All That Hath Life and Breath Praise Ye the Lord - University of Utah Singers

[SpiritoftheForest]

The University of Utah singers are AWESOME.

[PhantomxEmma]

A tenor/baritone/bass ensemble in my choir did this. Ah it was so beautiful!! All us girls were swooning it was so gorgeous! And the lyrics are so meaningful

[mlathan475]

Wonderful sound. Thanks U of Utah for your many YouTube posts. The quality of your performances is something to aspire to. -Mark Lathan, Waubonsee Community College (IL)

[thespirit2508]

Very nice! -Hallef Rodrigues LAHS concert choir

[TheMarkpeng]

Their blend is beautiful. Felt like the word "life" needed to be sung better, but overall a stunning performance!

[seagorich]

fantastic tempo...... energy..... exciting....... intense......... i find most choirs get so caught up in tone that they forget about the music...... good job!!!

[LionEatsCats0034]

Man i love this song. One of my fav songs that we ever performed!

[JJBRMusic]

Just got the sheet music Friday! as a New Chorus student (Like, new,new xD) Im really excited because this piece is amazing :D

[csmith747]

yes i agree with some of you referring to this piece as rushed. Beautiful tone, wonderful choir. I've heard this Clausen several times and have conducted it myself with two different college choirs and although I have a great respect for this fine conductor I have to wonder on hearing it the recording whether he might have reconsidered the tempo. The rushed feeling also comes from not a well established tempo.  It's hard to set a tempo that fast and have everyone really keep it solid.

[PakezSystematicWrath]

My choir (Cathedral of St. Andrew - Little Rock, AR) is singing this!

[shaneakasper19]

GAHHH!!!! i love this!

[sactownboss]

the soloist did a beautiful job. the choir was great too but she made the song for me

[KarisJD]

Do you guys happen to have the sheet music somewhere? I'd like to know the tempo, since I'm hearing mixed things about the speed. ;-;

[jkfpt]

@KarisJD It's written in 6/8 time with a quarter note=78.

[JJBRMusic]

@KarisJD The original tempo is doted quarter note = 78. it changes afterwards, I cant remember, i don't have the score in front of me,

[brihath]

Very cool. the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay is performing this April 9th and 10th. Rene Clausen will be an artist in residence with us for that week. We also commissioned a new work from him which will have its world premiere in USF's new music building.

[MizLauryn22]

I agree, titus. It rushed. We, at Oakland University in Michigan are doing this piece and it is not this fast! Soprano soloist rushed too!

[TitusBrownMusic]

Am i the only one who felt like this was rushed?

It seemed like it was too fast and, as a result, alot of the very musical things that i LOVE hearing when our choir performs it weren't present in this rendition.

Everything just seemed rush, but quality of sound was fantastic. Well done.

[tantheman6254]

i am singing this song right now in my high school choir. it is absolutely AMAZING. highly challenging. a level five for SURE. my favorite part is without a doubt the aleatoric section

[kayleexkatastrophic]

my choir is singing this at the moment, I'm a soprano and that aleatoric section is killing us! I adore the solo though

[lasallechorale]

This is really awesome! I so wanted our choir to sing this! Can anyone give us a copy? Please..

[jzantastic]

beauty. purity of sound. outstanding tone

[XanderGraham3262]

I like the solo better as a tenor solo. But this women did great.

[psychodan13]

omg my choir is singing this. all i looked at was the front page and i was like "psht this looks so easy" and then i was like "wtf!?"

[broadwaygirl19]

A choir I was in did this and I was the soloist. But this one blew me out of the water. Absolutely phenomenal!!!!

[workittworkit]

The soloist is amazing.

[runxitsxm3]

OMG I love this song! My choir is doing it this year and its one of my favorites! Great job sopranos! and Great job soloist!

[poundage6678]

Glorious! Performed this in 1999 at Carnegie Hall. Thanks for the memories.

[megz212445]

awesome. my only complaint is that it could use more alto, that part got lost a lot of the time.

[yumiwright]

Love! Love! Love! I cannot wait to suggest this song to my chorale director. You guys do an amazing job on this song =)

[LionEatsCats0034]

OMG SHE DID A EXCELLENT JOB ON THE SOPRANO SOLO....WE ARE PERFORMING THIS AND I SO WANT THE SOPRANO SOLO PART BUT IDK IF I CAN DO IT!!! BUT AWESOME JOB U GUYS

[wiiman250]

My high school choir is performing this at Northern Illinois University tomorrow. We take the 5/4 section much, much, much slower, though this is a wonderful performance.

[405232SING]

Is there a musical term for 2:11 - 2:28? Besides a round... Because the women are singing the same line but at different times... Whatever it is: It is beautiful.

[UofUtahSingers]

@405232SING I think what you're looking for is the word "aleatoric". The specific part you're referring to is an aleatoric section. In Latin this refers to "chance" or part of the music being left to the performers to "compose". In this case it's the same line of notes and text but each individual sings it at different times and at their own tempo. The conductor just signals the beginning and the end of the section. Beautiful indeed! Thanks for the comment!

[JuyoNi]

@405232SING Idk eric whitacre does something similar in his piece called Cloudburst, it sounds a lot like babbling. Idk how one would write that but it sure does sound nice:)

[barisaxxy7]

Gorgeous.. I had the privilege of singing the solo with my high school choir. It gives me the chills!

[andante147]

fantastic choir. They did manage to move UP a half step during the soprano solo. Oops.

[deanktenor]

LOVE! The soprano. What a wonderful setting. Fun to perform, too.

[MrRaulDominguez]

Why so fast!? First off, INCREDIBLE choir! Love the videos, truly!

I understand this is a joyful song but this piece also shows a great deal of reverence and the tempo is moving way to fast to fast to capture that.

[rbensonmtp]

Great memories. Performed this at West Texas State University with Dr. Clausen in 1985.

[FurorVikingorum]

Beautiful.

[choirboy1989]

Amazing!



[angeljenny55]

Thank you for posting this...my Community College chorus did this and it makes me happy to hear that it is still being done.

[cmbmmj]

this is amazinqq...my high school choir is attempting to do this...our soloist is great but the rest of it is not workinqq out...wonderful job...wonderful job soloist..!!

[cmbmmj]

@cmbmmj we rele did qood when we did this sonq friday

[MavRckProductions]

i actually like it faster. the aleatoric section was awesome

[lkbcde]

NICE!!

[ND717554]

that was amazzzinng. and the soloist was mad bangin'. soo good.

[lorbor0915]

Why do people think this sounds better slower? It's a joyful, spiritual song. Faster is better and more exciting.

[lifeinahand]

i think he should have taken 1:40 and on that section SLOWER.

but i'm impressed by the vocal quality

[MisterHowe]

Agreed. I like the fast tempo in the A section, but without a good contrast it's not as powerful near the end.

[mrsdaignault]

This is the way it was intended to be performed...fast! It was written by Rene Clausen from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN where I'm from. They did a PERFECT job! ♥

[getdusty1]

They absolutely did!!!!!!!!

[manycoatsmg]

This was performed WAY too fast, but great soloist! But personally I think this song sounds better when done with just men.

[bimmerboy87]

agreed. WAAAYYY too fast. Its way too rushed, no time to milk those juicy chords. Other than EXCELLENT job!

[madfree101]

i think i was there

[swimmercolton]

This is truly beautiful music! All that makes singing great is expressed here! Nicely done! Love the crisp and uniform tone. Excellent blend!

[normalmayhem]

haha this is SO much better than my high school's performance. and i thought we were REALLY good.

[chicaboricua09]

i absolutely LOVE this song. my choir sang this song for our last concert and i was given the solo. (this video really helped me practice, actually.) we sang it at a slower tempo though, especially the segment right after the solo. but i think we did alright with it. haha. and i'll probably still be singing this song for years

[torosax]

Wow! Very nice! One of my favorite pieces I've performed... I went to Illinois State... The Soloist has an awesome sound and a great spin on her upper range! Thanks for sharing!

[Malikue]

Wow. Just wow. This is amazing. So beautifully sung.

[Wlhssuperjake08]

I'm all the way from Wisconsin and i LOVE the University of Utah singers!!! We did this song my sophomore year in high school and it came no where near as good as this. Very nice

[pixychic91]

Awesome job we're singing this song for uil this year i love it

[FlamingCockatiel]

Absolutely gorgeous! This is much better than the performance my choir gave of this piece 2 years ago. We couldn't get the aleatoric section to work, so we skipped it. Is there an mp3 of this?

[vocisaeterna]

Check out the University of Utah iTunes U page they have set up. Several recordings from concerts over the last two years are posted there.

[Peeyotch]

Phenomenal performance of a phenomenally difficult piece to perform well. The huge All-State choir I did this with didn't have half this energy!

[Celoth]

Great performance! Most of the videos of this piece that I've seen take the piece *way* too slowly in my opinion, taking away from the energy of it. You guys definitely have the energy going for you, very engaging (good job soloist, btw!) The most impressive part of this performance though, for me, is the aleatoric section... That's hard to pull off and sound good, because it's hard for people to approach it boldly without feeling like they sound goofy.

Great job, great performance.

[stageseeker88]

Wow....great performance. My high school choir just started this song, and this video puts on a great example. Exceptional soloist also!