Over 500 performers from BYU combine in a concert celebration of beloved American folk hymns. A best-seller since its inception, A Thanksgiving of American Folk Hymns is now presented year-round on over 200 public television stations. The program features arrangements of beautiful hymn melodies in stunning performances that leave audiences profoundly moved and inspired. The concert was widely rebroadcast in the aftermath of 9/11 as a calming and a healing gesture.
TRACKS
1. Saints Bound for Heaven
Listen Combined Choirs and Orchestra
2. My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
Listen
Concert Choir
3. Simple Gifts
Listen Women's
Chorus
4. Awake, Ye Saints of God, Awake! (CD only)
Listen Concert Choir and University Singers
5. The Morning Trumpet
Listen Men's Chorus
6. Come, We That Love the Lord
Listen Combined Choirs
7. Wondrous Love
Listen Women's Chorus
8. Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
Listen University Singers
9. Let Me Fly
Listen Concert Choir
10. Cindy
Listen Men's Chorus
11. Bound for the Promised Land
Listen University Singers
12. Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee (CD only)
Listen Concert Choir and University
Singers
13. Redeemer of Israel (CD only)
Listen Combined Choirs
14. Aaron Copland's Third Symphony
(excerpt) Listen Philharmonic Orchestra
15. How Can I Keep From Singing
Listen University Singers
16. Abide With Me; 'Tis Eventide
Listen Concert Choir
17. Battle Hymn of the Republic
Listen Combined Men and Orchestra
18. Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Listen
Combined Choirs and Orchestra
CREDITS Brigham
Young University Concert Choir
Mack Wilberg, conductor
Philharmonic Orchestra
David Dalton, conductor
Men's Chorus
Mack Wilberg, conductor
Brigham Young University Singers
Ronald Staheli, conductor
Women's Chorus
Amy Dalton, conductor
Tracks 1, 2, 5, 10, 13, 18
Arranged by Mack Wilberg
Tracks 4, 6, 11, 12, 15
Arranged by Ronald Staheli