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The second of three mini-concerts that I’m creating for Easter 2021 and sharing to YouTube. Click play and enjoy traditional American hymns that are caught in the wonder between the sorrow of the cross and the joy of Easter morning!
Several of these songs I originally recorded on my hymn CDs that you can hear on iTunes or Spotify:
Easter weekend is the occasion for some of my favorite music for the whole year! This year, I’m recording three mini concerts for Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, sharing some of the most often requested or most moving easter songs so click the link and enjoy!
I started with the arrangements of Bach’s O Sacred Head Now Wounded, one of the songs I recorded on my first CD The Sounding Joy. The lyrics attributed to Bernard of Clairvox Marvel that the Godhead would bother about us, submit to our suffering “all for sinner’s gain.” You can hear the recording on my CD on iTunes or Spotify.
That God would choose this way of suffering is beautifully captured in this next song, Via Dolorosa–“He chose to walk this road out of his love for you and me.”
This level of love just boggles the mind, making us ask, How Deep The Father’s Love For Us? This is the wonder of Good Friday—at a specific time at a specific location in Israel, God demonstrated his love to us.
It’s this tactile quality to the gospel that makes me reecho the words of Fanny Crosby “Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross,” not just for Easter but all year long.
Hear more hymns and get the sheet music at my shop:
Haunting Appalachian hymn for solo lever or pedal harp full of the shimmering wonder of redemption!
12 mini harp concerts, streamed between Christmas day and epiphany 2021! Each concert’s covered a range of genres from popular love to movie and classical but each themed around the lyric for on of the 12 days of Christmas. Enjoy all the concerts here!
And it didn’t occur to me to record these for YouTube until day 2 so…
For the twelve Days of Christmas, I’m creating twelve mini streaming concerts! Check out the Chicken Dance to the Panther in the henhouse–Enjoy Three French Hens for the 3rd Concert!
Send an owl or messenger pigeon and enjoy the love songs from the Four Calling Birds!
I’ve had fried chicken—I’ve never had French fried chicken.
To celebrate day three of 12 days of Christmas, I played some favorite bird brained tunes like The Chicken Dance, set a panther in the Hen house with the impeccably French Pink Panther and brought some sweet romance with Alicia Keys’ If I Ain’t Got You Babe. Watch the whole stream on my Youtube Channel here!
From polka to Jazzy movies to wedding romance!
Quick, what song do you think of when I say the word “Chicken”?
When I put together programs for clubs, public events or senior communities, I love to play “song association” a sort of version of word association where differents genres and artists are linked together by only the slightest relationship!
Themes keep the audience awake and involved. Every song, I will change styles from classical to rock and roll, involving all ages and backgrounds in the enjoyment of guessing and recognizing their favorites.
But in 2020, I haven’t been able to do any of this public concerts! But I have enjoyed the very steep learning curve of sharing more of my music online. Mostly enjoyed…
So to send off this year and welcome in a new 2021, I put together 12 mini concerts, each a collection of love songs inspired by the gifts described in the Christmas Carol.
The Twelve Days of Christmas was originally a symbolic song where a Lover gives his True Love several gifts as a coded description of Christ. So as we uncover the hidden meaning in this old Christmas Love Song by associating it with love songs all the way today.
Here is the links to days one and two. We associated Blackbird by the Beatles with a Partridge in a Pear Tree and mixed Married Life from the movie Up with the image of two turtle doves.
Day three is three french hens… and yes, there will be the chicken dance!
Follow along or leave a suggestion for the 12 days of Christmas!
