As a kid in Kentucky, heard people across the road of my Grandparents house sing this song as someone was Baptised!

@kaydol6436

14 күн бұрын

As a 80 yr old women from Ashland,Kentucky. I remember seeing the baptizing myself as a child. ☝️✝️ 🙏🏼

Love the conductor’s style! He elicits the mood he wants from the choir, and the audience!

*even atheists like me have to admit this is a BANGER*

@abbigailcarr2725

2 жыл бұрын

Atheists can’t help but sing this while mopping the floor

@shawnpruitt4670

Жыл бұрын

@@abbigailcarr2725 beautiful folk song straight from the beautiful Kentucky Appalachian hills that I love with all my soul if it wasn't from the churches and black blues/soul music we wouldn't of had this beautiful folk music

@nTrylo

Жыл бұрын

It’s a slave song. We should all respect it deep in our hearts.

@Mara36832

2 ай бұрын

Atheism does not exist

@ChristineWooley-ot9pm

18 күн бұрын

I pray it brings you to Jesus Christ. Not organized religion. The way, the truth, the life.Jesus Christ.

Every time I hear this song, I get something in my eye.

This conductor is on another level. To make a sad song like this happy is just unreal.

@coolfeet1

Жыл бұрын

This isn't necessarily a sad song, it's a song about slaves escaping to freedom

Years ago, in the 1970's, we had elderly neighbors who were WWII refugees from Vilnius. They shared their harrowing experiences with us many times. How I would have loved to share this video with them to show them that their homeland was free again and capable of joy! Beautifully done! I loved watching the usually staid singers break into broad smiles and joyous movement.

@audriusvalatkevicius690

2 жыл бұрын

❤️

I love this song! Praise Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. This is awesome!!

They we all feeling it!!! The choir could hardly hold still!!., love it!!.,💕

Love it! Never seen a choir song with clapping. Well done.

@flayvrr1119

3 жыл бұрын

Haven’t u seen sister act hahahah

@carmendebenedictis-larue6250

3 жыл бұрын

What choirs have you been seeing? I have so much to show you and open your eyes to

that’s some top notch audience conducting

No one: Eric Whitacre: WOO

How wonderful, the smiles and clapping to that beautiful song was so amazing.❤

You are all so brilliant beautiful and blessed! Don't stop singing...the world needs it. :)

This is a very hard song to do. I'm no choir nerd, but the harmonizing needs to be exact. And you nailed that perfectly

Even though I don't believe in God, the energy of this song/ performance makes me think that having faith is a good thing. ps. only version that brings tears to my eyes.

@happylady2055

3 жыл бұрын

Agree.

@muggsspongedice

3 жыл бұрын

your eternal spirit is appealing to your soul there is YHVH -- this why we cry from within to without

@sierrajacks9831

2 жыл бұрын

Agree

@holly7869

2 жыл бұрын

I agree completely. Be sure and watch Alison Krauss's cover of this song

@kaydol6436

14 күн бұрын

Come aboard brother! ☝️

Wow, just wow, with a side of goosebumps.

Nothing more expressive then when humanity comes together to sing about G-d and His messenger to bring hope to His children. Hope!

Love it! Love it! Thank you guys so much! God's Blessings to All! Stay safe! Love to All from rural Mississippi, USA!

As one of my favorite pieces of music- this arrangement and execution is breathtaking. So beautiful and elegant and powerful!!! I wish it were available on Apple Music

Love the change of that one word in the lyrics!!! 👌🏾🌟🎉💥🥳🥰

@coolfeet1

Жыл бұрын

Wait which word was changed?

What a Master Class in all things Eric! Look at his whole body movement, the clapping that he started...and then he stopped it. BTW, notice that even the choir members showed surprise. Such a great video.

That is so beautiful 😍❤😊

I love this fantastic performance, full of warmth and free spirit! You're great, guys!

Absolutely beautiful singing by all!

How can you not feel His Spirit.

Awesome ladies and gentlemen. Loved it. Jan.16 ,2021.

Absolutely beautiful and joyful.

at 2:05 that was funny 🤣 when he says whoo. He's really got the beat going. Everyone is shaking the ENTIRE stage!!!

Wow! I love this. Sawyer from Lost is cool. He knows his shi.t

Clapping, YES! This is praise. This is encouragement. This is old music dating back to the oppression of enslaved black folk in 1860s US (hence the clapping, with Eric on the downbeat). Respect! See Isaiah 55:12. Plenty of ethereal stuff from composer/conductor Eric Whitacre on KZread if that's your jam (mine too.) Don't forget this is a Lithuanian choir. Spot-on English. (Can you sing in Lithuanian?) Unity, brothers and sisters. Thanks, Eric and choir. We need this now.

@CaesarInVa

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, I didn't think it was possible but somehow someone still managed to introduce racism and slavery into the comment feed. Well done! Give yourself a gold star for your SJW wokeness. Now, to get serious, people were clapping to religious melodies well before slavery was introduced to the US, so please, let's give the wokeness a break and just enjoy the music, ok??? Oh, one ore thing, it's kind racist to suggest as your comment seems to that clapping to religious melodies was strictly a black thing. Ever hear of the Quakers or the Mennonites?

@rickkernell2486

3 жыл бұрын

I think that you need to do more homework on the origin of this song. I have spent many years researching the beginnings of black music especially religious music. This piece has very few, if any, of the characteristic modalities of early black music. What I have found is that this work is completely consistent with harmonies, cadence and structure of the Second Great Awakening church music, probably of Upper Appalachian origin.

I love this song!

Wow. Just, wow.

I wish I could have gone to one of their concerts when I was in Vilnius in Sept 2022

That was awesome y'all 🙂👍

Lovely, uplifting rendition 💕

This choir and Éric are incredible and the song I've sung in so many choirs so emotional ! Thanks !!!

Ein großer Respekt von mir Peter ☺️. Wundervoll ✨️❤️🤘✨️👌👍. Ein liebes Dankeschön dafür 👌.

To God be the glory! ✝️

@colinkillian9265

2 жыл бұрын

DUES VULT..

Wonderful

I love you. You have made my soul proud again. Thank you very much.

WOW! Amazing!!!

오~~ 정말 은혜롭습니다. 주님! 저희 기도를 들으시어 저희들의 앞길을 밝혀 주시고 올바른 길로 인도하소서. 당신의 피조물이요, 한 형제자매인 이 인류가 부디 아버지의 뜻을 따라 사랑과 평화의 길을 걷게 하소서... 성부와 성자와 성령의 이름으로... 아멘.

I thought I recognized Eric. If this is his arrangement, it skews from what I would consider his normal. Even so, fantastic job.

I love that the director is doing his best to get the audience to coordinate on the same beat...some people just can't do it. LOVE the enthusiasm of this director and the smiles on everyone!! I have always loved this old song...moves my very soul. Beautifully performed! Love that European and Eastern European audiences can all clap in unison when they want to show their appreciation for a wonderful performance...USA has yet to figure out that one! Ha! HA!

Simplemente Hermoso 💕

Fantastic version of this song. I have sung it with this group and they are great!!!

Awesome!

Very good amen

Awesomeness...Amen.....

Love 💕 it!!! Wonderful!! Ty!!

Absolutely amazing ♥️♥️♥️

Amazing.......

I've always loved this song❤️❤️🙏🙏

They get it! 🥹

Fantastic Love it. Thank you

Bella!

Awesome

People that don't like the clapping w this song- clearly don't understand it, or its history. Stop critiquing when you have no experience or knowledge in the field. It was excellently done

@rickkernell2486

3 жыл бұрын

This is an example of a Second Great Awakening song and so the stomping and clapping are definitely part of the music...

@Roadrunner4447

3 жыл бұрын

Amen and Amen

@kathrynaraguz4816

2 жыл бұрын

I loved it.... but i was really saying '' please don't fall off the stage'' he got awefully close

@maryamvalley9525

Жыл бұрын

They turned a really sad song very happy. Anyone who cant appreciate that doesn't deserve to be there.

@mitchellsmith4690

8 ай бұрын

Stop telling people they have to share all your cultural referents, or accept them.

Thank you!

Beautiful performance

The conductor...!!

i love it!

In addition to the amazing harmonies, there are a lot of beautiful women in the Choir...

@ldyoung7938

2 жыл бұрын

Ain't that the truth!!

The conductor looks like the Matt mercer of choir conductors! Well done

gosh I love Erick Whitacre

Beautiful! I'd love to hear you guys sing 'Jubilate Deo' by Dan Forrest. :) I think you'd have a lot of fun with it!

Wow

I think and pray for Alfonsas Svarinskas (1925-2014), Lithuanian hero, pastor and chaplain. Perm-35 is not forgotten.

"Down To The River To Pray" As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the starry crown? Good Lord show me the way! O sisters let's go down Let's go down, come on down O sisters let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the robe & crown? Good Lord show me the way O brothers let's go down Let's go down, come on down Come on brothers, let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the starry crown? Good Lord show me the way O fathers let's go down Let's go down, come on down O fathers let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the robe and crown? Good Lord show me the way O mothers let's go down Come on down, don't you wanna go down? Come on mothers, let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the starry crown? Good Lord show me the way O sinners, let's go down Let's go down, come on down O sinners, let's go down Down in the river to pray As I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good ole way And who shall wear the robe and crown? Good Lord show me the way

@peterhanke7231

6 ай бұрын

Respekt für Ihren Text. Achtung von meinerseits. 👍👌. Ein lieber Gruß von mir aus Sachsen .

Look at the faces as they sing.

Lindona!

❤️❤️❤️

Yeah, yeah, 'n all that, but the solo is the song's heart--an invocation, more than an invite, to prayer and surrender, more than to a hootenanny...

woooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

That was excellent. Where is this Vilnius place?

@TarvoMetspalu

3 жыл бұрын

Lithuania, Baltic States

That's cool Jamie Lannister grew his hand back...

Does anyone know where I can find this arrangement. Love the energy!!!

Lina has been working out or something because she looks amazing!

Ich weine gerade... 😔

Did they cut out the "sinners" line? Lovely song. A little too old testament in it's original version for my liking. I don't like being called a sinner. 😂

@mjcard

3 жыл бұрын

We are all imperfect. That’s what sinners means.

@cacampbell3654

3 жыл бұрын

@@mjcard The word “sinners” in English is complex and highly charged. Please don’t assume you know what that word means *for everyone*! You do not.

@mjcard

3 жыл бұрын

@@cacampbell3654 Do tell.

@johnpaulburgueno326

3 жыл бұрын

@@cacampbell3654 everyone has sinned Jesus died for all our sins, there is only one perfect person and that is Jesus.

what is the arragement of this edition?

Love it. Do not mind the clapping too much. Would, to me, would be more spiritual without the clapping. Compare the feeling after the clapping stops. Powerful. Thank you, Bel Canto Choir Vilnius, from North Carolina!

@aminaalquhaar9682

2 жыл бұрын

The history of this song--the clapping/thumping/swaying, etc. is true to its historical roots-- like a ringshout. Check that out on Smithsonian KZread and lookup the purpose and history of ringshouts

No lie didn’t like the guy at first but he started killing it at one point

Sounds better inside of a grain bin.

The audience clapping at different times lolll

Hey Americans, this should be your national anthem :)

it scares me a lot how the audience was clapping in unison after the performance

@audriusvalatkevicius690

4 жыл бұрын

Emilie Bailey why???

@turtleruski1915

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my god I can hear it.

@Bratishk-a

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda easy to scare you 😂

great song, well performed. Clapping no need, really I mean Really.

@aminaalquhaar9682

2 жыл бұрын

The clapping/stomping is authentic to the origins African/Southern Tradition of the song, as is the audience "congregational" participation.

qualcuno sa di chi è questo arrangiamento!?

@andriusgailiunas3307

5 жыл бұрын

Jefferson Johnson :)

@paologaggioli139

5 жыл бұрын

@@andriusgailiunas3307 TKS!

@paologaggioli139

5 жыл бұрын

@@andriusgailiunas3307 do you know where I can find the score!?

@andriusgailiunas3307

5 жыл бұрын

@@paologaggioli139 To be honest, I don't see anywhere where it can be purchased... I guess you could maybe try contacting Jefferson Johnson directly via email?

@paologaggioli139

5 жыл бұрын

@@andriusgailiunas3307 Good information! I tried to search the net but it is actually not there: I will write directly to Johnson. Thank you

Down to the river to pray, not down in the river

@aminaalquhaar9682

2 жыл бұрын

Baptism is part of the religious roots of this song. Yes, people are baptised in the river--praying. I watched it as a child. He rendered this song in a style true to its roots. That's probably why the choir did such a good job; he explained the context.

even jews like this performance ;)

I have never seen a conductor ruin a performance faster with clapping

@alessandrolazzari7937

4 жыл бұрын

Ahahaha !! Eric Whitacre a conductor ?! Probably he is better than anyone else in clapping hands...surely better than you my dear...

@staganomal9447

3 жыл бұрын

There’s always one negatory in the reply list and that unfortunately is you Lindsey, he didn’t ruin it he made it

the conductor reminds me of Prince Charming Charming in SCHRECK. I didn't like his performance 😀 But fortunately, the choir is excellent, I like this song very munch 🤗

No video is worth a 30 second intro.

Hv heard better performance

Dont fuckin clap.

This song is a Chirstian song!! and the Choir Vilnius changed the last part: Instead of "sinners lets come down", they sang "people lets come down". Cheap group that only pretends to sell ... (Spanish): Esta canción es una canción cristiana!! Y el coro Vilnius cambió la última parte: en vez de "pecadores lets come down" , ellos cantaron "people lets come down". Grupo barato que pretende sólo vender...

clapping skills of the crowd is a fat 0

Honestly I can tell this is a crowd full of white people bc that clapping was hella off for no reason. I'm totally joking guys. This was beautifully done but I really wish the crowd would pull it together a bit

Nothing pisses me off more than people that clap off beat

@aminaalquhaar9682

2 жыл бұрын

The "imperfect" clap is authentic. It works or is well within the realm of the origins of the song. All is accepted. Try that for a lens.

@skuxxfam

2 жыл бұрын

@@aminaalquhaar9682 whatever dude