When we performed this 20 years ago, I couldn't get through the song without tears. And listening to it today, it brings tears to my eyes. This song is the epitome of perfection. It heals.

I sang this in my high school choir. It still gives me chills.

when this opens up with all the parts I cannot even deal. The beauty.......

15 years ago we sang this at my high school spring concert (senior year) and it was magnificent. I will never forget the moment I almost broke out in tears, on stage. This song is truly so beautiful. 💜

A man that loved a woman that could never have her. A broken heart that could never heal .

I wish I could find a better recording of this particular performance. This is the most pure unison I have ever heard in my life in a live performance!

I love how the whole choir undulates as one big vocal pipe organ. It feels like a river in motion. Beautiful!

I'm singing this in middle school, its a highschool level. We're really proud

St. Olaf in Dt. Olaf Minnesota not only gives awesome music performances that bring you tears. Renowned in its history and have traveled Internationally. I watch them every year and am overjoyed each time.

I'm so happy to be singing Tenor 1 in this piece

My God, the incredible resonance at 1:30 gives me chills EVERY TIME! Just WOW. Can't get enough of this arrangement.

their tone and blend is absolutely beautiful. perfection. absolute perfection. My choir is doing this song and I hope for it to be as beautiful as this.

Dear St Olaf Choir, Never change. Love, Jeremiah

This is the second piece of music that has ever made me cry and not only did I cry, I wept. This song is so emotional and was so beautifully performed. Thank you for sharing your wonderful God-given voices.

Seamless!......Amazing discipline!....Super Choir!..Even the subtle wave of purple robes illustrate the waves of the "wide Missouri."

the chord from the men at 3:01 ….gets me every time. chills. tears. purely angelic

I am a graduate of Luther College which has its own traditions but I appreciate the perfection of St. Olaf's choirs. Both institutions as well as all the ELCA church schools use music as an expression of God's wonder, grace and beauty. I am blessed by this music. Thank you.

This choir is soooooo talented. There is a lot of gifted individuals in there. And as ONE there simply angelic. So beautiful!

This is one of the best and beautiful U.S anthem ,it's just beautiful .I First heard in it Oliver Stone's movie "Nixon"

I loved singing this at St. Olaf ♥️

Absolutely gorgeous! I sang this with my community chorus, but this is way out of our league. Wonderful choir and director.

I have loved the music of the St Olaf's choir for along time. This version of this piece is so good. My high school choir sang this piece in 1969. I have missed hearing it. Thank-you so much for sharing it.

I'm doing this song for allstate. Every time I sing it with a choir my heart melts and I get the chills, it's one of the best feelings in the world.

I feel fortunate to live in the upper midwest where St. Olaf, Concordia, Bethel, Luther, and Wartburg are, just to start the list of awesome choirs. Many have Christmas concerts that are broadcast on Public TV and those are wonderful to see again and again.

The St. Olaf Choir sings holding hands. The unique amoeba-like swaying is a visual depiction of the unison that the choir feels the music together. Close your eyes and listen... it fits the text.

Im 13 years old. I live in Michigan! I am in a choir in my school and we are singing this song! We are an amazing choir, and even though we are 7th and 8th graders, we are amazing!

2:53 where the soprano's start the Oh Shenandoah line, and the 2nd's and Alto's repeat up to the 3:00 mark gives me goose bumps and tears. That part is the icing on the cake, and even thinking back to when we performed this back in school, this was always my favorite part.

One of the best collegiate choirs in the world! So lovely and pure...

Absolutely Brilliant! damn good choir.

This song is AMAZING!!!! I love how they made the song so fluent and so solid. I love it. I give this a superior. Wonderful job St. Olaf Choir. Well done

This is beautiful. We sang this in choir when I was in high school many years ago. Not a dry eye in the house. When it's done right, it's incredibly moving to witness. Thanks for sharing this!

We sang this in my choir. It is one of the most beautiful peices of music ever written and makes me love God and America. This is AWESOME.

Oh God.... This got me all misty eyed. This reminds me of something from the portuguese literature. It's been writen by Fernando Pessoa (who's probably the most philosophical poet I know) "God wants Man dreams The deed is born" This video is a proof of it!

I remember myself sitting and listening to our high school choir.. This beautiful song brings so much memories .. it was in 2005 when i auditioned and joined Imus Institute Pitch Choir .. And it's 2020 ..i still listen to it.. thanks for this wonderful performance, St. Olaf Choir. Perfect for me.

I needed to hear this beautiful song today. Thank you everyone involved. It is healing indeed.

This speaks to the heart, Anton Armstrong. From a Lutheran church choir, to what this ensemble is and means today. It was a privilege to sing under F. Melius's son Paul C. Christiansen, Olaf's brother, from 1983 to 1985. We, too, concluded every performance with Beautiful Savior. In a conducting lesson given by Paul Christiansen at Concordia he shared a bit about his time in Europe. Like his father in Leizig and the Thomanerchor, Paul J. Christiansen studied abroad, too, and immersed himself in Gregorian chant at the Solesmes Abbey. I still clearly remember 36 yrs later him sharing how he sat on a park bench one day, maybe in Paris, and saw a newspaper page lifted up by a slight gust of wind, and how it settled down from above him, swinging lazily down: "This," he said, "is how to phrase plainchant - just this way." (based on my recollection)

I can see the water flowing! The sound is perfect. What a great and magnificent choir are you!

Splendidly beautiful. I always felt like choirs underutilized the Bass 2 line in this song, perhaps because most choirs don't have men with that kind of range. But if you've got it, let it rip, and that's exactly what you guys did. Fantastic.

This is fucking beautiful. I have no other words to comprehend what I've just heard. Bravo!

I sang this song with my school choir más de didnt like the song because it was too much work(i know we were lazy) but when we preformed it was our favorite piece to this day

Simply amazing! I have sung this arrangement in my choir (a high school choir) and I thought we were alright, but boy! Anton Armstrong and his choir just blew us out of the water! The amount of passion put into this song by every single choir member is simply awe-inspiring, let alone Dr. Armstrong's obvious passion for this piece. I have been in a choir directed by Anton Armstrong, and he really is just amazing :) I hope our High School Choir can put as much passion into our music as this choir!

Standing Tall and Looking Proud........OUTSTANDING !!!!

If this isn't, the most beautiful rendition of this song then I would really love to hear anything else out there. This Choir is superior! I have to tip my hat to the Director and the Choir, as a whole. Unbelievably beautiful to listen to. Takes my mind back to my days on the Stillwater River in the Miami Valley in SW Ohio.

Beautiful and pure. America

The men make me melt. Warming my heart. bbbbbeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuutifuuuuuuuuuul

The best arrangement of a truly great melody by the great composer Anonymous. I've sung this one and it's so beautiful. Only marred by someone singing along for some reason in the audience.

This is a truly inspiring choral rendition of Shenandoah. It lifts the soul and brings peace into the world. It is truly beautiful.

Beautifully sung. This song has much deeper meaning than most know

One of the most beautiful pieces of work I've ever heard! :)

My God, how absolutely beautiful.....those onions, they are everywhere for some reason.

This is my favorite version of that song. How I wish I was there when they sang that piece. It's a different experience when you hear it live. It'll give you goosebumps and it might even make you shed a tear.

So beautiful! It brings tears to my eyes. The middle section sounds like rolling water. Wonderful.

Wow! I’m hypnotized by the sounds of this group, near perfection. Great song Shenandoah - a classic!

My favorite arrangement of this song to sing and to hear. St. Olaf is always top notch.

this song brings back a lot of memories... I sang this in high school choir. This sounds great on the video but to really experience the beauty of this song you must experience it in person or even better as part of the choir. I will never forget this song!

We sang this in 9th grade in choir... now i'm 20 and started college and I miss highschool, the simpler life and my old highschool friends...

A good choral blending, a very well managed dynamics of the song, good articulation of the words, generally , a good choir performing good music, hey this is good work.

13 years ago I stood in that choir. T'was one of the most remarkable experiences of my life.

The most pure version of this songI have ever had the pleasure of listening to. Brings me to tears and gives me joy🎉

Wonderful to see the swaying of the singers, all of them, but apparently because each one of them felt the serenity on his or own. Uncontrived.

Beautiful! I sang this in high school choir, thanks for letting me relive some of those memories. One of my all time favorites we ever did. And one of the most memorable.. even 30 years later!

I sang this arrangement of "Shenandoah" for State Honor Choir in Oklahoma when I was a senior at Norman High School in 1985. It's one of the most beautiful and difficult arrangements I ever sang.

Sublime. No other word suffices.

Wish I could have the opportunity to sing this in a big choir again. Squandered my opportunity by not learning it to the point of confidence when it comes to coming in as an alto at that canon part. Wow, you guys held that last note to fade so beautifully!

Absolutely amazing! Loved it!

I agree, it always brings tears to my eyes....loved it ever since we sung it in high school choir

My choir is performing this at our next concert, and I can only hope that we sound half as good as this. Wow.

All the nice Harmony brings chills to me very beautiful

One of my favorite pieces back in high school choir, got me chills everytime i sing.

i love this version, amazing choir too!!

Heavenly voices.......

Gorgeous- sounds like a prayer.

Truly Amazing! Perfect performance.

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 loved this then 20 something years ago love it now 🥰😘

wow chills, this is incredible.

[I so much as look at the lyrics] **tears** That is the effect this song has on me.

So many chills. I love this so much!!!!!!

LOVE THIS SONG! Great version!

I did this my sophomore year in high school. I wish my director would let us do this song again, same with the awakening. Oh this song gives me chills!

Simply glorious

Love watching this knowing I have friends performing in this choir. Maybe my favorite version of this arrangement. The blend and tone is impeccable. Pure perfection. :)

Beautiful. My school's choir did this for the spring concert :D

Absolute chills.

This is the most beautiful arrangement I've heard, and this performance is flawless. The choir's skills are awesome!

This is one of the most beautiful choirs I've ever heard!

Beautiful performance.. Fantastic

Absolutely gorgeous

My high school choir performed this arrangement and in all my years singing it is still one of my favorites. I found myself singing along to the alto part :)

To this day my favorite recording of the song.

this piece (the james erb arrangement) always makes me bawl like a baby. soooo beautiful. and lovely performance here!

love this arrangement.

Beautiful! We did this in High School. Love this arrangement.

Gheez goosebumps can you go away now 🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻❤❤

This is my favorite song from choir days. Your performance brought tears. Thank you for doing this song justice.

Ah, the Lutherans can sing! There's another lovely recording of this Erb arrangement by Pacific Lutheran University's "Choir of the West, circa 1964, somewhere here on You Tube.

i sang this in my middle school choir and hearing it still makes my chest get tight and my eyes watery

Beautiful I been out of school for 10 years and I sang this song my 7th grade year at the solo and ensemble and we got first place with this song love it

Awesome performance just awesome

I picked to sing this song for my school's vocal competition and I never regretted it!! Such a beautiful piece ❤️

Chills! Love the bass.