…make for warm fuzzy Valentiney feelings. 🙂
I posted this last year but I have been wanting to post it again. The music is from the Irish Tenors CD Heritage. Unfortunately whoever made this clip cut the song off abruptly at the end, but it’s still nice.
(Show and Tell folks, that post is below this one)
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We have photos of the boys at the piano for their recitals going back fifteen years to when Jeremy started when he was in third grade. Though it might be interesting to post a picture of each of them when they started and then at their senior recitals (for the older two) and last year for Jesse — it would probably look a little redundant and not be of interest to anyone but me. So I decided to use a different pictures. Jason, my middle son, is the only one who was interested in other musical instruments. He taught himself to play the penny whistle and ocarina and a little of the guitar. I do have a picture of him playing the ocarina, but it just looks like he has his mouth on a rock, so I won’t use that one. 🙂
This is a picture of only one of two times he payed the penny whistle in public.
The penny whistle is used in a lot of Irish music, which we love, and they are playing an Irish hymn, Be Thou My Vision. The other couple was at our church for a missions conference and are now missionaries in Ireland. We knew the family of the young man when he was a little boy and we all went to the same church in another town, so that was a neat experience all the way around.
He also played at a senior concert, but that’s it. I had hoped he would go on and use these talents for the Lord, and he may yet some day. But for now he doesn’t like to “perform” in front of people. He just enjoys playing at home in his room, and we enjoy the sounds filtering through the walls. 🙂
I was amazed at how many people commenting on my Irish Songs Thursday Thirteen were unfamiliar with them. I looked around You Tube (I’ve figured out how to do You Tube — I haven’t yet figured out how to do anything that plays music here) to see if I could find any of the King’s Singers or Irish Tenors. I couldn’t find any of them singing Irish songs, but I found several of the King’s Singers — the video of most of them isn’t great but the audio come through okay. This is an old Shaker hymn titled “Simple Gifts” or “Tis a Gift.” Then I found one of the Irish Tenors singing a non-Irish song, “My Heart Will Go On.” The video there is made up of scenes from different movies. The Irish Tenors have more of a belt-it-out style while the King’s Singers are softer and deeply harmonious (though of course the Irish Tenors harmonize beautifully and the King;s Singers can belt it out 🙂 ). If you’d like to hear snippets of them singing Irish songs, you can click on the links to CDs in my previous post
I mentioned a few weeks ago that the owners of Thursday Thirteen were closing down shop, but someone else bought the rights to it and it has been carrying on as usual without missing a beat.
Folks music of the British Isles is one of our favorite genres. We enjoy the Irish Tenors and the King’s Singers (Annie Laurie and Watching the White Wheat)as well as an old Robert Shaw Chorale recording I have of Irish folk songs. Today, for St. Patrick’s Day, I want to list some of my favorite Irish songs (I wonder how many people will do the same. 🙂 ) Most are folk songs; the last one is a hymn.
1. Star of the County Down (I like the King’s Singers’ version of this much better than the Irish Tenors.)
3. Molly Malone
8. Bantry Bay
9. How Are Things in Glocca Morra? (This isn’t a true folk song, but it has an Irish flavor.)
10. Red Is the Rose
Updated: I put YouTube links to both the King’s Singers and the Irish Tenors in my next post)
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Safe were the ninety and nine in the fold.
Safe though the night was stormy and cold;
But said the Shepherd when counting them o’er,
One sheep is missing, there should be one more.
Although His feet were weary and worn,
And though His hands were rent and torn,
Although the road was rocky and steep,
Still the good Shepherd searched long for his sheep.
There in the night He heard a faint cry
From the lost sheep just ready to die.
Then in His arms to shield from the cold
He brought the lost sheep back safe to the fold.
The Shepherd went out to search for the sheep,
And all through the night on the rocky steep
He searched till he found him,
With love bands He bound him,
And I was that one lost sheep.
The Lost Sheep
by Alfred Soord
Courtesy of AllPosters.com
This song has been on my heart today.
Lord, You’re All I Need
Words and music by James Tilson
Oft times I’ve tried to live my life
According to my will.
When darkness comes it’s difficult
To rest and just be still.
But Lord, You are my shepherd
That guides me in the way,
And I will learn this glorious truth
If I Your Word obey.
You’re all I need.
You’re the Lord of everything.
All I need —
This is why I humbly sing.
Your strength is sustaining
And your grace has made me free.
You’re my heart’s lone desire,
You’re all I need.
By wanting more I’ve wanted less
Than all You’ve given me.
You gave your all by laying down
Your life at Calvary.
So I surrender all, Lord
My best to You I give.
And thank you now for giving me
A reason to live.
You’re all I need.
You’re the Lord of everything.
All I need —
This is why I humbly sing.
Your strength is sustaining
And your grace has made me free.
You’re my heart’s lone desire,
You’re all I need.
More than enough,
You’re all I need.
You can hear the first 90 seconds of this song here — scroll down to the title and click.
Who spread out the clouds before Him?
Who fashioned the earth with His hands?
Who created the starry host,
And formed the earth at His command?
Who scatters lightning before Him,
Commands the rain and snow to fall?
Who makes the nations tremble?
Who is Lord over all?
He is Almighty, Unchangeable God,
King of kings,
Lord of lords,
robed in majesty.
He rules and reigns,
For all eternity,
Almighty, Unchangeable God.
He is like the light at sunrise,
Like the brightness after the rain.
Robed in splendor,
He’s seated on His heavenly throne above.
His glory fills the heavens;
He is exalted over all.
Yet this God of Heaven loves me
With an everlasting love.
He is Almighty, Unchangeable God,
King of kings,
Lord of lords,
robed in majesty.
He rules and reigns,
For all eternity,
Almighty, Unchangeable God.
By Cindy Berry
©1996 by GlorySound (a div. of Shawnee Press)
You can hear the first 90 seconds of this beautiful song here.
Sometimes a light surprises the Christian while he sings;
It is the Lord, Who rises with healing in His wings:
When comforts are declining, He grants the soul again
A season of clear shining, to cheer it after rain.
In holy contemplation we sweetly then pursue
The theme of God’s salvation, and find it ever new.
Set free from present sorrow, we cheerfully can say,
Let the unknown tomorrow bring with it what it may.
It can bring with it nothing but He will bear us through;
Who gives the lilies clothing will clothe His people, too;
Beneath the spreading heavens, no creature but is fed;
And He Who feeds the ravens will give His children bread.
Though vine nor fig tree neither their wonted fruit should bear,
Though all the field should wither, nor flocks nor herds be there;
Yet God the same abiding, His praise shall tune my voice,
For while in Him confiding, I cannot but rejoice.
This hymn on the “A Quiet Heart” CD from Soundforth was new to me, but it was written in 1779 by William Cowper. The Cyberhymnal site lists a few different MIDI portrayals of different tunes for it, but I love the lilting one from the CD — you can hear a 90 second snippet here (you have to scroll down the page a bit to see the song listings on the CD, then click on the link beside the title). One of our teen-age girls at church sang it last week as a solo and it had almost an Irish-sounding lilt to it.
I love all the Scriptural references and the joy and hope it portrays.
1. “Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables
2. “All I Ask of You” from Phantom of the Opera
3. “There’s a Time For Us” from West Side Story
4. “Where Is Love?” from Oliver!
5. “If I Loved You” from Carousel
6. “Til There Was You” from The Music Man
7. “Goodnight My Someone” from The Music Man
8. “How to Handle a Woman” from Camelot
9. “If Ever I Would Leave You” from Camelot
10. “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face” from My Fair Lady
11. “Singin’ In the Rain”
12. “Do You Love Me?” from Fiddler on the Roof
13. “Who Am I?” from Les Miserables
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Click on the title to see the lyrics.
1. Of the Father’s Love Begotten
5. Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
7. Lo! How a Rose E’re Blooming
9. Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head
10. CandleLight Carol (John Rutter)
11, Once in Royal David’s City
12. All My Heart This Night Rejoices
14. Sweet Little Jesus Boy
You got a bonus one there. 🙂 And here’s another, but I can’t find the lyrics: it is on a CD called A Little Christmas Music by the King’s Singers, called “The Gift,” based on the Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts.” You can hear a snippet of it at that link. It’s one of my most favorites, but that CD is the only place I have ever heard it.
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