Build My Life is a terrific, worshipful contemporary Christian song with a great message: "Worthy of every song I could ever sing...I will build my life upon Your love, it is a firm foundation." This is an advanced intermediate level piano solo, containing arpeggios in the L.H. and single melody line, 3rds and 6ths in the R.H. The arrangements builds toward the bridge then comes back down to worshipful tones at the end. The bridge is repeated several times with each repeat a little different in difficulty. Measures 63-66 and their repeat in measures 75-78 are challenging; but so rewarding once you can play them! If it's too much of a challenge, you can easily substitute m. 59-62 (and m. 79-82 on the repeated phrase), or just skip them all together. There's also lots of helpful fingering added. Written by Matt Redman, Pat Barrett, Kirby Kaple, Brett Younker, Karl Martin. Arranged by Amy J. Snyder. Visit Amy at www.facebook.com/amyjsnyder7 . If you like this arrangement, you may also like Amy's arrangement of WayMaker,
The Blessing, O Praise the Name, Goodness of God, I Can Only Imagine, Oceans, What a Beautiful Name,
Reckless Love, King of My Heart, You Raise Me Up, Good Good Father, O To See the Dawn, Revelation Song, and more.

Song List:

All The Way My Savior Leads Me

He's Everything To Me

I Gave My Life For Thee

Is Your All On The Altar?

Jesus Paid It All

O Why Not Tonight?

Only Trust Him

Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour

Softly And Tenderly

The piano gods of my youth were Dinu Lipatti and Clara Haskil, both mysterious, enchanting. While I only knew Lipatti from his records, I was able to see Clara Haskil live in concert twice, in Burgdorf and in Lucerne. Well, I even begged to get her autograph. Her unerringly precise, almost weightless playing has remained my ideal to this day. My piano piece, written for the Concours Clara Haskil, attempts to trace the lines of her lonely, pain-stricken life, marked by relentless self-criticism and selflessness. .

Die Linien des Lebens sind verschieden... . [The lines of life are different... (Scardanelli/Holderlin)] .

Lebenslinien (Life Lines) is dedicated to Gyorgy Kurtag on the occasion of his 95th birthday. .
Heinz Holliger