True to the Faith
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Story:
"True To The Faith" (Summer 2008)
The one thing I don't like doing is falling into compositional "ruts," meaning just writing the same kind of piece again and again (My music history teacher once said "It's common knowledge that Vivaldi wrote the same symphony 200 times, but that's not entirely accurate...he wrote the same two symphonies 100 times each!"). Right before this arrangement was written, I noticed myself falling into the rut of writing piano solos that were real fluid, with only one or two notes played on each hand at a time. This arrangement, full of huge, big chords and tremendous bass, is a response to that rut. I love the lyrics to this hymn, and will be a little remorseful that a choral arrangement didn't come out...