North Penn High School 2006 Winter Concert Hallelujah Chorus

[RoxOutLoud69]

all the vowel sounds are quite bright ans wide. but the loud sound is nice. blending is good toooo.

[iLuv2sing365]

i'm an 8th grader i am definetly being in this in 2 years this is AWESOME! :D

[neetrab]

i'm apart of the 1998 alumni.....choir still sounds great!!! Go North Penn!!!!!!

[dsmavis]

@neetrab Yes, they still sound awesome. I'll be posting selections from this years Winter concert very soon. Watch for them.

Thanks for your comment, and The Best of Holidays to you!

[djm5222]

Gahh... My Orchestra is so dumb... This is what I want to do... I want to combine Orchestra, Band, and Choir all for this song

[Frenchy0612]

North Penn High has probably one of the best chorus ever.

[imonkeyface]

we are playing a part of the halleluja chorus in my eighth grade orchestra, but without the chorus. just the orchestra

[gerardwayy101]

my school does this song every winter, and this chorus sounds amazing. we do ours and invite the school alumni to sing with us because we have a large enough stage. its a beautiful song

[93RedHearts]

YAY! i'm a sophomore this year in NPHS and am an alto in the chorus. i really wish that the conductor could have stayed another year :(

it's really great to see the whole song put together!!

[mahnawow1]

Sounds great!

Is the conductor slightly off? I'm here conducting in my seat and it seems like the conductor goes slower than the song itself...

[mangaloverz12]

yup. i think that too. I'm playing this at my winter concert!!! cello!!!!

[dsmavis]

The conductor appearing to be behind the song is probably an artifact of my converting the video for posting to YouTube.

Rest assured that during the actual performance, the conductor and the song were SPOT ON together.

[joeydontno68]

my beautiful gf goes to this schooll...yay me

[bigbubba29]

I wish Olsen would not have stopped doing this song for Garden City High School in Garden City, Michigan.

[WilkerLMHS]

They are great. But I think my chorus could out sing you. There are about 80 of us.

We've been singing it for almost 40 years under the same director. Plus we are ranked very high in our state.

[elliott19fan]

THis brings back such memories for me, as I was part of the North Penn High School chorus while at NP......I graduated in 1984 and it is nice to see the tradition carries on. Thank you for posting this.

[bushbasher42]

We sound better then i thought we did

I'm directly in front of the conductor.

[lovelyfetch]

ok? weird.

[nottooclosepleeze]

I just happened by your video and WOW, AWESOME!! Hard to believe it was a high school group. You should all be proud of yourselves and your school too.

[SonofAdam33]

I have watched this video many times. Handel's music is very powerful, but I also appreciate that you and your children have created a great memory. Congratulations on a wonderful performance and music program.

[fedgerama]

Wow, reading all of these comments, I didn't realize how large our school is. I'm a sophomore this year, so it's going to be my first year singing this. We had a dress rehearsal on Wednesday, and it sounded AMAZING already. I'm glad I found this, though, because the tenor part is so confusing at the end. I'm just going to listen to it over and over again and hope to learn my part.

[sasukeluvr12]

We're singing this for our Christmas concert on Dec. 17. Our concert choir sounds really good so far! This is great!

[egress1977]

What a great tribute to the heart of our youth in a America for taking a great piece of music and making it better. My hat is off to the school, the music director and especially the young men and women who did such a great job. What sound!

[dsmavis]

Thanks for your kind words.

I'm looking forward to the North Penn 2008 winter concert which comes up on December 15th. Both my daughter (senior), and son (sophomore) will be singing in that concert and will be a part of the Hallelujah Chorus.

[umpqua99]

hope you can film that to share, they did a good job with this one.

[Babegirlcass]

This is pretty cool. We are singing it this December at Bethel College in D Major. (I don't go there, I'm a senior in high school...we're just performing with them.)

Pretty kick ass.

Good job!

[ryguy830]

I'm in this video!!! Yes its our highschool orchestra as well. First time i've ever heard us sing it. We sound amazing! Love you all who were in this choir with me. We kicked ass

[bazzsyx]

Yes you did!

[ryab55]

is this the highschool orchestra?

[FREEASTHESTARS]

love this so much my Concert Choir did this for my winter conert 2007

[FyReByRd8]

This slightly unconventional interpretation is one of the best I have heard! The key is different from the oft-heard one, and the way the voices are- simply beautiful! I feel the composition and it seems so bright and Heavenly!

[Zeobit]

A purist could say, that the choir and the orchestra are much too big....But I'm no purist and think, you sounded fantastic

Greatings from Austria

[dsmavis]

Thanks for your kind words and I'm glad you liked it!

[Kudzaig24]

Fabulous!

[kuljozet]

this moves me so, I hope all the youg people come to love the Lord of Lords and know who they are praising, He is the only proper object of our praise. Every knee shall bow Mahomed, Budda, and so on

[xLMBOx]

I wish our church would take it down to this key! Haha.

[RumSoakedPirate77]

We're singing this for our Spring concert! I'm so excited!

Great job to them all, fantastic!

[cov01crew]

Soaring. Beautiful. Wonderful.

THANK YOU for posting this.

[dsmavis]

So glad you enjoyed it. Check out the 2007 rendition that I recently posted as well.

[barringtonbank]

I love this hymn. It is a very nice school hall. There are great singers.

[slappy1234567]

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[juliepopper18]

i love thsi song

[darknipple]

o yea, i forgot to put in my other post, we did the original score, not like this one.

[darknipple]

funny, my school did this at our concert just like a week ago. i haven't heard a recording of it, which pisses me off, cuz i had to play 1st trumpet on this, and i wana hear myself.

[JMCaldwellAcademy]

not bad for a High School. I mean, it's not great, but for being a High School is kinda impressive. I wish my school could sing that

[kaitlynnnnx3]

Nicely done, just watch out for your vowels. They are really wide instead of... 'long' and 'tall'. Also, the pronunciation (sp?) sounds very 'american'. I'm not sure how your director prefers it, but I know that ours is always criticizing on the way we sing our "r" words and "o's"

[guitarloser09]

Midview high school is having their Winter concert in less than a week and it is basically tradition at my school to sing this with all the choirs at Midview. I lovvve doing this song. I know it by heart because i'm a junior this year lol. and we sing it EVERY YEAR!!

It's amazing though.

[mylastwords818]

hey we have to do this ion our band and you guys sound better

[hanbacca]

EHHH why in c major...should be played in d major!!!

[Jangof3tt]

I agree. Why they did not follow the original score is up in the air. Cellos are too heavy though. They drown out the violins most of the time, and even sometimes overpower the chorus. Also at 1:35 the notes in the cello section could have been a bit shorter. Overall it was a good performance. Tell your trumpeter to keep practicing though :P

[Reseilli30]

my school does this in C too...because its high school and not professionals, they do it in C major because its easier to play in than D....but yea, i agree, D's not THAT hard, we should do it in D

[juliepopper18]

i think it's fine the way it is

[fatty9116]

fyi-your vowels are really spread

but it is good

[merfully]

the diction made me cringe, thankfully there was a soprano in there somewhere that saved it for me...there were definitely some shining moments, but with a group this large i was expecting more

[pnkerockgrl116]

im singing this song this year

i havent learned it in a while but im happy to sing it

[austinschend333]

this is a very nice song... my school's singing it :P

[musicfreak32993]

im singing this with my high scholl choiur on sunday

but its my first time in choir so i have tolearn it in 3 days cuz everyone else knows it O_o

but thanks, the vid is really helping me so far :D

[dsmavis]

Glad it helped, and good luck in your singing.

North Penn High School will be having their 2007 Winter concert in a couple of weeks, so I hope to record and post this years rendition.

[classicalmusic1mzrt]

played well but the choir is huge and slows the music down some.

[wickedistheshiz]

Is that your high school auditorium? If it is I wanna know what shcool that is so I can transfer. You people must put on a kickass muscial every year.

[dsmavis]

Yes, it's the auditorium inside North Penn High School, Lansdale, Pennsylvania.

[babycoop09]

omg we sing this every darn year CHS CHOIR

[jimmymac16]

great job i went to this high school it is awesome

[capcap44]

wow...i`m in 6th grade and i`m singing this song in chorus

[Chrissysway]

im egtting my dgree in muic education.. i sang this song in high school im def having my kids sing it

[Chrissysway]

this song makes me cry everytime bc when its sung you see everyone stand up. it just touches you in that spot and makes you happy

[srdavis37]

I agree Chrissy - not much makes this grumpy old bastard cry - but this piece and the thoughts it invokes sure do. Nice to see people still stand out of tradition and respect!

[mpanda2124]

hahahaha at 3:45-3:46 i love the reaction! lol

[izzyanddennyfan]

my high school sang this song every year :(

it makes me cry....i really miss singing it :(

[Riende92]

round vowels will make this 200 sound like 600.

[hig]

Pretty good job for a high school, but try to warm your tone up a bit. A richer tone makes all the difference in the world.

[melissa639119]

This is a very good job, considering this is a highschool chorus.

[xdurlife]

i go to gwyn nor elementry it is part of norht penn school distric and i am goin to go to north penn high school

[GUYSRME92]

you guys sounded wonderful!! wow i love love love this song! I get to sing this song for my winter concert I'm sooooo excited!! I know we won't sound as good as you guys but I sure hope we can come close!! wonderful job!!!

[dsmavis]

Thanks for posting and your kind words. It is an AWESOME song, and I so very much enjoy hearing different groups as they perform their rendition of it. Good luck to you, as I'm sure you're probably working on your winter concert by now, as I know North Penn is. I hope to post video of their 2007 rendition after they perform their winter concert in December.

[budwoodjr]

This would be wonderful. Thank you promoting excellent production of Handel's Messiah.

God bless you.

budwoodjr

[11krolls]

this is a good song but i like to put aside the religious meaning and listen to the melody

[superscope27]

man i miss playing this song every winter we cant anymore because some people are mad cuz it promotes christianity. which suck cuz its a beautiful song and we always playyed it well

[emmylou012]

wow amazing sound. my chorus is singing this for our concert this winter. i hope we sound as good as you.

[X0SugargirlX0]

I'm singing this in my chorus this year! I am so excited!!! Great Job!

[Chrannjar66]

I was a member of this chorus. Hands down the best director in the world. Not only is it the high school chorus singing, but alumni as well! So much fun!

[mac9erfan]

As of this day, 9/12/07, being the picky one that I am when it comes to choirs, (and I am a stickler) this is so far the the best "Hallelujah" chorus rendition that is on YouTube hands down for one reason only: I can hear all four parts. The music is good, the voices could be a little better (but it is still AMAZING for a high school choir), but I have yet to come across another video where I can hear all four parts as well as here. Great job, choir!

[Critognatus]

You did a really good job, although I have to agree with mdcam89, especially at "king of kings..." the diction of the Vovels is bad

[Janicedean]

Very good.

[hymnlover2]

it was wonderfully done and I know it is a blessing to many people.

[rebeccaisaac]

Very beautifully done. A large orchestra and choir are what make the Hallelujah Chorus so wonderful. One small critique--I would have stressed that the choir use a more dark, operatic tone. Other than that, it was a great performance.

[mdcam89]

this is quite impressive... except your diction is horrible.. if the vowels were more round, and less "american", then it would be so much better

[XVideoManiacX]

OMG I was on that choir. I'm one of the Tenors! I'm in 3rd year high school at that time. I though my classmate posted this

[dsmavis]

Nope, I'm not one of your classmates, though my daughter might be. She just finished up her sophomore year at North Penn.

As for me, I'm just a proud Marching Knights Band parent. Not originally from the Philadelphia area, I graduated from high school up in New York State... Spencerport Class of '81. Yikes, that was a long time ago....

[harmo105]

Great job guys!!!

check out the Chapman Symphony Orchestra playing Dvorak 8th on YouTube.

Chapman University is a private 4 year university in Orange County, CA

The Chapman School of Music has on its faculty many of the top players from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Pacific Symphony.

[Madmoonie]

GAH! That is a highschool?! Goodness. That is large. Nicely sung, though.

[dsmavis]

North Penn High School is the largest 3-grade high school in the state of Pennsylvania. Grades 10, 11, and 12 encompass approximately 3400 students. The school itself, with its many "pods" could pass for a small college campus.

[larger20]

lol i was gona say the same...the base is too much ahhaha

[pointlessdayzz]

omg! you guys did a much better job that we did for this song. I can actually hear four parts! For our performance, we were like a bunch of.. sound waves... lol

[halofan999]

This is an earth-shattering performance given by a high school. Masterful.

[harmo105]

Great job guys!!

Search for the Chapman Symphony Orchestra playing Dvorak 8th.

Chapman University is a private 4 year university in Orange County, CA

[aerobear11]

this is cool

[pippin1502]

This is awesome! I search for North Penn High School, and this is the first thing that came up. And I thought that I wasn't on YouTube, but apparently I am because I sang at this performance!

This song is all about Dr. Giersch in case anyone was wondering who this "king of kings" and "lord of lords" guy was...

[jimmymacf]

very nice good job guys and girls

[svartmetall48]

The lack of maturity in the female voice is rather apparent, and the orchestra sounds rather thin. However, I am not judging the musicians as professionals and thus I can only say that it is a very impressive performance and it almost puts the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra to shame, which is rather embarassing as they are at least professionals (or profess to being so)!

[xomelis]

this is amazing , im in my schools chamber singers wich usualy only has about 30 people in it and i dont think our small select chorus does this song justice , you guys are amazing i love how i can hear every voice part , when we perform it everyear the altos cnat be heard at all , major props to you guys

[wdhunt]

NPHS is one of the largest high schools in the state of Pennsylvania with an enrollment of about 3,200 in 10th-12th grade. The chorus is around 230 members; the orchestra/wind ensemble is about 100. As was mentioned before, alumni and parents are also invited to perform this piece with the students. It's a tradition that goes back for so many years and its fun to do. The size of the ensemble is what makes the performance impressive. I enjoyed participating and I hope to be back next year.

[smog718]

i dunno, i wouldn't really say size matters in this case. especially handel's messiah. Handel's first arrangment really required a modest amount of memebers. Trinity church's choir and orchestra, the BEST interpreters of the messaih in NYC only has like 30 singers, and 24 orchestra members. the trumpet messed up on his decending solo. but not bad. just too big

[phatdw1988]

also forgot to mention that we have a bunch of alumni that join us for this concert...im a senior this year and this was prob the best concert yet! thanks again for the compliments!!!!

[barbthechef]

Very very nice! The venue can really make a difference in how a great choir can sound even better. The music fills the hall - all the way up to where this recording was made.

[kalera481]

Thanks for your NP additions... kinda nice to relive the memories. I wish this technology was around when I was part of NPMK... then we'd have '96 -'99 covered for USSBA performance. Keep up the good work and good luck to your son/daughter!

[cartman26003]

This is pretty good, but the Wheeling Park High School in Wheeling, West Virginia holds their annual Festival of Sound Concert, and their Hallelujah Chorus is quite possibly the best ive ever heard

[IsabelleGrobanite]

Wow! I'm impressed!! Our Choir/Band also did this song this year..we only had 31 in the choir and 16 in the band, so it wasn't quite as good, but WOW! that was amazing!! It was definately a difficult song to preform, but they NAILED it! Good Job!

[Zeroun2687]

This is not an easy piece to perform, but this was a very impressive performance! The blend was perfect, and I like the layout with choral people in FRONT of the raised orchestra group. Usually the chorus is BEHIND, which can be odd. Very good work by the conductors...a choral and instrumental conductor timing their beats that well is impressive in itself!

Keep up the good work, guys!