USC Chamber Singers: The Reapers All with Their Sharp Sickles, arr. by Seth Houston
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- USC Chamber Singers presents
The Reapers All with Their Sharp Sickles
arr. by Seth Houston
Zanaida Robles, soprano
Amelia Tobiason, soprano
Jo-Michael Scheibe, conductor
i first heard this song last year at one of my high school choir concerts and when the first note was sung i instanly got chills running all over. this is beautilfuly composed piece of music. i love how in this choir everyone else are giving a very haunting ooh giving a very dark image and when everyone comes to toghter in a forte. its an aww inspiring. i would have to give props to the solest having a beautiful voice and wonderful breath support on holding out those phrases. Just amazing! :)
The fields are all white, the harvest is near,
The reapers all with their sharp sickles appear,
To reap down their wheat, and gather in barns,
While wild plants of nature are left for to burn.
Come, then, O my soul, meditate on that day,
When all things in nature shall cease and decay.
When the trumpet shall sound, the angels appear,
To reap down the earth, both the wheat and the tare.
’Twill all be in vain, the mountains must flee,
The rocks fly like hailstones, and shall no more be:
The earth it shall shake, the seas shall retire,
And this solid world, then, will be all be on fire.
So farewell, I leave you, pond’ring your way,
The Lord seal instruction to what I now say.
Your souls to God’s throne be pour’d out in pray’r,
That you be prepared to meet Christ in the air.
Originally I heard this song in an all-bass version on a classical music station. This rendition is every bit as beautiful, carrying a magical quality to it.
Wow. This piece is incredible. I first heard it at a choir concert a few days ago and I was blown away. Profound.
Just beautiful