Hello most excellent Song Leaders, A new season is upon us and we are celebrating in style, with new songs, including some written for us by some of our awesome Lydian songwriter/composers, Angela Morris, Debbie Holloway, and Meave Shelton. Because so many of these songs are new, I recommend that you begin learning them as […]
Autumnal greetings, most excellent Song Leaders! Here is a beautiful table acclamation for fall, written by our own Meave Shelton. This teaching recording takes you through it, step by step. Fall Table Acclamation As always, practicing at home will help you feel more confident when you arrive for rehearsal and the service. The shruti setting […]
Hello most awesome Song Leaders! Here’s a beautiful new gathering hymn, with a justice theme, from our own congregant, the amazing Debbie Holloway. It has two parts, each part with different lyrics. Part 1. Zion, Zion how long, O Lord, will we cry to see you? O, Zion, Zion how long, O Lord, will we […]
Hello Song Leaders, Here’s a wonderful new gathering song from the amazing Debbie Holloway! It’s a justice song that takes its inspiration from the stories of David and Goliath as well as the story of Jericho. Here are the words: The mighty will fall, the small shall be raised, all in the name of our […]
Hello Song Leaders! “Amen” is a classic from the African-American gospel tradition. We use it as a post-cleanup regathering song, to celebrate the end of cleanup and take collections for Saint Lydia’s and the Trinity Lower East Side soup kitchen. The song has one word — amen — which is sung over and over and […]
Dear Song Leaders, Here is a beautiful and haunting gathering hymn from our own, crazy-talented Angela Morris. The words are adopted from Psalm 72:6-7 Roll down like rain, water the earth. Shower the world with justice and peace from now till the moon is no more. The song is performed with the shruti box in […]
Hey Song Leaders! Here’s a beautiful lamp lighting song from our own, amazing Angela Morris. The text is from Isaiah 42:16 The words are: You turn the mountains to plains; You turn the darkness to light. This path I do not know, But God, I know you are my guide. You can here Angela’s demo of […]
Hello Song Leaders! Here is a chant from the Taizé Community, a monastic order in Burgundy, France. We’ll use it as a lamp-lighting hymn, though there may be other uses for it too. Here’s a YouTube recording of it. (We’ve reworked the words slightly to remove the male pronouns.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r64gcGMNhDE You’ll notice . . . […]
“Come, Come Ye Saints” is a classic Mormon hymn. The sheet music is here: Come, Come Ye Saints And here’s a link to a piano version that illustrates the harmonies: https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/come-come-ye-saints?lang=eng
This beautiful hymn was written by Thew Elliott with the struggles of LGBTQ people in mind. Of his work in the church, Thew has declared his intention “to free G-d from the traditional binds and symbols of hetero-patriarchy, and call the community into increasingly creative and responsible relationship with their Creator . . . Hymns are a place […]