The great advantage of both of them is that, because they are real singers and have sung on a Broadway stage, they could do live performances when filming as well. We were able to inter-cut the live performances with where we had to use pre-record because someone was flying on...
How Great Our Joy I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day I Sing the Mighty Power of God I Surrender All In the Garden It Came upon the Midnight Clear It Is Well with My Soul Jesus Paid it All Joy to the World! Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee ...
Broadway is perhaps trying to capitalize on pop music fans more due to post-pandemic struggles and the reputation of Broadway being for the elderly elite. The uptick in pop stars gracing the Great White Way led theNew York Times’Michael Paulsonto declarethat Broadway was entering its pop era...
Hannah’s take on this classic hymn, ‘How Great Thou Art,’ is both tender and beautiful. Yet, it is still uniquely her own. She shares the awe and wonder of God’s love for us, infusing the song with a fresh and personal touch. Each line she sings feels like it comes from a p...
The church's life and vitality has often been profoundly shaped by the great hymns of the faith. But there is more to hymns than classic melodies and stately lyrics. Embodied and preserved in our hymns are the key doctrines of Christian belief. When we think of God's character and ...
That’s one of the benefits of writing in hymn meter, and is the reason great hymns stand up to modern interpretation by artists like Indelible Grace and Sojourn. Because of their mathematically precise patterns, composers from nearly any musical background can write new music for these texts,...
How Great Thou Art is not specifically an Easter hymn, but it is a hymn of both infinity and rebirth. “I see the stars” was written by someone who knew what the stars were—a near infinity of worlds spread throughout a vast and unimaginable universe. “I hear the rolling thunder”’...
It takes a certain amount of hubris to write a song like “Bridge Over Troubled Water”—to write, that is, a secular hymn, a non-religious gospel hit for burned-out sixties’ folkies. Maybe only a tragic flaw could inspire a composer ...
” But I don’t think they were at the time. That’s great because I too have done that with people I had no interest in. You know, I’d vaguely heard [the music] and thought, “No, this is not for me.” Many years, decades later, something prompts me to listen to their ...
"Avril was a great example of a young artist looking to express herself, and [she] created something that was a lasting impression of what an artist can be in the mainstream and what the music can be," Good Charlotte's Joel Madden says. "Whether it was conscious or not, it was ...