Category Archives: Global

GIA Choral Subscription Service

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Abana Kwake Yesu 5,000 people receive GIA’s Choral Subscription Service, and each one will get the chance to review my two new anthems published by GIA, Abana, and Kwake Yesu. Pretty cool. Even cooler? The sample octavos are accompanied by recordings of each piece. … Continue reading →

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Kwake Yesu at Calvin Colloge’s LOFT

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Greg Scheer

My choral arrangement of Kwake Yesu/Here on Jesus Christ I Will Stand (GIA) is beginning to make its way in the world. Here is a video from a recent LOFT service at Calvin College: http://livestream.com/calvin-college/events/4678265/videos/113157761. Kwake Yesu begins at 22:55.

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Guatemalan Santo, flute and choir

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Greg Scheer

Update 12/11/21: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. I am not an abstract composer. That is, I find it difficult to compose a piece for a performer who doesn’t exist and a concert that might not … Continue reading →

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Kwake Yesu, GIA recording

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Greg Scheer

One of the nice things about getting a choral piece published is that the publisher often makes high quality recordings of the pieces for promotional purposes. Here’s a new recording of “Kwake Yesu/Here on Jesus Christ I Will Stand” by … Continue reading →

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GIA’s Abana

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Greg Scheer

No one tells me anything. I just stumbled across a recording of my anthem Abana at the GIA website.

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Father in Heaven

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Greg Scheer

In my work on Global Songs for Worship I wrote a lot of arrangements. A. Lot. I’m a constant musical tinkerer, so I often take a previous idea and build on it, depending on what musicians I have available. On 9/13/15 … Continue reading →

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All of My Heart, voiceover edition

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Greg Scheer

Update 1/15/22: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. A while back I discovered the Brazilian congregational song writing duo of Rubem Amorese and Toninho Zemuner. They produce an astounding number of songs, all of them good. When they … Continue reading →

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O Come, Holy Spirit (Sarwar)

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Greg Scheer

One of the great things about my church is that we have a constant stream of interesting people joining us from all around the world. One of them is Eric Sarwar, a musician from Pakistan. Eric and I have collaborated before. This … Continue reading →

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Psalm 137: By the Babylonian Rivers

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Greg Scheer

Update: This song is now available at gregscheer.com. “By the Babylonian Rivers” is one of my favorite songs from Global Songs for Worship and one of my favorite Psalm settings in general. We used it at COS last week and I … Continue reading →

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O Lord May Your Kingdom Come (Isaiah 11)

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Greg Scheer

Update: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com. Sunday evening was Church of the Servant’s Lessons & Carols service. In it we sang a new song based on Isaiah 11: the peaceable Kingdom. The song was an … Continue reading →

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