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  • I was really hoping to hear a few basses bring out the low C and especially the low B flat at the beginning when everyone comes in together on I dreamed a dream, a silent dream. Come on guys!

  • We're singing this at my school this year. :)

  • I just got doing this at my district honor chorus and this has to be my favorite song I have ever done in chorus!

  • We sang this song, such a moving peice. Good job.

  • This is one of those songs that I wouldn't mind singing every year for choir. It is extremely beautiful, and this choir definitely does it justice!!

  • Wonderful enunciation. Fabulous! I loved it. You did great. The Awake! Awake! section sounded great, but I would have loved it to be with a little more punch, but that is just a personal opinion. That is my favorite way to sing the section.

  • This is the anthem for choral programs everywhere!

  • i loved doing this is chorus. it was my favorite piece.

  • singing for this spring concert :D

  • our chorale is singing this.

    our school district is going to cut all music programs next year, so i think the song kind of fits.

    our chorale only has 16 kids or so,

    but we've got soul and passion. :]

    we will save the music!

  • My chior is singing this song for our contest peice. I love this song!!

  • You guys sound just like us! it's amazing it sounds like the same people and everything. your choir is much bigger though. This is beautiful.

  • Were sinqinq this for our tour. (: i'll put up the video when Our tour's finished, i'll be happy too;) were amazinq<3

  • i sang this song with my choir last year for a district honor choir... we had 18 people with about seven or eight guys and were going up against school that had forty plus kids... we rocked so hard on that song... we were the best choir there mostly because we loved this song so much.. even now we look back at singing this song and we want to sing it again.. we also took it too large group and received straight I's which is the highest you can get.. a nearly perfect score

  • my high school choir is also singing this but we sound no where as good as this.... :( We have like 25 girls and only 10 boys

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  • I love this version in particular because of the fact that the piano section before "Awake, Awake!" is exactly the way my chorus conductor played it. It is so fluid and "correct" sounding, if I may say myself!

  • i go to cascade high school in Everett Washington, we are singing this song, it sounds really good we are going to contest with it. it sound good but we are not confident with it, no one in our class is really confident

  • were learning this song right now in my choir class but damn it will be no where to sounding like this..too many people lag hella bad :( i ove it when it sounds nice like this

  • This song just does something to me everytime I hear it BRAVO!!!!

  • this was really good. The advanced choir at my high school which im in is doing this and i absolutly love it my fave part is the Awake Awake part

  • we sang this song my senior year.... i still sing it to myself... haha i'm in love with it

  • i love this song soo much too :)

  • oh plus were singing this for my choir and were in 7th and 8th

  • this is my teachers school she went to :)

  • And the "K" in the awake isn't there, It sounds like away lol

  • Are you by any chance referring to KUSD's annual Choral Fest?

  • DHS is singing this song at the UNT performing arts center with the band and orchestra, cant wait:)

  • We're singing this song right now. Is such a powerful song, my body shakes when I sing it!!!

  • ^^ this is an awesome song!! i love singing it! it was incredible and my teacher loved making us sing the no hallelujah part over and over until we got it right XD she wouldnt stop until we sang like proffesionals XD ^^ this chior did and AWESOME job at this song! two thumbs up!!!

  • pleh that last note for the tennor one section is very high... but i still loved it :)

  • i loved singing this song in choir... lol i miss it!

  • we always had fun with the "silent" part in my choir lol. this was our favorite song and still is for those who got the chance to sing it. ^_^

  • lol were doing this for spring concert.

  • We sung this for my school's fall concert! it was amazing :]

  • random voice: ohh yeahh.

  • Im singing this song for choir(:

    I love it(:

    Oh and hey, I go to Southwest(:

    Haha, just thought Id say that because you guys are Northwest(:

    Well good job(:

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  • my choir sung this song in aussie at the opera house. the best experiance of my life

  • We sung that for one of are concerts at Ridgeview charter school i love it

  • our choir is gonna sing this song. i <3 this song!!

  • our choir is singing this song in like two weeks. this choir did an amazing job i hope my guy section does this well

  • Wow, you have a very solid guy section, they sound great!

  • I absolutely love this song. (: it's amazing. I love music in general, and I feel the world really would not exist without music in it. Great job.

  • omg amazing

  • Great job, remind me of All-State Chourus. Love it !!!

  • where singing this. all the choirs combined

  • What are you talking about Seo it si the best song written for Choir!

  • the parts to this song are amazing. i love how it goes from a minor part saying about sorrow and despair. then in the center of it all (around maybe 3:28 to 3:33) there is a glimer of hope then some one (perhaps god himself?) tells you to awaken and embrace the music around you. the ending of this song is true, "let music live!"

  • This piece has to be one of the best choral pieces ever composed.

  • Wow. I sang this in a two-day HS honor choir over five years ago, and I could still sing along to the entire piece! One of my absolute favorites!

  • This brings back memories!!! I miss my high school choir. As a matter of fact, i was suppose 2 b goin 2 Northwest last year, but went 2 a private university instead, but im thinking of coming in the Fall for 09!!! I knew yall were good, but idk yall were that good!!!!!! Excellent!!!!!

  • Hah! I'm a bearcat too! Went to Cameron HS. Maestro Goodwin had us sing this my freshman year and Maestro Von Glahn had us sing this for Chamber Choir. <3 <3

  • Fantastic job this video brings back memories

  • thanks for talking in the video. really accents the song you know?

  • we sang this when I was in school. I went to Mountain Grove High School. There were only about 8 guys in the choir, and we sang this as an all male double quartet. I absolutely LOVE this song.

  • I Absolutely love this song! My choir sang it last year! I get chills everytime ^_^

  • hahaha my high school choir is singing this for our masterworks concert as our grand finally, this is the best piece of choral music ive ever read lol props to Martin (he's the composer if you didn't know lol)

  • i love this song. im singing it in my chorus in school. our concert is next week. im in the soprano part. But i have to say that the dynamics on this one are much different than wat we do.

  • one of my favorite pieces

  • this is a wonderful piece we used this exact recording to help my old middle school choir learn the peice

    gr8 job!!!!!!

  • it's impossible for me not to get chills everytime i hear this song. i remember my brother singing this with his choir in the LA Disney Concert Hall - this piece is so awesome

  • i am singing it ttbb in 9th grade in advanced mens at riverwood ttbb sounds better it makes my hair stand on end

  • This song is awesome~ Dude, I can't wait to sing it in Counties this year. The music choice this year is not too bad.

  • The bass 2 part on this song rocks!! Favorite song that i'm singing out of my county chorus music.

  • I have one word for this.....Beautiful

  • I performed this in 2 different choirs, AWESOME

  • omg!!!!

    i love this songggggg

    we're singing this in my chorus!

  • i agree!

  • I <3 this song. My choir director is a fan of Joseph Martin's works.

  • this && eric whitacre's "sleep" are the most amazing songs ever!

  • Brings back memories, hands down favorite song I ever sang with chorus

  • we're singing this for choir this year. i'm so pumped. i love my part (tenor)

  • I'm pretty sure my choir sang this 3 years ago,I wasn't in taht choir yet...but this just brings chills to my spine :)

  • The choir sounds pretty good. My chorus sang this two or three years ago so this song brings back good memories.

  • I sang this song last year for my choir's spring concert. I loved it. The song is amazing.

  • I sang this song in all-district choir :)

    It made me cry. Haha.

    I love it SO much.

  • During my senior year in high school I was one of three picked for an All-Conference choir to sing this. One of my favorite songs. :P

  • we sang this for a choir concert. i love this song so much.

  • I sang this in High School and College. Hands down my favorite song to sing ever in concert!

  • Bring out the Soprano Part when the people say the 'awakes'. The time is 3:46

  • YEAHH GO 1ST SOPRANOS!

    haha we sang this in our

    choir recentlyy. =] i love it.

  • A Great performance of a Great song. I hope my chorus does as well by this song as yours did. Your chorus is large enough to be even quieter in the opening phrase. A little more work with dynamics in the withered and died phrase could have also added to the power of the piece. This is a solid performance.

  • This song is one of my favorite songs my choir is doing and the story behind this piece is just amazing <3 You guys sound so good! I hope the choir I'm in will compare on the same level and you all~

  • this song is awesome!! we sang it for all state this year! i love it!

  • This is like the song my choir is known for, well not hugely known, but like at choir festivals and stuff.

    I LOVE IT

  • Awake Awake!!!

    LOVE this song!!!

    We sing it every year for our our last choir concert along w/ "things that never never die"

    Great job :)

  • It is a very powerful song. We sang it in my high school choir in Topeka, KS my senior year.

    It was my favorite from our set. I got goosebumps everytime we sang it.

  • We are singing this in our choir. Awsome piece with lots of emotion. We're singing all guys though. Tenor 1 baby!!!

    AL Da Cantari choir!

  • omg i remember singing this in the TOHS choir freshman year! who compsed it? i wanna get the song for my ipod

  • Joseph Martin.

  • that was pretty good, I actually go to high school and my director wrote this song, Michael G. Martin, from Hilliard Darby High School, this is our favorite piece to sing.

  • This song is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard in my life eaisilly. Its an Amazing song to sing, at Monroe High for our New York Tour, the choir members are going and singing it. I love this song with a passion. Im so happy to have the honor of singing it. We are trying to do it with a smaller choir, around 30 people, only 3 tenors, and like 1 baritone. But its an amazing song. this choir has done probably the best version I have ever heard in my life.

  • Awake Awake!!!!

  • im singin this song too :]

    at gallatin high in galltin tn.

    i love it!

    the energy is pheonominal.

    ahhh its carazyyyyy!

    :] this choir did a fantastic job.

  • this is such and amazing and beautiful piece! we sang this at the NEVADA MUSIC EDUCATORS ALL STATE CONVENTION....

    Our conductor Dr. Paul Torkelson has instilled in us the drive to put our passion in this song......i feel that this song is a manifestation of disappreciation that we musicians do not recieve for our work......and is also a reminder that music is the reason why some of us do what we do....

    Soli deo gloria!

    To GOD alone be the glory!

  • Very true!

  • i'm a student @ marlington highschool in alliance ohio we're doing this piece for our spring concert and perhaps choir awards ceremony. i love this song. it's so powerful. i like the happy part @ the end the most... so strong.

  • i am also singing it at lake oswego high...i hope i get to sing soprano...i cant sing alto XOOO

  • The ten or need dome more support,and thealtos

  • Tenor 1

    Tenor 2

    Baratone

    Bass

    the parts were almost the same but the sound was a lot deaper and more intense. you know like all male voices sound.

  • I LOVE THIS SONG!!! i sang it last year as a bass and i still remember it. you guys did a good job. our high school chior (mens chorus) did it for state and we got first. personally i think it sounds better with only guys singing but it still sounded REALLY good. great job!

  • my concert choir is doing this and our director is using you guys as a model choir for us...great job..you all are amazing...however at 27-28 and alto voice is searching for a note and it is very obvious...idk if its the camerawoman or an onstage voice. first soprano voices are beautiful in this choir...you sound like you have some good leaders within your choir.

  • Not too bad. We are doing the TTBB arrangement. I think that the guys arrangement is loads better than the SATB one.

  • i sang this version about 8 years ago and have heard the TTBB  version and i think this version is way better!!

  • you must've been in honors choir with me then :)

  • I am singing this song in NYC later this march

  • Heavensarch, I was in that choir! One of the Kearney kids, that was the most amazing score ever. I started to cry in the middle of the song.

  • the most amazing song ever..

    we performed this in carnegie hall with the world premier of the new orchestra piece written by joseph martin himself

  • I too was at that performance. With the Monte Vista Christian School Choir. And orchestra. Supposedly, we're going to be performing it next year at one of the largest Choir events in the Nation. HOPEFULLY. This song owns. <3

  • I fucking love this song. We've done this song in a high school choir.

  • my chapter w/ Phi Mu Alpha Sang this song. the 4 part is NIOCE!

  • I sang this for choir. I loved this song.

  • i never actually performed this song, but i was a student worker when my school's concert choir was learning it so i still know all the words & it's definitely my favorite song. When we took this to districts it gave me goose bumps cuz it was.... perfect..... it was awesome!

  • i lied i heard them at the mucho passionato part lol

  • we are singing this for competing i cant here 1st teners =(

  • love the song!

    you guys sound great!!!!

  • There are some nice tenors in there.

    Great song!

  • I sang this for honors choir a few years ago and it's still my favorite chorus song! :D

  • that was always my favorite part of singing this song, too :o)

  • I sang this with my choir in school about two years ago (my freshman year) and it became our FAVORITE song. We used to just gather around the piano when we weren't doing anything in class or even after school and just sing it. We absolutely loved it and I still absolutely love it. It is such an AMAZING song. I remember every word still and I always will. I seriously will never forget this song.

  • Wow. I'm in my freshman year now, and my choir is going to sing it soon. And I love this song.

  • hey were singing this song at my school

  • im singing this song in our honors choir and this is a really good version of it !

  • some guy in the middle goes.. "oh yeah.." lool!

  • Thank you for posting this. I'm singing this in my Vocal Ensemble class, as well as the Honour Choir session of this year's NCBDA. It's such a magnificent song...everyone in my class loves it. I can hardly wait to perform it!

  • This is a beautiful song :] Our choir is singing this in newyork at carnige hall in march with Joseph Martin in attendance. im so excited :]

  • i love this song the alabama alstate ttbb choir song this as our finale and we convinced Joseph Martin to play the accompliment for us. it was one of the best moments of that year

  • you cant hear the altos on that beautiful resolution at the climax of the piece

  • I sang this at Music Camp at NWMSU a couple years ago-the summer before this performance, actually... Such a great experience!!!

  • I loved this song. I sang it my sophomore year in high school for large group and we got three one ratings and they were all 39 out of 40. My choir director has tears in his eyes when we finished the song.

  • I'd like to hear the TTBB as well, I performed the SATB but am curious to hear an all mens choir do this.. This is a great video by the way, 5 stars. The video kinda sucks but it's all about the sound with music!

  • this song is amazing TTBB. not taking any credit from women, but all men's choirs are hard to top.

  • Men;s choirs better be top. There are so many female choirs in the world that go unnoticed. There are way fewer male choirs.

  • Hey im a freshman at krop and we are working on the song any fellow 2nd sapranos wanna give any tricks to the song??? lolz

  • Hey! Im a senior at Krop! lol Im a bass.

    Do you have lightning third period?

  • I remember performing this song my sophomore year. We blew the house down with this song!

  • I performed this song with at South Dakota All-State Chorus in 2005. Simply put...it was AMAZING! There is nearly 1,000 in the choir, and we were accompanied by the orchestra...wow...It was one of the most amazing feelings I have ever had in my life. I love this song!

  • yeah, that was a good song for the all state. I like to watch the all state video just to reminisce!

  • dang this was one of our all region songs i wish we had it for state

  • yeah i think everyone is singing this this year. but it's just such an amazing song.....it like embodies everything that music is and everything it does for us. personally, this song is very important to me because music is pretty much everything i am. :D anyways, our concert was last night - we rocked this out. :P so yeah.....good song.

  • yeah mine is too. darn all region but I love the song!

  • I love this song to pieces, but it just sounds a lot better as TTBB. The soprano and alto parts seem to overpower the tenor and bass parts when I listen to it as SATB. My ear has been tuned to TTBB and I personally think it sounds better that way.

    But this performance was very good. Five stars.

  • I agree, I like the TTBB better. If you find a video of that one, can tell me where you found it?

  • There waaaas going to be a video of our choir performing this song in TTBB, but my friend with the camera couldn't make it to the concert. I'm sure there's some on YouTube somewhere, but I'm going to sound a bit narcissistic for a moment and say that they weren't as good as ours (or this one, actually). To me, those felt a bit...lacking in feeling - the notes were there and they sang them with no passion. Or something. >>;

    But they're out there. :D

  • oh and i think it's better especially when the tenor ones sing that soli deo part, it's just better.

    and i hate that "silent" whispering.

  • good song, but it's better when its TTBB. our men's ensemble sang TTBB and we did SATB for graduation but it wasn't the same. it's a good performance of it too

  • are there any vids of TTBB?

    my school sang SATB

  • our choir is performing this song, I wish we were this good. (or big for that matter lol)

  • i think missouri state university sang this the best out of all i've heard :) some conductors conduct this song too fast or too slow :/ but this is just right.

  • my choir has to sing this song with every other choir in the district at a art center. its so cool cause we get to leave school at 12:00 and leave the art center at 9:00 pm! so cool!!

  • our choir has to sing it this year its really pretty

  • my choir is singing this

  • Veryyy good, our guys sang this song this year,it was amazing i get goose bumps whenever i hear this song.I've never heard it girls and guys its way good.You guys did amazing,seriously.

  • OMG!!!!!!!!! TEARS! I REmeber when we sung this song in choir like 4 years ago!!! I LOVE IT!!!!

  • I loved this song when I was in choir:) "I dreamed a dream", there were a lot of people who've actually had a dream like this...and I've had this song in my head when I'm sad.  It usually makes me feel better.

  • i love the guy that says "oh yeah"

  • this is one of my favorite pieces of choral music ever, and this group did a wonderful job. i was amazed at how well the accompaniment sounded with a stand up piano, kudos to the pianist.

  • thanx 4 puttin this on here i havenvt heard this since i sung it back in 7th grade expect when we sung it we didnt have ne girls singin with us it was jus all guys 7-12 and we did pretty good 2 i geuss imma try and get the dvd and put it on you tube to show what my choir did

  • Thank-you for your comments everyone! The North Kansas City High school Acapella Choir had the opportunity to host the fabulous Tower choir from Northwest Univ..To conclude the program, both choirs sang together in a unrehearsed performance. We left that day with many good memories..Director

  • i sang this w/ my school's choir, i loved it as soon as i heard my teacher play the first few notes, it's so beautiful. Does anyone no where i can download this?

  • MEMORIES!!!!!!!!

  • I sang this song in my school's choir (I was an Alto), and every time I think or hear this song, I go "OMG! I LOVE THIS!" I wish I could sing this song in my school choir sometime again...

  • I sang this song with our choral department senior year of high school and it was a great way to end our chapter at our high school!

  • memories of high school and college.. nice job guys

  • This is a wonderful peice. I wish the piano intro was in this video though. Good job.

  • xXkrazykitsuneXx- I could not have said it better. This song reminds me why I love music and singing in an ensemble

  • I sing this song every year in high school. It rocks.

  • This song... oh man, I LOVE this song... it reminds me why I love choir and love singing. Such a powerful and beautiful song... thanks for putting it up!

  • lets here some of you friggen chamber singers

  • I LOVE THIS SONG, and you guys did an amazing job on it.