Here I Stand / iSing Silicon Valley

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Label
Innova Recordings
Release Date
August 28, 2020
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Ising Silicon Valley
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 28, 2020
    • UPC
      726708605827
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      INN058
    • LABEL
      Innova Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Only in Sleep

      Composer: Ēriks Ešenvalds

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed

    2. Ave generosa

      Composer: Ola Gjeilo

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed

    3. In Your Light

      Composer: Daniel Elder

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed

    4. 365

      Composer: Daniel Elder

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed

    5. I. Never

      Composer: Adam Schoenberg

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed

    6. II. In the camp I lived as one in a dream, a shadow …

      Composer: Adam Schoenberg

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed

    7. III. But I cannot keep silent

      Composer: Adam Schoenberg

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed

    8. Like a Singing Bird (version for female choir and piano or strings)

      Composer: Bob Chilcott

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed

    9. Birds' Lullaby

      Composer: Sarah Quartel

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed

    10. Salut Printemps (arr. M.-F. Gaillard for voice, female choir and piano)

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

    11. Here I Stand

      Composer: Karen Linford

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed

    12. Sing

      Composer: PinkZebra

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed

    13. Grow Little Tree

      Composer: Andrea Ramsey

      Ensemble: iSing Silicon Valley

      Performer: Emily Botel, Ron Ho, Lesley Robertson, Warren Wu, Meredith Clark, Kent Reed


Here I Stand is the confident debut album of iSing Silicon Valley, the international-award-winning girls’ choir based in Silicon Valley, California. Here I Stand celebrates iSing’s focus on the power of girls to change the world as they raise their 200+ voices in remembrance, in strength, and in the pure, shared delight of coming together to sing. The album opens with a transcendent performance of the treble-voice version of ?riks Ešenvalds’ soaring, dreamlike work for solo voice and chorus, Only in Sleep. The pro-gram includes some of the stunning works commissioned by iSing during its first six seasons, with themes ranging from social justice, to individual growth and collective power. Among these: Never Shall I Forget, Adam Schoenberg’s haunting setting for treble voices, string quartet and percussion of excerpts from Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir Night; Daniel Elder’s arrangements for iSing of his powerful commentary on gun violence, 365, and of In Your Light, his musical setting one of Rumi’s most ecstatic poems. Given first life on the concert stage and on this recording by iSing’s bright young singers, these commissions and commissioned arrangements make exciting, relevant additions to the repertoire for treble voices, here given definitive, top-notch renditions. The album artwork also includes original illustrations by a young choir alumna; together the package puts girls’ inspiring talents center stage in heartwarming fashion. Listeners, prepare to be moved by the breadth of performance of iSing girls: The musical finesse and the stunning vocal blend of iSing’s elite choirs; the clarity of expression of the soloists; and — on the later tracks of the album — the lovely ensemble sound of younger iSing girls ranging in age from 7 to 12.