Wheaton College Men's Glee Club - What Wondrous Love

[fivequotes]

superb!!

[willyhuber]

"sinking down" best harmony in the whole song! :D

[SamWiseGingy]

Requiring human blood sacrifice is loving? Cursing the earth in anger over man's disobedience is loving?(Genesis 3) Burdening humanity with fear and guilt is not loving. Permitting slavery and patriarchy is not loving. Standing back in silence in the face of human atrocity is not loving.

What wondrous love indeed.

[SterlingUliso]

Thank you!

[spngmnky405]

Need more cowbell.

[kariebeez]

very pretty and moving

[wordofthecross]

Thanks for posting. Good for the soul of this Old Man.

[nllarsen]

My brother sang in this ensemble, but from years '01-'05. He always told me about the great times and great music that he had in the Glee Club.

Great performance here!

[muldoonspicnic]

Whose arrangement is this?

[wonder1lady]

excellent

[ihlubbinnies]

Wow. Beautiful singing. I love the harmony!!

[Zachp333]

Hi Neighbor! I'm from Glen Ellyn!

[Jennifermikelle]

I love this song, and it is very well done. Thanks for posting!

[stnic11]

you have to audition for it! and Definitely more than 5 guys are music majors. It is split about 40% music majors and 60% not music majors. I, for one, am not a music major!!

[kiminbari]

makes me homesick...is that Pierce or Edman chapel?  sounds great! post some more--

[khall1026]

Edman. They made a DVD of that performance that you may be able to get by contacting the college.

[BriReko]

This is a non-auditioned choir?

[ericpeltz]

Not bad for a group that doesn't cut anybody, with only 5 of the 70 guys up there being music majors... I guess Wheaton College is just that good at what they do. And by the way, we worked on the one-dress/ wondrous / windris thing a lot, thanks.

[BattleBishop303]

Nice! Were doing this in my choir but SATB instead of TTBB.  Good Job

[parespayer]

Walker's Southern Harmony

[rtzpkoq]

This is ALMOST true sacred harp singing, which is still done in the South, in Primitive Baptist Churches. It's incredibly beautiful.

[SS4Xanatos]

They keep mixing verses.

[FishookPicker]

That's how this type of singing works. It's called shape note singing. It gives it an almost eerie feeling. For another example, check out Blue Highway's version of the song on this site. They do it justice and are one of the best bluegrass bands ever.

[kdawgfan]

Oh. It's interesting if a little hard to follow for those of us who are familiar with a set of verses. I like it.

[cybern4592]

When I first heard this hymn at Mass, I fell in love it instantly.

[semprelegato]

That song is by Paul Christiansen! And Paul Christiansen's son is my high school choir director (nationally known)

[Fozzybearo]

vowels are TOO forward... AND, SING, FREE... Wondrous sounded like 'Wundris'...nice sound... just needs work on vowels

[SS4Xanatos]

You're right. Wondrous is supposed to sound almost like wondross and was is supposed to sound like woz. Their pronounciation is a little bit off.

[JYoung135]

@Fozzybearo

But if you're singing sacred harp, that's how its done. This music is supposed to follow the Appalachian tradition, not the Received-Pronunciation English one. And I think these guys understood that. That style of singing gives a kind of honest power to the raw harmonies that give shape-note its characteristic haunting sound.

[antknee0505]

BEAUTIFULL