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  • sounds amazing. Matthew did a great job conducting as always.

  • As a person being able to have been gifted with being involved with vocal classees and working to make choral work my life, I highly admire these men. They have a wonderful bass, tenor, baritone, everything. They sound wonderful. It's such a sweet sound to listen to. God bless these men. they are wonderful singers, and definatly wonderful people, as well. Hell, they fight for our countries freedom. god bless them, and may they come home to their loved ones safely. Absolutly beautiful!

  • What a great experience for these outstanding young men who are the future leaders of our Navy and Marine Corps to get to sing with one of the greatest vocal ensembles in the world, bravo you guys and thank you for choosing to serve our country

  • I love you guys, and this song was wonderful! It even better that it was performed on my 19th birthday!! =D

  • this version is goin to be my mens choir's 3rd....

    i love how they sang it!

    amazing! :)

  • Hail Mary, Full of Grace the Lord is with Thee! Blessed art Thou among women and Blessed is the fruit of thy womb JESUS Holy Mary, Mother of God Pray for us sinners Now and at the hour of our death. Amen+ The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it done unto me according to thy word And the Word was made Flesh. And dwelt among us. Hail Mary!
  • Would love to hear the behind the scenes stuff that is only shown in this video. It would be fascinating to hear what goes into creating such a performance!

  • So, there are career tracks for professional musicians in the military.  You could spend 20 years in the army and never see combat. Chanticleer are professional musicians.

  • Hated chanticleers first solo they seemed very off i dont know why.

  • Stumbled on this video today after watching Chanticleer's "Cells Planets" video. Though not Catholic, I love the musicality of Biebl's Ave, it is breathtaking. As a native of Annapolis and a USNA alum, I can appreciate what the young men in the GC go through and give up to be as dedicated to their singing as they are. Beautiful job! So much hard work and sacrifice. What an honor for them to sing with Chanticleer. Opportunity of a lifetime. Thanks for posting!

  • JESUS CHRIST IS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN US AND GOD THE FATHER AND ST MARY IS MEDIATOR BETWEEN US AND HER SON-CHRIST CONFIRMED BY VISIONARIES FOR 2000 YEARS.

    GOD WANTS FAMILY NOT ROBOTS AND ALLOWS ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS AND ANGELS to HELP US!

    SHE IS OUR MOTHER IN CHRIST AND BLESSED BY ALL GENERATIONS

    "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Rev. 12:1-17

  • @JezusSlave thou shalt not scream in caps!

  • @sfchanticleer This is beyond wonderful. What was the occasion, for the Naval Academy glee club to be in San Francisco? Thank you for posting.

  • Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11­

  • What an exceptionall rendering of this beautiful hymn to Our Lady. Everytime I hear it I am very moved. The reverence with which it was delivered combined with the beauty of the voices is wonderful. Let us all offer a prayer that none of these brave young men will be called upon to give the ultimate sacrifice for you and me. I thank YouTube for posting this.

  • How wonderful it is to be able to view and listen to these two magnificent choirs singing as one. I was brought to tears by the beauty of their voices, their ensemble, the ever so tasteful and subtle interplay.I give thanks for YouTube and those who upload their videos for our pleasure and enjoyment.My evening was completed once again by this grand a capella choir.So tasteful and musically fulfilling.God bless all of you deicated young men.Bravo and Thank You! I salute you! U S Army 67-70

  • Chills chills chills! Thank you!

  • Great musicians with a sense of humor, I love it!!!

  • Impressive from any point of view- professional or not.....amateur means FOR THE PURE LOVE OF THE ART....and these beautiful men with such a pure sound...nothing better.

  • Chills. Every. Single. Time.

    Fantastic!

  • Sometimes WHO is singing makes the performance incredible, regardless of WHAT or HOW they sing. For this reason, I think this is the most effective performance of this piece I have heard.

  • Can I take one of them home with me?

  • wow. chanticleer have a bad habit of trying to do everything as fast a possible. not too good.

  • @cellist2010 IMO the conductor here wisely decided to keep it moving because the acoustic is pretty dry in this space. There's no church reverb to help them achieve an effortless, floating quality. If the tempo had been slower, the amateur singers' phrasing and tuning would almost certainly have suffered; I really don't think it would have sounded good. IMO the shaping/phrasing here is refreshingly dynamic and at an emotional level it really delivers. Slower wouldn't necessarily guarantee truer.

  • @leoleoleo7859 Yer ok fair play, but it still doesn't mean that the don't still do things too fast.

  • @cellist2010 Have you heard them live? When I heard them live they certainly took some risks with extreme tempi (fast and slow), but IMO they pulled them all off. Quite a few of their performances on Youtube are in TV studios (e.g. the not altogether successful performance of the Copland 'God Rest Ye Merry...') and similar acoustically dire spaces where the group is at the mercy of the sound engineer - I can completely understand why they would err on the side of brisk in those circumstances...

  • @cellist2010 Yeah....not really. Hyperbole much?

  • gorgeous...saved to favourites...

  • This performance is amazing...fuelled with passion, sensitive, laced with responsiveness and clarity. For the stupid people picking holes in the performance, please get a life and stop living up to the steriotype.

  • Who are the guys in civvies during rehearsals and in formal wear but not uniform on Stage Left (ouor right) Is this a supplemental civilian choir?

  • @donaldrose LOL - they certainly look and behave like one compared with the Glee Club...

  • @donaldrose

    Chanticleer ...

  • @donaldrose are you stupid? Civilian supplemental is demeaning...Chanticleer is THEE professional choir of america. Any men's chorus in the U.S. claiming to have better blend then those selected by Matt Oltmann(Chanticleer's music director) is automatically wrong. Even the king's singers of england aren't quite comparable to this "supplemental" (dominant) choir on stage left.

  • I take it that here Chanticleer were singing the trio parts and the Glee Club were the quartet. MAJOR RESPECT to the Glee Club, because the blend is terrific and the GC must have worked really hard to match Chanticleer's purity and sweetness of tone across the range so well. I think the tempo is fine in that acoustic, it's not a church. Lovely balance (bar the final chord, but that was the conductor's fault), great dynamics, FAB crescendo in the coda; and how focused and responsive the Navy are!

  • It doesn't get better than the best men's chorus in the country and our service men singing together, WELL DONE!!

  • This is a wonderful performance of Biebl's "Ave Maria". Thank you for posting this. I would've loved to hear this live. People who have only negative comments are those who fit into the category of "critic" - those who cannot do what people who perform do - they do only what is in their capacity to do - to find faults in order to make them feel better about themselves.  Do not listen to them. This is a fantastic performance. Bravo!

  • Lovely singing. The cutting back and forth between rehearsal and performance video was unusual. I wondered where the scruffy guys went and how the guys in tuxes got there. Maybe I am just a little dense...

  • The University of Kentucky Men's Chorus did this song at the Christmas concert and I love the way they did it. However, I've found that every group I listen to who sings this song has done it wonderfully, causing me to get chills down my spine.

    I think it's wonderful. Also, I think that people shouldn't judge the singers. Rather, they should appreciate and revel in their beautiful voices and the haunting melody of Biebl's Ave Maria.

    It's a beautiful rendition, leave it at that.

  • Oh, By the way, Zippy, you're from Singapore?  Dude.

  • its a little fast

  • @tennisplaya8888 There are no tempo markings in the score

  • @mightymouse86 i know i was jsut saying i think it is too fast never said it is incorrect because of the tempo they are singing at

  • unbelievably beautiful! I have listened over and over, and still I am in tears by the end of the piece. Thank you so much for postiing this video

  • An impressive rendition.

  • @ingramlove... roger, good copy.

    @zippyninny...ditto ingramlove. Your soup cooler: Shut it.

  • i get chills every time i hear this song

  • Gregory Peebles is the man!

  • WOW, I had hills this is one of my favorite Ave Maria songs. With this many voices I think the choir carried the tone very well, it could have been softer in some areas but man I loved it. I played it over and over again and again. Looking at the guys was easy on the eyes too! WOW what hunks!!!

  • this was gorgeous.....thanks very much for posting

  • One last thing, keep in mind that the little bit of pitch variance is the difference between a 12 person group and a 50+ person group like this one.  Sorry for the long-windedness. =) Once again, I enjoyed this performance.

  • I love the way the video kept flashing back and forth.

    It does not matter if some of the singers were Midshipmen going on to careers in the Navy or Marine Corp or Chanticleers they will treasure this experience for a lifetime.

    God bless the Navy Marine Corp team!!!!!! God bless and keep the men and women serving in uniform wherever they are.

  • @rbensonmtp I am a Navy Veteran who is now a Music educator and I worked with a lot of the Men and Women that graduated from that fine institution. the do not have the Music dept. one would like but they make up for it in deddication and desire. They also perform all over the country.

  • "zippy", I presume you are a music major...........ever fly an F-18?

  • @NlandC snotty

  • "zippy", this is a group of young men carrying an extraordinarily heavy academic load at the academy. To expect them to excel in music as well is more than one might expect. Ever hear of a musical curriculum at at military academy? These are men in training to serve their country; and I give them credit for performing in this ostensibly extracurricular discipline. God bless them.

  • @NlandC <Shrug> I was a music major up until this past December (Master's in Choral Conducting, *finally.* No need to be so defensive, Zippy's critique isn't agreed upon by all musicians. For example, I know very few conductors that prefer a top-heavy group as opposed to a bottom-heavy one(in truth I don't know any at all). This sound may not be perfectly accurate pitch-wise, but it by no means "spoils the chords." This group ahs a pretty strong sound, actually. Enjoyed the performance.

  • @zippyninny Thanks for your input Zippy. Noted. You seem to forget, however, that these are not professionals, nor are they scholarship choral, not even music majors. The Naval Academy doesn't offer music scholarships. Nor do they offer a single music class. These are Warriors preparing to lead men into combat who are given the privelidge to band together to sing traditional choral music during the little free time they are granted, before they protect the likes of you. Thanks Einstien

  • @ingramlove not that you should have had to say that, but well put. Kinda curious to know what Zippy wrote though. Then again, who cares- I'd rather click "repeat" then search for Zippy.

  • @ingramlove That not quite right either, Mr Snottyhead. The military does have a music school. 'Last I knew, it was a combined forces music school and one from any service, if they're good enough, can do their entire service as a musician. At Little Creek, Virginia. Do you really think military band members practice their instruments while cleaning their guns?

  • @goholom Wrong again. The school you reference is for the profeessional Enlisted musisians that the sevices recruit, audition and employ as paid musicians for their career. Again, the chorus in this video is comprised of college students training to be naval officers, to command ships submarines, pilot aircraft or lead Marines. service academies have no school or even a class on music. Certainly no music majors. The students sing as a hobby after school. Try again goholom.

  • @zippyninny .... let me put in terms you can understand. Name ONE collegiate intramural glee club in the world that tops these boys......... remember the rules Einstein, must be intramural. No music majors. Take your time to form your answer. You get credit for students that carry an average of > 24 semester hours.

  • @zippyninny haha you're so ignorant and disrespectful. Post a video of you singing better than this, prove us wrong before you say anything.

  • @zippyninny Some choral directors love that bottom heavy sound. 'Like pumping up the bass when listening to pop music. I also agree that the top, particularly solos are weak. Two separate videos combined here. One a workshop, with guys not in uniform. Im assuming this is a rehearsal, maybe soloists are "saving" their voices? Finally, an intelligent criticism of the music direction does NOT have anything to do with one's sense of patriotism. So sorry you have to suffer the insufferable.

  • @goholom The first tenor solo appears to have been a midshipman singing, and you might be right that his performance is less than world-class, but he is a sailor and a student, not a professional singer. The second tenor solo, however, was performed by one of the singers in Chanticleer, and his performance IS world class. If you have a distaste for his particular voice, that is a subjective criticism. Objectively, though, it was definitely not "weak."

  • @zippyninny I don't know what you were listening to, but this was one of the better performances of this song that I've heard. Also, what do you mean by "making the choir sound bottom- heavy which should be the other way round". I have always though that, in western music, at least, the idea was to have a "pyramid of sound" in which the loud low voices support the softer higher voices.

  • Ideal para acompañar nuestros momentos de oración, de reflexión o de intimidad con Dios y pedir por la recuperación de mi país y de su gente.

    Thanks to Chanticleer & the US Naval Academy Men's Glee Club from Chile.

  • that was so great im so glad i was able to be up there. thanks Chanticleer!

  • muy lindo!

  • Bravo!!

  • Hope for the future-great

  • way to go Al!

  • I really miss the sopranos, but it is excellent

  • This is excellent on so many levels!

  • Hey! my cousin is in this glee club also! And Im thinking this is pretty awesome! Nice job Jeremy! Great song!

  • Wow!! My cousin is in this glee club! This song sounds AMAZING! I LOVE listening to a strong male choir/glee club like this. Scot, if you read this, Alli and Matt are so proud of you! You all sounded awesome!

  • Superb!

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  • As a member of the Men's Glee Club, I want to thank Chanticleer for giving us the opportunity of a lifetime and allowing us to sing with you. It was such an incredible experience that I will cherish for the rest of my life! Thanks again guys!

  • Who took the video? Pretty light on the credits...

    And of course, excellent work all around. Naval Academy & Chanticleer, who would have thought?...

    Biebl's coda makes the whole piece work. Thank you!

  • This is quite beautiful guys! Had me in tears, so when are you coming to Arizona again? I am not getting any younger! :-)

    Chris

  • I love the male singing voice. It's so rich and fluid. This is gorgeous, guys!

  • Hair-raising and heartstopping performance. I'M BREATHLESS!!!! ^__^

  • I was going to go to this concert but I didn't...

    great story right?

    But anyway, BEAUTIFUL. Absolutely gorgeous. I wish I had been able to go

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