SKU: LP.765762151826

UPC: 765762151826. Created by Dave Clark.

In God We Still Trust is everything you have come to love and appreciate about the music of David T. Clydesdale, and this patriotic musical from Lillenas is Clydesdale at his absolute best! A running time of less than 30 minutes make it the perfect presentation piece for any Memorial Day, Fourth of July, or Veterans Day celebration. The ever-popular writer and arranger David T. Clydesdale has incorporated works from Christian songwriters, such as the Gaithers, Deborah Craig Claar, Dave Clark, and Dan Dean, along with patriotic standards such as Woody Guthrie's beloved This Land Is Your Land, new lyrics and settings for This Is My Country, America the Beautiful, My Country, 'Tis of Thee and a couple of George M. Cohan favorites. A tribute to America's armed forces involves both children's and adult choirs, and is a perfect way to recognize and thank the people, both active and veteran servicemen and women, who protect our freedom. The unforgettable and powerful Pray Me Home, from the songwriters Dan Dean, Don Koch, and Dave Clark, is the haunting cry of a soldier on active duty that will say in your heart for a long time to come. Celebrate America this year with In God We Still Trust!

SKU: LP.765762151727

UPC: 765762151727. Created by Dave Clark.

In God We Still Trust is everything you have come to love and appreciate about the music of David T. Clydesdale, and this patriotic musical from Lillenas is Clydesdale at his absolute best! A running time of less than 30 minutes make it the perfect presentation piece for any Memorial Day, Fourth of July, or Veterans Day celebration. The ever-popular writer and arranger David T. Clydesdale has incorporated works from Christian songwriters, such as the Gaithers, Deborah Craig Claar, Dave Clark, and Dan Dean, along with patriotic standards such as Woody Guthrie's beloved This Land Is Your Land, new lyrics and settings for This Is My Country, America the Beautiful, My Country, 'Tis of Thee and a couple of George M. Cohan favorites. A tribute to America's armed forces involves both children's and adult choirs, and is a perfect way to recognize and thank the people, both active and veteran servicemen and women, who protect our freedom. The unforgettable and powerful Pray Me Home, from the songwriters Dan Dean, Don Koch, and Dave Clark, is the haunting cry of a soldier on active duty that will say in your heart for a long time to come. Celebrate America this year with In God We Still Trust!

SKU: LP.765762009431

UPC: 765762009431.

In God We Still Trust is everything you have come to love and appreciate about the music of David T. Clydesdale, and this new patriotic musical from Lillenas is Clydesdale at his absolute best! A running time of less than 30 minutes make it the perfect presentation piece for any Memorial Day, Fourth of July, or Veterans Day celebration. The ever-popular writer and arranger David T. Clydesdale has incorporated works from Christian songwriters, such as the Gaithers, Deborah Craig Claar, Dave Clark, and Dan Dean, along with patriotic standards such as Woody Guthrie's beloved This Land Is Your Land, new lyrics and settings for This Is My Country, America the Beautiful, My Country, 'Tis of Thee and a couple of George M. Cohan favorites. A tribute to America's armed forces involves both children's and adult choirs, and is a perfect way to recognize and thank the people, both active and veteran servicemen and women, who protect our freedom. The unforgettable and powerful Pray Me Home, from the songwriters Dan Dean, Don Koch, and Dave Clark, is the haunting cry of a soldier on active duty that will say in your heart for a long time to come. Celebrate America this year with In God We Still Trust!

SKU: HL.277282

UPC: 840126915006. 6.75x10.5 inches.

Program note:

Looking Up is a piece for large chorus and orchestra, and is in three sections, played without pause. In the 16th century, a variety of psalters in meter were printed in England, with the idea of making psalm-singing something that could happen easily at home, with the rhyming meter being an aid to memorization. These translations are wonderful exercises in brevity and sometimes clumsy rhymemaking, and were usually prefaced by a lengthy explanation as to their merits; the title of one of the first such volumes in English is: The Psalter of Dauid newely translated into Englysh metre in such sort that it maye the more decently, and wyth more delyte of the mynde, be reade and songe of al men. I thought it would be appropriate to set one of these introductions, and the first section of Looking Up sets the preface to Thomas Ravenscroft's psalter (1621), in which he writes: “The singing of Psalmes (assay the Doctors) comforteth the sorrowfull, pacifieth the angry, strengtheneth the weake, humbleth the proud, gladdeth the humble, stirres up the slow, reconcileth enemies, lifteth up the heart to heavenly things, and uniteth the Creature to his Creator.”

It begins meditatively, but eventually grows agitated and fervent, with a vision of the “quire of Angels and Saints” “redoubling anddescanting” - an ecstatic and terrifying vision of the skies opening up. Ravenscroft then encourages the use of instrumental musicfor worship, at which point, a long, acrobatic orchestral interlude with jagged edges antagonizes the choir, who sing a kind of private, anxious meditation on two pitches.

One of the most delicious biblical texts is an Apocryphal prayer known as the Benedicite or the Prayer of the Three Children (the same who were rescued by an angel after King Nebuchadnezzar tried to have them burnt in an oven for not bowing to his image). The text is repetitive, obsessive, and a gift to composers - each line is an invocation of an element of the natural world, followed by the phrase, “blesse ye the Lord, praise him & magnify him for ever.” In Looking Up, the setting begins with three solo voices, and then grows to include the whole choir, itemizing the whole of creation. The idea that these boys are spared from the furnace and then five minutes later are saying, “O ye the fire and warming heate, blesse ye the Lord...” has always felt very loaded to me, and the orchestra plays with this conflict between joyful praise and a more terrible (in the 16th-century sense) awefor the divine.

The text for the third, and shortest, section is taken from Christopher Smart's (1722-1771) A Song to David, purportedly written during his confinement in a mental asylum. This ode to King David points out how David, as the author of some of the Psalms, observes the whole world from the “clustering spheres” to the “nosegay in the vale.&rdquo.