Piano Solo performed by Christina Robertson FOUNDATION Improvisations [This organ or keyboard number is particularly appropriate whenever this hymn tune is used for the familiar hymn, “How Firm a Foundation.”] {The tune was an early USA hymn tune, which I adapted.} (The words were found in Rippon’s “A Selection of Read more…
Piano Solo performed by Christina Robertson ADORO TE DEVOTE [A brief, meditative organ or keyboard number appropriate throughout most of the Communion or the Eucharist.] {Adapted from a middle-aged number used to accompany a church year and particularly while people are receiving Holy Eucharistic hymn written by St. Thomas Aquinas.} Read more…
Piano Solo performed by Christina Robertson FINLANDIA Improvisation: This organ or keyboard number is particularly appropriate whenever this hymn tune is used for familiar hymns such as “This Is My Song” or “Be Still My Soul.” The hymn tune was written by Sibelius and improvised by Ivan Burnett, Jr. The Read more…
Piano Solo performed by Christina Robertson This piano medley consists of the tune for “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” (Hyfrydol) and a song I wrote entitled “How Can This Be?”– the question Mary asked upon learning that she was pregnant with the one who would redeem Israel.
Piano Solo performed by Christina Robertson This piano medley is a combination of the Converse tune for the hymn, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” and the Sweet Hour tune for the hymn, “Sweet Hour of Prayer.” I wrote this in memory of my imperfect, racist, yet loving grandfather. Read more…
Piano Solo performed by Christina Robertson This is a beautiful adaptation of an old tune frequently used in the Roman Catholic Church during mass or holy communion. These new words make it appropriate throughout the year but particularly during the advent season. Because there are unison sections for both men Read more…
Piano Solo performed by Christina Robertson A piano number based on this hymn tune. It is best used as a prelude, offertory, or reflective postlude. William B. Runyan wrote the hymn tune in 1923. It was popularized by its attachment to Chisholm’s lyrics, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23. This Read more…
Piano Solo performed by Christina Robertson Well-suited as a Prelude or Offertory or as a very somber conclusion to a Maundy Thursday service. “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence” The lyrics are from the 4th Century Liturgy of St. James, translated by Gerard Moultrie in 1864, and based on John Read more…
Piano Solo performed by Christina Robertson A keyboard number appropriate as a Prelude or Offertory.
Written for organ or piano. A hymn tune harmonization most often used for “Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven” and “God, Whose Love Is Reigning O’er Us”. Listen to a soulless, computer generated, MIDI recording of this piece: