Tag: Larry Sue

Daddy’s Little Girl – TTBB ensemble

The Crosswards

Preview: Men’s Quartet score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US The Internet is a wonderful way to meet people, chat rooms or not. This is how I met Vickie. She was searching for men’s quartet music (she accompanies “The Crosswards” from the First United Methodist Church in Rawlins, Wyoming), and happened upon the Choraegus site. …

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Trusting in Jesus – TTBB ensemble

Preview: Men’s Quartet score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US Sometimes I have the feeling that I was born fifty years too late. For some reason, God’s given me a strange (for my generation) aptitude for writing Big Band music. Trusting In Jesus is remarkable in this respect; it seems to sound just as if …

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Power in the Blood – TTBB ensemble

Preview: Church Calendar: Holy Week, Easter Men’s Quartet score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US In March 1988, Les Nederveld, our baritone, and I were talking about the upcoming Easter service at De Anza College’s Flint Center. Les thought it would be great to for the quartet to sing there, and decided to ask our …

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Far Beyond – TTBB ensemble

Preview: Men’s Quartet score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US I said temporary goodbyes to a lot of friends in 1991. Paul Steele, our pastor, died of a particularly virulent and manifestly inoperable cancer, and high school friend had a painful passing from the same. My grandmother passed away due to congestive heart failure. Although …

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Access – TTBB ensemble

Preview: Men’s Quartet score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US Short and simple: Doumer Liu, our bass, once commented that there wasn’t much men’s quartet music with solos for the lowest part. So I wrote him one. “Access” tells of the Old Testament times when the children of Israel were denied direct access (and Internet …

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Jesus Paid It All – SSA ensemble

The message of Jesus Paid It All goes far beyond the title. True enough, He gave Himself to pay the penalty of our sins, but the hymn text also intimates that we have an infinite debt to Him that goes along with receiving the free gift that He offers. Of course… it’s impossible to repay …

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Angels We Have Heard on High – SSA ensemble

Angels We Have Heard on High is based on the nineteenth-century French song Les Anges dans nos Campagnes and is traditionally sung to the hymn tune GLORIA. The lyric tells us of how the angels came from heaven to celebrate the birth of the Christ Child. Preview: Price: $ US Church Calendar: Christmas I’ve arranged …

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Once in Royal David’s City

12/14/03: It’s six days before we sing at another church’s Christmas program, and Geri just wrote to ask if we could get our hands on an arrangement of Once in Royal David’s City. I responded with “I’ll see what I can do in two hours (because that’s all I had before having to head out), …

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I See the Power of God

I See the Power of God Written for Barb Keller Preview: Choral score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US Barb is a friend who’s seen God allowing some very difficult things in her life, and also has seen Him working through them to cause her to grow in her faith. It truly has been a …

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Be the Thought That Won’t Fade Away

Be the Thought That Won’t Fade Away Dedicated to Amy Puryear I Corinthians 2:2 Preview: Choral score: $ US Accompaniment track: $ US Amy was our accompanist for a few months during the 1989-1990 season. I knew she had to be a special friend – we share the same birthdate! Her time with us coincided …

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