The Awakening by Joseph M. Martin (Full Song)

Here is the full version of The Awakening written by Joseph M. Martin and beautifully performed by the Montana All-State Choir.
The music begins at 1:22

[AyeAnxietea]

We sang this song my freshman year in high school choir. I cried every time we rehearsed it, every chord just struck me and made my whole body shiver. The hands down best song I know and one of the only songs we nailed in every aspect.
And we sang it with so much heart, we all felt what the song was saying and everyone was in the moment. When we preformed it at our concert and had to retire it, I cried even more. This was not a song I wanted to put down, back on a shelf, and never look at again.
I'm trying to get my choir director to let us sing it for this year, my senior year, for one last hoorah. I came into this school with this wonderful piece and I'd like to take it with me. At no other moment will I ever feel as connected to a group of people than I did when we were singing that song. This performance is great, it brings back memories and tears to my eyes once more.
If your choir is thinking of preforming it, then stop now and say yes. You will not regret making this piece a part of your choir experience. Much love, good day (:

[allycat]

Music has always been my passion. We are singing this in choir (im a high school senior). And I plan on becoming a music therapist. A few weeks ago I felt very discouraged, and failed at everything. I even considered giving up music. During choir rehersal that day we were running through this song. And at the end when we sing "let music never die in me" i started crying as I realized how much I love music, and how stupid I was for almost giving it up. I got a great score in NYSSMA last weekend, and my last high school choir concert is next week. And I'm even more determined to become a music therapist. I may forget my choir songs as the years pass. But this is one I will alwahs remember.

[cocoacrimson]

Singing this Senior year in high school brought me to tears. The summer before senior year my mom died and I had little going for me, so when we sang this song it reminded me that the world is beautiful and I'm not alone as long as there's music in it💕 that was 3 years ago and I still remember every note and lyric I contributed to the masterpiece 🎶 let music never die in me!

[evelinaruiz]

The no alleluahs will always make have the same effect on me. It was just so powerful and I enjoyed singing it with my choir.

[ZeroX]

I can't listen to this song and not tear up. it's such a great piece. It's full of fantastic memories for me, it pretty much sums up the time I spent in high school choir.

[trey]

We sang this at our honor choir then we sang it ourselves for our own choir. Still my favorite piece I've ever sang.

[liosalazar]

I'm doing this for my freshman year spring concert, and it is by far one of my favourite songs I have ever done

[jacewiemers]

Amazing piece! True story: (excluding the concert) my freshman year we did this piece at my high school. It was always one of my favorite pieces. In my section (tenor) couple seniors always called this piece “the cakening “ and this is because we would always blare our “let’s bake, let’s bake a cake and sing” and so on at 7.00 and it is to this day one of my favorite memories of choir. It makes being a freshman much more relaxing with seniors like we had

[ReymoGoldrisch]

Every time we rehearse this song, I end up crying. It's my amazing choir teacher's last year... The song is a very fitting song for her last year... I'll miss her so much..

[craftyrecipes]

This is my absolute favorite song that we performed my entire school choir career (from 6th grade to senior year.)
The emotions this song brought out of every person in our honor choir was chilling. We never worked so hard to make a song perfect before. I remember perfecting the “alleluia” on each section.
When we performed at our high school I remember freaking out the 5th graders in the front row because of the whispering part. We enjoyed that this song moved people that weren’t just in choir.
On my last week of high school I still remember one of the other students going to the piano while everyone was talking loudly, turned away from the piano. She started playing the opening keys and every person that sang that song stopped talking mid sentence. At that point it had been atleast a full year since we had performed it. Needless to say we sang every cord with so much enthusiasm.
It’s been 5 almost 6 full years and I would bet that everyone in our choir still knows the opening cords and would sing our hearts out to this amazing piece.

[shanequilibrium]

I just got done performing this with none other than THE Joseph Martin

[dalezziedalezzie]

My choir and I sang this for Districts and State for class A and we received straight ones both times. This was a main song, our best song. But do you know why that is? Because we sang it with a lot more energy and emotion then this. Don't get me wrong, this is a beautiful song and I'm happy to hear it again. But it sounds like you guys just sang it exactly how it was writen, no movement on the notes where there should have been, and it's very anti climatic. The times where it should be nice and loud then suddenly quiet. None of that happens. I'm half way through the song right now and I stopped to type this. I'm gonna listen to the last half. I pray the ending is just as amazing as it should be, our ending was so amazing we made all three of the judges cry and all of the other choirs out there listening to us standing up as the clap and cheer for us.

[dorissplichal]

Absolutely beautiful! The music is magic and the words are what we need to hear. Listen, listen, listen.

[TheMarvin]

I love this song a lot. I'm a junior in high and my school choirs & I sang this as a combined choir last week at our spring concert! Everyone loves this song.

[averiegibson]

THIS SONG MAKES ME FEEL SOME TYPE OF WAY JESUS

[MyAnimegurl]

We did this my senior year of high school in choir. Everyone was so excited to finally get to do it after years of listening to the recording that my choir teacher had. It was amazing!

[janelles]

This song hurts now, but I'll always love it

[violinplayer]

This is one of my favorite songs that I ever sung in the choir I was in!! Such a powerful message in this song...

[Lialeveille]

Our Choir is singing this at Carnegie Hall in February 2013 among other pieces.

[sheldenn]

I sang this in 7th grade choir. My first year of being in choir in fact. It was one of the first songs I sang realizing that I love music and I love singing. Now I’m onto my second year of varsity choir going into my sophomore year. Life really is good!