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Started at the beginning of the pandemic in an effort to stay connected with choral fans and share the healing beauty of choral music, Voices of Ascension continues to share choral moments with a new global audience. Many of these moments come from our own archive of professional and live recordings and some also come from guest choirs from distant lands as we celebrate the vast diversity of worldwide choral traditions.


The Voices of Connection blog of choral moments has embarked on an expansion. We have invited guest curators to join us in this special project so that we may all benefit from their unique tastes and perspectives with respect to choral music. Recent curators include Bob Lee, Malcolm J. Merriweather, Cecilia Rydinger, Bora Yoon, Jennifer Jolley, Gilda Lyons, Renée Favand-See, Sebastián Zubieta, James Bassi, Francisco J. Núñez and Melissa Bybee.

Voices of Connection: 07/07 Brahms: How lovely is thy dwelling place!
Voices of Connection: 07/07 Brahms: How lovely is thy dwelling place!

What exceedingly beautiful music this is! A very special piece indeed…

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Voices of AscensionJuly 7, 2020
Voices of Connection: 07/06 Poulenc Gloria
Voices of Connection: 07/06 Poulenc Gloria

We start the week off with French joie de vivre: two short movements from Poulenc’s fabulous Gloria.

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Voices of AscensionJuly 6, 2020
Voices of Connection: 07/05 Hildegard of Bingen
Voices of Connection: 07/05 Hildegard of Bingen

We return to another transporting chant of the 12th Century mystic Hildegard von Bingen…

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Voices of AscensionJuly 5, 2020Women Composers
Voices of Connection: 07/04 A Great American Chorus!
Voices of Connection: 07/04 A Great American Chorus!

We celebrate Independence Day with a famous work by the first great American choral composer, William Billings…

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Voices of AscensionJuly 4, 2020
Voices of Connection: 07/03 Sweelinck: Psalm 90
Voices of Connection: 07/03 Sweelinck: Psalm 90

Today we return to the choral works of Jan Sweelinck…

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Voices of AscensionJuly 3, 2020
Voices of Connection: 07/02 Bainton: And I Saw a New Heaven
Voices of Connection: 07/02 Bainton: And I Saw a New Heaven

Edgar Bainton (1880-1956) was an English composer and teacher…

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Voices of AscensionJuly 2, 2020
Voices of Connection: 07/01 PALESTRINA AND DURUFLÉ: TU ES PETRUS
Voices of Connection: 07/01 PALESTRINA AND DURUFLÉ: TU ES PETRUS

How interesting to compare the same text set by two great composers…

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Voices of AscensionJuly 1, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/30 Two Catalan Rarities!
Voices of Connection: 06/30 Two Catalan Rarities!

Enric Morera (1865-1942), one of the most important Catalan Nationalist composers…

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Voices of AscensionJune 30, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/29 Missa Papae Marcelli
Voices of Connection: 06/29 Missa Papae Marcelli

There is an old story that Palestrina “saved music” by composing a Mass where the text could be understood clearly…

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Voices of AscensionJune 29, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/28 Pride Weekend: Patience and Sarah
Voices of Connection: 06/28 Pride Weekend: Patience and Sarah

Today, June 28, is the anniversary of the Stonewall Inn uprising in NYC…

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Voices of AscensionJune 28, 2020Women Composers
Voices of Connection: 06/27 Pride Weekend: Samuel Barber
Voices of Connection: 06/27 Pride Weekend: Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber was one of the most successful and popular composers of the 20th century, as was his life partner Gian Carlo Menotti…

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Voices of AscensionJune 27, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/26 Pride Weekend: Aaron Copland
Voices of Connection: 06/26 Pride Weekend: Aaron Copland

We celebrate this Pride Weekend with music from the LGBTQ+ community…

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Voices of AscensionJune 26, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/25 Stanford’s Best Piece
Voices of Connection: 06/25 Stanford’s Best Piece

Irish by birth, and trained in Germany, Stanford was perhaps the most important church musician in England at the beginning of the 20th century…

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Voices of AscensionJune 25, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/24 Two Renaissance Motets
Voices of Connection: 06/24 Two Renaissance Motets

Two wonderful short motets from the late Renaissance in Italy…

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Voices of AscensionJune 24, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/23 The Glorious Vocalism of Hei-Kyung
Voices of Connection: 06/23 The Glorious Vocalism of Hei-Kyung

For this Delos CD, Hear My Prayer, we were incredibly privileged to work with one of the great lyric sopranos of our time, Hei-Kyung Hong…

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Voices of AscensionJune 23, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/22 I was glad!
Voices of Connection: 06/22 I was glad!

Let’s start this week off with a bang! This amazing piece was composed for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902…

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Voices of AscensionJune 22, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/21 Duruflé: Lux aeterna
Voices of Connection: 06/21 Duruflé: Lux aeterna

This is one of my favorite pieces by any composer…

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Voices of AscensionJune 21, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/20 Batten: O Sing Joyfully
Voices of Connection: 06/20 Batten: O Sing Joyfully

A week ago, we played works by Gibbons and Weelkes, contemporaries of Batten…

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Voices of AscensionJune 20, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/19 Juneteenth
Voices of Connection: 06/19 Juneteenth

In celebration of the day the Emancipation Proclamation was finally put into effect – June 19, 1865 – we again feature the exceptional Moses Hogan…

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Voices of AscensionJune 19, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/18 Serene Palestrina
Voices of Connection: 06/18 Serene Palestrina

These movements are quintessential examples of Palestrina’s serene, flowing, spiritually elevated style…

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Voices of AscensionJune 18, 2020
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