Why the Caged Bird Sings - Jake Runestad

Why the Caged Bird Sings by Jake Runestad - Canadian premiere performance by the Phoenix Chamber Choir (Vancouver, Canada), Graeme Langager, conductor.
Recorded live at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, Canada on January 16, 2015 as part of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival.
The Phoenix Chamber Choir recently celebrated its 30th anniversary as one of Canada’s finest vocal ensembles, renowned for diverse and eclectic programming from the Renaissance to the contemporary, commissions from Canadian and international composers, and North American premieres of significant new works. Phoenix was winner and three-time finalist in the European Broadcasting Union’s Let The Peoples Sing competition; 12-time winner of the CBC Choral Competition; choir-in-residence at the Copenhagen Choral Festival and Millennial Choral Festival (Banff Centre for the Arts); and featured performer at the National Conductors’ Symposium and World Symposium on Choral Music. Phoenix Chamber Choir is heard regularly on radio across North America, Europe and Australia.
Please visit us online at www.phoenixchoir.ca, or on Facebook at / phoenixchamberchoir . Learn more about Jake Runestad at jakerunestad.com/.
Audio engineering and video production by Brian Weingartner (www.weingartnerphonogram.com)

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Absolutely gorgeous singing and composition!

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It is just hilarious. Classical music is vivid and here is evidence for it.

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This is my favorite choral piece EVER!

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I Am The Caged Bird