![]() ![]() His and Warner’s study of great filmmakers, particularly those with religious conviction, has helped to create an underlying vision for the series. Packard, a BYU professor of philosophy whose forte is philosophy of film, served as consultant for the first broadcast and producer for the last two. This feeling of being one with one another.”ĭennis J. You feel when you’re participating in something like this that it’s not only bigger than you but that it’s a returning to something that’s deeply familiar. So you can’t really point to anything as a cause. And the Spirit sanctifies the whole experience. The audience is moved because they’ve been reached out to. All are moved by the music and in response to the audience that will see it. The teachers are moved in their composing and conducting by the students. Warner, a former BYU assistant professor of music and now cultural arts activities director for the Priesthood Department of the LDS Church. It’s not just the power of music that has touched people, suggests series director David T. I lost all control of my emotions and wept for an hour. I have never heard a more beautiful intertwining of lyrics, melody, singing, and arranging before. To see the singers emotionally involved made it more meaningful. More than 200 stations carried the previous programs, A Thanksgiving of American Folk Hymnsand Celebration of Christmas.Audiences have resonated deeply with these performances, and hundreds have responded with heartwarming letters of praise and thanksgiving. The new program is scheduled to be broadcast around the Memorial Day holiday this year, and your local PBS station may well decide to show it. ![]() Suddenly a boom camera rises from below stage and soars over the combined choirs of BYU as they burst into song with Mack Wilberg’s arrangement of “Praise to the Lord.” So starts Songs of Praise and Remembrance: A Memorial Day Celebration,the last in a triptych of BYU celebratory programs shown nationally on PBS over the past decade. The BYU Philharmonic Orchestra prelude begins. The hands we clasp, the loved that sleep. Thou gracious God, for blessings brought, The track will also soon be live on iTunes/Apple Music, Spotify, etc.The sonorous, reverent voice of poet Leslie Norris narrates the verse as pastoral scenes and peaceful cemeteries come into view and morning birds sing in the distance: The just-giving link is directed to Carlisle Food Bank. Have a listen via one of the many streams and don’t forget to throw a few pennies or pounds at Carlisle food bank. If we gan up, mebbe we can play it live and get Simmo up for a chorus.” I gan to the grun as often as I can and I hope we hear it in the Warwick soon. Not only do I like every aspect of the track, but I also love the fact that the lads in question have decided to release it, whereby all proceeds will go towards the Carlisle Food Bank and maybe, just maybe, help the lads on the pitch get over the finish line.Ĭavanagh said, “We want to raise as much loor as we can for a cushty cause, and anyone that donates can have a link or an mp3 of Gannen Up to listen to on your cassette, walkman, or whatever old people use. There’s still a long way to go, but you can’t help but dream as Simmo continues to inspire and steer his team in the right direction. The track itself is, as I said, banging, and the production and rearrangement have worked a treat.Īs such, you have a real, raw punk vibe with lyrics that are made for the terraces and a style where the tongue is firmly held in cheek.Īs I write this, Carlisle United are sitting pretty in second place after winning 5 – 2. ![]() The lads decided to give it a touch of TLC for the modern-day audience, which they hope will reconnect as positively as when it stormed the charts, peaking in at 543rd in the Uzbekistan Folk-Punk Charts. The Watterwucks consist of Johnno Cavaghan, singer, and his friends, Joshua Gray on guitar, Phil McVitie on bass, and Tyler Watts on drums. The anthemic, punky single was originally written and recorded 20 years ago by the famous and well-known local artist ‘The Grun’ during a season when Carlisle was flying. ![]()
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