since we had performed it. Needless to say we sang every cord with so much enthusiasm.
It’s been 5 almost 6 full years and I would bet that everyone in our choir still knows the opening cords and would sing our hearts out to this amazing piece.
THIS SONG MAKES ME FEEL SOME TYPE OF WAY JESUS
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This song hurts now, but I'll always love it
4:37 gets me everytime
Claire Mouton I sang this in 7th grade and I loved this part. It’s pretty much the climax of the song.
Claire Mouton Same.. It’s so emotional.
I love this song a lot. I'm a junior in high and my school choirs & I sang this as a combined choir last week at our spring concert! Everyone loves this song.
I just got done performing this with none other than THE Joseph Martin
At ONU? I was there!!
Nashadthenashad Awesome!
Shanequilibrium i did this today with him and got a selfie and autograph at abac!!
I bet it was epic!
Everything about this song is flawless.
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This is one of my favorite songs that I ever sung in the choir I was in!! Such a powerful message in this song...
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Did this song in chorus! And I don’t know why but it hit me and it was my favorite I did out of the three years I did chorus and the many concerts!! Like i don’t know why!! This song just oof 🥰🥰🥰🥰😩❤️❤️
We did this my senior year of high school in choir. Everyone was so excited to finally get to do it after years of listening to the recording that my choir teacher had. It was amazing!
absolutely beautiful
Our Choir is singing this at Carnegie Hall in February 2013 among other pieces.
As beautiful as this song is, to hear it with Martin's full orchestration will blow you away.
My High School Choir just sang this song this pass Mass Choir Festival.
This song won my school state in 2002.. Still gives me chills to hear this song being performed.
My choir and I sang this for Districts and State for class A and we received straight ones both times. This was a main song, our best song. But do you know why that is? Because we sang it with a lot more energy and emotion then this. Don't get me wrong, this is a beautiful song and I'm happy to hear it again. But it sounds like you guys just sang it exactly how it was writen, no movement on the notes where there should have been, and it's very anti climatic. The times where it should be nice and loud then suddenly quiet. None of that happens. I'm half way through the song right now and I stopped to type this. I'm gonna listen to the last half. I pray the ending is just as amazing as it should be, our ending was so amazing we made all three of the judges cry and all of the other choirs out there listening to us standing up as the clap and cheer for us.
haha you sound like my old choir conductor. I did this my senior year last year in our school's top choir. The choir stopped competing in NYSMA because it kept just getting gold with distinction so I don't know if we would make judges cry, but we definitely had to put emotion into it, even if it was fake, just so our conductor would shut up haha. We also did it faster but he always seemed to speed things up. But I don't think you should judge other people, sometimes it's not enough to just listen, you can get a sense by just watching too. And even so, it was our insane conductor that made our school so musically renowned, it's what made us so good even though we hated them. Maybe this choir doesn't have someone pushing them so hard.
Ryan Dale well, music has always been made for interpretation. Just because it's different doesn't mean it's bad :)
I sang this in 7th grade choir. My first year of being in choir in fact. It was one of the first songs I sang realizing that I love music and I love singing. Now I’m onto my second year of varsity choir going into my sophomore year. Life really is good!
I remember my freshman year singing this song at cordova high and every time I sung this song I just felt in love with this song because it sounds so good and relaxing
This is the song that my school's concert and chamber choirs perform at Graduation. It has great sentimental meaning for me. It's beautifully performed, and I didn't really hear too much of the guys in the beginning, but it evened out over the next few pages.
This is by far one of my favorite songs. Did this as a large men’s ensemble piece and loved it and next year I’ll be a choir president and I shall conduct this as my final song
Our high school chorus is singing this song. It is so powerful!!! Amazing!
This was one of our all state pieces this year...one of my favorites.
The lyrics are so powerful when you sing them. My favorite choir song:)
we sing this song every year at my highschool :) its a beautiful tradition.
We are learning this in choir right now and I am LOVING this song!
beautiful music. simply beautiful.
Were singing this this in my middle school choir ❤
my Jr. year is highschool my choir sang this and it was a song that only three people in the choir love it
The story behind this song is so tragic. It really adds a lot of emotion for me every time I think of the song.
I love this song so much; our men's choir came first at UIL singing this. It's just spine tingling
It’s an on going tradition for like 20 years now that at the last choir concert all the choirs join the chamber choir on stage and we sing it. It’s lit not gonna lie
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My TTBB choir is doing this song this year. And I absolutely fell in love with it.
I performed this song in high school and that was 15 years ago. That's the kind of impact this song has. Arts programs are so crucial to successful education.
As much as I appreciate live versions of songs, I really want a SATB version of a studio recording. Does anyone have a link? Thanks.
In my senior year of high school, they were considering cutting the music programs altogether. Our choir director had us sing this song during our last concert to make a statement. They didn't end up cutting music. That was in the spring of 2000, and this song still has a huge impact on me.
This song is so beautiful
Beautiful just beautiful bravo bravo I'm in love with this piece
Sounds better with the full orchestra but they were still good. Sang this in high school. It's such an amazing song!!
iv never heard a better performance of this song EVER!! this just brought me to tears...singing this is highschool choir just really makes me apprietiate the beauty of the piece. there is so much meaning behind this song.
Singing this for our chorus concert, love it
Eight years ago, my school performed this song at a school board meeting. The choir hasn't had it's budget cut since!
This is what my 6⃣th grade class is going to sing for the cluster concert.
This is so much fun being the lowest voice!!
It's called bass, you music pleb.
Yes, I know. However, when you sing lower than the other basses, it makes for a much more interesting piece.
If you are the only one singing an octave lower (which I assume is what you meant by the general, "sing lower" phrase) then you sound like an idiot in the choir. When bass 1s and 2s harmonize, it sounds wonderful.
Far3288 Never make assumptions. By lowest voice, I mean that I'm the only bass that sings the low splits. While I can sing half an octave lower than the others, I don't unless it is written in the music.
Beautifully done
yeye! were doing this and many other songs :D i love it and it sounds wonderful.
Song starts at 1:34
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this is soooo beautiful!! my chior sang this song but it didnt sound half as good as this!! BEAUTIFUL!
The Northeast Nevada Honor Choir is currently working on this piece. It's fantastic!
I preform this song this year it's sad it makes me think of of mice and men
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were singing this for valley choral
Wow..................................................so good..................song.......
We're doing it this year for Valley Choral!
In singing this for Monarch Men! :D
#GoPLHSMonarchs!
Go you!!!!!! My first experience with real music was with Mr. Keller and The Awakening and Dies Irae
We're singing this for Grand Night of Music
Well thank god their sopranos hit that eighth note quintuplet correctly
Also there is a fair amount of spread vowels...
The tempo of the piano seemed slower.
Thanks for sharing! I'm looking for program info from your Montana 2016 All State Chorus, and unfortunately, am not having much luck. Any leads would be most appreciated. (I'm specifically looking for the name of the conductor and the pieces performed by the highest level SATB group. This is in conjunction with dissertation research for the University of Georgia.) Thanks in advance!
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"Ah" vowels are being squished. Too wide. But holy crap I LOVE this song and this is a beautiful interpretation! I'm crying!
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It helps to have the backstory.
This is a choir full of gorgeous voices and this is a beautiful piece. I hate to quibble with one single thing about it, but I was very disappointed in the tempo. It was SO VERY SLOW that it took away from a lot of the beauty and passion in the piece. I kept waiting for the AWAKENING to occur, which never happened for me! The singing was so very beautiful, the accompanist obviously plays with brilliance, but it was very disappointingly S L O W. In all sections!. I mean, like falling asleep slow in parts.
Other than tha one of the best renditions I have heard--- the voices are so very good, and the blend and balance of the voices was near perfection. But especially at the end, I did not BELIEVE the siners when they were talking about replacing emptiness with" joy and glorious sound." Remember the part "let music never die in me!" .. I was afraid it was going to.
I think you guys should work on feeling the words more. You sang them beautifully, but "no alleluia, not one hosanna" should sound angry and powerful, because that's the last thing you want to lose. Just constructive criticism. Other than that, I thought it was AMAZING! Keep up the good work!
1:33
6:56
Ummmm........wow...
The ONLY reason this piece is not lasting the test of time is because every choir who sings it, sings it way too slow. It's taxing on the both singer and listener. Can you hear the choir BEGGING to move it along.... there ya go! more of that.
Funny how their mf sounds so much like their ppp. Not the best representation of this piece .