Dixie (The Hastings College Choir)

The Hastings College Choir prepared this classic setting for a 'command performance' at the 2009 dedication of the Morrison-Reeves Science Center on campus. Dr. Fritz Mountford, conductor.

Hastings College, founded in 1882, is a private, four-year liberal arts institution affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The college is located in Hastings, Nebraska.

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• Dixie
• Hastings College
• Norman Luboff
• Fritz Mountford

[Jfernandez910]

Extraordinary performance. Dixie anthem is very close to my heart. As a civil war reenactor, I was participating at the Batle of Olustee reenactment last February 17-19, and during Colors, the band played Dixie. What an honor to experience such performance on that hollow place.

[madamequeen123]

JFisher928: My Grandfather was from Pineville/Alexandria, LA. Having been raised by a Southern Gentleman, then marrying one, and having lived in the South twice; I can say that I am American by birth and a Southerner by choice!. The pain of war and lost is still evident and felt in Confederate cemetaries and battlefields such as Shilo and Chickamauga. They are hollowed places. Dixie is a heartfelt melody of 'what was' and 'still is' of the Grand Ol' South in the hearts of Southerners. 

[jfisher928]

Well I am sitting here with tears on my cheeks. When I was a boy in North Carolina the local channels would sign off with Dixie. This is about as close to that as I have heard in almost 40 years. This Son of a Confederate Veteran thanks you for posting this.

[JTB1956]

Bravo! Very nicely done...Dixie's not often heard nowadays....but this song of the South always gives me goose-bumps.

[0venMagnet]

My favourite version...beautiful arrangement of Americas most inspirational song.

( in my humble, ultracrepidarian opinion)

[tpmetp]

that was excellent. very nice interpretation of the classic. the blend and dynamics were spot on. impressive, very impressive.