Three anthems, sung Sunday, November 24, 2013. [Oops. Forgot to hit "publish" before going out of town.]
Be Thou My Vision (arr. Jay Rouse, PraiseGathering Music A08367). Our choir director cynically (though no doubt correctly) posits that arrangers always mess with the originals because that way they can make money on them. But in this case I have to say that as much as I like the usual version, I also like this unusual arrangement. The syncopation makes it feel more Irish—though only if you take it a bit faster, as we did. I don't like this rendition, but the other one I could find online I liked even less.
For the Beauty of the Earth (Folliott S. Pierpoint, Conrad Kocher, setting by Joel Raney, Hope C5733)
No YouTube video that I could find, but you can hear it at the link above.
UPDATE 11/1/19 Once again, the automated updating of Flash videos to iframe cut out a chunk of the post, but I'm leaving it as-is.
