All Tied Up With a Bow
You know that amazing feeling when you actually manage to finish something? Not just sorta finish, with a few loose ends that you’ll get to… um… eventually. I mean really finish?
The last few scores and page updates for my Christmas album with Allyse Smith Taylor are DONE. Fertig. Terminado. Acabado. Gotowy. 完成した. (All translations provided by Google… so I might have missed.)
Not all the new things are huge this time, but since there are are several of them, I’ll just do them list-style. In addition to new recordings for each of these…
- Guard Him, Joseph: New accompaniment for solo voice, and new cello obbligato.
- The Most Beautiful Story: New accompaniment for solo voice, and new violin obbligato.
- Would I Know My Savior?: New accompaniment for solo voice, new cello obbligato, and a rarity for this site… guitar chords.*
- A Manger Filled With Love: New accompaniment for solo voice, new cello obbligato.
- Silent Night: (New recording only)
- A Holy Child is Born: (New recording only)
Did I meet my self-imposed deadline for all of these? Nope. But done is done, any way you want to say it, and I feel like a party is in order.
Next up: The recent SATB rendition of “If I Listen With My Heart” done by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during LDS General Conference, courtesy of associate director Ryan Murphy. This will have to wait until I recover from all this excessive celebration, so look for it after Thanksgiving.
*Just a note on the guitar chords: I generally don’t do guitar chords. I don’t play guitar, and every time I add guitar chords to a song, the guitarists I know tell me I’ve used the wrong form of the chord, or that they would have done it differently, or that I’ve put in something nonexistent or… or… or… It *is* true that you can express complex chords in different ways, and apparently the way I choose is the wrong way. Every. Time. For this song I’ve used the simplest possible form of each chord. If you guitarists out there want to write in something else, feel free. Just don’t tell me about it. 😉
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I enjoy receiving your emails and singing your music in our Ward Choir (notice the capitalization)! I haven’t received an email in quite some time. Hope we’re still on your email list.
Keep up the wonderful work! The whole world is blest because of your dedication to filling the air with beautiful music!
Joe
Hi Sally, I’m a big fan. (do many comments start like that? Seems like they should) However, (sorry, there’s always a “however”) we are a somewhat piano skills challenged ward. And most of your awesome stuff is just a hair too difficult. How about some simplified music for choir accompaniment? I see you have a few things, just want to whine for a bit more…
We can’t be the only ward faced with this problem!
Thanks!