God’s Psychiatry is the title of a book that was introduced to us by a woman who taught Sunday school in 1964. Ms. Allen told us it was one of her favorites.
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The Bell Anthem was the original title of our musical offering this week; it only later became known as Rejoice in the Lord Always.
Amazing Grace, probably one of America’s best-known hymns, was written by the Reverend John Newton, an Anglican priest and former slave trader.
To the casual listener, our growing catalog of weekly choral offerings sound as though they were recorded ‘live’ in a beautiful performance space. But it’s just an aural illusion, since our ensemble, like nearly all, physically disbanded in March, with the onset of COVID-19.
The text of Nearer, My God, to Thee, written in 1841 by Sarah Adams in Essex England, tells Jacob’s dream ( Genesis 28: 11-12).
The text of Nearer, My God, to Thee, written in 1841 by Sarah Adams in Essex England, tells Jacob’s dream ( Genesis 28: 11-12).
This week’s choral offering is O Sing Unto the Lord, one of the twelve Chandos Anthems by George F. Handel. It’s called a Chandos anthem because it was composed while Handel was a composer in residence for the First Duke of Chandos in 1748.