For the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg’s invention. the tenor and church musician, William Hyman Cummings put Wesley’s century old hymn to Mendelssohn’s tune, and that’s how we sing it today. Next up, ...
“Catholic Hymnody at the Service of the Church,” which lays out the aforementioned criteria for evaluating whether hymns sung at Mass are accurately conveying the truths that Catholics believe.
In 1950, it was one of the first songs recorded by 19-year-old Cooke, during his time as ... grew up singing church music. She sang lead with the first female gospel singers formed by Sallie ...