#Jake Runestad

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1. Dog day…why did you say when you saw your husbands picture “ he’s alive????” Did you think he was dead.

"The passage of time is worthless when you there's nothing you can count on, except pain. So I always assumed my past life, and everything in it, was already gone. Hope is a very fickle thing, down here."

(Based on this song)

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Let My Love Be Heard - Jake Runestad

Jake Runestad

"Let My Love Be Heard" by Jake Runestad. Performed by the Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir. Dr. Jonathan Talberg, conductor. Presented in memory of Nohemi Gonzalez.

Full story: http://bit.ly/29o0M2p

"Angels, where you soar Up to God's own light, Take my own lost bird On your hearts tonight; And as grief once more Mounts to heaven and sings, Let my love be heard Whispering in your wings." (From "A Prayer" by Alfred Noyes)

[grntaire]

thinking abt the poem a silence haunts me by todd boss (set to music by jake runestad) based off of the unsent letter beethoven wrote to his brothers where he laments about his increasing deafness and kind of want to go play in traffic

[spritesodapop]

thinking about how the choir i sing with once worked one on one with musical composer Jake runestad and how instead of being in awe of the fact someone so talented was infront of me i could think about was how fruity he looked

[the-tired-tenor]

Songs That Have Permanently Altered My Brain Chemistry as a Choral Musician

Please Stay by Jake Runestad. Incredibly powerful piece of music, as someone who has lost people to suicide and struggled with mental health crises myself I cry every time I listen to it. Everything this man writes is excellent, but this is my favorite of his.

Song of Miriam by Elaine Hagenberg. Some of the most beautiful melodic writing I've ever had the pleasure of teaching or hearing, and there's so much range in every aspect that it always feels shorter than it actually is. 10/10, strong contender for my favorite piece of repertoire I've ever taught.

Untraveled Worlds by Paul Halley. I sang this with my All State choir in high school and it has lived rent-free in my head ever since. Something about it just really resonated and I'll catch myself singing it in the shower even now, over a decade later.

Horizons by Peter Luis van Dijk. The single most underrated song on this list, and another song I performed with my high school All State choir. Horizons is not only musically impactful thanks to high dynamic contrast and unconventional vocal percussion but emotionally evocative as well, describing how the indigenous San people of South Africa first encountered and were subsequently kidnapped and enslaved en masse by white explorers. I cannot recommend this song strongly enough if your choir can handle the difficulty level.

[singingshutin]

thinking about oxenfree characters again and decided to share some (hopefully) lesser known songs that make me think of them:

alex: "unseen girl" by emily brown, "wander. wonder." and "tell it like it is" by the arcadian wild "the blue bird" by charles villiers stanford and performed by the tenebrae choir (this one's a little harder to explain but just imagine loop after loop after loop starting to savor the regular moments)

jonas: "kids (don't end up like me)" by the academic, "above the clouds of pompeii" by bear's den, "let my love be heard" by jake runestad and performed by voces8 OR "o love" by elaine hagenberg performed by the world choir for peace (these two are also a little harder to explain but i imagine either one of these being the song his mother sang to him and i can't decide which)

the sunken: "empress" by the arcadian wild

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Tagged by SYD @memoirism thank u🐱🫶

fav colour : I likeys all of them . I’ve been wearing more greens and blacks lately?

song stuck in head: none right now I am listening to Handy Man by Perfume:)

last song i listened to: Ner ner by Jake Runestad

three favourite foods: ohhhgggg….Rice with khoreshe loobia ……tonkotsu Ramen……and egg salad sandwich. But I love many other foods

last thing i googled: Do I put butter in the rice way before I put the lid on or right before

dream trip: Any trip is amazing if it’s with my beloveds but I do want to visit Tokyo someday

anything i want right now: I want ...to fall in love

TAGGING! @femgong @currenchan @newdimension @yaoisurfers @fakirchan @saeu

[supercantaloupe]

like not to be dramatic but this is one of the best performances i've ever been a part of i think

[dimsilver]

Hello! 3, 14, and 17 for the Song Superlative Asks! :D

thanks for sending these!! Turns out my answers are mostly choral today :)

Songs to swoon to (assuming it’s romantic swooning?):

Dancing in the Minefields by Andrew Peterson

Wanted Man by Mat Kearney

How Long Will I Love You by Canyon City

The Wine We Drink by Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors

Hallelujah, I Love Her So by Ray Charles

Forever Like That by Ben Rector

It Would Be You by Ben Rector

Morning is Made by Hush Kids

Lonely Road by Fernando Ortega

Harmonies that remind me what music is for:

Worthy is the Lamb…Amen from Handel’s Messiah

O Salutaris Hostia

Bring Us, O Lord God by Sir William Harris (I miss singing it so much! Begging you to listen to the part with the words “in the habitation of Thy glory and dominion” or actually look up all the words)

Hallelujah by Shawn Kirchner (I miss this one so much too!!!!)

Flee As A Bird by The Secret Sisters (sang this one last night with my housemate!)

O Sacred Head Now Wounded (Bach arrangement)

Whispers by The Arcadian Wild

Songs most likely to give me full-body shivers:

Allegri’s Miserere (the Tenebrae version on Youtube is even better)

A Silence Haunts Me by Jake Runestad (also miss singing this one. I’d always be fighting not to cry toward the end)

Let my love be heard by Jake Runestad

Falling into Mercy by Kim Andre Arnesen (maybe the choral song that has touched my soul the most)

Ave Maria Guarani by Ennio Morricone (breaks my heart every time)

Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs from Handel’s Messiah

[carnalapples]

Im gonna ask an OC question but it is vitally important to the bit that I have made up in my head that you imagine me as a sommelier asking what wine pairs well with this:

What sort of music pairs well with an Ashna Trevelyan?

(You know I wrote the question before realizing how weird it was phrased, thus leading to the first paragraph lmao)

HI!!! So I love the image this brought to mind, lol... This was hard, I haven't thought about this before! I'd say out of anything, contemporary choral... I could list so many, but shameless plug for Jake Runestad:

Also the imagery of this one:

Some non-choral music I think fits her:

(I think in a modern AU she would secretly love Carly Rae Jepsen lol)

[grntaire]

have you guys heard of choral music before. i think this runestad guy is onto something

[kyuubichii]

The most powerful song I’ve ever sang was “Please Stay,” by Jake Runestad.

I couldn’t even sing it after first reading through the lyrics and cried nearly every time I did sing it.

Don’t let your worst day be your last

The storm is strong, but it will pass.

You think you can’t go on another day,

But please stay. Just stay.

Hope is real, help is real,

You are breath, you are life, you are beauty

You are light.

Your story is not over

You are not a burden to anyone.

Our choir got to work with Jake on this piece and many others, and it became, hands down, the most beautiful and important piece I’ve ever done in my life.

[thedilettantedragon]

Inspired by Voces8′s Enchanted Isle album cover, I decided to do a watercolor warm-up :3

[genderificationbeam]

who up crying a little to choir music instead of being asleep

[erinlinds]

Angels where you soar, Up to God’s own light, Take my own lost bird, On your hearts tonight; And as grief once more, Mounts to heaven and sings, Let my love be heard, Whispering in your wings.

[lostintranslaation]

NOT ONLY did we just get a 12-movement Eric Whitacre album today but ALSO a Jake Runestad album in a couple weeks??? WOW !