Comments on: I Stand All Amazed

By: Jenny Clyde

Jenny Clyde — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:35:18 +0000

In reply to Valoree Hamilton. I found this on youtube - a ward choir who recorded themselves singing this version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDo1IaydLSc

By: Greg Bean

Greg Bean — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:49:34 +0000

In reply to Diana Lahmann. Can you help me find the recording for I Stand All Amazed?

By: Allyson Gardner

Allyson Gardner — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:52:53 +0000

In reply to Anne Shumway. Did you make this a solo piece? I am looking for one.

By: Allyson Gardner

Allyson Gardner — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:50:16 +0000

In reply to Sally. Is this available as a solo piece?

By: Valoree Hamilton

Valoree Hamilton — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:38:18 +0000

Our ward choir is singing your version for Easter. I’m going to do my best not to cry! Is there somewhere we can go for future reference where we can hear the music and maybe the parts so we can practice at home?
Thank you for sharing your talents so freely, I love to worship with your music.

By: Diana Lahmann

Diana Lahmann — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 10:11:06 +0000

Sally: I love your last verse. Is it okay for using this in our home ward? There will be no changes in the music.

I, too, am so grateful for all of the music you have shared over the years. It has been so easy to use with our choir.
Thanks you so much for your generosity in sharing it so well. You are certainly a wonderful musician who brings so
much joy and peace to so many people.

By: Marjorie Stewart

Marjorie Stewart — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:31:18 +0000

Love this additional verse! Nice to keep things simple and not reach beyond the mark… by using our beautiful hymns of the Restoration in our Sacrament Meetings. Thank you for that last verse that hits the Easter theme so nicely. Lovely. Perfect piece for our Instant Choir.

By: Erica Van Katwyk

Erica Van Katwyk — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:57:18 +0000

Sally, Thank you so much for your arrangements of this piece. Our ward choir sang it in church yesterday as part of our special Easter Sacrament meeting (we’re the only ward in my stake currently with a ward choir, in a bustling California area, of all things) and this arrangment touched many as there were teary eyes in the congregation. Our stake music director heard it and said she plans to use this for a future stake conference choir as well.

You’re wonderful for sharing your talents with the masses and blessing our lives through your talent.
Thank you so much!!

By: Erica VanKatwyk

Erica VanKatwyk — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 20:02:25 +0000

Dear Sister DeFord, I’ve been accompanying choirs for the past 50 years. Many many many times it’s your arrangements that I’m playing. I have always loved your music.

Now by default I’m our ward choir director and though I hunt around to find music on other sites I always come back to yours. I am not in Utah when musicians/singers reign and what I love most is how you compose the music so that it’s interesting enough for those listening yet my choir can sing it. They absolutely love singing your works as it makes them ‘feel professional’ (as they say it).

Thanks so much for sharing your talent with the world and for making it free. That in itself is such a great service.

By: Sheryl Carlson

Sheryl Carlson — Sun, 22 May 2022 03:47:14 +0000

I second this idea!