World, O World - Jacob Collier's beautiful new choral piece - Sept. 6, 2023
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- Recorded live at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center from sixth row center featuring the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers, former members of the Aeolians. Ferdinand is the Director of Choral Activities, Chair of the Music Department, and a Full Professor at Oakwood University.
Allow me to add a few thoughts... We're transported by the the soaring, piercing melody line and richness of the harmonies in this new piece, but consider the words (below) on which Collier's music takes flight. He has written an appreciation for the glory of life as seen through the eyes of someone who is at the end of their road, and we know - we pray - Collier is only at the very beginning of his. This is an artist who looks across the breadth of his life to come and foresees that one day, it will all end; he will have to say goodbye. He knows that leaving this world he relishes and adores and pines for like a lover will be the ultimate loss. He through this poem sings like one who's heartsick today for the parting that's surely coming, but in so many tomorrows from now. So I ask - Who feels at this level? Who at his age has ever felt these pangs and also been able to express them with such transcendent skill? As Jacob steps out onto the public stage and simultaneously matures in his private life, what in the world is yet to come from this once-in-a-century talent? - GR
World, O World
by Jacob Collier
World, oh, world
You've been my home
Home
Home
Now it's time for me to go
Give me the wings to fly, fly
Sudden rise and sudden fall
You've been with me through it all
Always keeping by my side
Always by my side
Love, oh, love
You've been a friend
Love, oh
Love, oh
Now the road must reach an end
Come, it is time to go (It's time to go)
Time is swift to come to pass
Nothing stays and nothing lasts
Always moving on (Moving on and on)
Always moving on
And when I call your name
I think I love again
I lay my world upon your hands
Again, again
And when you call my name
I feel my fire again
Oh, you are my soul
Oh, take me home
Until we meet
Until we meet again
Until we meet again
Until we meet again
Goodbye
Until we meet again, until we meet again
Meet again
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Of all the compositions Jacob has created, this one will outlive us all. The layering, the dissonance and myriad of unusual but complementary chords, it is all over the top gorgeous. I cannot imagine each singer having memorized his/her complicated part, but I don't see any of them reading scores either. A challenging piece, for sure, and the choir really pulled it off well. I hope he one day does an entire release of just original choir pieces.
This is the song that will play when Jacob leaves Earth to return to his home planet
I recently received a diagnosis that has me close to leaving at 40 years old. I’ve had a wonderful life and Jacob has been part of that…sometimes about this has me breaking down for the first time in a while. Just cathartic. ❤
If this song doesn’t win best arrangement, I will actually throw hands
I had the privilege of performing this piece with this choir and Jacob Collier in Cincinnati for the 2023 ACDA! Such an incredible experience and a beautiful song ❤
This is like if Messiaen and Eric Whitacre had a baby. Absolutely gorgeous harmonies and perfectly executed. Bravo to all.
That one bass 👌
please sit up straight, Jacob. you are too precious to go through chronic back pain.
I was one of the basses in his 2024 Allstate choir for Kmea truly an awsome experience
Wow. Just wow. I have been listening non stop to this song since the album dropped and the live version is giving me even more goosebumps. I want this song played at my funeral.
The power of music indeed... I've been listening to Djesse vol 4 for the past few days and I'm still getting chills whenever I hear this stunningly beautiful piece.. I'd love to know what Jacob would be feeling and thinking right there. If there was ever a antidote for these dark days of division, pain and confusion, this is it. I'm a 6ft guy, big and burly and yet, I'm moved to tears whenever I hear work like this.
I hope Djesse 4 ends with this piece. It's kind of the culmination of all Jacob has done, he writes with maturity like many of the greatest composer's in their prime, and sprinkles his own flavor of harmony to boot. I think this is his magnum opus.
World O World Lyrics
that SOPRANO... YEEEEESSSSSSS
Our Mozart.......
Let me be the first to compliment the 2nd bass
4:16
Shades of Lauridsen and Whitaker, while still being distinctly Collier. Wonderful.
I love that we can see Jacob sitting there watching and listening with us all, i hope this will be on djesse vol 4!
Amazingly beautiful