2010 Wrap-up from VocalEssence!

With our recent new VocalEssence releases (Behold This Heavenly Night, and Gratitude, Gravy and Garrison), we thought it would be fun to share their year-end wrap-up!

Have a VocalEssence Christmas!

It's Christmas time, and that means that VocalEssence is making headlines galore! Recently, they teamed up with the American Composers Forum and held a "Christmas carol contest", something they've been doing for the past 12 years! Each year, two winners are chosen and VocalEssence performs their carols!

Check out John Birge of Minnesota Public Radio talking about it last week:

Listen to the winning carols:
"Come Join Their Song" by Mark Shepperd

"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" by J. David Moore

You might recognize J. David Moore's name. He is also an arranger for "Jingle Bells" which appears on VocalEssence's new Clarion Records recording "Behold This Heavenly Night"!

Behold This Heavenly Night

Last week we offered our newest Christmas release "Behold This Heavenly Night" as a prize for our Christmas Contest, so today we thought we would tell you a little more about the album!


Behold this Heavenly Night
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus
Sigrid Johnson, associate conductor
Philip Brunelle, conductor

In 1998, VocalEssence and the American Composers Forum joined forces to offer an annual contest encouraging the composition of new carols. Over the years hundreds of worthy carols have been submitted. “Behold This Heavenly Night” presents the world premiere of some of these contest-winning carols alongside outstanding arrangements of more familiar melodies. Also included is the U.S. premiere of John Rutter’s new “Carol of the Magi” and a unique arrangement of “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” translated into Latin by Philip Brunelle and his son Christopher.

1. Ding Dong! Merrily on High — arr by Malcolm Williamson
2. What Child — Paul W Lohman
3. The Piping Carol * — James Sclater
4. Un Nacimento (A Nativity Scene) * — Diego Luzuriaga
5. A Mother’s Carol * — Scott Ethier
6. I Wonder as I Wander — John Jacob Niles, arr Martin Neary
7. Sweet Was the Song * — Matthew Brown
8. Night of Silence — Daniel Kantor, arr John Ferguson
9. See Amid the Winter Snow * — Robert Sieving
10. In the Bleak Midwinter * — Alan J Higbee
11. The Shepherd and the King * — Brian Holmes
12. Carol of the Magi — John Rutter
13. Calm on the Listening Ear * — John Christian Rommereim
14. The Darkest Midnight in December * — Stephen Main
15. Jingle Bells — James Lord Pierpont, arr J David Moore
16. Welcome the King * — Michael Glasgow
17. The Virgin’s Cradle Hymn * — Richard E Voorhaar
18. Behold the Dark and Bitter Night * — Thomas Fielding
19. It Fell Upon the High Midnight * — Paul Gibson
20. Rudolphus Rubrinasus * — Johnny Marks, arr Philip Brunelle

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