Name: City Called Heaven by Josh Rist
Duration: 4 min 24 s
Description: The Hermiston High School Chamber Choir performing City Called Heaven by Josephine Poelinitz at Central Washington University on November 18, 2015. Joshua Rist, Director, Margaret Wetterling, Collaborative pianist. Soloists: Ebony Wilson, Macie Cox, and Alanna Ellis. Please forgive the audience's applause midway through the performance. They just got carried away in their excitement. :)

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/11/jane-hirshfield-for-what-binds-us/

Kindly recorded by the poet for The Marginalian.

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Jane Hirshfield reads "For What Binds Us"

Wrote and recorded this in my bedroom back in 2012.

I've gotta run

Where Am I Now

The River Cam (Eric Whitacre conducts Julian Lloyd Webber and the LSO)

Bygones 

Words and Music by Naomi Aguilar


My baby plays his rock'n'roll and drinks to his sorry soul
Dancing with the devil has made him so cold
He says no god can save me now i've fallen to deep
Look what it did, look what it did to me

You did me wrong you let me down and all of my bygones are hurting me now
Your gonna envy the way I hold strong

If I ever did you wrong ohh would you say
Would you say that I'm the one to blame
Darling, darling baby ohh darling, darling baby how I've tried to win your love to win your trust and mind

You did me wrong you let me down and all of my bygones are hurting me now 
Your gonna envy the way I hold strong
You did me wrong you let me down and all of my bygones are hurting me now
Your gonna envy the way I hold strong

I got no trust for no god and no love for anyone 
Loved you a little bit to much
I got no trust for no god and no love for anyone
Loved you a little bit to much I'm tired and about to give up ohh

You did me wrong you let me down and all of my bygones are hurting me now 
Your gonna envy the way I hold strong
You did me wrong you let me down and all of my bygones are hurting me now gonna make you envy the way I'll move on




Bygones

Midway through November, as a responsible collegiate chamber choir, we should have been rehearsing Holiday Music today, but it just didn't feel right.  After singing for a vigil of CSULB student Nohemi Gonzales (who was killed in the Paris attacks of November 2015) I decided to take an afternoon and simply learn a new piece...one that might counteract some of the darkness I felt after watching the memorial and knowing how hard it would be for Nohemi's family to go on.  This piece was in my head as I fell asleep last night; I knew we had to record it today.    I hope it brings you comfort.   

A Prayer
by Alfred Noyes
Angels, where you soar
     Up to God’s own light,
Take my own lost bird
     On your hearts tonight;
And as grief once more
     Mounts to heaven and sings,
Let my love be heard
     Whispering in your wings. 

Let My Love Be Heard by Jake Runestad

The Hermiston High School Chamber Choir performing City Called Heaven by Josephine Poelinitz at Central Washington University on November 18, 2015. Joshua Rist, Director, Margaret Wetterling, Collaborative pianist. Soloists: Ebony Wilson, Macie Cox, and Alanna Ellis. Please forgive the audience's applause midway through the performance. They just got carried away in their excitement. :)

City Called Heaven

GO First couple bars

Deliverance by Naomi Aguilar. Performed live by Naomi Aguilar, voice, and Chance Longhorn, piano. Recorded by Joshua Rist on July 22, 2016, at Hermiston High School in Oregon. 

“Deliverance”

Verse 1
He plays his records, drinks his liquor got me lying on the floor, I’m halfway out the door
I got him touching on my body, when I feel, I got nobody, does that make me a whore? 
He’s got me believin, I ain’t never leavin, why am I so vulnerable
He wears a crown of thorns, blasphemous soul, calls himself a Savior

Chorus
Set my chains ablaze, let them burst in flames
Its time I free them my gods and demons (2x)

Verse 2
My minds been painted blind, all I live for is a lie
My faith has been crucified    
Imprisoned, to believe that even death can’t set me free
Though some call him paradise

Chorus
Set my chains ablaze, let them burst in flames
Its time I free them my gods and demons (2x)

Coda
Deliverance, I’m in need, he hands me a bible along with a rifle
He says come and follow me, come and become my disciple 
Let your river flow red, have you heard what they said?
You’re nothing but a youth and you don’t know what you do
Deliverance, I’m in need, come and delivery me.
















              

















 























Deliverance

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Producido por John Zorn bajo el sello neoyorkino Tzadik, CANTOS PARA UNA DIASPORA es el primer disco solista de la cantante y cineasta mexicana de origen judío Dora Juárez Kiczkovsky.
Con estos cantos sefaradíes de amor, muerte, guerra y migración, la
integrante  del ecléctico trío vocal Muna Zul, se  sumerge en sus orígenes 
con un espíritu desenfadado, fresco y profundo a la vez, dando como resultado una exquisita mezcla que entrelaza lo ancestral con lo contemporáneo.
Esta nueva y original mirada hacia el canto sefaradí, llena de hondura, sensibilidad  y una sana irreverencia  hace de este disco una pieza entrañable que tocará tu corazón.

Fernando Vigueras: Guitarra
Francisco Bringas: Percusiones y canto armónico
Invitados especiales:
Leo Soqui: Acordeón
Carlos Maldonado: Contrabajo
Juan Pablo Villa: Artista vocal

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