Let My Love Be Heard - Jake Runestad
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- "Let My Love Be Heard" by Jake Runestad. Performed by the Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir. Dr. Jonathan Talberg, conductor. Presented in memory of Nohemi Gonzalez.
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"Angels, where you soar
Up to God's own light,
Take my own lost bird
On your hearts tonight;
And as grief once more
Mounts to heaven and sings,
Let my love be heard
Whispering in your wings."
(From "A Prayer" by Alfred Noyes) - Hudba
In Spring 2019 my choir was performing this piece. My husband was losing his battle with a brain tumor.
We performed it 6 days before he passed away on Good Friday. I continue to be humbled by its beauty.
Thank you, Kathleen. I'm so sorry for your loss.
@@JakeRunestad Thank you Jake. Your words mean a lot. I sing with the Two Rivers Chorale and Tim Sawyers continues to give us your meaningful songs to perform. Thank you for your gift!
I can only imagine what that must have been like. Beautiful but so very sad. This Good Friday just past was 5 years to the day since we buried my beloved wife. We lost her to a brain tumour. Listening to this piece and this performance again today, I meditated on the words in a new way. Lots of tears, but what a gift to have music that helps us to feel, and to release. To be. Thanks @Kathleen Olson for sharing, and thanks @Jake Runestad for your beautiful composition.
@@markkennedy1022 I send my deepest sympathies to you for the loss of your wife. 🌹🥀🌹
@Kathleen Olson Deepest sympathy to you in the loss of your beloved husband. 🥀🥀🥀
When there are no words to speak, there is music.
I agree, but also these lyrics are beautiful
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Does anyone else think the picture of the choir seems to be a moving video at first glance if you're not paying attention?
IlIl IlIl This entire time I didn’t know it was a picture..
It was exactly the same when I watched it! Only halfway through I realised it was a picure and not the footage of the recording. Strange.
I watched the whole thing and didn’t notice until I just came down in the comments
Same here!
It took me like five seconds while I tried to figure out why the conductor was frozen in such an awkward pose.
When the tenors go up to that high A on the last "be heard", TOO GOOD
It's even better singing it! Check out Prairie Voices and Konektis on here singing it together. I am in Konektis (the salt and pepper beared guy on the far right). So much fun to crank out those notes. Incredibly powerful to sing!!
guibox3 alright you have forever earned my respect 😊 my high school choir hasn't done this nor am i a tenor sadly but i would like to sing this just because how amazing the piece itself sounds!
I sang this tonight. As a tenor... I was n tears. this piece of music is so moving.
@@aeknipp7606 I've sang it as a baritone and every time I hear it I'm longing for the opportunity to sing it alongside my choral brothers and sisters once more.
The falsetto had to come out when I sung that
Choir - thank you. Tenors - you shall all go directly to heaven for your work in this piece.
HAH! Tenor here - you got me laughing. That high A is something else
I feel like tenors are so under-appreciated. Y’all got the best parts of every song and you really carry the power in those high notes!!! ✌🏼✨
The tenors are amazing! ❤️🙏
The basses and sopranos as well
By far the best performance of this piece. Nothing can ever compare to the emotional depth and strength of this performance. It should be regarded as a pinnacle of choral determination, and should serve as an inspiration to any group. This, is how you perform music. This is how you bring music to life.
Ikr
AND THEY LEARNED IT IN ONE REHEARSAL
Hannah Lomara I WAS ABOUT TO SAY😲😲😲😲😲
I agree
This is just a bit better: czcams.com/video/72-X0yPc3Hs/video.html
I almost cried several times while listening to this. You can feel the aching and grief in this song. I wondered how the choir could acheive such a sound, and after hearing the story, it makes sense. Rest in peace.
Literally,
Jebediah Honker-Tonker This brought me to tears, I heard all the emotions and by the end of the song I just thought about everything, just everyone emotion came crashing down
the voices in these choirs over the decades have preserved all that is light in love in my tiny heart with their blending of voice to unearth emotion! Amazing desire to transmit and rebirth!
I love reading comments like these as a person in choir
How is it that pain and sorrow produces the perfect sound… I listened to this so many times and each time I shed a tear or rather many… absolutely love this… the first time I listened to this I had to sit down afterwards because it felt like I was holding my heart in my hands, couldn’t move for a while…❤ thank you choir for doing this, for singing this…
I LOVE when the choir gradually get louder at 3:45- 4:35! and the Tenors! I could listen to this everyday...
Jc Garica I think anyone can
I love the whole part, rocks
The section gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it. It’s so incredibly powerful and you become embraced by the emotion of the song and it’s absolutely astonishing.
Coming back to this song after learning of a miscarriage in my family, I wanted to play this aloud for that little baby I will someday meet in heaven🤍
Thinking about how this song is representing the yearning to have your passed away loved ones hear your love for them makes me so emotional. And when the choir gradually gets louder and higher at the peak of the song, with “let my love be heard” being repeated, it’s like it’s your love desperately trying to reach the deceased, and with each repeat, it tries harder and harder, never giving up. Whether or not it actually reaches is up to debate, but either way, it makes me cry every time. This song is absolutely beautiful, and I want it played at my funeral
im a senior in hs and we’re singing this. i’m going to bawl on the risers as i’ll be singing for my school for the last time. i couldn’t ask to be gifted a greater song to end to.
Going into my junior year of hs, my teacher refuses to do this song though. Kinda sad its my favorite one
To @jenna5260: High school age is too young for this song.
@@motocaleb7508 Your music (choral) teacher is correct. This song is too emotionally advanced for high school age young people, during this time in history. They can not do it justice.
I’m crying like a baby. She will forever be remembered because of you all.
Sang this at my school...Very powerful and moving. Made my dad cry...he never does.
This song, my god. They did a great job of making me cry in the middle of Algebra...
Listen, there were tough times in the kingdom.
@G G Something much important than algebra (in my opinion)
Are u sure algebra didnt make u cry?
Jacob Taylor A little bit of both
Right?!?! I was in govt/econ doing an essay while listening to this and i'm just in class crying looking at my computer screen like what xD
this actually makes me cry so hard. the tenors are so good😭😭
i performed this with an incredibly talented choir and i'll never forget my first time making audience members cry. This is just the most beautiful piece.
I cried and cried. Memories of my mum. My dad's fight against dementia. Loss and the human need to hope and hope and be heard. Thank you.
There is so much wonderful tone painting in this piece.. from the whisper of a prayer, to the ahhs being the angels wings as they float up to heaven, to the prayer gradually growing to a plea of angush, and a cry out to God.
I saved my fathers life in 2007 because when the paramedics couldnt find anything wrong I went against their recommendation and took him to a hospital. It happened again in 2018 when he was visiting from overseas and i had a gut feeling he was hiding something from me.
The third time he caught CoVid. I tried to come save him again but the czech republic closed to border because of the severity of the pandemic. I failed and he paseed away. As ridiculous as it sounds I still believe that had I been able to get there I could have saved him one more time.
Just the text of the poetry is enough to draw tears. The music, however adds so much, however
Its almost as the words and the music were meant to be together.
I wish I had heard this piece in the time after my father passed. It would have helped me so much.
I feel like during this COVID-19 time, we all need reassurance. This song is my re-assurance, and I honor those who have passed away in the past, and now. Thank you for this song.
Wake up, it's a media-demic. How many piles of bodies have you driven past? This is all a smokescreen to cover who the federal reserve system is bailing out this time.
@@Chap2960 I did not bring up the covid hoax, I merely reacted to that official lie. I suggest you keep your political intrigues out of it.
@@Chap2960 Then why are you reading comments? And the fact that there is no pandemic is not "my idea". The "idea' that the Covid-19 hysteria is a media-demic comes from those medical doctors who refuse to be coerced into repeating official lies, the doctors who actually see patients unlike Fauci who hasn't seen a patient in his entire 52-year career as a bureaucrat.
With the current estimate of some 45,000,000 million babies tortured to death through legalized murder, "we" are ripe for judgment, but the SARS COV 2 virus is not that judgment. The judgement is what the demons who have perpetrated this hoax plan to do next. "Lockdown" is a prison term and dissenters, other that the fake "Black Lies Matter", are already being persecuted and prosecuted.
But you are listening to the peaceful song, so this comment won't affect you.
@@Chap2960 You believe there is a "COVID-19 time" and that is 100% political indoctrination, not fact. You posted it as a primary comment, there for all to see, including me, who gets very upset at people who acquiesce to official lies. The popular submission to the perpetrators of the covid hoax put a majority of the world population in danger of starvation next year and has impoverished the majority of Americans, those who live from check to check at minimum wage jobs. Wall Street recipients of the "bailout trillions" are flourishing. Does that not hint that covid-19 is a smokescreen to distract from nefarious trillions (23 to be exact) in financial bailouts to the "too-big-to-fail" financiers? Those trillions are to be collected from common people in the form of the "hidden" tax of inflation plus direct and indirect taxation.
@@Chap2960 Peace is here: czcams.com/video/PUX_wutcV88/video.html
"I feel like during this COVID-19 time, we all need reassurance." is purely political. I have not altered my life in the slightest to conform to lawless dictates from stuffed shirt bureaucrats. May your chains rest lightly on you as you obediently cover your face and wash your hands diligently in this world full of bacteria and virus that you have lived in for years and that has not changed.
I remember singing this in HS, and this was the video our director used to introduce us to this piece. To this day, all these years later, I still come back and listen to it.
It still channels all the emotions that I dug into when singing as an S1, a range I’ve lost to damage and time. I mourned then the people I’ve lost in my life, and now the person I used to be as well.
I don't know how I'm going to perform this without crying on stage! Honestly one of the most beautiful and heartfelt songs I've ever heard.
I don't know how to explain it, but when it comes to 3:12, I can imagine the sound as prayers and thoughts that we send for the lost ones being brought up by the angels, and finally reach God at 4:30. For me, that section is the most emotional part of the song. Thank you for creating such a beautiful and heartwarming music, Jake.
That's an amazing way to view it. It changed my perspective on the piece.
Powerful observation bless you Ishfah
@@jordanklotz1944 Thank you Jordan
@@ShepMaestro Thank you Terrance
I woke up this morning, my heart heavy from the loss of lives in Florida. I was listening on my way to school, and was weeping. Thank you Jake. Beautiful.
My choir performed this song as a tribute to the Florida shooting victims. 💛💛
I sang this in my choir in community college for our previous student’s memorial service, as he ended his life. it was tragic, as he wanted to be a professor in music and he was a true mentor to most of us. His memorial service was on his 24th birthday. we all held hands with tears running down our faces, but we sang with such power and passion and grief. his parents were in the front row. We all sobbed during and after singing. my voice silenced out and i mouthed out the words because the pain was too much my voice just stopped, but as a performer you keep going. in a few days, it’ll be 2 years since we all found out he passed away, and I found myself being guided to this song recently. Maybe it’s him telling me he was there listening and he’s reminding me, saying thanks. ❤️
Truly beautiful 😢 similar story here, performing this in community college soon to commemorate those who found their way into a dark place 💔
My choir was rehearsing to perform this piece in March. Two weeks before our scheduled performance, the Coronavirus caused the shutdown of most of the country...I’m a 2020 graduate. For me, this song is a quiet remembrance of the lives that have been lost, and a reflection of my last year of high school. This is one of my absolute favorite choral pieces.
I had the great pleasure of having
Jake Runestad come and conduct my choir for a rehersal of this piece. It’s still in my memory, and I’m grateful that we got to have such a close connection to origins of the song.
I hope any that are grieving can find peace ❤
This song is medicine for my heart today. Stunning to listen to, and to sing. Thank you.
It’s hard to imagine the amount of stagger breathing they had to practice to get to this perfection. Truly a piece that touches your heart and can be interpreted individually for each and every listener.
Today, it feels like God is saying it back to me. I believe heaven longs for us in the same way as we long for those we have lost.
This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read❤ I’m singing this song this coming weekend and I’ll be sure to channel your comment into my musicality
This piece is absolutely sublime. It is as though the voices of Heaven touching down to Earth. I can't explain it, but it is superbly ethereal and an absolute masterpiece. An incredibly moving tribute to Nohemi. The text speaks so powerfully from the yearning of the heart to the angels. The chords move me to tears every time. Thank you for this piece, Jake Runestad.
Justin Utz your words moved me to listen to this piece.
I cry every time I listen to this. This particular performance is so good. It is not rushed and the blend of the voices evokes such power. You can’t rush grief nor can you really show what it feels like, but this song gets so close.
this song is just so beautiful im in a high school choir and i remember traveling and hearing a college sing it and the sound just filled the entire room and it was the most beautiful and powerful thing ive ever heard in my entire life
I had chills up my spine the whole song...every note is haunting and beautiful and I truly felt a prick in my heart while listening to this
So I've never really appreciated choirs enough, but at a concert I went to, there was a staff choir that sung this. I balled my eyes out, I cried when it was over. I'd never quite appreciated choirs until I heard this song. I now love choirs. I can't get enough, but I just had to hear this song again. You can feel the emotion in their voices
I'm speechless.... "Let My Heart Be Heard" is such a powerful, beautiful, and peaceful gift from Jake Runestad... Jake, you truly are touched by the heart of God.....
This kind of music makes me feel the most connected to God, and I’m just so grateful for this😭
That build up....THAT IS HOW YOU GRADUALLY CRESCENDO TO THE CLIMAX!! Beautiful executed and emotionally sound ❤️❤️
It's tough to listen through, you can quite literally hear their love, and immense pain. Nothing compares to the feeling of the synchrony of song with people you love with music written with such grace. I hope they are all still singing in one way or another. Less politics in/about school, MORE CHOIR!
When i heard my high school chamber choir sing this i closed my eyes and became transported to the heavens. It truly took me somewhere else
Such a beautiful, powerful piece. I lost my boyfriend of three years on September 28, 2016 and it's music like this that helps get me through the day. Thank you for sharing your gift with the world.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your story and how the music affects you. It means so much to hear that.
i listen to this every single day. Jake Runestad is one of the greatest composers of our time.
I could listen to this song over and over again for the rest of my life and it wouldn't ever become any less amazing.
i come back to this recording when i’m sad, when i’m happy, practically any time, anywhere. it’s jaw dropping. just stunning.
A fellow choir member and close friend took her life last year and we sang this in her memory. Thank you for writing such beautiful music.
I’m a college student at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Talberg was the conductor for the Arizona All State choir when I was in it. This song reminds me of why I’m going into education every time I hear it and I cry just as hard now as I did the first time. I’ve never had such a beautiful experience singing and have yet to enjoy that again. This song gets me through very hard parts of my life. Thank you, Jake Runestad for composing this masterpiece and thank you Dr. Talberg for the unbelievable experience of singing it.
I'm so glad we still have people from the Arizona All-State Choir going to this as a constant reminder of why we keep perusing our paths in music! Thank you for being one of the 200 others singing this with me; and thank you Dr. Talberg and Jake Runestad for experiences I'll forever cherish!
This is why when there's nothing left, when all words have been spoken and actions taken, you sing. You sing and you pray someone hears you. You sing for all your emotions and your loss and your pain and your grief and you give yourself to music. This is why I love music, this is why I sing. When words fail, music speaks. Music is the one langauge that the entire world understands. It brings us all together and unites us and reminds us that through everything, our struggles and triumphs and prejudices and feelings towards one another, we all feel the same deep down. We all feel this. When screaming to be heard isn't enough, singing will never fail you.
ThankYou Jake Runestad. 🙏🏻ThankYou BCCCChoir. 🙏🏻ThankYou Dr. Talberg. 🙏🏻
Sang this for the last time at my high school graduation a few weeks ago and cried as soon as we were done worked with this pieces for whole year and even though I ended up making up the part it still sounded amazing ❤😭
I am currently in my high school choir and I love pieces like this (similar ones are Musica Animam Tangens, Sleep, At the Round Earths Imagined Corners, and Flanders Fields) but I had never been moved to tears by a song until I heard this. A truly beautiful piece of music.
Soon after I posted this comment, I sent this song to my choir director and he ended up choosing it for our state ensemble piece. Years later I still come back to this song because it is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever had the pleasure of singing
I really cried listening, it's like you really felt the pain, and the want that your love would be heard
4:27 ... oh man
I feel like I've seen you comment on a lot of choral music
Every few months I come back to this recording and am amazed by the beauty of this choir. It truly feels like for a brief moment I am close to touching the heavens and feeling the love of those we've lost. Thank you for this gift.
Just recently came across this video and it sent tears streaming down my face. I am a member of the Salt Lake Vocal Artists and I need to bring this song up to my director. I would love to sing this beautiful piece of music. And what an amazing message this video brings to the world. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Thank you so much! I'm a big fan of SLVA!
Jake Runestad And we are a big fan of you! We are singing Peace of Wild Things at our concert this Saturday :)
Johnnie Stoker SLVA is phenomenal!!!! I would love to hear you guys tackle this piece
YESSSSSSSSSS
Did you end up singing it? :) Its truly a beautiful piece and even more wonderful to sing.
I think, I’ve never, I don’t know…. This is the most beautiful and purest form of music I’ve ever heard in my life… Mr Runestad, I just want to say thank you. Every time I listen to this piece, I can’t help but feel emotional. This piece touched me in so many ways. This has to be music beyond the limitations of sound… Thank you to the choir as well for singing it so beautifully.
In August 2020, a very dear friend of mine lost her battle with osteosarcoma, 12 days away from her 17th birthday. I asked my choir director if we could do this peace in her memory and it still makes me bawl. Love you Ady.
Just sang this for state contest, and it was the most moved I've ever seen an audience. Our school is know for being really good so we had probably around 200 people come to contest to hear us sing and It was so amazing to be apart of.
sang this in 2019 senior year of high school. It was the most amazing moment of my life Isn’t it truly such an amazing song to be able to sing and be apart of?
This piece will always hold such a large place in my heart. In college we performed this piece for our spring tour, a week before our tour we had a member and close friend of mine commit suicide. Performing this piece was one of the most emotional and heart wrenching things we as a group had done and this song really helped us grieve in a way that words never could.
I am in absolute awe. No words can describe the presence this song brings. The emotion and connection brought through this piece of music is something unfathomable.
Tuks Camerata sang this piece... They did it justice... I'm happy they also kept the emotion in this song. I'm always in tears
I am gonna perform this in the 2022 Florida All-State High School Concert Choir wit you directing, this is one of my most anticipated songs to perform, i can't wait to see you Mr. Runestad
I’m auditioning too. Hope we make it 🤞
I had the blessing of being part of TPSMEA all state for 2019, in band.
The choir performed before us; they had about 200 vocalists; there was a reading before the performance of this, about the students’ biggest burdens and fears, some of which I really related to.
Let me tell you, with 200 singers, and that beautiful dynamic capabilities, I cried. Hard
Zachary Coronado yeah, I was one of the bass 1s and I started tearin up man
Incredible music and a tribute to their friend. This singing made me cry for those in my life that I have lost. It feels as though G-d can hear these voices and the departed can appreciate our love for them
Wow!!!! This is heavy. I’m listening and In tears. Absolutely beautiful. Rest in Love Nohemi! 💛💛💛💛
I know I am late to this video but it is just beautiful. It’s amazing how wonderful it sounded in such short notice. Such a beautiful job, I got chills and goosebumps the whole video, bringing me to tears. One of my favorites!
After that big part just ends, it makes me think of how Nohemi’s life was cut short, such a tragic story.
almost a month ago, my high school choir had the pleasure of being apart of the adopt-a-choir program at Texas Christian University, and the TCU University Singers sang this song for us in a small, dome auditorium. it echoed throughout the small space... there’s nothing more ethereal than hearing this sound vibrating all around you with so much passion. if i could go back to that day and sit in that moment again, i would. it’s something you could never forget.
4:25 that chord on heard has me ascending 🤧 the power of music ✨🎶
I had the privilege of learning from Dr. Talbert once. He is an incredible artist with the ability to make music so much more than just notes on a paper. This is one of those songs that can enter your heart and deeply stir your feelings. Thank you for this song. ❤
We performed this at the University of Texas Arlington my senior year of college. I can’t even begin to describe how this piece affected me and the other members of our choir. Thank you Mr. Runestad for sharing something so full of love and beauty with the world.
Oh I just realized it was an image: probably because this song moved me so much I thought the image was moving! :P
Anyways this is an amazing/powerful piece!
@ 2:46 the chord on "love" is so beautiful oh my goodness i want to cry it was so beautifully orchestrated ughh
Last year I sang this for All-State, directed by Dr. Talberg. It still makes me cry.
This is the most beautiful choral piece I have ever heard in my life. This actually beats anything by Mozart, who is also known for his beautifully orchestrated choral pieces. Every time I hear this I cry and shiver.
My 8th grade choir teacher showed us this during class and this brought me to tears. You can hear the pain and suffering in there voices when they sing this peice. Such a lovely choir and song.
Stumbled upon this song in early February, and sent it to my Director as I was left with chills and in awe. Nearly a month later I find out we are going to be performing it in the Pennsylvania All-State choir this year. Truly amazed by this song
Challenging music for any choir! Thoughtfully sung with a choir of solo voices to emphasize the beautiful chords. Wow!
I heard this song (and of Jake Runestad) for the first time in choir rehearsal this past week. I cannot believe this man has flew under my choral radar for so long. As we listened to this recording, tears welled up in my eyes. I'm so thrilled to be singing this this year. It will be epic and could very well be my favorite of our repertoire.
Thank you -- I wish you and your choir all the best!
today was my last day of highschool choir (im a senior), and we sang this in our safety vestibule since it's a very echoey space. for me it was completely new since i was only in this choir for one year, but many of my classmates knew it from the previous year and we had the sheet music, so i got to try singing it as well
I was really blown away. This song is just so wonderful in every way and i was so lucky to be surrounded by those singing it. best last day of choir ever.♡ It's a very special song.
I wish I had gone to meet you since you were recently in my city and my director met you too. Since I did not, I just want to say thank you for bringing this song into the world.
Im so proud to myself that i've been contribute as a bass at my high school choir singing this song, what a song,makes my hair all stands up even im the singer
this song along with "please stay" saved me. thank you.
So beautifully sung CSULB. Dr. Talberg has done extraordinary work with this ensemble.
Thank you, Allen! They are an extraordinary group!
@@JakeRunestad I sang in University Choir under Dr. Talberg when he first started at CSULB. His artistry has continually evolved since then and leads the choral department well.
When I listen to this piece today, I think of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. I hope this piece can provide comfort.
We are singing this in my high school choir. It is such a beautiful piece. When we get to the choir i have chills down my back. And when we are finished we can hear the echo. I even feel like i can hear the piano part even when our director isn't
playing it. So good.
I discovered this piece last weekend the same night I learned of my grandfather's passing. Words cannot express the importance this song has played in my grieving. Thank you for this. During the momentous build up towards the 4:00 minute mark, I can feel reassurance that he is okay in the beautiful power of the composition of this. I've sang in many choirs throughout my short life and had the honor to sing many beautiful pieces but none I've sang have compared to the shear beauty of this work.
I'm so sorry for your loss, Jacob. Thank you for your kind words about the music.
I am in a group called Voices of Fort Worth. We are a small a capella group in Texas. We are doing your piece for our spring concert. This piece brings so much emotion and is the reason why music can bring us all together. Thank you for composing such a wonderful piece.
This is what music is all about. After listening to both this and the UNT A Cappella Choir perform this, I am inspired to go out and do something meaningful because I will let my love for the people in my life be heard. I hope that I get to perform this one day in my life. Thank you for creating such a spectacular masterpiece!!
This is one of the very most beautiful choral settings I have ever heard, and It was performed with simple emotion and love. It is a once in a lifetime performance. It could not be replicated.
Listening to this piece already makes me emotional enough. Singing it must have been a different experience altogether. It's so much different when you're up there, surrounded by the sound. I would love to be able to sing this piece someday.
My sophomore year of high school my director's father passed. We recorded a video of the choir singing this piece. From a technical perspective, it was nothing to marvel at, but it was emotionally powerful. Every time I hear this piece performed I am reduced to a puddle of tears. This piece is truly wonderful.
Knowing the background of this song makes it not only really sad and beautiful, but it makes it an absolutely ESSENTIAL song for every professional choir to perform at some point
this needs more views. why isnt this viral yet.
Sobbed real tears. I listen to this video multiple times a day when I pray. Through music we are temporarily transported to heaven.
That last sentence is such a beautiful way to put it 🥺
This piece moves me deeply every time I hear it. It respects my sorrow, them takes me to a deep peace, combined in the heart in a way that only music can. Then I go to the shimmering transcendence of the crescendo, moving me closer to God. This is what it means to be swept away. Thank you Mr. Runestad. Thank you.
Recently did this song with my college choir. Sent shivers down my spine every time. Is easily one my favorite songs I've ever done, and I'm so happy that others can revel in the glory that is this beautiful tune, both to sing and to listen to!!!
That means a lot -- thank you for giving voice to the words!
This song makes me feel so happy to be a part of the choral community. I send my love to all who are hurting from loss and to all who have carried on the legacy of music. Please never stop singing.
Dr. Talberg just flew into Shanghai and was the guest conductor for our choir festival. We sung Nyon Nyon and Lift Mine Eyes-- it was amazing. I told him that I set my alarm clock to this recording every morning and he was like ECSTATIC! Love your music!!
Henry Gao My choir did Nyon Nyon last year, such a strange but fun song
This amazing man was our guest conductor for our 2018 ccsd all-state choir in Las Vegas, Nevada and I remember him telling us about a boy he had met in Shanghai who told him how that boy would wake up to this recording every morning and I cry and feel this song everytime I hear it.. singing has it been An amazing honor and it’s such a coincidence that you have commented this because those were one of the many stories that he has told us that I remembered. :) did u write it on a index card and told him? Or did u just come up and tell him? Lol he would use index cards because he doesn’t like it when people raise their hands during rehersalss 😂😂 anyways I hope you had an amazing time with Dr. Talberg as much as I did and I hope you keep singing!!
Singing for times of grief is one of the moments that brings me closest to whatever higher power there is. It's like exposing your soul to the heavens and praying with every ounce of passion and spirituality you have. There's nothing like it.
Literally brought me to tears I faking love choral music and the community in side it
I really love how they portrayed this piece and their feelings really poured through as they mourned for their fellow friend.
You have lost a loved one. You just want them to hear your love. You are climbing the tallest latter trying to reach heaven to express the love and grief you feel. With every crescendo is a step closer. You eventually accept that you cannot reach heaven, because god said it’s not your time yet. So instead, he lifts you to the mountain tops so you can scream your love and let it echo. And then you finally feel at peace. That’s my interpretation of this piece.
This is the most beautiful song I have ever listened to. I'm moved to tears.