The Moses Hogan Chorale (Elijah Rock: Live)

[derekyaay]

What is the name of the first song they sing before elijah rock as the introducer is giving her speech?



[peneraserlove]

Breathtaking. There are no other words.

[Ninjewz62]

Jesus

[Jdot185]

I heart this song. Those T1's better sing "Hallelujah Jesus"!!! 4:22 You see their heads moves down with the notes?????? #LoveIt. And is it just me or the A2's are slowing every1 down with their "Rock Elijah" and/or the Sopranos' "Comin Up, Lordy" is being rushed. the end started getting a lil crazy as far as timing with the women's parts.

[EraseAllMemory]

My Concert Choir is performing this piece this semester - Oh My Gosh! I sure hope we can do it justice...this is amazing!

[bdrittel]

great

[poopr1221]

Got to sing this last year with our high school choir. What an experience.

[Gary2837]

Beautiful presentation of this extremely great and moving Spiritual.

[bigjoy]

I used to LOVE singing that 1st soprano solo back in college! Aww, memories...

[emacstudios]

The solo "high notes" at the end is a good friend of mine. Her name is Bridget Bazile. I've always loved this piece.

[twixiepixie15]

wonderful! absolutely wonderful!! i love this piece to death...those basses and tenors...amazing!! and don't forget about those altos ;D man i remember singing this piece in high school, our alto section definitely turned into tenor 1/baritones at "if i could" sooo much fun :D thanks for posting!!

[rome20082acitynearu]

I love come here jesus if you please!!

[italianboi1234]

breath taking 

[jistanich]

what a pleasure! thank you for posting.

[TegaBear07]

this makes me love being black and classically trained!

[Babykinz5192008]

The High School choir i'm in is doing this song this Thursday. I'm sooo excited to sing it on stage :D and so what if he's singing with the women.. Go Sop2's :D

[Maceo4GOD]

Wow... Does any know who that first soprano is?? This chorale is just amazing!!!!

[rahraysymma]

OMG i wanted to cry beautiful High note in the soprano line ..gave me chills ..

[angelo90990]

post more video of this choir pls!!!!!!!!!!!

[Troubleclef02]

it was such a pleasure in meeting him.. Wonderful and man and Composer.. gone too soon

[musiclaw06]

When will we get to obtain a masters in spirituals or just MOSES HOGAN? wow! this man is so awesome. Gone to soon.!!!!

[Reluctantwriter7]

What a beautiful gift Moses Hogan left for the world. Thank God we were blessed by him.

[sweetJesus1234]

moses hogan is in my top 3 people to meet when i go to heaven

[lilricksaidso02]

when we lost moses hogan we lost the Michael jackson of choral music. my HS director and i both worship his musical genius. and my college director sang in his choir so i feel connected.. it would have been my dream to meet him

[OperaticRockstar]

Moses Hogan is probably my favorite composer. He will be missed! My high school choir (Paul M. Dorman) basically worships him. We have done this piece plus many more such as My Soul's Been Anchored, and Battle of Jericho. We love You Moses Hogan and the Moses Hogan Chorale!

[kidnflorida]

RIP Moses Hogan. He's composing for us in the Kingdom now.

[rabzog]

Excellent!!!!! Is this Moses Hogan himself directing? When was it performed?

[MarissaJanaye09]

yes! that's him!

[EmoneyCT313]

yes thats him, and this was performed back during the 114th National Baptist Convention.

[bailout4wallst]

fantastic

[princeofcrunk20o8]

i love this

[kenndogg]

me and my friends play around with this song and we kill it!!! the good kind of killing!!! lol and i, yes i hit that high soprano part every time!!!! yeah range!!!

[MarissaJanaye09]

my choir is doing this song..and im singing alto 2..and i love it..we just don't have enought *soul*

there's only 3 black girls including myself..and one black male.

and there's about 50 ppl in the choir that well..have no soul..so we're going to murder this song..

sorry moses hogan & rest in peace.

[alceringa33]

That's a real shame. Perhaps you can lead by example - lots of singers don't really know what soul is until they are standing next to someone who does. All best

[carlosharris]

I would have loved to work with him

[MovableBass]

I love Moses Hogan and sing his music ever chance I get!!!

[classydancer84]

I am a countertenor, and I have done tenor 1 and soprano 1 on this song.. even sung the high D... on the obligato! I have sung this song so much.. I miss Moses Hogan!!!

[mm9913]

Amen. Moses Hogan was a gift and he lives on thru his music, missed and beloved.

[scarygreengiant]

I love Moses Hogan!

[tmac50488]

MY AUNT IS IN THIS VIDEO!!!!

She is the Alto to the far left!

I was trained by the late, great Moses Hogan and had the opportunity to sing for his the winter before he passed away.

Mr. Hogan- you will most definitely be missed!

[ajcooper2008]

You can't hear the T2 on the split!!! At 3:52 is that a guy singing soprano!! He singing with the women on if i could!!

[tdavidray]

You clearly don't know anything about this piece. Some people just don't know what to say.

[Bluebaritone]

@tdavidray i think that guy is singing with the second or first alto's, because in the music, the bass/baritone sing that "elijah rock" and there's nothing written for the tenors there, so i guess they have them sing alto 2, which is pretty much low for the actual altos

[lash1024]

That man is probably a countertenor, I know there was at least one in the Chorale.

[Eagle11800]

Yeah.

[bbbiggs]

It could be a tenor singing "if i could", or "where moses stood" because the notes on "where moses" are low low e flats. hell idk if i can hit that note and i'm a baritone.

[TuskegeeFellow]

He's singing the alto part which is very low and hard for most altos to project in that section.

[clutchac]

@ajcooper2008 nah he is clearly singing tenor, high tenor but definitely not soprano, there are men who can though.

[musiclova021]

@ajcooper2008 he's probably singing the alto 2 part, actually. i sing A2 in our school's chamber choir with this song and the part goes quote low.

most likely he's a T1 who was put on A2 just for that section.

[Clemsonshawty]

@ajcooper2008 he must have been singing the lower alto part because at 4:27 you;ll notice that he's singing the T1 part

[dfadchoco]

mic's sound terrible. get them in a better sounding auditorium and it sounds great. there's also a bass whos voice sticks out like soar thumb. how hard is it to blend?

[tehmoe]

its not there they aren't trying to blend. there are some voices that will just stick out more than others... some voices don't match together well(even when they are put next to ppl of same voice part) ,making it apparent and they tend to stick out more even when they sing everything perfectly its just go's way of diversifying everyone. there is no voice that is alike.

[JPsalm]

I love this song. In my opinion too many choirs try to do it and flat out ruin it. The Moses Hogan Chorale is awesome!

[squillodivoce]

This is very precious. So wonderful to see Mr. Hogan - and the Chorale. I love Mr. Hogan´s arrangements. What a divine gift to the world (and the world of music) he was (and still is as his legacy lives on).

Thanks for posting this.

[Xollywood]

for being a bass, you dont know how to spell it.

[Dogz4matt]

The bases were absolutely horrendous to me. Being a base, I understand to project you do need to sing from your throat, but it has SOME limit.

Besides that, I absolutely loved the subtleness of the altos and the tenors, but you could still always hear their part; never over took the foundation of the bases or the sopranos.

And speaking of the sopranos...Moses Hogan Corale's sopranos always give me complete and utter chills. I believe the one that hits the high D is Brenda? I love her voice.

[enkiitu]

Sing from your throat? Dude you need a different voice teacher. Leave your thoat alone or you'll get hurt.

Saludos.

[Dogz4matt]

I had meant to post the other comment to the post above.

Regardless, I was too definitive; singing from your throat is not always good, although sometimes it does need to happen. An F isn't low for me to hit that I would need to sing deeper in my sternum and somewhat in throat, but on a C or a D it is the only way I can produce that sound. My voice teacher doesn't teach that to me at all.

I don't plan on doing anything with singing however; a blown voice is the least of my worries right now.

[Dogz4matt]

Hahah, it was late, my mistake.

[theoneandonly09]

They betta sang lol.

[theoneandonly09]

They betta sang lol.

[Elecin]

Sorry...I was disappointed with this version.

[Giovanni2321]

what was the song they sang during the intro?

[tdavidray]

"Come Here Jesus, If You Please" by Roland Carter

[sigmablu07]

RIP MAESTRO HOGAN

[n1cc1t]

Absolutely Fantabulous!!

[urgrad03]

Fabulous:)!

[mrssandersmusic]

*chills down spine*

wonderful.

And good for that one white woman that I saw in there...lol, just an observation, it was funny.

[tdavidray]

Thank You and she is african-american.

[SuperDaveOkie]

Absolute shame Moses Hogan died too young. One of my favorite composers/arrangers.

[robbandchristina]

wow...

[TheInfectiousGroove]

i'm really dissapointed. i thought this would be really good. I think the women might just be too old. They have that turkey wobble vibrato.

[PlagueWulf]

That only adds to the overall sound the director was trying to achieve, imo. It's a staple of gospel singing.

[SuperDaveOkie]

Gospel and spirituals are fundamentally different art forms. Doing spirituals as gospel is a travesty.

[javonnbright]

Get it right my friend. Before there was your toe tapping, holy ghost catching gospel, there were spirituals. The gospel you know today is that of which evolved from spirituals "Every Time I Fell The Spirit", "Balm and Gilead", "Ride On King Jesus". So this is not a travisty, just because they don't scream in there chest voice and have singing careers that last for more than 10 years does not meant it's a travesty, it's paying homage.

[adrianmccall]

This is completely true. Thank you for not spewing useless insipid trash about the comment section. Sounds like superDave needs to take music history.

[konduktor53]

I think folks misunderstand superdave's comment. I think he's saying that singing a spiritual like you would sing gospel is the travesty. Gospel comes from spirituals, BUT you can't sing spirituals like you do Gospel (i.e. chesty) Oh, and there are COUNTLESS gospel singers who's careers go on for decades. I won't say that it is the healthiest singing style out there, but it has its place.

[javonnbright]

That is so true, but when I said last for only ten years, I meant qaulity...look at gospel singers who've been around for decades listen to there voice when they first started and listen to them now. However, there are gospel singers who excercise technique when singing..grant that. But, majority does not.

[loaactnow]

why cant one sing spirituals in chest voice?

[javonnbright]

It depends on what genre you're singing...orr better what arrangement. If it's something like Hall Johnson, or Marian Bonds, Harry T. B., then no chesting, because they were classical composers. If you're singing it gospel style like Shirley Caeser "Still Away" Then you can sing it how ever, Chest, Mixed, anything.

[loaactnow]

You got it twisted. Spirituals are in essence folk music created and performed by slaves who were not educated in western classical music. It wasn't untill Harry T Burliegh in early 1900s that spirituals were given a classical arrangement.

[javonnbright]

No I don't have it twisted. I never said that slaves sang spirituals classically. I said that gospel evolved from spirituals. Every Time I feel The Spirit was sung, I didn't say classically, but when composers (Harry t, Hall Johnson, Nathaniel Dett) came along...there we have it.

[loaactnow]

I wasnt directing that comment towards you. Anyway, why is that some people feel the need to judge nonclassical singers by classical vocal technique while there are elments of classical technique that are universal to any genre there are many elements that are not thats why different musical style and techniques have evolved over time.

[javonnbright]

Okay, my aplology. That's true, but like you said there are univeral techniques that apply...ie, don't breathe in the middle of a word, don't hold your head facing upward while singing. I could see if it was something crazy like "you should roll your r's when singing gospel"..lol. But there are many exceptions with gospel..when people get in the spirit technique is the furthese thing from their mind.

[loaactnow]

well mahalia breathed in middle of words all the time. its all subjective anyway, stylistic interpretation is open ended

[javonnbright]

But we must take into considertaion that Mahalia didn't recieve vocal training until the middle of her career. And the teacher was an opera singer. Thus the dramatic change in her tone when some of her recordings started to sound more controled, and techniqued based.

[SuperDaveOkie]

I couldn't disagree with you more. It would be totally inappropriate to have sung this without vibrato, and would not properly tune with a straight tone. The vibrato is a natural occurring phenomenon in a voice free of tension. Tension has to be added to take it away, and it screws up the overtone series and resonance.

[StormaLorm]

You don't have to be tense to take out your vibrato. It's all about voice control. The truly free voice can do whatever it wants

[SuperDaveOkie]

No, you can't. You might not be particularly sensitive to the tension, and may not understand the subtle differences unless you're a voice teacher or high level singer. However, vibrato from the human voice is simply a byproduct of what is known as the "Bernoulli Effect", which allows humans to sing in the first place. Simple physics and biomechanics.

[SuperDaveOkie]

It speaks a lot to the human race we sing at all. We took a valve (the larynx)designed to close to allow food to slide to the esophagus and open to allow air into the lungs. We close the vocal cords and force a steady stream of air through it keeping the vocal cords at very precise tension. This causes flapping of the vocal folds, starting the sound in motion. Vibrato comes about from this mechanism, while the rate regulation comes of the electrical impulses from the brain to the muscle.

[JayBeeThree]

They don't like the way you teach! LOL. I love it!

[JayBeeThree]

Keep preaching!

[JayBeeThree]

Preach!

[saxapppeal90]

S.O.U.L.

[ChronosRaikou]

Thank ya' Jesus

[detroitsinger02]

thank you jesus! Please let me know that choir still singing. I know that Moses Hogan would be so happy for them to keep going.

[tdavidray]

A reunion concert was planned for this year (2007) Moses' 50th birthday. However, many of the members were unwilling to cooperate. It was a very unfortunate time. There were a FEW who tried very hard to make it happen.

[Dirtybirdz00]

My heroes! Honestly. How incredible is that? Moses Hogan is INCREDIBLE!!!!

[buffythebasssinger]

Aiight for the high D Bridget!!!!!!!

[tbillygoat1]

i sang this in college, brings back memories FMC Ambassador Chorale... thanks for the posting