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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: 09/30 Rachmaninoff Vespers
Voices of Connection: 09/30 Rachmaninoff Vespers

Today’s piece was chosen by long-time member of our alto section…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 30, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/29 Heinrich Isaac
Voices of Connection: 09/29 Heinrich Isaac

Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1450-1517), like his contemporary and fellow-Netherlander Josquin…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 29, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/28 Ravel Kaddish
Voices of Connection: 09/28 Ravel Kaddish

We end our High Holiday series with this truly special recording…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 28, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/27 Kol Nidre
Voices of Connection: 09/27 Kol Nidre

One of the most beautiful services of the Jewish High Holidays occurs on the night before Yom Kippur…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 27, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/26 Bloch Sacred Service Pt. V (Epilogue)
Voices of Connection: 09/26 Bloch Sacred Service Pt. V (Epilogue)

The first part of the Epilogue (Adoration) expresses the peace and solemnity of the Sabbath…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 26, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/25 Bloch Sacred Service Pt. IV
Voices of Connection: 09/25 Bloch Sacred Service Pt. IV

We come back to earth: the Law is returned to the Ark…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 25, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/24 Bloch Sacred Service Pt. III
Voices of Connection: 09/24 Bloch Sacred Service Pt. III

Part Three deals, symbolically, with the law, its order…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 24, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/23 Bloch Sacred Service Pt. II
Voices of Connection: 09/23 Bloch Sacred Service Pt. II

Here the music comes from another world, seraphic and mysterious…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 23, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/22 Bloch Sacred Service Pt. I
Voices of Connection: 09/22 Bloch Sacred Service Pt. I

Bloch’s Sacred Service is widely regarded as one of the greatest choral masterpieces…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 22, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/21 Bernstein Chichester Psalms Pt. 3
Voices of Connection: 09/21 Bernstein Chichester Psalms Pt. 3

The final movement begins with an impassioned instrumental meditation…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 21, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/20 Bernstein Chichester Psalms Pt. 2
Voices of Connection: 09/20 Bernstein Chichester Psalms Pt. 2

Movement II starts with a lyric solo (Psalm 23 – “The Lord is my Shepherd”)…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 20, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/19 Bernstein Chichester Psalms Pt. 1
Voices of Connection: 09/19 Bernstein Chichester Psalms Pt. 1

Over the next three days we present the entire Chichester Psalms in its three parts…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 19, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/18 High Holiday Celebration Begins!
Voices of Connection: 09/18 High Holiday Celebration Begins!

What makes this special for us today is that the Cantor Lori Corrsin had our recording…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 18, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/17 Two Catalan Rarities!
Voices of Connection: 09/17 Two Catalan Rarities!

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

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 17, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/16 Joyous Weelkes
Voices of Connection: 09/16 Joyous Weelkes

Today’s piece is from exactly the same school of virtuosic English anthems as the Gibbons piece yesterday…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 16, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/15 Joyous Gibbons
Voices of Connection: 09/15 Joyous Gibbons

At the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries many composers of choral music…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 15, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/14 Rare Fauré Piece
Voices of Connection: 09/14 Rare Fauré Piece

This piece was practically unknown until it appeared on our very first recording…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 14, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/13 Bora Yoon Premiere!
Voices of Connection: 09/13 Bora Yoon Premiere!

In this world premiere performance of “Light Will Someday Split You Open,”

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 13, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/12 Duruflé Kyrie
Voices of Connection: 09/12 Duruflé Kyrie

This movement represents the most inspired pages of music Duruflé ever composed…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 12, 2020
Voices of Connection: 09/11 In Memoriam
Voices of Connection: 09/11 In Memoriam

In memory of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001, we offer a very special piece today…

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Voices of AscensionSeptember 11, 2020
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