Water Night -- St. Olaf's Choir

St. Olaf's Choir sings Eric Whitacre's "Water Night" at Strathmore Music Hall in D.C. February 4, 2007.

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Music

Tags:

• water
• night
• eric
• whitacre
• st
• olaf
• choir

[LifeInGminor]

STOP MOVING THE DAMN CAMERA AROUND! YOUR MAKING NOISE AND RUINING THE MOMENT!!!!! lol

[Begis]

I think it is pretty funny... how someone says they think their HIGH SCHOOL choir sings this song better than arguably one of the top 5 choirs in the entire nation. I find that incredibly amusing. I'm sure your choir did it well... but this is the St. Olaf choir. I have heard them before. They have a beautiful choral blend.... that most choirs only wish they could have. The ending is also not weak. It was as Whitacre intended.

[brittanylj21]

@logues85 i agree that high school choirs are not as equipped as good college choirs-but does that mean we should dumb down the music to please to others? no!! i am a senior in hs, we sang Water Night last year along with Thanks be to God by Mendelssohn. it truly changed my life. isnt THAT what music is about?? it isnt living some "fantasy" that we will be as good as a choir the caliber of St. Olaf's-it is challenging us to be better and appreciate music for what is is more every single day.

[SellyNue]

Absolutely LOVING the bass that you can hear so strongly!!! 

[StrawBeriLuv95]

They are fucking a amazing. Even through a camera recording!!! THEY ARE STILL THE MOST AMAZING FUCKING CHOIR EVER!!!!

[marrymeross]

stop moving around! this video is hard to watch because I hear the camera over the choir.

[sexyking19]

@Begis its like water-to be fluid and and jst flow quitely

[linzie78]

Stunning. I find the person who keeps clearing their throat far more annoying than the shaky camera. With that said, it's the best version of this song in youtube. I can only imagine what it sounded like live. The venue even looks stunning.

[Tan1723]

If only the BYU singers could have done the 14-part chord better as in what St Olaf does here, then they would have preformed it perfect. In this video you hear the basses notes and it kind of completes the chord .

[kaitibobaitiii]

st olaf is my fav choir, and this is my fav whitacre piece. i was lucky to get to read this at all state this year :) thank you so much for posting this artwork !

[XPBXBEATS]

@logues85 Unfortunately, I believe you are utterly incorrect and narrow minded. I have heard some high-school choirs preform songs of such magnitude and they have sounded fantastic. For some high school teachers what you say might be true, but that is no reason to rid children of such amazing music that can change and shape their lives forever.  So, "if you open your eyes" you might see that sharing such amazing sound with everyone is a great thing.

[bandoutaboston]

ugh...im so glad i wasn't there...i would've been a sloppy-ass mess...i would've been crying all over the place and embarrassing myself...and the fact that i can know that by listening to a shitty camera recording with feedback really says something about how amazing they are...<3 St. Olaf's!