I Carry Your Heart With Me - Choir Singing EE Cummings Poem Set to Song

"I Carry Your Heart With Me" (lyrics E. E. Cummings, music Z. Randall Stroope) performed by the Los Altos High School Main Street Singers choir. Recorded at the Palo Alto First United Methodist Church.

Director - Mark Shaull
Piano - Debra Yowell
Violin - Nicolas Chu,
Soprano solo - Nicole Shorts

Apparently Mr. Stroope wrote this song for Haltom High School.

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[mshollywud]

WOW!! The soloist is absolutely amazing!!!

[mshorts]

I think so too, but I'm her dad :)

[Mellon589]

This is a wonderful ensemble!  Stroope would be proud!

[kuchiharu]

One of the best choirs I've ever heard! The soloist's voice was magnificent, the accompanists were fabulous and the blending of everything together was just... just... glorious!

[singFOREVERxo]

i was in the choir that this song was commissioned for. <3 ecuatalian's comments were correct. :)

[lightz1234]

I'm going to be singing an arrangement of this song soon with my high school choir! (Even if it's the woman's choir).... I hope it's just as awesome sounding as this is!

[Sageman101]

what calls for it to be so fast? this is a piece of a love so pure that it it transcends time and distance and this rushing through it makes me think the narrator is just blowing off the feeling. yes the pitches are there, but they are the equivilent of a hammer hitting a nail you must have musicality in every pitch to make it worth the beauty of your voice.

[colombiankid819]

phenomenal voices, amazing. however i think the song is better off slower. and the r needs to be flipped and I needs to be pronounced "Ah". but besides that. amazing. solo = A+ nice high A

[ViciousGlee]

this is probably my favorite song i have ever sung for choir in my life...

[SaxyMan93]

Wow... I love the arrangement that uses the words in and out of parentheses as point and counterpoint. That is beautiful.

[Musicnut1416]

I really love this choir's sound... I am just concerned about the vocal production. Even though a warm, round sound should always be the focus, high school voices are still considered young and shouldn't be pushed to far towards a darker model. I hope that the students are not pushing down on the larynx or creating tension to create this sound. Beautiful though...

[Tan1723]

Gosh, how many pitches can you have in a note? Way too much virbratto...