Amazing young voices, "pie Jesus"

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Written By Edward Wolfe

These amazing young voices scored a hit with "Pie Jesu," arranged by Andrew Lloyd Webber.  I remember young people in the audience screaming like this when the Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan show back in 1964.  I think our young people today show much more discrimination!  Enjoy!

I first published this post on August 24, 2013.  Considering that these three wonderful voices had never sung together until the week of the competition made the performance even more amazing.  One of the judges, shock jock Howard Stern looks as though he has been transported to a new, transcendent realm.

The music is from Lloyd Webber's Requiem for orchestra and solo voices.  A requiem is a service of music for a dead person.  The lyrics for "Pie Jesus," sung by Forte on America's Got Talent, are as follows in Latin, with an English translation:

Pie Jesu,
Qui tollis peccata mundi,
Dona eis requiem. Gentle Jesus,
Who takes away the sins of the world,
Give them rest. Agnus Dei,
Qui tollis peccata mundi,
Dona eis requiem,
Sempiternam
Requiem. Lamb of God,
Who takes away the sins of the world,
Give them rest,
Everlasting rest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI0e2r2PIqM

Next week: How to Read Music (Basics) 6

Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe has been a fan of Christian apologetics since his teenage years, when he began seriously to question the truth of the Bible and the reality of Jesus. About twenty years ago, he started noticing that Christian evidences roughly fell into five categories, the five featured on this website.
Although much of his professional life has been in Christian circles (12 years on the faculties of Pacific Christian College, now a part of Hope International University, and Manhattan Christian College and also 12 years at First Christian Church of Tempe), much of his professional life has been in public institutions (4 years at the University of Colorado and 19 years at Tempe Preparatory Academy).
His formal academic preparation has been in the field of music. His bachelor degree was in Church Music with a minor in Bible where he studied with Roger Koerner, Sue Magnusson, Russel Squire, and John Rowe; his master’s was in Choral Conducting where he studied with Howard Swan, Gordon Paine, and Roger Ardrey; and his doctorate was in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature, where he also studied group dynamics, humanistic psychology, and Gestalt theory with Guy Duckworth.
He and his wife Louise have four grown children and six grandchildren.

https://WolfeMusicEd.com
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