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04/25/2016

Issue 11 of Hymns Today is in the pipeline. It will include music by Rosemary Mead, Neil Thornock, Timothy Max and many more.

04/08/2016

Martin - Babel: A choral symphony

http://www.stephaniemartinmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/BABEL-3-4-16-FINAL.pdf

If you are looking for a glorious work of modern choral writing, let me recommend this oratorio by Stephanie Martin. The text is on her website (above).

This is the live recording of the premiere of Stephanie Martin's "Babel: a choral symphony" on a text by Cori Martin. Lee Willingham conducts the WLU symphony and combined choirs on April 3rd, 2016 in

02/08/2016

Hymns Today Issue 10 is available. Wonderful Christmas music, and you know you never have enough Christmas music for your choir. Buy it today from hymnstoday.com

12/15/2015

Day Murray Music: e.magine Search & Sales

Just in time for Christmas: "For nearly 30 years, Vanja Watkins and Marvin Gardner have written a song at Christmastime for family and friends. Now 19 of these original Christmas compositions have been compiled into a volume. Music of Christmas: Songs of Vanja Y. Watkins and Marvin K. Gardner was published in 2015 by the Music Section of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University (ISBN 978-1-295-8087-3). This collection, with a foreword by Dr. Ronald Staheli, includes such favorites as “Room in the Inn,” “O Child Divine,” “Angel Light,” and “The Baby Softly Stills.” For information on how to get your copy, contact Day Murray Music (http://goo.gl/sSj6Z9).”

Music composed by Vanja Watkins with lyrics by Marvin Gardner, this new collection, published December 2015, includes the following titles: Arise and Sing This Christmas Morn All Things Testify of Jesus And Mary Pondered Room in the Inn O Child Divine In Bethlehem Gifts Worthy of a King Light of the…

11/11/2015

Our Winter Issue of Hymns Today (Issue 10) is at the printers and will be available next week. Watch for carol arrangements by Lynn Shurtleff, a wonderful setting of Silent night by Michael Moody and so much more.

08/19/2015

In Search of Ramon Conrad Fuller

Find out more about our featured composer this issue Ramon Conrad Fuller in this piece by Glen Nelson of the Mormon Artists Group in NY.
http://mormonartistsgroup.com/Mormon_Artists_Group/In_Search_of_Ramon_Conrad_Fuller.html

08/04/2015

Our featured composer in Issue 10 will be Ramon Conrad Fuller. What, never heard of him? Well, you can learn all in the next issue. And, wonder of wonders, we are including Christmas music in this issue that will be out in September! Plenty of time to select new pieces for your choir to perform this Christmas. Thank you for supporting Hymns Today.

04/10/2015

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The latest issue of Hymns Today is a double issue featuring music of devotion and music for Easter. We are including a celebration of the hymns of Merrill Bradshaw as well as some of his writings to young musicians. Order your copy today from www.hymnstoday.com . Enjoy our cover art by renowned artists J. Kirk Richards.

Hymns Today Issue 8/9 now available.

02/23/2015

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Inspire the choir!
The next issue of Hymns Today will be a double issue with music that has its source in our LDS faith and then music for Easter of course. This will be a bumper issue so get ready to order. If you are looking for wonderful Easter music, please go to our website www.hymnstoday.com to order back issues.

Issue 7 of Hymns Today is available for purchase now. With a great selection of original hymns and interesting settings of traditional texts, this Christmas issue is a beautiful addition to your...

12/19/2014

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12/19/2014

Issue 7 of Hymns Today is available for purchase now. With a great selection of original hymns and interesting settings of traditional texts, this Christmas issue is a beautiful addition to your music library. Remember that all hymns in your copy of Hymns Today may be copied for your entire choir. It's a great deal.

Composers featured in this issue include:
Robert Cundick
Lewis A. Phelps
Nathan Howe
Rick Graham
Kathleen Holyoak
Mark Mitchell
Rosemary Mead
R. Michael Wahlquist
Travor Matthews
Andrew Schow
Scott Hamilton
Timothy Max
Zane Harker
Michael D. Young
Gaylen A. Hatton
J. Frederick Voros, Jr.
Esther Megargel
Lynn R. Carson
George Careless
David W. Batchelor

Purchase your copy from www.hymnstoday.com

12/19/2014

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12/05/2014

YAY, the Hymns Today website should be up and running again tomorrow (or thereabouts). Thanks to a generous friend. Keep writing hymns folks!

12/02/2014

Hi friends of Hymns Today. I just wanted you to know that the Hymns Today website is down at the moment. It will be back up shortly. Sorry for any inconvenience. We have our Christmas 2014 issue on its way. Thanks, Glenn.

10/08/2014

NewMusicBox

With LDS names popping up everywhere else, where are the Mormon composers? We asked Jeremy Grimshaw and he wrote this: http://bit.ly/ZdcJUi

09/02/2014

Hi Hymns Today friends, woops, we almost forgot Christmas this year for HT. Had to do a quick rethink with our committee and decided to shift our Mormon themed issue back to December and put out a Christmas issue in early October. Since then we have been actively collecting new and unpublished Christmas songs from our wonderful composers. Expect a treasure trove of new Christmas music in this next issue! If you were thinking of submitting something and haven't gotten around to it, please contact me as soon as possible as the pages for this issue are quickly filling up with wonderful contributions.

06/25/2014

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Get your copy of Issue 6 of Hymns Today Before it runs out. It features wonderful new hymns and choral works by well known composers like Daniel Carter and Janice Kapp Perry, but we have an international selection with hymns from France, Iceland, Canada, Australia and the USA. Purchase your copy of Hymns Today from www.hymnstoday.com and you can copy the pieces for your choir free of charge! Bargain!

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Issue 6 of Hymns Today is hot off the presses. Enjoy our most international issue ever with composers from France, Iceland, Australia, Canada as well as the US. Will you want to perform Hildigunnur...

Issue 6 of Hymns Today is hot off the presses. Enjoy our most international issue ever with composers from France, Iceland, Australia, Canada as well as the US. Will you want to perform Hildigunnur...

05/29/2014

Community of Christ Hymnal Project

I would like to share with our hymn loving community the words of President Steve Veazey of the Community of Christ. He speaks eloquently about the importance of hymns in worship at the launch of the new hymnal by the Community of Christ. I think his reflections have relevence to all of us who love and try to promote hymn singing within our congregations. http://www.cofchrist.org/hymnal/102013Veazeysermon.asp

I am not blessed with musical talent. I can sing decently, according to my wife, when I sing with other people who have some musical talent. In other words, I sing best when I sing with the faith community. I need us to sing together so I can sing at all! Singing together means I can participate. It…

05/28/2014

Hymns Today

Issue 6 of Hymns Today is now available. It features wonderful new hymns and choral works by well known composers like Daniel Carter and Janice Kapp Perry, but we have an international selection with hymns from France, Iceland, Canada, Australia and the USA. Purchase your copy of Hymns Today from www.hymnstoday.com and you can copy the pieces for your choir free of charge! Bargain!

Issue 6 of Hymns Today is hot off the presses. Enjoy our most international issue ever with composers from France, Iceland, Australia, Canada as well as the US. Will you want to perform Hildigunnur...

04/18/2014

Epistle: Quid Quaeritis Viventum Cum Mortuis?

Ethan Wickman's beautiful setting as something to ponder this Easter.

On Easter Sunday, 1968, 22-year old Army Corporal Timothy G. Robinson wrote the following letter from Vietnam to his family in Hoyt Lakes, Minneso...

04/09/2014

Member Uses Music to Connect People and Religion - Church News and Events

Congratulations to Douglas Pew for his talent.

Lifelong Latter-day Saint Douglas Pew has been involved in music ever since he can remember, but it was a Catholic teacher’s words during a lesson in Poland that opened his eyes to his own gift.

02/27/2014

New Songs and Hymns for Renewal

For the hymn writers among you, this may be of interest. http://united.edu/Music-Competition/New-Songs-and-Hymns-for-Renewal/menu-id-639.html

A Competition for Writers and Composers If you are a composer, a writer, or want to try your hand at writing a song or hymn, we hope you will enter United?s second annual song and hymn-writing competition, ?New Songs and Hymns for Renewal!?� Several years ago, United adopted as a prayer, a program a...

02/04/2014

Hymns Today

The next issue of Hymns Today features the hymns and other choral works of LDS composer, Helen Taylor (1916-1950). This is the first time any of her choral works have been published and now they are available all in the one volume, with a thoughtful article on the composer and her music by Professor Michael Hicks of BYU. Limited issue print run. Order yours today...

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Welcome to Issue 5 of Hymns Today Issue 5 of Hymns Today is our very first Heritage Issue featuring the hymns and other choral works of composer Helen Taylor (1916-1950). Taylor was trained...

Welcome to Issue 5 of Hymns Today Issue 5 of Hymns Today is our very first Heritage Issue featuring the hymns and other choral works of composer Helen Taylor (1916-1950). Taylor was trained...

01/03/2014

Wow, we are entering the home stretch for Issue 5 of Hymns Today. This will be our first Heritage Issue featuring the hymns and other choral works of LDS composer Helen Taylor, who died in 1950 in a car accident at the age of 34.

Trained at the University of Utah and Julliard, Taylor used to play piano for Martha Graham's dance company. She was married to the well known pianist Grant Johannesen, and had one son. Her hymns are being published for the very first time.

There will also feature an essay on Taylor by the Mormon music historian and BYU Professor, Dr Michael Hicks. Tell your friends...

11/05/2013

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The latest issue of Hymns Today, Issue 4 with wonderful music for Thanksgiving and Christmas is now available. Buy your copy today and copy the music for your choir at no extra charge. Bargain!

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Welcome to Issue 4 of Hymns Today (Holidays 2013) Music for Thanksgiving and Christmas Finding new music for Thanksgiving can often be a challenge, and so look no further than the pieces in...

09/11/2013

Well, we've passed our 100 likes point. Thank you to all of you who have contributed to that total! I am excited today because I received the English translation of the hymn by Hildigunnur Runarsdottir (translation by Michael Clarke).

Look on My Soul

Look on my soul with careful mind
In penitence thy image find.
Lived in trust as is full due
In all my spirit's strength imbue.

Plea from rueful heart expressed
By our Jesus is dearly blessed
Grant, O God, thy favor dear
Unto those whose prayers you hear.

When at last this world I flee
May thy word my comfort be.
There my soul in rapture sure
at your side forevermore

(Hallgrimur Petursson 1614-1674)

09/09/2013

Music for Thanksgiving and Christmas is on its way in Issue 4 of Hymns Today. This is a huge issue with over 40 pages of new music (as well as a Christmas song by Arthur Shepherd and a couple of sweet carols published in the 1939 Primary Song Book). New composers to Hymns Today in this issue include Kathleen Holyoak, Jared Oaks, David Batchelor, and me - yes two little Christmas carols by yours truly! Expect it to be on sale at the end of September in plenty of time for Thanksgiving.

07/25/2013

As you can see, the latest issue of Hymns Today is out and we are already planning the Holiday Issue featuring new music for Thanksgiving and Christmas. This will include a wonderful hymn by Janice Kapp Perry on Thanksgiving, a new hymn by Nathan Howe on Gratitude as well as pieces by Kathleen Holyoak, Deon Neilsen Price and M Ryan Taylor among others. Exciting news is that i am working with outstanding Icelandic composer, Hildigunnur Runarsdottir, in translating one of her hymns from Icelandic for inclusion in Hymns Today in the December issue. Keep watching this page!

07/10/2013

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Issue 3 - Summer is now available for purchase!
Check it out (including some free sneak peeks) at http://hymnstoday.com

Welcome to Issue 3 of Hymns Today (Summer) Friends of Hymns Today will notice some changes in this issue. Firstly, the name of our sponsoring organization has morphed from the LDS...