A Holiday Greeting from Whitman College [Video]

Please enjoy this special performance by some of our talented chorale and jazz students.

In describing the video, included in their list of favorite holiday greetings, Inside Higher Ed says, “What makes this video so unusual is the choice to use not a well-known holiday carol but a choral song by living composer Jeff Newberry with lyrics by Malcolm Guite, a poet and Anglican priest, that nevertheless speak to the gratitude and peace of the holiday season: ‘Become an open singing-bowl, whose chime / Is richness rising out of emptiness, / And timelessness resounding into time.’”

Credits

A colloboration between Whitman's Office of Communications and the Music Department.

Song: “Singing Bowl” by Jeff Newberry; adapted and covered with permission.

Singers

• Kapuananialohikalani Barnes ’28
• Ash Caughey ’25
• Benjamin Davis ’27
• Isabella Hunter ’25
• Remy Kreuzer ’26
• Marlo Nibert ’28
• Natalie Rhim ’28
• Maia Troeger ’28

Instrumentalists

• Satasha Egenes ’28
• Lane Lallana ’28 (flutes)
• Simon Harrington ’28
• Jibreel Penick ’28 (trumpets)
• Ben Bradley ’28 (trombone)
• Doug Scarborough (bass)
• Feng Kang (piano)

Video producer: Patrick Record
Video assistance: Sierra Roberts
Production assistant: Yahir Tzec ’25
Conductor: Laney Armstrong, Assistant Professor of Music
Jazz Ensemble director: Doug Scarborough, Associate Professor of Music
Music recorded: Michael Simon ’02, Senior Lecturer and Chair of Music, with Philip Ratner ’25 and Jeffrey Wu ’25
Music mixed: Michael Simon ’02