TMEA All-State Women's Choir [I Thank You God]

2007 All-State Women's Choir singing I Thank You God by Gwyneth Walker, accompanied by the University of North Texas Symphony Orchestra.

"i thank You God for most this amazing"
by ee cummings:

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• TMEA
• Texas
• All-State
• Women's
• Choir
• classical
• music
• ee
• cummings

[rainyfaery]

does anyone from the 2007 women's choir remember the name of that estonian piece we did?? I really liked it. And I can't find my program or my cd right now.

[beapodaca]

The name is Lauliku Lapsepoli by Veljo Tormis. I've been trying to upload the video of it because someone here asked me for it, but I just haven't been able to upload the video to my computer.

[Bmackkc]

WOW! What an amazing interpretation of Ms. Walker's (and e.e.cummings') work. Flawless, empassioned, brilliant. The sopranos always get the accolades, but the altos have an very warm but resonant sound.

[oneonetwosix1126]

Too fast! Too slow! No dynamics! Not enough Soprano! Better with piano! Better with Orchestra! Orchestra overpowering! Bull rubbish! Everything was just perfect! Why is the sky a different shade of blue on different days? Because blue is the perfect color for the sky and whatever shade of blue you see, it is still the perfect color, so too are outstanding performances like this. Even being too slow or too fast it is still only different versions of perfection!

[naminememoryprincess]

oh my gosh! this is amazing!!!!

@.@

[spanishmonkeyz]

Why is there always that one person coughing? Gosh. lol

[aka0kop]

too good!!! too good!!



[tshiamo29]

Wish we were backed by an orchestra when we performed this song:)

[Piggieelaydee]

this is a piece i hold close to my heart

[sandellma]

thank you god for this day

[paramorepop98]

I do like it with the piano better because its softer and just gentler. But this way way much more powerful as well which also represents the song a lot. Perfection :)

[SongHeals88]

It's usually the other way around. It was probably composed with all of the instrumentation of the orchestra. Then something called a "piano reduction" was composed so that smaller ensembles can perform it.

[sexyking19]

@oneonetwosix1126 yes i agree i think it is way too fast