It is great to be back on this "Holy Hill." We arrived this afternoon around 2pm, after an impromptu lunch stop at Fuddrucker's and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Home in Asheville. First on the agenda was a multi-publisher reading session, where we looked at some of the latest offerings from some of the other non-LifeWay publishers. All in all, no real winners except for a nice Lenny LeBlanc praise chorus arrangement and a choral arrangement of a Larry Gatlin song called "Steps." Lorenz also had some good offerings, but most of the contemporary arrangements had no melody whatsoever, no bass part whatsoever, or had screamingly high "Brooklyn Tabernacleish" high notes. I think we get to hear some Christmas stuff tomorrow.
Tonight's evening concert featured the Tennessee Baptist Men's Chorale and Lady Chorale. They were phenomenal. They did some standard "big choir classics" like "Total Praise" and "He Never Failed Me Yet", crow-pleasing gospel numbers, and a few artsy high-church things. The congregational singing was fun in the sing-a-long parts. Followed the concert up with ice cream at the Nibble Nook. A great start to hopefully a great week. Tomorrow is a full day of classes, and I hope not to overdo it, as the week is young.
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I hope you're getting the "Steps" arrangement for our choir. I have that song on an old Larry Gatlin album and it is beautiful. (I'm a big Gatlin Bros. fan from way back)
Sandra Greene
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