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Just published a sacred two piano arrangement that I’ve had on file for several years. My male piano students have really enjoyed this energy-driven piece.
Here’s a video of one of my students (on the keyboard) playing along with one of our college students in a recent service.
Sheet music for this arrangement is available under in store under the Piano Ensemble section for Two Piano Arrangements.
Special note to my readers: This advanced sacred piano solo of The Haven of Rest & Wonderful Peace is available in our music store. (It was available for a short time after publication but now for sale in our music store.)
Last week, a church pianist friend of mine who I met through my website was asking if I would write another advanced devotional piano solo. She couldn’t have asked at a better time since I was wanting to start a new advanced piano arrangement.
I began thinking about The Haven of Rest and tried to think of a song that would go with it. The chorus of “Wonderful Peace” just seemed to flow in thought and rhythm at the end of Haven of Rest chorus.
What a blessing to know as a Christian that…”I’ve anchored my soul in the haven of rest” and now I have “Peace, peace, wonderful peace…coming down from the Father above…”
The Haven of Rest was written (unsurprisingly) by an Irish sailor, Henry Gilmour, who came to America at an early age. (more on Henry’s life)
Sorry I haven’t posted much lately but have battled different sicknesses since January and now I have the shingles 🙁
I’m working on an advanced sacred piano solo that will be available for FREE.
Medleys are my favorite piano specials and looking forward to sharing this particular arrangement entitled “Haven of Rest w/ Wonderful Peace”.
The hand-written version is almost complete!
Just wanted to alert my readers that I just posted two new books for sale on my “used music for sale” page.
I have accumulated so many books over the last couple of years and just parting with some of them. I will post a few more for sale soon.
I found out today by accident that the melody of “I’d Rather Have Jesus” that I’m using in my piano solo… is copyrighted. I always check to make sure hymns are public domain before arranging them and had checked this one out as well.
I verified that the tune and melody were public domain and didn’t click on the music image to view the song and later discovered the tune was different than the one I was arranging. Guess it’s better to find out BEFORE publishing!
So…I’ve been online with Music Services (provides a variety of ‘a la carte’ services to music publishers – song registration, licensing, royalty collections, royalty accounting) to obtain a “print” license for this arrangement. This is my first time to deal with a copyrighted work. I won’t do too many of these for the sake of added expense but will try this with “I’d Rather Have Jesus” since I had already promised it to my readers.
The downside is…there will be a delay in publishing until I get the clearance from Music Services. I will keep you all posted and sorry for the delay but I want to be above board!
Just came across a song I had forgotten about… entitled “My Hope is Jesus” by Ron Hamilton.
Ben Everson did a great job singing along with this wonderful choir! A well written piece…words and music go hand in hand!
I think this song would make an excellent choir piece for Easter…or any time of year for that matter!