Comments on: About the Composer https://defordmusic.com Free, downloadable sheet music (PDF) for LDS and other Christian use. Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:38:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 By: RoseMary Blackhurst https://defordmusic.com/about-the-composer/#comment-65426 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:38:55 +0000 http://www.test.defordmusic.com/?page_id=2268#comment-65426 I am so grateful for all that you have contributed to my music world. Your arrangements of others’ works and your delightful originals have blessed my ward choirs for years. I was thrilled to see that your “Close as a Quiet Prayer” is in the new collection of hymns. We are singing it on the 30th of August.
Thank you for your generous sharing of your amazing talent!

]]> By: DeAnn Franklin https://defordmusic.com/about-the-composer/#comment-63248 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:44:11 +0000 http://www.test.defordmusic.com/?page_id=2268#comment-63248 Dear Sally.. I just finished another hour of practicing music that you wrote. I have been playing such joyous things for longer than I can remember. I am now 80 and so happy still have fingers that are fairly nimble and a brain which works often enough to keep me from worrying too much, but not enough to feel comfortable performing solos in Sacrament Meeting. Thank you for providing such a joyous outlook on life, and on the gospel. Just know that there is a little old lady in Taylorsville, you thinks of you with love almost every day.

]]> By: Karen Orth https://defordmusic.com/about-the-composer/#comment-63191 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:59:49 +0000 http://www.test.defordmusic.com/?page_id=2268#comment-63191 Sally I just heard about your music and was told you were born in Eugene, Oregon. Bishop Ainge was my bishop and I wondered what your maiden name was. How long were you in the ward? Just curious. My grandmother was Macie Evans and she played the organ.

]]> By: Joel Jicha-Kramer https://defordmusic.com/about-the-composer/#comment-61288 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:24:37 +0000 http://www.test.defordmusic.com/?page_id=2268#comment-61288 I sang “Prayer is the Soul’s Sincere Desire” for service this morning, and wow, so beautiful and meaningful for the congregation. As a fellow composer/arranger, what a fantastic setting and poetic choice!

]]> By: Joanie Allen https://defordmusic.com/about-the-composer/#comment-60864 Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:38:19 +0000 http://www.test.defordmusic.com/?page_id=2268#comment-60864 MsDeFord , thank you for your contributions to sacred music .

As a Utah Latter Day Saint, I brightened up when a DeFord piece was used in today’s United Methodist Service in Tucson. ( I attended to support my family member. )

Joanie Allen

]]> By: Nancy Harlow https://defordmusic.com/about-the-composer/#comment-59310 Sat, 02 May 2026 13:40:39 +0000 http://www.test.defordmusic.com/?page_id=2268#comment-59310 In reply to Arlene.

Thank you so much for your sharing your talents with all of us. Your music has added so much to our ward choir. Beautiful music adds so much to bringing the spirit in nto our lives! 😍

]]> By: Janine https://defordmusic.com/about-the-composer/#comment-56752 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:13:48 +0000 http://www.test.defordmusic.com/?page_id=2268#comment-56752 What a pleasure to discover your music! I am sorry to hear you had a stroke, but, maybe it was a sign that you worry about life happenings instead of remembering that God is in control. Perhaps time to let go and let God… Think that trials are proof of God’s care… to remind us that nothing is as important as letting God taking care of business because it does it through Love!

]]> By: Nica Evans https://defordmusic.com/about-the-composer/#comment-56535 Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:22:02 +0000 http://www.test.defordmusic.com/?page_id=2268#comment-56535 In reply to Hermie & Tim..

Sally so very sorry about your stroke. You are amazingly talented. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Nica Evans

]]> By: Cathy Jorgenson https://defordmusic.com/about-the-composer/#comment-56170 Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:17:00 +0000 http://www.test.defordmusic.com/?page_id=2268#comment-56170 I hope that you are recovering and feeling like yourself again. You are truly a gift and a blessing to the world. Your songs are in my top favorites. I thought I was the only one drawn to Joseph’s role with the infant Savior until I heard and have sung Guard Him Joseph. I’m a cancer nurse and I sang that for one of our patients that had just been placed on hospice. She exclaimed afterwards, “how did you know I’ve always loved Joseph?” Thank you for sharing your gifts.

]]> By: Paul Elsener https://defordmusic.com/about-the-composer/#comment-53813 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:30:17 +0000 http://www.test.defordmusic.com/?page_id=2268#comment-53813 Dear Sally – I am heartbroken to hear about your stroke and the challenges that you are facing. Know that prayers for healing and light are being sent in your direction. Thank you for sharing your talent and music gifts that continue to bring joy to so many people on a regular basis. God be with you.

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