ACDA 2015 Music In Worship Reading Session

Hey friends! Here is the Music In Worship reading session material we sang though this morning. It was a great session. Bravo to Terre Johnson. national R and S for Music in Worship.

Composers present who conducted their own piece: Terre Johnson, Philp Stopford, Mark Hayes, Howard Helvey, and Eric Nelson. Also Dan Forrest played the piano on his piece.

Noteworthy composers who blew us off because they were maybe eating crepes Suzette or drinking German beer: Johannes Brahms, Nathaniel Dett, Heinrich Schutz.


EVEN HERE (pub. Hinshaw)

by Mark Miller, lyrics by Laurie Zelman



MAGDALENA (G Schirmer, Robt Shaw Series)

by Johnny Brahms



CREATE IN ME (MorningStar)

by Terre Johnson



HALLELUJAH, MUNGU WA ISRAELI (MorningStar)

by Ekaie Reitan and Michael Burkhardt



LATE HAVE I LOVED YOU  (MusicSpoke) http://musicspoke.com/downloads/late-loved/

by Paul Carey


LISTEN TO THE LAMBS (G Schirmer)

by Nathaniel Dett (nice job of conducting by Tony Leach!)



WHAT SWEETER MUSIC  (Hal Leoanrd)

by Philip Stopford



PILGRIM SONG  (Oxford)

by Ryan Murphy


LORD MAKE ME AN INSTRUMENT (GIA)

by M. Roger Holland II


CLEFT FOR ME  (Soundforth/Lorenz)

by Mark Hayes


CANTATE DOMINO  (Concordia)

by Hank Schutz



REJOICE ALL SPIRITS! (EC Schirmer)

by Howard Helvey



ARISE, MY SOUL, ARISE  (Beckenhorst)

by Dan Forrest



LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS  (Morningstar)

by Eric Nelson

Eric's piece was my favotire of the session, but really, everything was pretty great stuff!


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Atlanta Sacred Chorale New CD

I am thrilled that my piece "Morning Person" (SATB/piano 4 hands) is on the Atlanta Sacred Chorale's new CD "Awake the Dawn", with listening samples and order info at:


http://atlantasacredchorale.org/index.php?page=cd&cd=11



The Chorale is led brilliantly by Emory University Professor Eric Nelson. Other composer/arrangers on the CD include David Brunner, John Rutter, Charles Stanford, John Rutter, Bob Chilcott, Leonard Bernstein, Lee Dengler, Morten Lauridsen, William L. Dawson, Robert Shaw, and Jester Hairston

Hmm, some pretty fine company there!

Morning Person is published by Roger Dean, cat. #15/2599R

The very creative text is by New Orleans poet Vassar Miller- it's about God waking up one fine morning and creating the world in ONE day (not six!). My setting sounds a bit like Healy Willan in places, and at times the piano part sounds like it's out of Sondheim- hey, I don't mind admitting who some of my influences are!It was premiered by Rick Bjella's White Heron Chorale in Wisconsin when Rick was still at Lawrence Conservatory. I visited a rehearsal and we had a great time working on the dizzying energy of the piece with Rick's great community choir.

Morning Person

God, best at making in the morning, tossed
stars and planets, singing and dancing, rolled
Saturn's rings spinning and humming, twirled the earth
so hard it coughed and spat the moon up, brilliant
bubble floating around it for good, stretched holy
hands till birds in nervous sparks flew forth from
them and beasts -- lizards, big and little, apes,
lions, elephants, dogs and cats cavorting,
tumbling over themselves, dizzy with joy when
God made us in the morning too, both man
and woman, leaving Adam no time for
sleep so nimbly was Eve bouncing out of
his side till as night came everything and
everybody, growing tired, declined, sat
down in one soft descended Hallelujah.

I hope you will visit the Chorale's CD page and take a listen to Morning Person and some of the other sample tracks- and maybe you will want to order a copy!

Thanks for reading


PS I will get back to discussing Tim Sharp's High Lonesome Mass and the rest of my Oregon/Washington trip soon