Frank Ticheli conducting his own work There Will Be Rest with the Georgia State University Singers; November 8, 2011, Rialto Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
My high school choir is singing this. I'm a soprano one for this piece, and I'm very excited. I hope that my choir blends as beautifully as this one does.
Sara Teasdale wrote this beautiful lyric, and then committed suicide. A troubled soul who was obviously was looking ahead to a better world in the afterlife. Knowing that makes this wonderful arrangement even more meaningful.
I have performed this, and it has stayed in my life. I now have the whole poem written on my arm as a tattoo. It means more to me than I can articulate. It's my declaration of life. As a poet, and artist, I hope to honor the pain, and legacy of Sara
Sang this with my choir last year, still my favorite song that we've ever done. I'm even getting the lyrics "I will make this world of my devising, out of a dream" tattooed on my ribs next year. This song means the world to me, and has seriously helped everytime I have an anxiety attack.
So proud to have been a part to make this beautiful piece live. I was President of the California Pacific Chorale Guild when Frank Ticheli was commissioned to write a new choral work for the Chorale. He had never written a choral work before, and we raised $5,000 to make it possible. The Pacific Chorale debuted it 20 years ago.
Thank you for helping to help bring this beautiful piece of music to life. I had the pleasure of singing it in my Madrigals group in high school. Such an incredible mix of haunting lyrics + beautiful music. Superb.
A good friend of mine shared this very link on my Facebook Wall in April of 2015...days after my Son died of PTSD complications. Sam was a vet. This piece, this very choir...was a balm to my spirit, to my heart. I have returned numerous times in the past 7 years to listen again and again. I wrote to Frank Ticheli to thank him as well. Rest indeed. Peace...in the midst. Thank-you to each of you. Scott Sater
"There will be rest, and sure stars shining Over the roof-tops crowned with snow, A reign of rest, serene forgetting, The music of stillness holy and low. I will make this world of my devising Out of a dream in my lonely mind. I shall find the crystal of peace, - above me Stars I shall find."
I played this magnificent piece my freshman year of high school in the second highest band... The sheer emotion within every single lyric of this poem and every note played by every instrumentalist caused a grand majority of us to cry on stage - myself included. I will never forget the feeling I get listening to this piece: Nostalgia, and a bittersweet serenity. Well done, and long live Sarah's words.
One of my all-time favorite pieces. I've never performed this version but I have done the band version and it brought me to tears. Just two years before I played this piece with UW-Parkside Community Band, my dad passed away, and I thought of him and his fight against cancer as we played this piece. The band piece is a bit longer than this, but it ends the same way -- with that beautiful key change that, to me, signifies the release of the soul from the pains of mortal existence. In my case, it was the release of my dad's soul from his ailing body. In the last three measures, the euphonium is given the solo line (the final statement of "Stars I shall find"), and my brain always fills it in with "Alleluia" and the vision of my dad's spirit, smiling ear to ear, standing over his body, knowing that he's no longer suffering.
The quality of your choir's sound is exceptional. Loved that you were mixed, I think it created beautiful blending and hello basses! haha. I was in tears the whole time. Bravo. Phenomenal job.
My few years ago in my high school Madrigal choir we did this for our local Music festival, earning us a triple superior, and then we did it at a state-wide festival, and it was the best thing ever. Good glob this has got to be one of my all time favorite pieces. It's such a MARATHON song. Jeez... so good.
I sang in University of Alabama Chorale/Chorus years ago! This reminds me soooo much of the wonderful classical music we performed! Beautiful! I miss it everyday! Thank you for sharing!
This song is such a blessing. What a medicine it has been to me during a time of grieving. Thank you thank you thank you. Btw I have looked for this song on Spotify, on Apple Music, it really does matter who sings it. This is the best version of this song that I have found on the internet. So passionate, real, I feel all of your voices singing this like you mean it. Thank you for your magic.
I remember performing this with my hs choir as an alto in 2008. I still remember it word for word. This choir hit every note crescendo etc Perfectly!! Beautiful !
Absolutely agree!!! Seeing a diversity of individuals coming together to create a single voice gives me such joy. Furthermore, what a gift it is to be able to hear a blend so tight and feel the unity so strongly.
Coming from Memphis, TN and being involved in music all through school, I've always seen diversity in every ensemble... VERY good ensembles. Music transcends all differences whether it be race, political background, or even language
An excellent choir can be made up of individuals from around the world, who don't even speak the same language. The difference is if, like these individuals, they have CLASSICAL VOCAL TRAINING. Race doesn't have a damn thing to do with it!
There will be rest, and sure stars shining Over the roof-tops crowned with snow, A reign of rest, serene forgetting, The music of stillness holy and low. I will make this world of my devising Out of a dream in my lonely mind. I shall find the crystal of peace, - above me Stars I shall find.
+sonyslyer +Chris ibarra It was played tribute to Carl St. Clair's (Conductor of Pacific Symphony) baby son who drowned... Very sad. I played it in a band, and Carl St. Clair actually conducted the piece, which he had only ever done once before. He sang the entire piece and brought him and me to tears during the concert. One of the most moving and inspiring moments of my life.
Not to mention the poem is also basically a suicide/death note from its writer. The text is derived from the darkest and saddest time in a life, and written from a personal perspective. I sang another piece with the same text - the music of stillness - which was, in my opinion, far more emotional and dramatic than this arrangement, where The Music of Stillness gave a sense of lost hope and the yearn for death and There Will Be Rest is written with a different chord progression that emulates hope in a sense that maybe things will get better.
It's filmed in multiple "takes"; for the opening he had it but, clearly, in later takes, he dispensed with it. Then again has it. Unfortunate that no one caught the continuity problem in editing. Still, it's a lovely version, even though I'm not thrilled with their diction.
CJ S absolutely not. I believe he uses the baton at the beginning to introduce the ictus. then he kinda clutches it in the plan of his hand. but the fact that you said the video is edited shows that maybe you don't know that much about live choirs with an audience you can't have that sound with multiple takes. sorry.
Do not clap until the conductor puts his hands down. Poor Frank was probably enjoying that last note still ringing. You can see the disappointment in his body language.
This was sung very well and by a great choir. But, the choir didnt share proper cut offs together. If that had happened. It would have been much more beautiful. But great job!
+Amy Swift On our sheet music, it says that the lyricist, Sara Teasdale, was haunted by depression in her later years and took her own life at the age of 48. Toward the end, she drew strength and hope from the stars and their permanent radiance, and There Will Be Rest is one of her last poems. It is ''a perfect summary of her lifelong concern for the stars and their ancient promise of peace".
+Amy Swift Along with what Rachel said, Frank Ticheli composed the song for a family who had lost a baby (I played the band version in high school for honors band)
It's was composed for a family who had lost a child. He had drowned in a pool. His mom had gotten into the jacuzzi and she, a severe diabetic, went into shock. The grandfather came out to check on both of them because they weren't gonna be out long, and he found them both in the water. Sadly the little boy didn't survive, but the mother did. This song is ultimately for them to find rest after losing their only child at the time.
+Amy Swift Hello Amy! I have the answer from you, straight from the horses mouth! In my sophomore year of high school, I had the absolute honor of performing this piece symphonically in an All-County band. In fact, it was on our venue because the man who commissioned the piece's creation was our conductor, Dr. Russel C Mikkelson (from Ohio State University)! This piece was commissioned by Dr. Mikkelson upon the death of his beloved father with whom he was very close, around the year 2000. He commissioned his friend, Frank Ticheli, to compose a piece to commemorate his father and his passing. I do not remember whether it was Mr. Ticheli or Dr. Mikkelson who first had the notion to use Sara Teasdale's awe-filling poem, "There Will Be Rest" as the lyrical basis, but I think it may have been Dr. Mikkelson. The experience was by far the most emotional and breath taking, awesome experience I have ever had playing a piece. Even ten years later, Dr. Mikkelson was still very raw about the death of his father, and as we practiced and finally performed the piece, he had tears rolling down his face every time. There was not a dry eye in the band or audience, it was truly incredible and one of the most moving experiences of my life, to see the true power of music. Hope this helps!
I am soooooo so very humbled to say that I am up in that choir!!! Moments like this are what I love to sing for.
You should be proud! What a great sound :)
You'll never forget this experience.
Wow, David. Congratulations. And...thank-you so very much.
what a talented singer you must be! it sounds awesome that’s definitely something to be proud of
How does this not have more views? Choral music is literally so underappreciated.
Bcuz yore gae.
@@tiyenin Man, I should've known that was why!
Right? I could listen to this on repeat.
My high school choir is singing this. I'm a soprano one for this piece, and I'm very excited. I hope that my choir blends as beautifully as this one does.
Sara Teasdale wrote this beautiful lyric, and then committed suicide. A troubled soul who was obviously was looking ahead to a better world in the afterlife. Knowing that makes this wonderful arrangement even more meaningful.
I have performed this, and it has stayed in my life. I now have the whole poem written on my arm as a tattoo. It means more to me than I can articulate. It's my declaration of life. As a poet, and artist, I hope to honor the pain, and legacy of Sara
Sang this with my choir last year, still my favorite song that we've ever done. I'm even getting the lyrics "I will make this world of my devising, out of a dream" tattooed on my ribs next year. This song means the world to me, and has seriously helped everytime I have an anxiety attack.
I relate to this song so much too, and I'm singing it with my choir this year. How did the tattoo come out?
So proud to have been a part to make this beautiful piece live. I was President of the California Pacific Chorale Guild when Frank Ticheli was commissioned to write a new choral work for the Chorale. He had never written a choral work before, and we raised $5,000 to make it possible. The Pacific Chorale debuted it 20 years ago.
Thank you for helping to help bring this beautiful piece of music to life. I had the pleasure of singing it in my Madrigals group in high school. Such an incredible mix of haunting lyrics + beautiful music. Superb.
A good friend of mine shared this very link on my Facebook Wall in April of 2015...days after my Son died of PTSD complications. Sam was a vet. This piece, this very choir...was a balm to my spirit, to my heart. I have returned numerous times in the past 7 years to listen again and again. I wrote to Frank Ticheli to thank him as well. Rest indeed. Peace...in the midst. Thank-you to each of you. Scott Sater
I'm so sorry for the loss of your son, but happy that you have found some comfort in this composition. Wishing you healing peace.
@@composerguy1437 Thank you so much for your kind message!
"There will be rest, and sure stars shining
Over the roof-tops crowned with snow,
A reign of rest, serene forgetting,
The music of stillness holy and low.
I will make this world of my devising
Out of a dream in my lonely mind.
I shall find the crystal of peace, - above me
Stars I shall find."
I played this magnificent piece my freshman year of high school in the second highest band... The sheer emotion within every single lyric of this poem and every note played by every instrumentalist caused a grand majority of us to cry on stage - myself included. I will never forget the feeling I get listening to this piece: Nostalgia, and a bittersweet serenity.
Well done, and long live Sarah's words.
One of my all-time favorite pieces. I've never performed this version but I have done the band version and it brought me to tears. Just two years before I played this piece with UW-Parkside Community Band, my dad passed away, and I thought of him and his fight against cancer as we played this piece. The band piece is a bit longer than this, but it ends the same way -- with that beautiful key change that, to me, signifies the release of the soul from the pains of mortal existence. In my case, it was the release of my dad's soul from his ailing body. In the last three measures, the euphonium is given the solo line (the final statement of "Stars I shall find"), and my brain always fills it in with "Alleluia" and the vision of my dad's spirit, smiling ear to ear, standing over his body, knowing that he's no longer suffering.
I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one to shed a tear. Beautiful....simply beautiful...the piece and the performance.
The quality of your choir's sound is exceptional. Loved that you were mixed, I think it created beautiful blending and hello basses! haha. I was in tears the whole time. Bravo. Phenomenal job.
The sopranos have such a clear tone! And each part balances so well!
WHOAH, those Bass II's! I love it!
Ticheli is a genius composer!
Listening from South Africa and really moved by this performance. Beautiful.
In tears.
One of my absolutely favorite choral works! And...to have it interpreted by the genius of Frank Ticheli...exquisite!
I started crying listening to this masterpiece without even knowing why
My few years ago in my high school Madrigal choir we did this for our local Music festival, earning us a triple superior, and then we did it at a state-wide festival, and it was the best thing ever. Good glob this has got to be one of my all time favorite pieces. It's such a MARATHON song. Jeez... so good.
Brandon Graham What high school did you attend?
I also did this in my Madrigals Choir. Where did you go? I am from Kentucky.
I went to a high school in California near Sacramento. 🙂
Absolutely love this piece. Sang it with my high school choir almost ten years ago now and it still brings me to tears. So moving.
What gorgeous performance- very, very moving. Thank you.
Always makes me cry
Exceptionally well executed , a harmony of the rare kind and THAT base underlining with a new dimension to the piece. Great job!
this song comforted me in hard times. beautiful
this song is encouraging and solemn at the same time. it is just gorgeous.
Playing this in my MIDDLE school orchestra...very awesome piece!
Goosebumps from the start to the end. Very beautiful! :) LIke!
I sang in University of Alabama Chorale/Chorus years ago! This reminds me soooo much of the wonderful classical music we performed! Beautiful! I miss it everyday! Thank you for sharing!
What a great choir! Deanna Joseph is doing such great work there. Wow!
This song is such a blessing. What a medicine it has been to me during a time of grieving. Thank you thank you thank you. Btw I have looked for this song on Spotify, on Apple Music, it really does matter who sings it. This is the best version of this song that I have found on the internet. So passionate, real, I feel all of your voices singing this like you mean it. Thank you for your magic.
I remember performing this with my hs choir as an alto in 2008. I still remember it word for word. This choir hit every note crescendo etc Perfectly!! Beautiful !
This is one of my favourites to sing- truly beautiful. Ticheli writes so beautifully for choirs.
Amazing! Reminds me when we did this in my chamber class in high school my freshman class haha
Beautiful arrangement... I don't know if I like this version or Dickau's better... both are immaculately beautiful!
I'm playing this in my highschool band
Gorgeous
performed this song with my hs choir quite a few years ago, goodness this choir did amazing!
we will be singing this song with our high school madrigal group from woods cross utah its going to be amazing cant wait
this is beside the point but i have never seen a good mix of black and white people in a choir until now
totally agree
Absolutely agree!!! Seeing a diversity of individuals coming together to create a single voice gives me such joy. Furthermore, what a gift it is to be able to hear a blend so tight and feel the unity so strongly.
Jamaal Stewart I could not have said it better
Coming from Memphis, TN and being involved in music all through school, I've always seen diversity in every ensemble... VERY good ensembles. Music transcends all differences whether it be race, political background, or even language
An excellent choir can be made up of individuals from around the world, who don't even speak the same language. The difference is if, like these individuals, they have CLASSICAL VOCAL TRAINING. Race doesn't have a damn thing to do with it!
There will be rest, and sure stars shining
Over the roof-tops crowned with snow,
A reign of rest, serene forgetting,
The music of stillness holy and low.
I will make this world of my devising
Out of a dream in my lonely mind.
I shall find the crystal of peace, - above me
Stars I shall find.
Absolutely beautiful!
at least for a minute.. just let that power of silence overwhelm your emotions.
Fabulous sound
my choir was going to sing this at msva festival but our director decided to do battle of chericho and through the dark instead.
beautiful song and great performance
Beautiful !!
So beautiful
Gorgeous!!!
I absolutely love this! ^-^
Beautiful
Wow this is incredible
This piece paid homage to his (Frank Ticheli) friend's son who had passed.
Chris Ibarra I believe the son had drowned, am I wrong?
+sonyslyer +Chris ibarra It was played tribute to Carl St. Clair's (Conductor of Pacific Symphony) baby son who drowned... Very sad. I played it in a band, and Carl St. Clair actually conducted the piece, which he had only ever done once before. He sang the entire piece and brought him and me to tears during the concert. One of the most moving and inspiring moments of my life.
Not to mention the poem is also basically a suicide/death note from its writer. The text is derived from the darkest and saddest time in a life, and written from a personal perspective. I sang another piece with the same text - the music of stillness - which was, in my opinion, far more emotional and dramatic than this arrangement, where The Music of Stillness gave a sense of lost hope and the yearn for death and There Will Be Rest is written with a different chord progression that emulates hope in a sense that maybe things will get better.
I cried
Made me cry. I dont cry alot
baton mysteriously disappears at 0:07???
+weredone He's holding it in his right hand, facing away from his body. You can see it when he sweeps his arms out a bit later in the song
weredone I thought he dropped it. 😂
It's filmed in multiple "takes"; for the opening he had it but, clearly, in later takes, he dispensed with it. Then again has it. Unfortunate that no one caught the continuity problem in editing.
Still, it's a lovely version, even though I'm not thrilled with their diction.
No. he very clearly has it.
CJ S absolutely not. I believe he uses the baton at the beginning to introduce the ictus. then he kinda clutches it in the plan of his hand. but the fact that you said the video is edited shows that maybe you don't know that much about live choirs with an audience you can't have that sound with multiple takes. sorry.
Wow
We sang this for All Honors Freshman Year
I hope to get in a great collage were I can sing on my own!!!👧☺ I thrust I'll do great may be even greater!!!😊😉
Do not clap until the conductor puts his hands down. Poor Frank was probably enjoying that last note still ringing. You can see the disappointment in his body language.
Yes yes YES!!!
you definitely cried because of the one really low bass that you can faintly detect throughout the song
Ok why is the song music of stillness the same thing what’s the comparison between the two
I found them to be in between 2 keys
This was sung very well and by a great choir. But, the choir didnt share proper cut offs together. If that had happened. It would have been much more beautiful. But great job!
Missing the whole picture…sorry for you.
I sang this with Tenor 1, Tenor 2, and Bass but I cant find the exact version that we sang.
Does anyone know what this song is actually about? It's really sad
+Amy Swift On our sheet music, it says that the lyricist, Sara Teasdale, was haunted by depression in her later years and took her own life at the age of 48. Toward the end, she drew strength and hope from the stars and their permanent radiance, and There Will Be Rest is one of her last poems. It is ''a perfect summary of her lifelong concern for the stars and their ancient promise of peace".
+Amy Swift Along with what Rachel said, Frank Ticheli composed the song for a family who had lost a baby (I played the band version in high school for honors band)
+ItsJustUkeAndMe Thats what i heard too
It's was composed for a family who had lost a child. He had drowned in a pool. His mom had gotten into the jacuzzi and she, a severe diabetic, went into shock. The grandfather came out to check on both of them because they weren't gonna be out long, and he found them both in the water. Sadly the little boy didn't survive, but the mother did. This song is ultimately for them to find rest after losing their only child at the time.
+Amy Swift Hello Amy! I have the answer from you, straight from the horses mouth! In my sophomore year of high school, I had the absolute honor of performing this piece symphonically in an All-County band. In fact, it was on our venue because the man who commissioned the piece's creation was our conductor, Dr. Russel C Mikkelson (from Ohio State University)! This piece was commissioned by Dr. Mikkelson upon the death of his beloved father with whom he was very close, around the year 2000. He commissioned his friend, Frank Ticheli, to compose a piece to commemorate his father and his passing. I do not remember whether it was Mr. Ticheli or Dr. Mikkelson who first had the notion to use Sara Teasdale's awe-filling poem, "There Will Be Rest" as the lyrical basis, but I think it may have been Dr. Mikkelson. The experience was by far the most emotional and breath taking, awesome experience I have ever had playing a piece. Even ten years later, Dr. Mikkelson was still very raw about the death of his father, and as we practiced and finally performed the piece, he had tears rolling down his face every time. There was not a dry eye in the band or audience, it was truly incredible and one of the most moving experiences of my life, to see the true power of music. Hope this helps!
who's the poet?
Sara Teasdale is the poet.
Thumbs up if you got here from the TPP thread on Reddit.
I wish that for this piece audience should not clap at the end at leadt