Favorite Hymns & A New Version of an Old Mormon Standard

Post by **_Blixa** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:27 am

liz3564 wrote:
No comments from the peanut gallery about my liking and actually having a lead role IN several Church musicals?

I'm disappointed. Where's PP?

LOL

I was being polite. : )

Post by **_KimberlyAnn** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:36 am

Blixa wrote:
liz3564 wrote:
No comments from the peanut gallery about my liking and actually having a lead role IN several Church musicals?

I'm disappointed. Where's PP?

LOL

I was being polite. : )

Yeah, me, too! I didn't like church musicals even when I was a Mormon. ;) But I do appreciate a good voice, Liz. I'd love to hear you sing, and I guess I'd even listen to you sing something from Saturday's Warrior if that's what you insisted upon singing!

KA

Post by **_harmony** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:48 am

My favorite hymns are the ones I brought with me when I joined the church: The Lord is My Shepherd, How Great Thou Art, Be Still, My Soul, Battle Hymn of the Republic. I've requested that The Lord is My Shepherd be sung at my funeral. I want my grandchildren to remember it as my favorite hymn.

My favorite LDS hymns are ones that have absolutely nothing to do with pioneers or prophets: God of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand, I Believe in Christ, O My Father, Because I Have Been Given Much, Firm as the Mountains Around Us.

Hymns I detest: Love At Home, We Thank Thee O God For a Prophet, Let Us Oft Speak Kind Words to Each Other, I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go.

Hymns that always make me cry: Ye Elders of Isreal, God Be With You, Amazing Grace.

Post by **_Gazelam** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:45 am

If they brign back the church musical, I want to see Nehor singing this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyrYBXuz5YY

Post by **_William Schryver** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:15 am

As I've continued to think about favorite hymns this evening, I wanted to mention that my current favorite hymn is one that is not in the LDS hymnbook, but I hope it will eventually find its way in there. I have sung in both a ward and a stake choir that has performed it in the past few years. I was first exposed to it when Mack Wilberg (the associate director of the Tabernacle Choir) was still at BYU directing the Concert Choir. They did a version of an old Isaac Watt's text (written in Shakespeares' day) set to music that I believe dates to the antebellum south. It is called My Shepherd Will Supply My Need. The Tabernacle Choir performed it in general conference in 2003, accompanied by harp, flute and oboe. I have .mp3 files of both the BYU concert choir and the MTC version from general conference. If anyone is interested in receiving either or both of them, PM me with an e-mail address and I will gladly forward them to you.

Here are the words:

My Shepherd Will Supply My Need

My shepherd will supply my need
Jehovah is his name
In pastures fresh he makes me feed
Beside the living stream
He brings my wandering spirit back
When I forsake his ways
And leads me for his mercy’s sake
In paths of truth and grace

When I walk through the shades of death
Thy presence is my stay
One word of thy supporting breath
Drives all my fears away
Thy hand in sight of all my foes
Doth still my table spread
My cup with blessings overflows
Thine oil anoints my head

The sure provisions of my God
Attend me all my days
Oh may thy house be mine abode
And all my work be praise
There would I find a settled rest
While others go and come
No more a stranger nor a guest
But like a child at home

Post by **_KimberlyAnn** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:29 am

Gazelam wrote:If they brign back the church musical, I want to see Nehor singing this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyrYBXuz5YY

Well, then I want to hear Liz sing this Rogers and Hammerstein song! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVLNFXXZwo

KA

_Yoda · Post by **_Yoda** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:34 am

KimberlyAnn wrote:
Gazelam wrote:If they brign back the church musical, I want to see Nehor singing this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyrYBXuz5YY

Well, then I want to hear Liz sing this Rogers and Hammerstein song! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbVLNFXXZwo

KA

LOL!

I've actually performed that one.

I actually have a recording of "Funny Honey" from Chicago that I did for a voice student. Is there anyway to upload it to the site?

If not, send me a PM and I'll email it to you.

Post by **_barrelomonkeys** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:57 am

KimberlyAnn wrote:
barrelomonkeys wrote:KA, this morning I was thinking about starting a thread on favorite hymns!

How freaky.

I would say great minds and all, but I don't have a great mind. So, I could say mediocre minds think alike, but that would be an insult to you...

Would freaky minds work? :P

KA

That works for me. :)

Post by **_Blixa** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:02 pm

Ok, here's a weird one. I like the melody of one line in "I Know That My Redeemer Lives." That's it. I don't like the rest of the melody and I find the lyrics awkward (.."my ever living head" is suggestive of Star Trek big brains...to me at least).

What's the part I like? The melody that accompanies this line:

"He lives who once was dead."

I suspect its reminiscent of some other piece of music I can't put my finger on.

Post by **_Blixa** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:11 pm

Oh yeah, my most hated hymn, LDS song, most hated song ever is "Love At Home." Both sappy lyrics and execrable melody.

Honorable mentions would be (for disliked Mormon songs, not all songs):

"We Thank Thee O God For a Prophet"

"Oh How Lovely Was The Morning"

"Choose the Right"

"The Primary Colors" (argh! now its in my head!)

"Come Follow Me" (As a kid I was bothered by the "solon" mentioned, you know? "for the solon may be we led?" Didn't wanna go anywhere I didn't know what it was...I'd be led to a salon willingly, but the solon was a puzzler)