Video Information

• Choir: Cape Town Youth Choir
• Piece: Ubi Caritas
• Composer:  Paul Mealor
• Conductor:  Leon Starker
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: Classical, Contemporary
• Cape Town Youth Choir (formerly Pro Cantu): "Ubi Caritas"
  Conductor: Leon Starker
  Composer: Paul Mealor (b. 1975)
  Performed at Hugo Lambrechts Auditorium, Cape Town (16th July 2013) in a joint concert with the Whiffenpoofs of YalemoreCape Town Youth Choir (formerly Pro Cantu): "Ubi Caritas"
  Conductor: Leon Starker
  Composer: Paul Mealor (b. 1975)
  Performed at Hugo Lambrechts Auditorium, Cape Town (16th July 2013) in a joint concert with the Whiffenpoofs of Yale
  
  Ubi Caritas
  Paul Mealor (b. 1975)
  Modern Classical
  
  Welsh composer Paul Mealor originally wrote this piece as the first movement of his Rose Cycle with title and text 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal'. His refashioned version with the famous Latin text Ubi caritas et amor was commissioned by Prince William and premiered by the choirs of Westminster Abbey and Her Majesty's Chapel Royal, conducted by James O'Donnell, at the Royal Wedding of His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales with Miss Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in April 2011. Mealor uses a combination of a plainchant style and misleading harmonic suspensions similar to those of Eric Whitacre or Morten Lauridsen. Mealor's setting of Ubi caritas is reminiscent of the original Gregorian antiphon melody - a favourite of modern composers (especially Maurice Duruflé's famous setting) - which is quoted at the end of the piece by a solo soprano but without its resolution.
  
  Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
  Congregavit nos in
  unum Christi amor.
  Exsultemus, et in ipso jucundemur.
  Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum.
  Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.
  Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
  Amen.
  
  Where charity and love are, God is there.
  Christ's love has gathered us into one.
  Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him.
  Let us fear, and let us love the living God.
  And may we love each
  other with a sincere heart.
  Where charity and love are, God is there.
  Amen.
  
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