Legends In The Limelight: Composer Johann Sebastian Bach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTg9WLz-xBA | & | Maestro Leopold Antoni (Anthony) Stokowski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHvfZMiyqyQ

Passacaglia und Fuge c-moll BWV 582  - Johann Sebastian Bach - LAStokowski, Conducting

Take a listen to this banger, and (you) tell me if anything, additional, needs be stated.

TOL (Tree Of Life)

Kyrios

There is an Additional Lyric to this song, that I express whenever I perform it "live". It goes like this:  "Elohim, El Shaddai, Adonai, My Lord. Jehovah Nissi, 
Jehovah Shalom, Jehovah Jireh, Jehovah Rapha".

Jesus

She Walks In Beauty

"Jesus", also titled "Christ, My Savior", is an upbeat, foot-stompin', cheerful, rollin' in the aisles, dancin' in the pews, yet reverent, Praise and Worship Song. It is always a crowd-pleaser, during live concert performances. I hope you will enjoy it, over and over again. Tell a friend to purchase it, for themselves! Help me win a Grammy! #Run

XOXO,
Sherry Sherrill
Buffalo, New York, USA

"Bathsheba's Repent", also titled "Dear Heaven", is my version, and vision, of a Discouraged Woman's Answer, and reply, to King David of Israel's Repentance. Didn't know he lamented himself, for The Sin he inflicted, and imposed, upon an Innocent Victim he willfully harmed, outrageously? Read about it, for yourself, in Psalm 51. In this musical tribute to his co-transgressor, though she was, I think, "less guilty" of The Big 'A' than he was, I cast myself as she, meaning: Bathsheba. The Closing Prayer is always a big finale, during live concert performances. You would not believe how carefully fans are in memorizing, and reciting it, along with me, as I perform it onstage.

Bathsheba's Repent

"Prodigy", also titled "The King Inside", is both a tribute song to Lord Jesus Christ, and a nod to "everychild", of any age, whom has ever felt neglected in their life circumstance. The Children's Chorus Section, "Jesus Christ, light up my life. Show me The Way. Say it will be okay. Say You Will Keep me, and Never Leave me. So they/I can see The Prodigy in me" is always a very big hit, and with audiences of all ages. It is one of my favorite songs, in my Tree Of Life Collection.

Prodigy

Greater Refuge is exactly what it sounds like: an anthem. This one's for my fellow church-goers, and also for just anyone who loves, depends upon, and trusts Lord God. It contains a brief bridge backing lyric that was actually composed not as a song, but as a poem, by The Apostle and Bishop Robert L. Sanders, Sr., then of Greater Refuge Temple Of Christ Church, in Upstate Western New York. The sermonizing voice heard within the song's intro is articulating a sample of a riveting sermon, likewise authored by His Grace.

Greater Refuge

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 

Sherry Sherrill is an (American) college-university Student, Author, Neighborhood Improvement Initiative aficionado, Digital Equity 'crusader', (professional) Musician, Christian, Youth Development Programme guru, (avid) Gardener, and professional Singer-Songwriter. Presently transitioning from Urban and Public Policy Studies, to Urban Planning Studies, and intent upon pursuing a Law Degree within The Environmental Sciences, Sherrill composes (Original) Music, and primarily within the (Original) Contemporary Christian Music [CCM], and Electronic Contemporary Christian Dance Music [ECDM], genres. Also a (longtime) Minority Community Issues Activist, Ms. Sherrill is an classically trained Musician (Piano), as well as Vocalist (Agresta Method), and her favourite composers are Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johannes Brahms.  

She also greatly admires Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. He was a celebrated French Violinist, and Conductor.

Also an entrepreneur, Sherrill's Covington Associates Consulting business, and HeavensGate Company, are (each) geared toward becoming considered vital Minority Community Economic Re-Development, and Urban Strategic Planning, Partner Firms. HG is, in addition, a New and Digital Media Arts-focused entity. A resident of the United States of America's, Upstate Western New York Area's, Buffalo-Niagara Region, Sherrill is the (eldest) daughter of a (former) City of Buffalo (NY) Common Council Member, and the latter whom is also a (former) County of Erie Legislator.

A native of the U.S. State of Tennessee, (and) whose family migrated to the State of New York when she was just four (4) years old,  Sherrill is an earnest, ’grassroots' level, 'boots on the ground' variety, (longtime) Black and African American Community: Activist. She is, in addition, a hardworking Neighbor, Intrapreneur, USA Voting Rights Advocate, Minority Business Enterprise Development Consultant, (unapologetic) Affirmative Action Supporter, Anti-Gun Violence Advocate, Peace Proponent, and (all-around) Urban USA Neighborhood Improvement aficionado. At present, she is gearing up a (visionary) Global and Minority Youth Opportunity Initiative, titled "Youth Opportunity! Buffalo™" or "YO! Buffalo™". Moreover, she is also a staunch supporter of Rights of The Disabled.
  
This (accomplished) Opposite Editorial (i.e. Op-Ed) Writer, and (pioneering) Technology Trainer, is renown, throughout the Upstate Western New York Region, as an (deeply) committed Initiative Leader. Her  "Martin Luther King Park Neighborhood Improvement Project [MLKPNip]™", for example, is an important addition to underway Community Resident Organizing Attempts, within the city. Furthermore, her (historic) contributions to Neighborhood Beautification activities, Minority Technology Literacy and Utilization promotion, and Business Community Empowerment campaigns are legendary. Ms. Sherrill has not only helped to cleaned parks, she has advocated for (covered) Public Transit Bus Shelters, helped championed "inner-city" Neighbor Helping Neighbor Snow Shoveling Brigades, and supported Park Planning Meetings commissioned by Olmsted Parks Conservancy, and by the city (Buffalo). Sherrill's own (respective) private consulting company and small business, Covington Associates [CAC], is preparing to launch its (innovative) "YO! Buffalo™" Positive Youth Development and ("at-risk") Youth Leadership Transformation Initiative, with both Community Resident, and State University of New York Student, support factors. 

𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕: 𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔

Sherrill is a Member of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority [NFTA]-Metro’s (diverse) Citizens Advisory Committee [CAC], GObike Buffalo’s “Developing Our Transit Future” Transit-oriented Design Initiative, the Buffalo Chapter of the NAACP, Moms Demand Action (For Gun Sense In America), the Niagara (Region) Group of the Sierra Club; and, the We Are Women Warriors Group, where she is Special Projects Facilitator. In January of Y2023, Sherrill enrolled at State University of New York’s University at Buffalo [UB], and where her major, for now, is Urban & Public Policy Studies. She is also a Member of the Western New York Digital Equity Coalition, and (of) American Planning Association [APA].   

𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 (𝑰𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅, 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅) 𝑼𝑺𝑨 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝑶𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚

𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞

YO! Buffalo™, Sherrill’s Positive Youth Development Proposal, is slated to partner with The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and for the purpose(s) of facilitating The King Center's Nonviolence365® Training Programme's arrival into Buffalo Public Schools, where it (meaning: NV365®) may become utilized in the Effort(s) to promote Peaceful Conflict Resolution principles, amidst the District's student population. In addition, a comprehensive suite of (slated) wraparound Services will also be formulated, and proffered.

Based inside the U.S. State of Georgia, The King Center was established during Y1968, by Mrs. Coretta Scott King (deceased), the accomplished and beautiful wife of the globally renowned Civil and Human Rights Activist and Freedom Fighter: The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King, who was assassinated in April of 1968, was a staunch proponent of the utilization of Peaceful Nonviolent Resistance, in the fight for (direly) needed social Change. It is a (proven) philosophy whose principles were broadly practiced, widely promoted, and advanced in earnest, by (especially) internationally acclaimed Human Rights Activist, Mohandas Ghandi, whom Dr. King admired greatly. Today, Nonviolence365® is promoted throughout the Free World, and the U.S. City of Atlanta has partnered with The King Center, to advance its transformative, and visionary, initiative. Dr. Bernice King, Dr. and Mrs. King's (youngest) daughter, is The King Center's: Chief Executive Officer. 

Sherrill has been advocating The Center's NV365® Training Programme inside City of Buffalo (NY), since Y2021, and which was prior to a city grocery store becoming targeted by a White Racial Supremacy-espousing teenaged Mass Shooter, in May of Y2022.

𝑫𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑻𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒐 (𝑵𝒀)

At time of the "domestic terrorism Attack", as the Incident was (correctly) described by U.S. President Joseph R. Biden, when he (Mr. Biden), and his wife Dr. Jill Biden, visited the Buffalo Area over the course of the days (immediately) following the massacre, the victims had been (merely) shopping for groceries, or loading groceries into vehicles, or just walking nearby the establishment's front doors. Some persons, inside the store, did manage to escape (more) serious injury.

𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒄𝒚 𝑩𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 

Sherry Sherrill has been a Community Activist since childhood, when, at Age 11, her mother took her campaigning door-to-door in their University District, City of Buffalo Neighborhood, to petition for residents assistance in an Effort to try and block the city's (then) Mayoral Administration from converting an abandoned General Motors Plant, near the family's residence, into an Abandoned Vehicle Auto 'Pound'. The campaign was (very) successful, and was also (greatly) appreciated by neighbors, in the Buffalo Community. 

Prior to that timeframe juncture, at Age 8, she was enrolled, by her mother,  in Neighborhood Park Cleanup Efforts, that were being conducted nearby the family's (then) Kensington Avenue apartment. Subsequently, her mother encouraged Sherrill to participate in another (personal) campaign, to ensure that the County of Erie did not make dire cuts to its funding of the (Westminster Avenue) Neighborhood Branch Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, which was in the near vicinity of the family's (then) Northeast Buffalo home. Although, in a later decade, a city Charter School would claim the library for the (sole) utilization of its elementary students, Sherrill's mother's initiative to preserve the library was (very) successful. It did not close, nor did it suffer the loss of its (municipal, or regional) funding, 

𝑳𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 '𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑫𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆'

Back during the mid-1990s, Sherrill became one of the (reported) earliest proponents of the importance of the City of Buffalo's, and the County of Erie's, Minority Community Residents utilizing the (then) emergent technology that became referred to, decades later, as the World Wide Web. Her Black Issues of Buffalo [BIB]™ website was hosted, on the (network) infrastructure of State University of New York's, University at Buffalo's [UB], Western New York Regional Institute Network [WNY/RIN]. It was administered by UB's Institute for Local Growth and Regional Governance. Accessible to the general public, all across the world, via The Buffalo Free-net, Sherrill's bulletin board service [BBS] Initiative was one of the Buffalo-Niagara Region's (pioneering) Minority Individual-led, Internet-based, 'digital divide' Projects. Moreover, BIB™'s "Original Black Business Database [OBBD]™”, was also one of the region's (earliest) examples of an online business directory, and displayed local and regional small business companies, and Houses of Faith, owned and/or led by Minority Individuals.

Also during the mid-1990s, Sherrill was the Author of the "Internet Position Paper", adopted at an Black and African American Community Convention, conducted by the Community Voice Organization, and which Black Community Economic Development Initiative, was led by the Honorable Charley H. Fisher, III. In later years, Mr. Fisher III became elected to an "At-Large" Seat, on the City of Buffalo's Common Council. Held inside Canisius College's Koessler Center, the Community Convention's platform facilitated Sherrill's urging that the Black Community do what was needed to prevent it being "left behind" the nation's (then) race to embark upon the (global) Information Superhighway, and that the Community capitalize on the Internet's (then) yet developing: World Wide Web. Sherrill's "Internet Position Paper" was (unanimously) accepted by the Convention's attendees, and was merged into the (larger) comprehensive Vision Document, whose concept, creation, and Community Comportment, was guided under the wise and seasoned direction efforts, of Mr. Fisher III. In Sherrill's (humble) opinion, that entire (suggested) 'blueprint' concerning the City of Buffalo's Black and African American Community's (then: Future-oriented) Community Development-concerned prospects, ought be revisited. 

𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑻𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆, 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚'𝒔 "𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅"

By year 2000, Sherrill's Digital Equity Focus led her to 'spearhead' Community Technology Resource Centre [CTRC], a nonprofit she founded, while working (full-time) as a Deputy Sheriff Officer, at County of Erie's Sheriff's Department. CTRC was launched to promote, and to establish, (free) neighborhood-based Community Computing Labs. The first CTRC was based inside Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority's: Kenfield Homes Development, and which location was adjacent to the agency's BMHA's Langfield Homes Neighborhood. The Center furnished (free) Computer and Internet Access to youths, and adult residents, of (both) those Family Public Housing Communities. It also furnished Multimedia 'Edutainment' After-school Programming, and was supported, in large measure, by a generous (in-kind) Software Donation, from The Microsoft Foundation.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒄𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆

In 1984, and after leaving Morgan State University, in City of Baltimore (MD), early, Sherrill moved to New York City, and to follow her long-held dream of a (professional) career in the Music Industry. A New York State Regents Diploma Graduate of the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts [B.P.S. 192], Sherrill had also studied Violin, Clarinet, Voice, Music Theory, and the Harpsichord. On a side-note, while at Performing Arts, Sherrill was the (sole) student in the (entire) school, whom was offered and furnished access, to the school's (antique) Harpsichord, and on which she practiced weekly, in conjunction with her (other) academic Studies. Also at BAVPA, it was not uncommon for she to be called upon, by the school's (various) Music Instructors, to accompany other Buffalo Area high school's students, as these (latter) peers pursued scholarships, beauty pageants, talent competitions, and other (similar) local and regional Youth Opportunity-concerned contests. Sherrill's (own) Piano Music Instructor, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Venator (deceased), was an (accomplished) Piano Virtuoso, and an (esteemed) graduate of Eastman School of Music. After learning Sherrill had taught herself to play the piano, Mrs. Venator kindly offered to become Sherrill's Instructor. Sherrill also sang in the school’s choirs, and played in several of its (varsity) bands. 

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆

While living on the Island of Manhattan (NYC), Sherrill was selected in a city-wide Talent Competition, and traveled to Europe to record some of her (Original) songs, as well as (to) compose additional music. In City of Berlin, she resided in a (borrowed) cold water 'flat' that was situated between The Berlin Wall, and The Brandenburg Gate. She composed several songs on her own, and co-wrote more, with her German Producers: Mr. Gena 'Gena B. Good' Wernik, and Mr. John 'Baron' Baron. These Works, include(d): "Thank You, Darlin' ", a tribute to her (cherished) mother, and "Imagine (That)", an homage to her (youngest) sibling, who was born with Sickle Cell Anemia.

Also during her stay in West Berlin, Sherrill was (greatly) affected by numerous domestic terrorism Incidents, inflicted by White Racist Supremacists, and their (affiliated) Extremist Hate Groups, and during which several Turkish Immigrant Individuals, and (their) families, were slain. These killings were (largely) inflicted while the victims, including babies, and senior citizens, were asleep in their beds inside their residences, throughout, and nearby, Berlin. The (desperately) violent episodes convinced Sherrill of the necessity that her fellow-Americans: (a) Be knowledgeable of geopolitical developments, (b) Exhibit compassion and empathy for persons seeking refuge in foreign native land(s), and (c) Have confidence that a High(er) Moral Authority, i.e. God, does in fact exist; and, is (very) much needed to be made manifest in mankind's lives and relationships, and including, (within) the demeanor human society applies in and toward The Natural (Great Outdoors) Environment, and too, our Planet. These, of course, are so (very) relevant to Earth's: Animal Kingdom inhabitants.  

𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝑶𝒇 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 [𝑻𝑶𝑳]

All of the songs comprising Sherry Sherrill’s “Tree Of Life” Song Collection were composed by she, excluding “Greater Refuge [O LORD]", (and) which Work has a co-writer at its (at-present) Introduction and Bridge, sections. 

𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑨𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏:

To view additional details, please feel free to visit Ms. Sherrill's IoT, including: 

SherrySherrill.Com
WeAreWomenWarriors.Org
Twitter.Com/SherrySherrill
Twitter.Com/Covington_CAC
Facebook.Com/SherrySherrill
Facebook.Com/Groups/WeAreWomenWarriors
Facebook.Com/TheBuffalo5
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LinkedIn.Com/In/SherrySherrill
CovingtonAssociatesConsulting.Com
Instagram.Com/MsSherrySherrill2020
Facebook.Com/CovingtonAssociatesConsulting
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𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒀𝒐𝒖.

© 𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 | 𝐂𝐀𝐂. 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝.

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: Tree Of Life Foundations™ is an ecumenical World Culture Studies Institute Proposal, and is aspired to become an internationally acknowledged Global Warming/Climate Change Research 'think tank'. Ms. Sherrill intends to pursue such, in the interest and aspiration to be of (genuine) assistance in the healing of the world's Nations, and of its People. In particular, she is pro-Formation, and Enforcement, of The Rights Of Children, and is embarked upon an self-proclaimed "Year Of The Child". Her goal is to instigate profoundly beneficial 'good trouble', and in the form of an Global Community Establishment-wide, Humanitarian Aid, to the world's "at-risk" Children. When, and if, such actually arrives into existence at the United Nations [UN], her independent campaign will term. In her (humble) estimation: The World in which we (all) reside needs a "Year Of The Child". 

Thank You

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Greater Refuge

Sherry Sherrill

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