March 200903.24.2009
WHAT IS AN “OLD SONG”? I. AT MY AGE (almost 56), DO I KNOW WHAT AN “OLD SONG” IS? My dad was a Southern Baptist pastor. From the late 1950s, I had the hymnal memorized from cover to cover. During the 1960s, a visiting youth choir from Texas shocked our church in Rapid City with a musical—“Good News”. For one year, in the late 1960s, I was a member of ARBC and remember Katy Vogel directing me in the youth choir (Katy: remember “Sunday’s Child”?). There were no Christian radio stations at that time, but a local Denver station began broadcasting “contemporary” Christian music late on Saturday nights and early Sunday mornings. Does anybody remember “Here Comes Jesus”? During the early 1970s, I majored in piano at Oklahoma Baptist University and was exposed to much classical music. Since the mid-1970s, I have been on staff and actively involved in the music ministry of Southern Baptist churches. So now, allow me to express an opinion. Over the centuries and decades a few “new” songs have stood the test of time, but most have not. I read where the great gospel hymn writer, Fanny Crosby, in the late 1800s authored between 8,000 and 9,000 gospel hymn texts. Yet only 17 are in our current hymnal. Fifteen are in the newest edition. My guess is there will be fewer still in the next hymnal. But don’t lose heart! NEXT MONTH: Part 2 of 3 What is My Point? Posted by arbc at 08:54 AM |
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