Song of Celebration – Virtual Soul Choir

The Baha’is of Ballarat have commissioned a special virtual musical project. This song puts these words of Baha’u’llah to a stirring choral melody: “Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face…Be an ornament to the countenance of truth…a breath of life to the body of mankind.” This melody was originally composed for the bicentenary of the Birth of Baha’u’llah but was produced as a virtual choral project to celebrate the centenary of the Baha’i Faith in Australia. 

You can read all about this project and how it came to be in this article from one of Ballarat’s Baha’is, Dellaram Vreeland: Integrating Arts Into Community Life: The Experience of the Baha’is of Ballarat

You can also find out more about centenary of the Faith in Australia by clicking here: https://bahai.org.au/index.php/australian-bahai-community/history-australian-bahai-community/

Lastly, you can find out more about the choir that produced this song, the Virtual Soul Choir by visiting their Facebook page.

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Sonjel Vreeland

In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.