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Choral

Music for choral arrangements

All Saints Day

When in Life We Lose a Loved One

Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. Two verses of this hymn are the same as those in the anthem, “Though Death Claims Us, Death Can’t Hold Us!” I wanted to use that material again here with the Beach Spring tune, but use my own harmony. Listen Read more…

By Craig, 2 years2 December 2023 ago
Choral

The Christ Became Incarnate

Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. This hymn refers to Christ’s mission here on earth and is particularly appropriate for services in which the scriptures deal with Jesus’ baptism or refer to his comments in Nazareth which nearly got him thrown over a cliff. Listen to Read more…

By Craig, 2 years2 December 2023 ago
Choral

Remember Now, O Israel! Remember Now Your Past!

Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. I was led to write the hymn because of all of the racism, hatred and anti-immigrant sentiment that seized our beloved country shortly after our first African-American president was elected. Listen to a soulless, computer generated, MIDI recording of this Read more…

By Craig, 2 years2 December 2023 ago
Choral

It Was Not Just on Calvary

Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. This hymn emphasizes our great Wesleyan theology which makes it clear that God is always about the business of loving and saving us. We are saved not just through Jesus’ death on the cross, but through his “taking on flesh Read more…

By Craig, 2 years2 December 2023 ago
Advent

In the Darkened Days of Winter

Written as a vocal hymn with piano or organ accompaniment. About the turn of the century my brother Steve wrote a marvelous hymn. I was so moved by it, that I added a verse, trying to tie the hymn to a scripture passage normally read in advent.It is clear to Read more…

By Craig, 2 years2 December 2023 ago
All Saints Day

Though Death Claims Us, Death Can’t Hold Us!

Written for organ, SATB choir, and oboe. Over thirty years ago, in the early 1980s, while I was living in Norfolk, VA, and stationed at CREDO (The Chaplains Religious Enrichment Development Operation), the Reverend DeWane Zimmerman was pastor at Phoenix’s First United Methodist Church, one of the then largest Methodist Read more…

By Craig, 2 years29 November 2023 ago
Anthems

The Christ Became Incarnate (Womansong Version)

Written for piano and SSAA choir. This was originally written as a hymn, but later turned into an anthem for a 4-part women’s group. This hymn refers to Christ’s mission here on earth and is particularly appropriate for services in which the scriptures deal with Jesus’ baptism or refer to Read more…

By Craig, 2 years29 November 2023 ago
Anthems

Remember Now, O Israel! Remember Now Your Past! (Womansong Version)

Written for piano and SSAA choir. This was originally written as a hymn and is based on the many scriptures pleading withIsrael to welcome strangers, since they were once strangers. I adapted the hymn for a four-part women’s group. I was led to write the hymn because of all of Read more…

By Craig, 2 years29 November 2023 ago
Anthems

How Firm is The Foundation (Womansong Version)

Written for piano and SSAA choir. While visiting and helping one of my sons, I heard, in the distance, some lovely music. When I later went to see where it was coming from, I discovered that the former head of the Yavapai Junior College music department, after retiring, had developed Read more…

By Craig, 2 years29 November 2023 ago
Anthems

How Firm is Our Foundation

Written for organ and SATB choir. I have long loved both the words and the music to the hymn, “How Firm a Foundation. ” Recently, I have become quite impressed with the thought of the Franciscan, Richard Rohr, and his emphasis – along with that of the Apostle Paul and Read more…

By Craig, 2 years29 November 2023 ago

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