It was used for a variety of songs. Shakespeare references it through his character ... the tenor and church musician, William Hyman Cummings put Wesley’s century old hymn to Mendelssohn’s tune, and ...
Emphasizing the formative power of music and its influence on Catholics’ understanding and practice of the faith, that document warns that hymns with inaccurate or incomplete theology can lead ...
He recalled: “I sang those old gospel songs for my mother ... “Oh Happy Day” is a 1967 gospel arrangement of an 18th-century hymn, and it was another song to reach the mainstream charts.
Now, some Catholics will have to do the same with the Index of Forbidden Music, Liturgical Division. Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City decreed Oct. 28 that a dozen hymns no longer be used ...
The short-lived decree, "Suggested Mass Settings and Prohibited Hymns," also named three composers whose music was not to be performed in the diocese due to credible allegations of sexual abuse ...
The community is invited to sing the sweet old sounds of the church at HymnFest 24, an old-fashioned hymn sing-along in the historic St. Luke’s church at Old Cahawba at 3 p.m. Sunday Nov 3. The ...