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How could we start better our festival season together with the first rays of spring sunshine, if not with an original Italian festival on the Shore of Lake Garda, in one of the jewels of the area, Riva del Garda. We love this place: Lake Garda’s lu...

From Sunset Concert "Sacred Music in a Sacred Place" 8th International Festival of the Aegean, Syros 2012. 

St Nicholas orthodox church

 Corfu Children's Choir, Christina Kalliaridou conducting

"Mary Had a Baby," trad. African-American spiritual, arr. Royal Stanton. Recorded live on December 11, 2015, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South...  more"Mary Had a Baby," trad. African-American spiritual, arr. Royal Stanton. Recorded live on December 11, 2015, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson.  

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"The Joiku" from "Primitive Music" by Jukka Linkola. Recorded live on December 9, 2011, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Pe...  more"The Joiku" from "Primitive Music" by Jukka Linkola. Recorded live on December 9, 2011, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson. The joik is a unique form of cultural expression for the Sami people in northern Scandinavia. Each joik is meant to reflect a person or place. This does not mean that it is a song about the person or place, but that the joiker is attempting to transfer "the essence" of that person or place into song—one joiks their friend, not about their friend. This joik is the essence of a young boy's dream of riding through the snow on the back of a reindeer.  less

"Sylvie" by Lead Belly. Recorded live on January 19, 2013, at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir and Lyric Choir ensembles of the Girl Choir of South Florida and members of the Gulf Coast Girl Choir en...  more"Sylvie" by Lead Belly. Recorded live on January 19, 2013, at First Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir and Lyric Choir ensembles of the Girl Choir of South Florida and members of the Gulf Coast Girl Choir ensemble of the Gulf Coast Youth Choir of Tampa, Florida. Artistic Directors: Wallis Peterson (GCSF) and Judy Romera (GCGC).  

"You Are the New Day" by John David. Originally performed by The King's Singers. Recorded live on June 4, 2013, at Christ Lutheran Church in Oakland Park, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Dir...  more"You Are the New Day" by John David. Originally performed by The King's Singers. Recorded live on June 4, 2013, at Christ Lutheran Church in Oakland Park, Florida. Performed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson. You are the new day You are the new day I will love you more than me and more than yesterday If you can but prove to me you are the new day Send the sun in time for dawn Let the birds all hail the morning Love of life will urge me say you are the new day When I lay me down at night knowing we must pay Thoughts occur that this night might stay yesterday Thoughts that we as humans small could slow worlds and end it all lie around me where they fall before the new day One more day when time is running out for everyone Like a breath I knew would come I reach for the new day Hope is my philosophy Just needs days in which to be Love of life means hope for me borne on a new day You are the new day  less