Video Information

• Choir: Salt Lake Vocal Artists
• Piece: Stars
• Composer:  Eriks Esenvalds
• Conductor:  Brady Allred
• Voices:  SSAATTBB
• Genres: A cappella
• The Salt Lake Vocal Artists perform the premiere of "Stars" by Ēriks Ešenvalds live in concert on July 26, 2011 in Libby Gardner concert hall, under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred. This was the Vocal Artists Bon Voyage concert prior to their Argentine...  moreThe Salt Lake Vocal Artists perform the premiere of "Stars" by Ēriks Ešenvalds live in concert on July 26, 2011 in Libby Gardner concert hall, under the direction of Dr. Brady Allred. This was the Vocal Artists Bon Voyage concert prior to their Argentine tour and performance at the 9th International World Choral Symposium. "Stars" was commissioned by and dedicated to the Salt Lake Vocal Artists and Brady Allred.
  
  This piece calls for tuned glasses and specifically tuned Tibetan Singing bowls. In this video, the choir is using crystal singing bowls graciously provided by Crystal tones. http://www.crystaltones.com/
  
  Stars
  Text adapted from the poem 'Stars' by Sara Teasdale (1920)
  
  Alone in the night
  On a dark hill
  With pines around me
  Spicy and still,
  
  And a heaven full of stars
  Over my head
  White and topaz
  And misty red;
  
  Myriads with beating
  Hearts of fire
  That aeons
  Cannot vex or tire;
  
  Up the dome of heaven
  Like a great hill,
  I watch them marching
  Stately and still,
  
  And I know that I
  Am honored to be
  Witness
  Of so much majesty.  less