Alexa Nieschlag: Maria Durch ein Dornwald Ging [Germany] unsingers 2008-01-22 | From the United Nations Singers Holiday Concert 2007. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. A traditional carol. As Mary walked, pregnant with baby Jesus, the rose bushes burst into bloom.
United Nations Singers Targeting MDG Goal 2 unsingers 2011-06-25 | At the turn of the millennium, world leaders came together at the United Nations to improve social and economic conditions in the world's poorest countries. They targeted eight major areas of development need in the world, which have become known as the Millennium Development Goals. Governments, foundations, businesses and numerous international groups rallied around the call to action. The United Nations Singers are now embarking on a bold new initiative aimed at using the medium of music to help advance the achievement of MDG #2: Primary Education.
United Nations Singers: Mo Li Hua [China] unsingers 2010-08-11 | From the United Nations Singers' Trip to China 2010. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. Mo Li Hua (茉莉花), which means "Jasmine Flowers", is a popular Chinese folk song. It was created during the Qianlong Emperor period of the Qing Dynasty. The melody has become well known among Western listeners as it was included by Giacomo Puccini in his opera Turandot, where it is associated with "Turandot's splendour". An adaptation of the melody by Tan Dun was played during the medal ceremonies at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
United Nations Singers: Veniki [Russia] unsingers 2010-08-11 | From the United Nations Singers' Trip to China 2010. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. The text of this folk song is a Russian tongue-twister, the text of which is essentially meaningless.
United Nations Singers: Zai Na Yao Yuan De Di Fang [China] unsingers 2010-08-11 | From the United Nations Singers' Trip to China 2010. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. Zai Na Yao Yuan De Di Fang (在那遥远的地方, At a Faraway Place), lyrics written by Wang Luobin in 1937. Music was based on Kazakh folk melody.
United Nations Singers: Guantanamera [Cuba] unsingers 2010-08-11 | From the United Nations Singers' Trip to China 2010. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. "Guantanamera" ("girl from Guantánamo") is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country's most noted patriotic song.
United Nations Singers: Shenandoah [United States] unsingers 2010-08-11 | From the United Nations Singers' Trip to China 2010. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. This well-known American folk song dates back to the early 1800s. Originating as a river shanty, it later became popular with sea-going crews. This version of Shenandoah is by James Erb (b.1926), American composer and conductor, best-known for his various arrangements of this song
For the light of your life unsingers 2010-01-18 | In remembrance of those UN staff members and UN peacekeepers who died in Haiti earthquake, 12 January 2010
UN Singers 2009 Summer Concert unsingers 2009-09-14 | From the United Nations Singers Summer Concert 2009. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman.
United Nations Singers for Expo 2010 Shanghai China unsingers 2009-02-26 | The Shanghai World Expo 2010 is an international exposition that will take place from 1 May to 31 October 2010 in Shanghai, China. The Government of China has invited the United Nations to present its work at the Shanghai Expo within its own integrated pavilion of 3,000 square meters. As the member of UN community, the United Nations Singers will join UN team and present performance inside UN Pavilion. Lets celebrate the worlds music in China!
United Nations Singers: Estrela é Lua Nova [Brazil] unsingers 2008-08-27 | From the United Nations Singers Summer Concert 2008. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. In this rhythmic makumba, a ritual is performed by the light of the new moon under a starry sky. (A makumba was originally a form of African spiritual worship brought to Brazil by the slaves.)
United Nations Singers: Ain't Got Time to Die [USA] unsingers 2008-08-27 | From the United Nations Singers Summer Concert 2008. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. A rousing African-American spiritual by Hall Johnson (1888-1970). "Lord, I keep so busy praising my Jesus, ain't got time to die ..."
United Nations Singers: Panama Tombé [Haiti] unsingers 2008-08-26 | From the United Nations Singers Summer Concert 2008. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. This jocular account in French Creole of a local uprising in Haiti was arranged by Irving Burgie, the prolific songwriter and musician born in New York of Barbadian descent. A horseman sets out for the village of Jacmel. Riding through Vallée and arriving at the Béné crossroads, he calls out: "My Panama hat has fallen off. If anyone is coming behind, please pick it up for me!"
United Nations Singers: Siyahamba [South Africa] unsingers 2008-08-26 | From the United Nations Singers Summer Concert 2008. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. A gospel song from Zululand, usually sung to a gentle swaying motion.
United Nations Singers: Ye Ke Omo Mi [Nigeria] unsingers 2008-08-26 | From the United Nations Singers Summer Concert 2008. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. A lullaby of the Yoruba people, in which a mother croons her baby to sleep.
United Nations Singers: The Lord Bless You and Keep You unsingers 2008-08-26 | From the United Nations Singers Summer Concert 2008. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. Here is blessing—keeping—shining—the uplifting upon our poor life of all heaven's glad morning. It is the Lord Himself who [gives us] this bar of music from heaven's infinite anthem.
United Nations Singers: Holiday Blessing [United States] unsingers 2008-01-22 | From the United Nations Singers Holiday Concert 2007. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. This jingle, otherwise known as Jingle Bells , was written by James Pierpont in 1857 for Thanksgiving, but it has since become synonymous with Christmas. "Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh, o'er the fields we go, laughing all the way!"
United Nations Singers: We Wish You a Merry Christmas unsingers 2008-01-22 | From the United Nations Singers Holiday Concert 2007. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. Figgy pudding was once popular at Christmas time; it was rather like the present-day Christmas pudding.
United Nations Singers: Sing Out the News! [United States] unsingers 2008-01-22 | From the United Nations Singers Holiday Concert 2007. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. Words and music by Nancy Price and Don Besig (1986). "Sing out the news, tell all the world this Christmas morning, that Christ the Savior is born."
United Nations Singers: Chill of the Nightfall unsingers 2008-01-22 | From the United Nations Singers Holiday Concert 2007. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. Rev. Timothy Dudley-Smith, England , and John Horman, United States . "Chill of the nightfall, lamps at the window, letting their light fall clear on the snow; bitter December bids us remember Christ in the stable long ago. Silence of midnight, voices of angels singing to bid night yield to the dawn; darkness is ended, sinners befriended, where in the stable Jesus is born."
United Nations Singers: Ming Xing Can Lan Ge 明星灿烂歌 [china] unsingers 2008-01-22 | From the United Nations Singers Holiday Concert 2007. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. "The stars are shining brightly, and Bethlehem is fast asleep. In the fields the shepherds see a great light and a multitude of angels singing."
United Nations Singers: Pasko na Naman [Philippines] unsingers 2008-01-22 | From the United Nations Singers Holiday Concert 2007. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. This carol, sung in Tagalog, depicts the scene after the Christmas Eve Midnight Mass, when Christmas is ushered in by bell-ringing and carols.
United Nations Singers: In the Bleak Mid-Winter [England] unsingers 2008-01-22 | From the United Nations Singers Holiday Concert 2007. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. Words by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894); music by Harold Darke (1888-1976). "In the bleak mid-winter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone."
United Nations Singers: Louez le Seigneur! [Cameroon] unsingers 2008-01-21 | From the United Nations Singers Holiday Concert 2007. Directed by Guillermo Vaisman. A processional song in French from Cameroon , arranged by Ralph M. Johnson.
Song of Peace - 4th Anniversary of the attack on UN in Iraq unsingers 2007-10-14 | Performance at the wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Baghdad bombing
United Nations Singers: Agur Jaunak unsingers 2007-10-14 | On 21 September 2007, the United Nations Singers performed at the International Day of Peace ceremony at the Japanese Peace Bell Garden, UN Headquarters.
United Nations Singers: Song of Peace unsingers 2007-10-14 | On 21 September 2007, the United Nations Singers performed at the International Day of Peace ceremony at the Japanese Peace Bell Garden, UN Headquarters.
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