REVISED - Christ the Lord is Risen Today

So, I ran it by people I trust, and got some good feedback. I've changed the piano to organ, and simplified the sheet music by having the organ follow the same line as the congregation (especially since the congregation won't have the music, they'll sing out of the hymnbook). Hope you enjoy!

Silent Night, Revised

So, once I started to practice Silent Night with my ward choir, there were things that weren't quite right. I fixed what I could, but I noticed that it was very hard for the choir to follow all the running notes and stay on key enough for the piano to come in. We fixed this by having the organ play softly along with the choir on the first verse, so as to keep the soft beginning, and help the choir. During practice it worked, during the performance, we had techincal difficulties... but I would still recommend it. I have uploaded a revised version of the piece today, so if you've downloaded it before, make sure to get the new one.

Christ the Lord is Risen Today

I emailed my Bishop and asked what he wanted the Ward Choir to do for Easter this year. He responded that he had looked at the calander (something I had yet to do!), and Easter was the week following General Conference in April, and that the Stake had assigned that day as Fast Sunday - meaning no rest hymn, and no special choir number. When I talked to the choir about it, someone asked if we could do a choir and congregation number, like the Sallie DeFord pieces we had done for Christmas. Our Bishop loves music, and was all for it. I searched the web for one that we could use, and couldn't find one, so I combined what I did find (a flute piece I found free for noncommercial use) into something the Choir could learn for Easter. I often have a small amount of men to women, so I tend to arrange my music around that weakness - so the male choir parts are unison, and fairly simply in nature. Just as a heads-up. The choir sings an into, and the first verse A Cappella with the flute, then the piano and congregation join for the 2nd and 3rd verses, with the choir, flute, and piano finishing with how they started to book-end the piece. I'm putting it up here just in case anyone else is in the same boat!