Update 12/11/21: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com.
I’ve featured the music of Wendell Kimbrough before, and today he makes a return appearance. An honor to be sure…
Earlier this year his setting of Psalm 104, “Oh, Rejoice in All Your Works,” won the COS New Psalm Contest. It had its church premiere in January and we’ve sung it a few times since then. This Sunday, Pentecost, the lectionary called for Psalm 104. As fate* would have it, the choir, piano, and a brass quintet were scheduled to lead that morning, so I arranged the song for those instruments.
I was really pleased with how it sounded. Sometimes the transition from guitar-driven folk song to piano-led congregational hymn can be awkward, but in this case, it brought out a whole new majestic side to the song. I hear a best-selling choral anthem in this, don’t you?
*or providence, depending on how you roll theologically.
Could you double-check the link to the mp3? Might just be my bad browser, but I can’t play it. Thanks.
Hmmm… Not sure what the problem is. Does this work: http://musicblog.gregscheer.com/kimbrough-psalm_104.mp3
“Fate” vs. “providence” “depending on how you roll theologically”?!
Q. 11. What are God’s works of providence?
A. God’s works of providence are his most holy, wise and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.
(Westminster Shorter Catechism)