Song of the Fearless

March 27, 2020 5:54 AM

Hopeful greetings from the choir of Vaskivuori high school (Vantaa, Finland). Students are sheltering at home and their choir director wanted to get them singing together again. Lovely young voices and messages (there's also a very pretty black cat!)

Composed by Jussi Chydenius, lyrics by Julia Junttila

Refrain:

We are building a world,
a livable life,
fingers in the dirt,
hands pressed on concrete.

We bring hope,
belief in dreams

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Me rakennamme maailmaa,
asuttavaa elämää
sormet mullassa,
kädet painettuna betoniin.

Tuomme toivon,
uskoa unelmiin

posted by severiina (7 comments total)

That was lovely! I'm bookmarking this for when I need a boost :)
posted by Mouse Army at 6:28 AM on March 27, 2020

So many of these that I've watched have been songs familiar to me. It's fun to see one I've never heard before in a language that I know not even a little bit of. The YouTube notes say that this piece was commissioned for this choir, which is really cool. They clearly love singing this piece very much.
posted by hydropsyche at 7:23 AM on March 27, 2020

They must have way better internet and hardware than I do!
posted by srboisvert at 8:29 AM on March 27, 2020 [1 favorite]

Just lovely. Thanks.
posted by agatha_magatha at 9:30 AM on March 27, 2020

This was amazing and made me tear up. Thankyou!
posted by HypotheticalWoman at 9:56 AM on March 27, 2020

More please.
posted by Everyone Expects The Spanish Influenza at 12:24 PM on March 27, 2020

The way this kind of thing tends to work is that someone makes a "metronome" video (or just sets a metronome pace), everyone records their own video, and then someone combines them all together into one big video after the fact. (I would pay a pretty penny for a service that made it possible to do this kind of thing in a streaming context!)
posted by rivenwanderer at 8:23 PM on March 27, 2020