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You can find everything you’re looking for in the Concert Archive pages.
(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)
The “Gift to Sing” concert video is listed in our public YouTube channel (click here). Anyone can find the video by searching YouTube for “Kent Singers” and/or “Gift to Sing”. You can also go to kentsingers.org and click the YouTube social media icon at the top of the page.
The YouTube player for the entire concert has a playlist that will let you jump directly to each song. To find the playlist, click in the description where it says “more…” There is also a separate YouTube video clip for the premiere performance of our commission piece, “The Gift to Sing.”
Here is an audio player for the concert:
Woody: I Conquer the World with Words
Pfautsch: Musicks Empire
Pfautsch: Consecrate the Place and Day
Howells: A Hymn for St. Cecilia
Batten: O Sing Joyfully
Aguiar: Salmo 150
Thompson: Alleluia
Gawthrop: Sing Me to Heaven
Hall: A Dream of a Blessed Spirit
Childs: The Choir Invisible
Spirit Seeking Life and Beauty (trad. Gaelic)
Paulus: The Road Home
Paulus: The Day is Done
Woody: The Gift to Sing (commission)
Kirchner: Bright Morning Stars (3:22 to 4:45 from DR)
Powell: Arise, Beloved! (final Arise from DR)
Copland: Zion's Walls
Kirchner: Unclouded Day
Applause
This player has edited versions of two songs:
Bright Morning Stars: 3:22 to 4:45 from dress rehearsal
Arise, Beloved: final Arise from dress rehearsal
The video soundtrack does not include these audio edits.
Youtube (same 14 songs, plus Dream of a Blessed Spirit)
Click here for a recording of The Choir Invisible on Youtube (not included in Knox’s practice playlist, therefore please use for notes only and not musical interpretation). Also included in audio player below.
Click here for practice aids for I Conquer the World with Words, including a introduction video by composer Jonathan Woody and an audio player that displays the music as it goes along (very cool). Be sure to scroll down and you will find all sorts of really great practice aids for Conquer, including each part separately with a click track to keep time. There’s also a player that leaves out each part, for example you hear SAT without bass, so you can sing along with the bass part (likewise for all four parts). All of this is really helpful!
And last but not least, here is “The Gift to Sing”, also by Jonathan Woody, which we commissioned for this concert!
Sing along with our rehearsal run-through on March 19.
Listen to a synthesized audio performance in the audio player below (our concert will be the world premiere!)
The audio player also has two slowed versions of “I Conquer the World with Words” (Skylark Vocal Ensemble), and “The Choir Invisible” (2009 ACDA High School Honor Choir).
Woody: A Gift To Sing (rehearsal 19 Mar 2025)
Woody: The Gift to Sing (synthesized audio performance)
Woody: I Conquer the World with Words (slow)
Woody: I Conquer the World with Words (extra slow)
Both performances were very good, but Sunday was generally the better of the two in my opinion. This playlist has the Sunday version of all songs and readings except a few that, for technical reasons, sounded better in the Saturday recording (Shortest Day, Noel, Once as I remember, Journey of the Magi, Starlight Night). I also replaced the organ intro on “Midnight Clear” with the Saturday version, because there was a little bobble in the playing on Sunday.
Mann/Willcocks (arr): Once in Royal David's City
Susan Cooper: The Shortest Day
Woodward (arr): Up! good Christen folk, and listen
Wohlgemuth (arr): Of the Father's Love Begotten
John Clare: The Instinct of Hope (excerpt)
Vaughan Williams (arr): This is the truth sent from above
Ireland: Adam Lay Ybounden
Madeleine l'Engle: First Coming
Ledger/Tompkins (arr): O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Isaiah 11:1-2, 6-9
Praetorius (arr): Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
Samuel Hunter: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (Bob Coles, tenor)
Elizabeth Jennings: Annunciation
Paulus: Gabriel's Message
Purcell: Magnificat in G minor
J.R.R. Tolkien: Noël (excerpt)
Wood (arr): Once, as I remember
Cleobury: Joys Seven
Bach: O little one sweet
Yehuda Amichai: An Arab Shepherd is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion
You can find everything you’re looking for in the Concert Archive pages.
(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)
(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)
One nice thing about the YouTube recording of the Zelenka is that it has the score with it—including the orchestral and solo parts—which might be especially helpful as we get closer to the concert.
Here are slowed-down versions of two sections from the Zelenka:
Zelenka: Fecit potentiam (slow)
Zelenka: Amen fugue (slow)
Also, here is a quick lesson on how to perform the trills in the Handel Coronation Anthems:
(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)
