Joshua - Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory

Описание: Voorhees Choir, Women's choir of Rutgers University
Hingrid Kujawinski, Director
Spring Concert 2015.

Pearl Shangkuan commissioned Joshua for the Calvin College Women’s Chorale. The piece is dedicated to the memory of Moses Hogan and it is about the Bible history when after Moses died, God called Joshua to lead the Hebrew people towards the Promised Land. The opening section of the piece carries the Hebrew text from the Old Testament book of Joshua: God said, "My servant, Moses, has died. Rise now. Every place you tread with the soles of your feet I will give you. As I was with Moses, I will be with you. I will never fail you nor abandon you."
Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory began arranging music together spontaneously in the early 1990s when they were both working with a community-based youth choir in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their musical partnership was further cultivated from 1993-1997 during summers spent together at the American Boychoir School in Princeton, New Jersey. Caldwell and Ivory works have become staples in the repertoire of many of the world’s finest ensembles. Their music has been telecast on PBS and A&E and performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Sydney Opera House, and throughout Europe, Asia and Africa.