Y WN USIC and RITING Immoderate Musings; Quibblesome Quarrels; Risible Rhapsodies on Music and Morals For those who love silly sallies into the sportive prolixity of sesquipedalian taradiddles and daffy dillies of diddling fiddle-faddle filled with philosophical flapdoodle. {There are only 296 verses, with a linked glossary as you go. A preface explains, and offers excuses for, why I would create such a thing.} Pleonastic Profligacies of Unconscionably Sesquipedalian Periphrasis Pierce, parse, purge and purify your appropriately privy purlieu by blasting bodacious bunk and busting bumbling burble and babble A Vocabular Romp of Pretentious Pomp on the Sundry Ingredients of This Website . . . an embarrasment of whimsy in cerebral recreation under the hallowing heights of heavenly lift and numinous edification, Making Music in Zion . . . with our hearts knit together in love and our eyes single to the glory of God. My Perspective On the Arts We humans are all, by definition, artists, musicians, dancers, poets and actors. A Father's Day Sentiment About My Dad A few words among others from various Utah artists and performers about our fathers for a Father's Day article in the Deseret News, June 20, 2010 George Birthington's Washday Was February 22 just the washday of some local kid named George Birthington? USIC ORGAN HYMN ARRANGEMENTS A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief (Listen) Abide with Me (Listen) Abide With Me; 'Tis Eventide (Listen) As I Search the Holy Scriptures (Listen) As the Dew From Heaven Distilling (Listen) Away in a Manger (Listen) Beautiful Savior (Listen) Come Unto Jesus (Listen) Did You Think to Pray (Listen) Father, I Will Reverent Be (Listen) God Is Love (Listen) God's Daily Care (Listen) Guide Me to Thee (Listen) How Gentle God's Commands (Listen) How Great the Wisdom and the Love (Listen) How Great Thou Art (Listen) I Am a Child of God (Listen) I Know That My Redeemer Lives (Listen) I Need Thee Every Hour (Listen) I Stand All Amazed (Listen) I Thank Thee Dear Father (Listen) In Remembrance of Thy Suffering (Listen) In the Bleak Mid-winter (Listen) Jesus of Nazareth, Savior and King (Listen) Jesus Once of Humble Birth (Listen) Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me (Listen) Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee (Listen) Joseph Smith's First Prayer (Listen) Lead Kindly Light (Listen) Lord, I Would Follow Thee (Listen) More Holiness Give Me (Listen) My Heavenly Father Loves Me (Listen) Nearer, My God, to Thee (Listen) O May My Soul Commune with Thee (Listen) O My Father (Listen) O Thou Before the World Began (Listen) Our Savior's Love (Listen) Prayer is the Soul's Sincere Desire (Listen) Reverently, Quietly (Listen) Silent Night (Listen) Sweet Hour of Prayer (Listen) Sweet Is the Peace the Gospel Brings (Listen) Tell Me, Dear Lord (Listen) There Is a Green Hill Far Away (Listen) 'Tis Sweet to Sing the Matchless Love (Listen) Where Can I Turn for Peace (Listen) VOCAL A Widow's Lullaby at Winter Quarters, 1846 SPECIAL NARRATIONS The First Vision + "Oh, How Lovely" Easter Hymns: part 1 + Brahms Easter Hymns: part 2 + Brahms Nephi's Vision + Debussy Oliver Cowdery + Brahms King Benjamin + Samuel Barber Psalm of Nephi + Brahms CHORAL PIANO INSTRUMENTAL Home