{"id":211,"date":"2023-11-29T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2023-12-23T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T00:31:35","slug":"how-firm-is-our-foundation-womansong-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/how-firm-is-our-foundation-womansong-version\/","title":{"rendered":"How Firm is The Foundation (Womansong Version)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written for piano and SSAA choir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While visiting and helping one of my sons, I heard, in the distance, some lovely music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 a lovely choral group of about 16 or so women named Womansong. I further learned that they practiced at my son&#8217;s facility every Wednesday night during the school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I mentioned to the director, Will Fisher, that I was attempting to write music, he asked if I had ever written for a four-part women&#8217;s group. I answered, &#8220;No,&#8221; and he encouraged me to give it a try. In light of that I have written a few numbers that he says he plans to use.<br>This is one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is basically an arrangement of one of my other pieces, How Firm Is Our Foundation. You will notice that I have changed the words from, &#8220;How Firm Is Our Foundation&#8221; to &#8220;How Firm Is THE Foundation.&#8221; I made this change because the makers of certain products used by women advertise their product as providing a &#8220;good foundation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11,9,32],"tags":[36,35,44],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthems-and-hymns","category-choral","category-piano","category-year-round","tag-no-midi","tag-no-video","tag-vol1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ivanburnettjrmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}