CWU Chamber Choir: Ola Gjeilo, Ubi Caritas (unaccompanied)

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"Ubi Caritas" (Ola Gjeilo) is sung by The CWU Chamber Choir (Gary Weidenaar, director).

In mid-April, 2011, composer Ola Gjeilo spent 3 days on the Central Washington University Campus to join the choir in recording 3 of his pieces, (the teaser/trailer URL is found below)

This performance of Gjeilo's "Ubi Caritas" is from that session, following a rendition in which the composer joined the choir and improvised an accompaniment (URL below). In this video the choir sings the piece in its published (unaccompanied) version.

One behind-the-scenes comment: On the last page of the piece, when the first melodic material occurs again - Ola, who was sitting in the hall, asked half the choir to hum while the other half sang to create a more ethereal effect.

The CWU Chamber Choir also has recorded videos of the music of Monteverdi, Muehleisen, Singh, Victoria, and Rautavaara on YouTube

Gjeilo "In the Moment" teaser/trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrvEgQl57b0

"Ubi Caritas" (with the composer creating an improvised accompaniment):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_7mcGqsKP8

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https://www.facebook.com/CWU.Chamber.Choir

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