Katrina Requiem

[scizekwood]

Powerful!

[macfitte]

@FunnyLooking77: What's truly disgraceful is that she was wrapped in the flag of the government that abandoned her, along with your ability to actually type those words and post them.

[HollywoodK8]

This is one of the most moving songs I have ever heard. It is beautiful.

[C4932]

very very wonderful song one of my favorite songs :) it is something to calm someone down

[WeirdGuy983]

Very beautiful song, my school choir is singing this song soon, I hope that we can capture as much meaning and beauty of the song as we can

[SuddenlySmile]

I was in the cal state Fullerton choir and we sung this in oct 4th of 08

[MarkFolse]

Thanks for the backstory, TexasRokker. This song still brings tears to the eyes of everyone on the Hurricane Coast I play it for.

[TexasRokker]

Eliza Gilkyson was originally not going to release this song. It wasn't until her daughter talked her into doing it as a duet that she decided it should be released. My favorite song by her. She's an amazing singer, musician, and songwriter. And yes, this was written for the tsunami, not Katrina. Howevre, this song is beautiful enough to be used as a Katrina tribute.

[katylynn729]

we're singing this in our chorus at my school, and illinois' best highschool choir Woodstock High School, also sang it SOOOOOO well.

btw, i hope you know that this was written about the Tsunami, not hurricane katrina, not to be mean, just making sure you know.

I absolutely adore this song.

[pinkpunk820]

we are singing this song in choir

[McAzn]

I did this in a 4 person quartet last year before the song was even released. My choir director was lucky enough to know the composer personally and wrote a letter asking her if it was alright for us to perform this. She graciously said yes. What an unforgettable, powerful song!

[Fencie87]

I sang the choral arrangement (with the St. Olaf Choir) under the baton of Craig Hella Johnson, who conducts Conspirare- I think it was he who arranged it. This song is so soulful and heartrending! On the day of the Virginia Tech killings, he broke the news to us and then said that in light of this we will beging by singing Requiem. He had written on the board "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." Bernstein

[tracytaub]

My high school is really big with choir...we have 4 standard choirs and 4 audition only choirs.

Right now, we are singing this for Varsity Choir which has 117 members. Our concert is tomorrow and I hope to get a video of us singing this as we surround the audience. We will be accompanied by piano and violin.

"lead us to a higher place"

breathtaking.

[cdaae3]

omg somebody needs to post a video of a choir singing this! wow i finally found this song! i went to festival and a choir sang this song and i loved it but i lost the program so i had no idea what it was called or who it was by... i just kept singing "mother mary come and carry us in your embrace" over and over again in my head! thank God i finally found this song! wow beautiful

[Stupidinabucket]

the cal state fullerton one?!?!?

[BassoJoseph]

A fantastic choral recording can be found on Conspirare's Requiem cd. Check it out!

[theblacktulip]

yeah my school's chamber choir is singing this song too.

all our homes are gone our loved ones taken

taken by the sea

mother Mary calm our fears have mercy

drowning in a sea of tears have mercy

ahh i always get chills when we sing it!

[sweetness2514]

Our choir is singing this and I always get really sad when we sing it. When we all sing it together, it brings goosebumps to your skin.

[empmele93]

this is such a beautiful song. I;m singing it for my school's a capella choir and it sounds beautiful with 50 people singing all at once.

[gymnasta10]

i have to say i'm jealous.

my choir singing it and we don't have close to fifty people...

yours must sound really pretty.

we sing it a lot slower than she does, though.

it's such a pretty song...

[MartySchrader]

Very moving.