D'ror Yikra A wonderful arrangeMent by prominent Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun (b.1922), of three traditional oriental versions of this famous Medieval poetic Text. read more - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehezkel_Braun The Jerusalem Oratorio Cham...  moreD'ror Yikra A wonderful arrangeMent by prominent Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun (b.1922), of three traditional oriental versions of this famous Medieval poetic Text. read more - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehezkel_Braun The Jerusalem Oratorio Chamber Choir conducted by Ronen Borshevsky. Recording apeared on a CD which won the Golden Orpheus Award of the French Academy for best vocal music CD for 2007. For more info and purchase - http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-seventh-gate/dp/B001IRSOWK Write us - oratorio.jerusalem@gmail.com Text Translation: He will proclaim freedom for all his children / and will keep you as the apple of his eye Pleasant is your naMe and will not be destroyed / repose and rest on the Sabbath day Seek my sanctuary and my hoMe / give Me a sign of deliverance Plant a vine in my vineyard / look to my people, hear their laMents Tread the wine-press in Bozrah / and in Babylon that city of might Crush my enemies in anger and fury / on the day when I cry, hear my voice P...    less

"The Land of Nod" by Stephen Paulus. Text by Robert Louis Stevenson. Recorded live on May 13, 2011, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. PerforMed by the Apprentice Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida...  more"The Land of Nod" by Stephen Paulus. Text by Robert Louis Stevenson. Recorded live on May 13, 2011, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. PerforMed by the Apprentice Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Susan Dodd. This piece was first debuted by the Girl Choir of South Florida as part of the festival chorus at the Keynote Arts Festival in June 2006. From breakfast on through all the day At hoMe among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad Afar into the land of Nod. All by myself I have to go, With none to tell Me what to do — All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams. The strangest things are there for Me, Both things to eat and things to see, And many frightening sights abroad Till morning in the land of Nod. Try as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can reMember plain and clear The curious music that I hear.  less

"Velvet Shoes" by Randall Thompson. Text by Elnior Wylie. Recorded live on December 14, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. PerforMed by the Apprentice Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Arti...  more"Velvet Shoes" by Randall Thompson. Text by Elnior Wylie. Recorded live on December 14, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. PerforMed by the Apprentice Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Robert Todd, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Let us walk in the white snow In a soundless space; With footsteps quiet and slow, At a tranquil pace, Under veils of white lace. I shall go shod in silk, And you in wool, White as white cow's milk, More beautiful Than the breast of a gull. We shall walk through the still town In a windless peace; We shall step upon white down, Upon silver fleece, Upon softer than these. We shall walk in velvet shoes: Wherever we go Silence will fall like dews On white silence below. We shall walk in the snow.  less

"AMerica the Beautiful" by Samuel A. Ward. Text by Katharine Lee Bates. Recorded live on May 25, 2015, at St. Joseph's John Knox Village in Tampa, Florida. PerforMed by the Lyric Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wal...  more"AMerica the Beautiful" by Samuel A. Ward. Text by Katharine Lee Bates. Recorded live on May 25, 2015, at St. Joseph's John Knox Village in Tampa, Florida. PerforMed by the Lyric Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Susan Dodd. O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! AMerica! AMerica! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare of freedom beat Across the wilderness! AMerica! AMerica! God Mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam UndimMed by human tears! AMerica! AMerica! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!  less

"Suite de Lorca" by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Text by Federico García Lorca. PerforMed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of The Girl Choir of South Florida on Friday, May 18, 2012, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Artistic Directo...  more"Suite de Lorca" by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Text by Federico García Lorca. PerforMed by the Chamber Singers ensemble of The Girl Choir of South Florida on Friday, May 18, 2012, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson. Translated Text: 1. Cancion del Jinete (Song of the Horseman) Cordoba. Distant and alone. A black nag, the giant moon, and olives in my saddlebag. Even if I know the way, I never will reach Cordoba. Over the plain, through the wind, a black nag, the bloody moon. The Reaper is watching Me from the tall towers of Cordoba. Oh, such a long road! Oh, my valiant nag! Oh, the Reaper awaits Me before I ever reach Cordoba! Cordoba. Distant and alone. 2. El Grito (The Scream) The arc of a scream curves from hill to hill. Ay! From the olive trees, a black rainbow over the blue night. Ay! Like a viola's bow, the scream has made the long strings of the wind vibrate. Ay! (The people of the caves put their ...    less

"The Singing Place" by Joan Szymko. Text by Lily A. Long. Recorded live on May 15, 2015, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. PerforMed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Dir...  more"The Singing Place" by Joan Szymko. Text by Lily A. Long. Recorded live on May 15, 2015, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. PerforMed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Cold may lie the day, And bare of grace; At night I slip away To the Singing Place. A border of mist and doubt Before the gate, And the Dancing Stars grow still As hushed I wait. Then faint and far away I catch the beat In broken rhythm and rhyMe Of joyous feet,— Lifting waves of sound That will rise and swell (If the prying eyes of thought Break not the spell), Rise and swell and retreat And fall and flee, As over the edge of sleep They beckon Me. And I wait as the seaweed waits For the lifting tide; To ask would be to awake,— To be denied. I cloud my eyes in the mist ...    less

"Nada te turbe" by Joan Szymko. Text by Saint Teresa of Avila. Recorded live on May 7, 2016, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. PerforMed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wall...  more"Nada te turbe" by Joan Szymko. Text by Saint Teresa of Avila. Recorded live on May 7, 2016, 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, Cello: Stephanie JaiMes. Nada te turbe nada te espante todo se pasa. Dios no se muda. La paciencia todo alcanza Quien a Dios tiene nada le falta Solo Dios basta. Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, All things are passing. God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God is enough.  less

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"CarMel Highlands" by Daniel Kallman. Text by Janet Loxley Lewis, from "The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis". Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. PerforMed by the Concert Choir...  more"CarMel Highlands" by Daniel Kallman. Text by Janet Loxley Lewis, from "The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis". Recorded live on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. PerforMed by the Concert Choir ensemble of the Girl Choir of South Florida. Artistic Director: Wallis Peterson, Accompanist: Gayle Giese. Below the gardens and the darkening pines The living water sinks among the stones, Sinking yet foaming till the snowy tones Merge with the fog drawn landward in dim lines. The cloud dissolves among the flowering vines, And now the definite mountain-side disowns The fluid world, the imMeasurable zones. Then white oblivion swallows all designs. But still the rich confusion of the sea, Unceasing voice, sombre and solacing, Rises through veils of silence past the trees; In restless repetition bound, yet free, Wave after wave in deluge fresh releasing An ancient speech, hushed in treMendous ease.  less

Barlow Bradford's Utah Chamber Artists perform "Run, Toboggan Run" by Abbie Betinis in their 2012 Christmas Concert at Libby Gardner Concert Hall. Publisher: Fred Bock Co / HT Fitzsimons.