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TODAY'S PICK FOR EXCELLENCE!!! The incredible VOCE LUCE from Queen Margaret College in Wellington, New Zealand, Mark Stamper, director. This performance is at the SUMMA CUM LAUDE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MUSIC FESTIVAL in Vienna! DIES IRAE (SSA/Pno), Z. Randall Stroope, composer (zrstroope.com)
TODAY'S PICK FOR EXCELLENCE!!! The incredible VOCE LUCE from Queen Margaret College in Wellington, New Zealand, Mark Stamper, director. This performance is at the SUMMA CUM LAUDE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MUSIC FESTIVAL in Vienna! DIES IRAE (SSA/Pno), Z. Randall Stroope, composer (zrstroope.com)
![CANTO QUE AMABAS (SSA/Pno) Z. Randall Stroope
***** Poetess Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean diplomat and major literary figure. Born in 1889, Gabriela began a career as an elementary and secondary teacher, and later played an important role in improving the educational systems in Chile and Mexico. She was active in the cultural committees of the League of Nations and a consul in Naples, Madrid and Lisbon. In addition, she taught Spanish literature in the United States at Columbia University, Middlebury College, and Vassar College. Gabriela was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world.
English text translation by Ursula K. Le Guin [Excerpt]
Life of my life, what you loved I sing.
If youre near, if youre listening,
think of me now in the evening:
shadow in shadows, hear me sing.
. . . . . . . . .
Beyond time or place I keep the faith.
Follow a path or follow no path,
never fearing the night, the wind,
call to me, come to me, now at the end,
walk with me, life of my life, my friend.
SSA/Piano; Alliance Music Pub.#1165; ****also SATB unaccompanied
duration 5:15
Recorded by THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES, ZRS, Conductor
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![CANTO QUE AMABAS (The song you loved, SATB) - Z. RANDALL STROOPE
***** Poetess Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean diplomat and major literary figure. Born in 1889, Gabriela began a career as an elementary and secondary teacher, and later played an important role in improving the educational systems in Chile and Mexico. She was active in the cultural committees of the League of Nations and a consul in Naples, Madrid and Lisbon. In addition, she taught Spanish literature in the United States at Columbia University, Middlebury College, and Vassar College. Gabriela was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world.Gabriela Mistral, poetess.
SSATB unacc; (also SSAA/piano); published by Alliance Music
[Conducted by Z. Randall Stroope; performed by THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES.]
English text translation by Ursula K. Le Guin
[Excerpt]
Life of my life, what you loved I sing.
If youre near, if youre listening,
think of me now in the evening:
shadow in shadows, hear me sing.
. . . . . . . .
Beyond time or place I keep the faith.
Follow a path or follow no path,
never fearing the night, the wind,
call to me, come to me, now at the end,
walk with me, life of my life, my friend.
Join the over 4,300 subscribers to Randalls channel, and see/hear the other 108 videos he has created. Several new works have just been recorded, including his new extended (six-movement) work, IN PARADISUM - released in the spring. (Go to zrstroope.com to listen and see a score.) CANTO QUE AMABAS (The song you loved, SATB) - Z. RANDALL STROOPE](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QfhJ3ttmhR8/mqdefault.jpg)

![AVE MARIA - Franz Biebl - Z. Randall Stroope, Conductor
***** CLASSICS TODAY lists this as: This recording [Z. Randall Stroope, conductor] may be the best-on-disc rendition of the oft performed AVE MARIA by Franz Biebl.
Mixed double choir
Franz Biebel, composer
Duration 5:45
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