Im a bass in my high school choir and this is my favorite song that we are doing right now

@jasonlu2681

4 жыл бұрын

Jesse Dietrich we just did it at temple university at philly

@kadencoss9316

4 жыл бұрын

I'm tenor and same, such a good piece

@wigwagstudios2474

Жыл бұрын

im totally not a bass and totally not looking at a fuck ton of versions of these

This song was probably the highlight of my Senior year in choir. It was the first song we were given by our instructor for us to start practicing for our first year in Class AA in the OMEA Adjudications. The song will be with me forever.

Wonderfully done. The "C" in Nicodemus is marvelous. It gets me every time. And that high G'b at the end is stunning :)

Why is it so quiet at Max volume

@tateeames1227

3 жыл бұрын

Lowercase singing

@LiamDePaux

3 жыл бұрын

Every choir video ever

@aliyah6058

Жыл бұрын

@@tateeames1227 oh my lord

My favorite rendition of this song, the blend of voices and especially the crisp annunciations make this incredible

This is probably arguably the best I have heard on youtube... That last note was great!!

GOD THIS JUST SHOWS AGAIN WHY I AM IN ABSOLUTE LOVE WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SINGERS. I. JUST. LOVE. THEM.

Our advanced choir is working on this right now. This song is amazing, I'm so happy to be singing this! 😋 I'm not looking forward to that high note at the end though 😂

I LOVE this performance. The nuances were perfect. Everytime the music went from unison to harmonies it was flawless. This is my first time hearing this choir and I'm a fan. I sang this with my college choir and this interpretation is alot better and the sound is phenomenal. GREAT JOB!!!!!!!

One of the high school choirs I'm in just did this song for sightreading. It's amazing, and I love the way they did this.

their slides are spectacular! :)

Really good song but the octave up by that one soprano seemed kind of redundant.

@blunk778

7 жыл бұрын

the one at the end?

@elisawerner3698

4 жыл бұрын

Just my opinion bro

@choide19

4 жыл бұрын

Christopher Carr Agreed

@LiamDePaux

3 жыл бұрын

Completely ruined it

@boybuttplugger

3 жыл бұрын

right?? it’s a little extra when they take the tempo down for this energetic song

Ah what memories this song brings back! I sang this about 24 years ago and when we went on choir tour to Disney World a bunch of us were singing this standing in line for one of the rides. The people around just loved it. Great song and lots of fun to sing!

In 1991, my high school's top choral group, the Sanderson Sandpipers, from Raleigh, NC sang this in Carnegie Hall. We joined about 10 other choirs of the same caliber from around the country to make one large chorus. Singing this in that venue was breathtaking - I still remember to this day having goosebumps all over my body from the mass of voices and the acoustics in that hall. I will never forget it. This is a great performance from an obviously polished and talented college level group!

Love the tenor section, not too brought out, but yet you can still hear it, excellent work

my favorite song ever to perform with my select choir

Far and away the most eye- and ear-appealing rendition I've yet seen on YT. This is a great arrangement, and this choir acted, and sang, like they were happy to be singing it! Great dynamics, tempo, pitch- wonderful job! Kudos to that unnamed soprano for nailing that high F#- she had it, and Dr Allred flaunted it (it's not in the score- who would expect to have someone who could hit it?!) Many thanx for sharing this! BTW- 2yawk: Right on! Took the words right outa my head!

this is one of my favorite chorus songs ever tbh it’s just SO good with all the part

I was blessed with the song I'm from Papua New Guinea. My name is Terry

love this choir

That final note was amazing!

@ejstephens7918

7 жыл бұрын

BaconCat that last high note sounded awful... It's impressive but shouldn't be there

@stretchlettuce3690

7 жыл бұрын

EJ Stephens I'm trying to be positive because all of you jerks keep hating, and I think it was good, personally.

@cedriclewis651

7 жыл бұрын

+BaconCat it did sound amazing but the note indeed shouldn't have been there. The piece could've survived alone and had even been better without it

You can tell when they caught the spirit. Lean into it, children! Joy!

Absolutely amazing yall this was always one of my favorite songs in choir we never sang it but I'll never forget when another choir sang it. This is the best version I have seen in KZread! Great work!

This is such a beautiful song.

had to listen to this in chorus today, and I put it on my playlist. it's a bop.

We are doing this song in May for one of our songs for our Spring Concert. It is such a fun song to sing!

BRILLIANT! I especially love the verse about Samson. I was trying to find the Paul Robeson version, couldn't find it, found this instead. KZread rocks (and so do they - oh man, those Mormons sure can sing).

such control! no breathiness, no dipthongs, beautiful! i especially love the control when the soprano's and alto's sing 'cut it off!' that burst can be difficult for unseasoned singers, you girls rendered it superbely! ^_^

Did the song in high school back in 1989 as as sophomore and later as a junior. Really hard to find. BTW, I was in a public school in St. Louis County, MO.

Amazing!

Omg that was. Amazing .I hope some day I could do that

This is such a fabulous performance of "Witness!" I traveled to Virginia With my school's Music Department and our choir which I am a part of also performed this at the competition. This performance was do beautiful I nearly had tears in my eyes. I especially loved how each one of you had a lot of emotion in your facial expression. Job well done! :) it was a probe large listening to this!

What a wonderful and beautiful song. We sang it in Germany too many times. Greetings from Old Germany ...

This is a choral arrangement of a spiritual. Very good performance. Experts take the voices they have to work with and make the intentions of the composers / arrangers appear from the printed pages to the listeners. This is what your director and your choir has done. It is what the arranger wrote. Unfortunately everyone doesn't know what to listen for, yet they are so quick to make comments. Please disregard all pointless comments. BRAVO!!! Oh and by the way, I'm an African American.

The chamber singers in my high school did this. Love it

EXCELLENT!!!! This is the BEST rendition of this peice on youtube... I did not have to stretch my ear to understand what they are saying. Good job!!!

amazing work guys.

I like this version, very nicely done

awesome!!!!!! love it!

I loved singing this song for all parish!

we are doing this for concert choir :) i love it! i also really want to attend this college, and them having a good choir makes it even better :)

I alwayz look for songz that share the same title as mine...I consider myself to be more like Sampson my mom n granddaughter both share June 13 as their birthday love the congruency of the sliding notez in the harmonies wonderful...I love the smiling faces...if we sing w joy we smile...the choir director must be a pleasant jovial focused loving soul...wonderful...

My choir is doing this song for a concert. I love this recording of it.

VERY IMPRESSIVE. we did this song this year as well. I'm in the COS choir. We are a community choir in California, we actually have some videos of us on youtube as well. You guys did a fantastic job. I love the high note at the end CRAZY. Well GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!

HOORAY! I'm so glad I finally found someone on KZread who can sing this well! Awesome job! :) 30/5 stars!

We sang this my senior year of high school in 1994. We weren't this good but we sure had a lot of fun with it.

high note at end = jaw dropped! lol crazy high but crazy good

This is a great music video! I hope y'all are enjoying choir this term.

we sang this in our high school choir. i expected a whole different level from a college choir but... wow that was amazing

i totally miss choir wow amazing

I'm doing this in choir! So excited!

i love this song and this group sings it very well. love it at 1:17

did this at my school, awesome song!

we sang this last year for region my faveorite spiritual song

Best choir in the USA right now!

you guys were AMAZING!!!!!! i absolutely LOVED the ending

STUNNING :)

my school is Miramar High School and we are doing this song this year

Singing this in my highschool choir! Fun song :)

We are doing this for our varsity choir piece for contest, its a very awesome song! can be very challenging as well. (:

Awesome!

in my school choir we sing witness love that song

Really good

WOW!!!!!

im singing this song in my high school choir it is a really fun song

Our standard 7/8th grade mixed choir is doing and I love singing it, it's such a hard song

@YaM-km9ez

6 жыл бұрын

Legendary Precision how do you have tenor/ bass in middle school, who can even hit those low notes at that age lmao

@emeriepalmer2128

6 жыл бұрын

Our junior high and the high schoolers are mixing so our high schoolers just carry us but yes it’s very hard especially if your a soprano.

I sang this with The University of Missouri - Columbia, Directed by Dr. David Rayl in 1998-1999...exactly the same interpretation...hmmm. I sang alto, so maybe I was purposefully picking out the part...but I thought the alto section was great, and they kept the pitch where it should be instead of falling (which is often the case for over-blowing alto sections). Great performance Guys!

Its eerie how perfect this is...outstanding performance! This arrangement is very similar to the Dandridge version, but that version has the Tenor and Soprano solos. I wish you all wouldve done that arrangement, but this was still a great performance.

Makes me miss being in choir. I was a first soprano. I didn't have such a strong voice, but I really want to get better. Considering taking a choir class again sometime...

@macsitou I believe the arranger of this version is Jack Halloran

@VanSensei it was a mix of 7th,8th, and 9th grade

I like this song because in december i have concert in high school.

We sang this in highschool and i think we did it better only because we were not so proper. We workshoped with Dr. Staheli and even he told us not to bite the t in witness so much!

we are just now learning this song in choir and im happy to find it on youtube so i can practice the notes;) i have to song it in saprano and gosh is it hard lol

Did this song in high school 20 years ago and still remember every note. Great rendition even with the unnecessary high note at the end.

very very good, good balance

I had to sing for middleschool choir a week ago at a concert

That note sounded like one of those little rings that you blow. You know what I'm talking about? You blow into it, and it slides up to a really high pitch and then goes back down?

Superb O.o

my highschool choir is learning this song for competion

Go tenors!

@TheseShoesSoDontFly That note is in the original score; it sounds abrasive on this recording but is actually quite pure and brilliant when heard live :)

Except the last note it's a very nice and clean interpretation of the song. Good job :)

Im singing this in choir right now, and i've learned that the alto part is very hard!

Woah.

that soprano at the end made me laugh out loud

great

Is that someone hitting a whistle note at the end??!!

BRAVISSIMO! I wasn't crazy about the 'sen' vowel sound you created in the first "Samson." Other than that, FLAWLESS!

Such a good piece, I believe the octave F didn't quite fit the rest of the piece, and because it sounded a little forced, it sounded like it was a little flat. I don't have perfect pitch, I don't have a perfect reflection of songs, it's just an opinion/thought. Other than that, it was an amazing performance!

Anyone know any videos that would help a Bass 2 in general? Thanks!

@flamehead17 thank you so much!

I hate that last note at the end it doesn't belong there

@tessadougherty813

8 жыл бұрын

+Franz Engerer that fine we can have different opinions

@joelwallenius2877

8 жыл бұрын

+Aurora Navarro Cancel Dude. Totally agree. So many songs in minor keys end in major when it would've been way more awesome with key consistency. Bleh.

@tylerwilliams3726

7 жыл бұрын

Aurora Navarro Cancel spirituals originate from slave chants on the fields, it seems wrong that it ends in a major chord ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@thecakeisalie652

6 жыл бұрын

This song is so amazing funny singing in a choir *.*

@brandonagujar1391

6 жыл бұрын

Then maybe you can arrange Witness in your own mind and choices :)

@VanSensei I was hitting lower than F sharp in 7th grade, and then tenor 1 notes. It's really not too big an accomplishment. Depends on the voices at hand.

The multi - talented Seth MacFarlane! Great director.

@TheseShoesSoDontFly It didn't come across as showing off to me at all. It went perfectly with everything the song was doing. That choir is blessed to have the voice to sing that note, on pitch, and just lite enough....and a straight tone at that. I thought it was Fantastic!

amazing bass on this! lol

@TheseShoesSoDontFly I believe that note is in the score, is it not? I have seen the note sang in all capable versions of this song.

@TheSynthice I dunno man. I'm looking at the score now and it doesn't have it (at least in my version)

Can anyone else hear the high overtone A#(I think) higher than the sopranos after the last chord?