Sacred Harp 384, Panting for Heaven
Composed by S. M. Brown, 1870
Words by Maria de Fleury, 1791
The Henagar-Union Convention
Liberty Baptist Church, Henagar, Alabama
Recorded by Andy Ditzler, July 4, 2021

Oh, when will the period appear,
When I shall unite in your song?
I’m weary of lingering here,
And I to your Savior belong.
I’m fettered and chained up in clay;
I struggle and pant to be free:
I long to be soaring away,
My God and my Savior to see.

384 Panting for Heaven

Sacred Harp 336, Eternal Home 
Composed by S. M. Denson, 1911
Words by Isaac Watts, 1719
Led by Andy Ditzler at the Henagar-Union Convention
Liberty Baptist Church, Henagar, Alabama
Recorded by Andy Ditzler, July 4, 2021

Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come;
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home!

336 Eternal Home

SH 69t Minister's Farewell

Cicero In Catilinam 1, perf. by Robert P. Sonkowsky

Demosthenes On the Crown, 199-208, perf. by Stephen G. Daitz

Justin Morgan's Judgment Anthem, as newly typeset: http://www.shenandoahharmony.com/2013/morgans-judgment-anthem-newly-typeset/

Judgment Anthem

Salm: Volume One, from which this track is taken, documents a form of religious singing practiced in Lewis, a form that reaches back to a time when the congregation could not be expected to be able to read. Instead, a ‘precentor’ leads the singing, which the congregation then follow by listening. The result is a surging sound, that swoops and falls around the church spaces as people follow those next to them, voices moving like the murmurations of birds. These recordings of Gaelic psalm singing are among the best ever captured, sung by one of the largest congregations to have ever been recorded.  

This style of singing is called free heterophony, and these recordings were spontaneous and totally unrehearsed. They were originally made over two evenings in the Back Free Church on the Isle of Lewis in October 2003, organised by Calum Martin and the Bethesda hospice in Lewis. The original CD was released through Bethesda hospice on Lewis, and a portion of the profits go back to the hospice, honouring the original recording.

Salm: Volume One

Salm: Gaelic Psalms from the Hebrides of Scotland – Psalm 79 3-4

4/28/18
Coy Ivey's- Henagar, AL
Tom George, Dennis George, Peter Trumbore, Sarah Trumbore, Rodney Ivey, Cheyenne Ivey, Alex Forsyth, Nicholas Thompson, Drew Smith, Sasha Hsucyzk, Justin Bowen, Shelby Castillo

410t

During the COVID-19 quarantine Sadhbh, Liora, and I sang some tunes together apart. 

Mastering by Sadhbh.

CB 464 Hocutt

Here is, I guess, my favorite piece I wrote this year, called Willow, named for a small town in the Catskills. One of my favorite pieces in the Christian Harmony is Samanthra, for how it treats these amazing words by Joseph Swain. But I always found myself singing them to my own tune, which I later harmonized into this piece. I hope it finds you well! 

Thanks for the continued support. 

As a funnier side-note, with headphones one might here light chatter in the background, which is the sound of the pizza guy getting the door while I was singing the tenor line. My roommate intercepted the confused Philadelphia man, allowing me to finish the line, however I sang just one verse!

Here is the PDF link: [ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vPgpbr68fzqSuayEIU91_nLgd820PjF8 ]
 
The words by Joseph Swain I selected:

1. O Thou, in whose presence my soul takes delight,
On whom in affliction I call;
My comfort by day, and my song in the night,
My hope, my salvation, my all.

2. Where dost thou at noon-tide resort with thy sheep,
To feed them in pastures of love?
For why in the valley of death should I weep,
Or alone in the wilderness rove?

3.O why should I wander an alien from thee,
Or cry in the desert for bread?
Thy foes will rejoice, when my sorrows they see,
And smile at the tears I have shed.

4.His voice as the sound of a dulcimer sweet,
Is heard through the shadows of death;
The cedars of Lebanon bow at his feet,
The air is perfumed with his breath.

5.He looks, and ten thousand of angels rejoice,
And myriads wait for his word;
He speaks--and eternity, filled with his voice,
Re-echoes the praise of the her voice.

Willow 11s.8s. (Keillor)

Keillor Weatherman Mose

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