Still, Still Still 2018

Another Musical Christmas Moment: Where Are You Christmas?

Still Still Still-- Here's our practice rendition, it's seriously beautiful

A Humble Hymn Post for an Excellent Easter (video)

 What are some of your favorite Easter traditions?  Easter egg hunting?  Painting?  Wearing your best new clothes?  Wearing a bonnet?  Eating ham or lamb?  

One of mine is singing this beautiful hymn by Cecil Frances Alexander:

And here are the lyrics:

He is risen! He is risen!

Tell it out with joyful voice.
He has burst his three days’ prison;
Let the whole wide earth rejoice.
Death is conquered; man is free.
Christ has won the victory.

Come with high and holy hymning;
Chant our Lord’s triumphant lay.
Not one darksome cloud is dimming
Yonder glorious morning ray,
Breaking o’er the purple east,
Symbol of our Easter feast.

He is risen! He is risen!
He hath opened heaven’s gate.
We are free from sin’s dark prison,
Risen to a holier state.
And a brighter Easter beam
On our longing eyes shall stream.

Text: Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818–1895

Music: Joachim Neander, 1650–1680

Happy Easter to all!

What Easter Evening Hymn are you Humming? (video)

Thinking outside the box to write a song...

Ever get writer's block? I just read a kind of weird and wacky blog post on how to get ideas in songwriting https://blog.landr.com/10-songwriting-techniques/. Some of them seemed a little weird to me, but I think I might try transcribing a song from memory and see if a new song comes out or listening to Mozart or to 5 radios at once for ideas. Why not?

It's time for the RootsTech family history conference... Here's the hymn "High on the Mountaintop!"

This week is the RootsTech conference, and I’m thinking about family history! In this video you’re going to hear 4 wonderful verses of the family history hymn “Hi on the Mountaintop.” Which one is your favorite? Be sure to tell us in the comments! 

What hymn would you like to hear me sing? What are your favorite family history hymns? Please leave a comment below. And please share the video if you know someone who might enjoy it. 

1. High on the mountain top A banner is unfurled. 

Ye nations, now look up; It waves to all the world. 

In Deseret's sweet, peaceful land, On Zion's mount behold it stand! 

2. For God remembers still His promise made of old 

That he on Zion's hill Truth's standard would unfold! 

Her light should there attract the gaze Of all the world in latter days. 

3. His house shall there be reared, His glory to display, And people shall be heard In distant lands to say: We'll now go up and serve the Lord, Obey his truth, and learn his word. 

4. For there we shall be taught The law that will go forth, 

With truth and wisdom fraught, To govern all the earth. 

Forever there his ways we'll tread, 

And save ourselves with all our dead. 

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About me: I am a singer who became a speech language pathologist so I could help as many people as possible. 

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