SINGING When the soul first put on the body's shirt, the ocean lifted up all its gifts. When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing. Texts by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks © 1995 Coleman Barks. Used by permission. ...  moreSINGING When the soul first put on the body's shirt, the ocean lifted up all its gifts. When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing. Texts by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks © 1995 Coleman Barks. Used by permission. Performed by the Millennium Consort, Martin Neary, conductor, and the Pomona College Choir, Donna Di Grazia, director. Water Ruminations is a setting of six poems by the thirteenth-century poet Rumi, in English translations from the Persian by Coleman Barks, for double Choir and organ. The poetry sings of literal and spiritual connections between water and sky, a drop of water and human life, flowing water and love, drinking water and its container, the giddiness of spring and rolling seas, and the ocean's gifts and singing. Its images, from 800 years ago, speak to us with both vivid immediacy and transcendence. The idea for the piece originated with the Mellon Elemental Arts Initiative, which proposed funding activities that would involve students in a...    less

Music composed by Kim André Arnesen Improvised piano by Toni Arnold Shreve

RJC Chorale and Women's Choir perform at their annual Christmas Concert in Knox United Church, Saskatoon, SK

Singkronies Chamber Choir performing Niel van der Watt's 'I am the voice of Africa' on the stage of the 40th Tolosa International Choral Competition - conducted by Dr Johann van der Sandt, the Choir's founder.

MAIORI Choir FESTIVAL   Maiori International Choirsl Festival is held annually in June. Our staff and Maiori City  welcomes Choirs from across the world for a programme of Gala concerts, Schools Concert. Maiori is well known as the pearl o...

The New Jersey Chamber Singers (NJCS) perform Danny Boy www.njChambersingers.org Artistic Director Reid Masters recording engineer John Baker O Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling from glen to glen and down hte mountainside the summer's ...  moreThe New Jersey Chamber Singers (NJCS) perform Danny Boy www.njChambersingers.org Artistic Director Reid Masters recording engineer John Baker O Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling from glen to glen and down hte mountainside the summer's gone and all the roses falling it's you, it's you must go and I must bide but come ye back when summer's in the meadow or when the valley's hushed and white with snow it's I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow O Danny Boy, O Danny Boy, I love you so but when ye come and all the flowers are dying if I am dead, as dead I well may be ye'll come and find the place where I am lying and kneel and say an "ave" there for me and I shall hear, though soft you tread above me and all my grave will warmer, sweeter be for you will bend and tell me that you love me and I shall sleep in peace until you come to me Recorded at St Pio of Pietrelcina Roman Catholic Church, 103 Washington Ave, Lavallette, NJ 08735-2351 Copyright 2011 New Jersey Chamber Singers  less

O Danny Boy by Coimbatore Chamber Chorale (CCC)

Singkronies Chamber Choir on the stage of the 40th Tolosa International Choral Competition in Spain, singing De Zwolf Bussverse by Alfred Schnittke - conducted by founder, Dr Johann van der Sandt.