Proud Music of the Storm, Jake Runestad [TCDA 2019] | Dallas Chamber Choir

Jointly commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Chorus (Joshua Habermann, conductor) and the Dallas Independent School District for the "Celebration of Singing" in honor of the 40th anniversary of the DSC, Jake Runestad's "Proud Music of the Storm" celebrates the wondefully imaginative text of the great American poet, Walt Whitman.
The poem's central message, though universal, is particularly meaningful to creatives: musicians, artists, poets, etc. [below are the last two stanzas]:
"Then I woke softly,
And pausing, questioning the music of my dream,
I said to my silent, curious Soul,
Go forth,
Cheerfully tallying life, walking the world, the real ,
What thou hast heard, O Soul, was not the sound of winds,
Nor dream of raging storm,
But, to a new rhythmus fitted for thee,
Poems, bridging the way from Life to Death,
vaguely wafted in night air, uncaught , unwritten ,
Which, let us go forth in the bold day, and write."
--Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Proud Music of the Storm (2017), Jake Runestad [TCDA July 27, 2019]
Jon L. Culpepper, Founding Artistic Director, Conductor
Jordan Peek, Collaborative Piano
Texas Choral Directors Association
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Video & Audio: Soundwaves Recording
[Soprano]
Julie Bowdren
Julia Durbin
Cami Everitt
Heather Hawk
Victoria Kerr
Alie Lory
Briana Salas
Meredith Tompkins
[Alto]
Madelaine Martinez Fell
Shelbi McMullen
Shelby Stroud
Erin Roth Thomas
Mari Ésabel Valverde
[Tenor]
Max Ary
Dylan Corder
Anthony McMullen
Matthew Morales
Andrew Steffen
Trent Taber
[Bass]
Cody Conway
David Grogan
De'Evin J. Johnson
Tim Johnson
John Benjamin Lackey
Jake Tipoff

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what an incredible TB section sound

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This deserves so much more attention, it is really beautiful :,)