THE MUSIC

This music melds well loved hymns with one of my greatest passions - playing the marimba and vibraphone. Through years of worship, these melodies and harmonies have become part of my being and vision.

For centuries, hymns have provided worshipers with expressions of praise and assurance of God's love. This collection is in the form of a church service, from the gathering together of the faithful to the going forth into the world with renewed conviction and vision.

I hope to provide a worshipful experience through the instrument closest to my heart, the marimba. I have always thought the marimba belongs in church, its rosewood keys producing a reverential sound.

The opening Hymns of Praise medley is played by the organ, accented with colorful percussion. The organ also accompanies marimba in Beneath the Cross of Jesus, a meditative communion hymn. Additionally, you will hear the vibraphone as a contemplative solo instrument in What a Friend We Have in Jesus.Using soft mallets on the resonant lower register of the marimba enables prayerful reflection in hymns such as Amazing Grace and O Sacred Head Now Wounded. This is my Father's World affirms a child's belief with the dynamic combination of marimba, vibraphone, orchestra bells and other percussion instruments. The piano accompanies the marimba and vibraphone on the spirituals and The Lord's Prayer to further inspire faith.

Hymns are songs that combine teaching with worship, shaping spirituality and belief. May this music help you harmonize spirituality and faith in your daily worship.

PRELUDE

This is my Father's world, and to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres.
This is my Father's world: I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas;
His hand the wonders wrought.

I am a poor wayfaring stranger,
While traveling through this world of woe.
Yet there's no sickness, toil nor danger
In that bright world to which I go.
I'm going there to see my Father;
I'm going there no more to roam.
I'm only going over Jordan,
I'm only going over home.

Our Father, which art in heaven,
HallowËd be thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth
As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation;
But deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
Amen.

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.