Format : Vocal Score
SKU: WD.080689540172
UPC: 080689540172.
A new musical for Kids Choir from WordKidz, by the popular and best-selling husband and wife creative team, Christy and Daniel Semsen. Join us on an adventure as we spend an exciting and educational day at the Bible museum, The Kingdom Connection...where the Bible comes to life! Join the tour as your kids choir meets King David, King Saul, King Herod, and that wise ruler, King Solomon!Filled with the trademark high-energy, fun-filled, biblically inspired songs by Christy Semsen, with epic tracks and arrangements by Daniel Semsen, The Kingdom Connection is guaranteed to engage both boys and girls in the fun with its compelling storyline, and minister to everyone with Bible stories culminating in the ultimate message that, even among all the powerful kings of the Bible, the one true King, the King of ALL kings, the One we need most in our lives, is King Jesus! We don’t have to go to a museum to learn about our God. Because of Jesus, we can experience the Kingdom of God both now and in Heaven. Jesus is our King…THAT is our Kingdom Connection!
SKU: HL.277282
UPC: 840126915006. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Program note:Looking Up is a piece for large chorus and orchestra, and is in three sections, played without pause. In the 16th century, a variety of psalters in meter were printed in England, with the idea of making psalm-singing something that could happen easily at home, with the rhyming meter being an aid to memorization. These translations are wonderful exercises in brevity and sometimes clumsy rhymemaking, and were usually prefaced by a lengthy explanation as to their merits; the title of one of the first such volumes in English is: The Psalter of Dauid newely translated into Englysh metre in such sort that it maye the more decently, and wyth more delyte of the mynde, be reade and songe of al men. I thought it would be appropriate to set one of these introductions, and the first section of Looking Up sets the preface to Thomas Ravenscroft's psalter (1621), in which he writes: “The singing of Psalmes (assay the Doctors) comforteth the sorrowfull, pacifieth the angry, strengtheneth the weake, humbleth the proud, gladdeth the humble, stirres up the slow, reconcileth enemies, lifteth up the heart to heavenly things, and uniteth the Creature to his Creator.”It begins meditatively, but eventually grows agitated and fervent, with a vision of the “quire of Angels and Saints” “redoubling anddescanting” - an ecstatic and terrifying vision of the skies opening up. Ravenscroft then encourages the use of instrumental musicfor worship, at which point, a long, acrobatic orchestral interlude with jagged edges antagonizes the choir, who sing a kind of private, anxious meditation on two pitches.One of the most delicious biblical texts is an Apocryphal prayer known as the Benedicite or the Prayer of the Three Children (the same who were rescued by an angel after King Nebuchadnezzar tried to have them burnt in an oven for not bowing to his image). The text is repetitive, obsessive, and a gift to composers - each line is an invocation of an element of the natural world, followed by the phrase, “blesse ye the Lord, praise him & magnify him for ever.” In Looking Up, the setting begins with three solo voices, and then grows to include the whole choir, itemizing the whole of creation. The idea that these boys are spared from the furnace and then five minutes later are saying, “O ye the fire and warming heate, blesse ye the Lord...” has always felt very loaded to me, and the orchestra plays with this conflict between joyful praise and a more terrible (in the 16th-century sense) awefor the divine.The text for the third, and shortest, section is taken from Christopher Smart's (1722-1771) A Song to David, purportedly written during his confinement in a mental asylum. This ode to King David points out how David, as the author of some of the Psalms, observes the whole world from the “clustering spheres” to the “nosegay in the vale.&rdquo.
SKU: LP.765762129726
UPC: 765762129726.
Pamela Vandewalker and Cherry Garasi invite you to join the Praise Parade in King David & the National Treasure their newest release in our Easy-to-sing Easy-to-stage series. King David is bringing the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem and excitement is in the air! Don't miss the live coverage along the parade route by our team of anchors including special interest stories by our on-the-spot reporters and exclusive coverage of important meetings between King David and Nathan the prophet.
SKU: LP.765762129825
UPC: 765762129825.
SKU: BT.SCHBB5500271
3-part choir, Bass, Orchestra (Choral Score). Wagner-regeny, R.
SKU: BT.SCHBB5500270
3-part choir, Bass, Orchestra (Vocal Score). Wagner-regeny, R.
SKU: GI.001086
UPC: 641151010861. English.
This lovely Son of David print is an image from the book At the Name of Jesus. It will add an instant touch of color and spirituality to any office or home. Among other things, King David was a notable musician and poet. In fact, through the psalms, he set the tone for what would become the liturgical music for the past thousands of years! In this image, Jesus sits beneath his family tree as the 28th descendant of David, symbolized by the 27 pomegranates that hang over his head. He plays the harp, and perhaps chants Psalm 137, as he leads us through our own battles and captivities. Fits a standard 11 x 14 photo frame. It makes a great gift for musicians and music lovers!