#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]

Yoooo I really love the choral music you’ve recently shared. I’m not really that familiar with it as a genre of music and don’t normally seek it out? but occasionally a piece will find its way to me (like at a funeral or now your blog), and I find it arrestingly beautiful. maybe partly because it’s a strange and unfamiliar medium to me. Do you have any favorites you would recommend for further exploration? 🩷

hi this is maybe the most hyped i've been for an ask ever bc i go fucking crazy for choral music so YES i do have recs for you. i will try to limit my little thoughts however i am very annoying so it will not go well

gibbons' hosanna to the son of david goes insanely hard. so jovial and fun and i had a blast singing this in undergrad! i love renaissance polyphony and this is a prime example of it!

poulenc's o magnum mysterium is truthfully wacky in the best most french way ever. and imo poulenc's queerness is so clear and present in his music so anything by him i love. my beautiful fruity catholic with a disorder <3

chesnokov's spaseniye sodelal is russian orthodox perfection fr. when my choir in undergrad read thru this i was stood between two low basses and at THAT part (1:32) i felt like i was being punched from the inside out. also the text means "salvation is created in the midst of the earth" and i think that's like. so fucking sick

stacey gibbs' arrangement of ezekiel is THE american spiritual arrangement to me. i once sang this in an italian church under a mexican conductor and then later we all sang it drunkenly for the owner at the hotel we were all staying at it was wild and so so so fun. such a beautiful and massive example of a joyful american spiritual also it's straight up a banger honestly. could talk ad nauseum abt how badass black choral scholars are and how grateful i am for all of the work that they've done and for inviting ppl to learn abt and experience it <3

holst's i love my love is one of my favs of all time. unfortunately england fucking devours when it comes to their choral tradition and this piece does one of my fav things where the way the composer sets the text changes its meaning! it's abt a woman named nancy who is in bedlam bc her love died at sea and it effectively broke her. while there, he comes to her, alive, breaks her out and they get married. while the poem itself shows a happy ending, the way holst plays w tempo and texture makes me go hmmm. 90% sure he did not show up and she's experiencing a delusion of sorts to cope w her grief (the i love my love's in the sopranos & altos at 1:24 kind of emulate a rocking motif, almost as if she's rocking herself back and forth in a soothing gesture, or the rocking of the ship he died on) and that tenor entrance in the melody after almost emulates her love coming to rescue her. god this whole piece makes me feel like my skin is on fire and i think it's a devastating portrayal of mental illness and you can rip it from my cold dead hands

stanford's beati quorum via is literally just gorgeous front to back. again unfortunately the english stay slaying

jake runestad's a silence haunts me literally does fucking haunt me and it changed the way i think about choral music. it's a setting of an unsent letter of beethoven's where he talks about losing his hearing and how afraid he is of losing it. this one you def have to watch bc there's a visual element to it! no spoilers but holy shit it shuts my brain down it's brutal and beautiful. i saw its premiere in 2019 and the entire hall was sobbing. like i have the words "be well" tattooed on me bc of it. the way the piano quotes moonlight sonata and his 9th symphony and the tensions emulating his tinnitus. OUGH

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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.

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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

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

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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

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Mantova, arriva in città la corale americana “The Gustavus Choir”

Mantova, arriva in città la corale americana “The Gustavus Choir”.   La corale americana The Gustavus Choir in tournée in Italia si esibirà anche a Mantova martedì 31 gennaio alle 21. Il concerto di musica sacra si terrà nel Duomo di piazza Sordello e sarà gratuito. Le altre tappe saranno a Milano, Firenze e Venezia. Fondato nel 1932, il Gustavus Choir, rinomato a livello nazionale, è il coro di punta di un programma corale attivo e altamente integrato di oltre 250 studenti. I membri del coro sono selezionati tramite audizione e rappresentano un ampio spettro di interessi accademici e di vita del Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota). Radicato nella sua eredità corale luterana, il Gustavus Choir esegue musica sacra di tutti i periodi storici, ma promuove anche nuova musica di compositori contemporanei. Il coro ha eseguito in prima assoluta nuove opere di compositori di fama internazionale, tra cui Eric Whitacre, Stephen Paulus, Imant Raminsh e Jaakko Mäntyjärvi. Nel 2020, il coro ha commissionato l’”Alleluia” all’acclamata compositrice Elaine Hagenberg. Nel 2021, il compositore haitiano-americano Sydney Guillaume ha scritto un nuovo lavoro per il coro intitolato “Kouraj”. Quest’anno il coro presenterà in anteprima nuove opere di Jake Runestad e Marques Garrett. Il Gustavus Choir mantiene un ampio programma di tournée annuali in tutti gli Stati Uniti e viaggia all’estero ogni quattro anni. Negli ultimi quaranta anni, il coro si è esibito in cattedrali, conservatori e centri culturali in Scandinavia, Russia, Asia, Sudafrica e decine di Paesi europei. Le recenti tournée internazionali hanno incluso la Cattedrale di St. Paul a Londra, Notre Dame a Parigi, Stephansdom a Vienna, Nikolaikirche a Lipsia, Schlosskirche (Chiesa del Castello) a Wittenberg e Hedvig Eleonora a Stoccolma. Il coro sarà diretto da Brandon Dean, mentre Chad Winterfeldt sarà il cantore.          ... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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jake runestad just created the most incomprehensible music and i am here for it

[grntaire]

7, 9, 10 for the music askk

7. do you prefer cd’s, streaming, or vinyl?

cd’s!! best sound quality and i love physical media <3

9. which artist has been the most life-changing for you

prob fall out boy! they’re the band that got my interested in learning more about music and were my first non-kid band that i ever listened to bc i used to steal my sister’s cd all the time hehe

10. you have to get a lyric tattoo–which lyric is it?

i love the style of american traditional tattooing with pop-punk adjacent lyrics around a picture or something so i would def do it in that style, and the only thing i can think of rn is “the night belongs to you” from euclid by sleep token which is my favorite song :) tho technically i do have a lyric tattoo! i have “be well” on my thigh which is from the choral piece a silence haunts me by jake runestad

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This week on Music Mondays: “Nyon Nyon”, composed by Jake Runestad and sung by the Youth Choir of Vorarlberg!

This song is basically the flip side to “Let My Love Be Heard”. It is the weirdest choir song I have ever heard and probably the most pure fun to sing.

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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.

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

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Do me a solid and listen to these songs

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