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		By: Patty Sampson		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://ldsblogs.com/30625/music-in-the-home#comment-541468&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sevy&lt;/a&gt;.

That&#039;s awesome!  I had never thought of recording rehearsals and singing along in the car.  You&#039;ve done a wonderful thing bringing the hymns into more homes.  Keep up the good work! I&#039;m also touched by the fact your choir is performing so well together with infrequent rehearsals. The Lord is blessing you. And it reminds me of a saying I heard once, that when the ward choir sings the angels sing too.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://ldsblogs.com/30625/music-in-the-home#comment-541468">Jonathan Sevy</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s awesome!  I had never thought of recording rehearsals and singing along in the car.  You&#8217;ve done a wonderful thing bringing the hymns into more homes.  Keep up the good work! I&#8217;m also touched by the fact your choir is performing so well together with infrequent rehearsals. The Lord is blessing you. And it reminds me of a saying I heard once, that when the ward choir sings the angels sing too.</p>
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		By: Jonathan Sevy		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Late last year I was called to start a ward choir, after nearly 15 years without one. I am not a choir director. In studying the Manuals and pondering them, I came to the conclusion that the primary purpose of the ward choir is not ward music, but hymns in the homes of our members. Moms or dads rehearsing at home, the rest of the family humming along silently, ponderizing together in a spontaneous, informal manner. 

How could we encourage and enable that? www.LDS.org Interactive Music Player is a huge asset. We can send the link (e.g. https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/the-morning-breaks?lang=eng) by email. We also record our choir rehearsing an upcoming hymn, using a cell phone, and email that recording to every member of the choir to sing along with at home, in the car, while walking, during activities of daily life. No time taken from other activities - just beauty and inspiration introduced into those mundane activities.
For most of our performances over the past 5 months, 1/3 to 1/2 of the choir had attended only 1 or 2 get-together rehearsals, but the sound and dynamics were astounding. Less cost, less travel, less time to be an active member of the Church. More importantly, in my view, the hymns were being sung in more homes.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Late last year I was called to start a ward choir, after nearly 15 years without one. I am not a choir director. In studying the Manuals and pondering them, I came to the conclusion that the primary purpose of the ward choir is not ward music, but hymns in the homes of our members. Moms or dads rehearsing at home, the rest of the family humming along silently, ponderizing together in a spontaneous, informal manner. </p>
<p>How could we encourage and enable that? <a href="http://www.LDS.org" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.LDS.org</a> Interactive Music Player is a huge asset. We can send the link (e.g. <a href="https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/the-morning-breaks?lang=eng" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/the-morning-breaks?lang=eng</a>) by email. We also record our choir rehearsing an upcoming hymn, using a cell phone, and email that recording to every member of the choir to sing along with at home, in the car, while walking, during activities of daily life. No time taken from other activities &#8211; just beauty and inspiration introduced into those mundane activities.<br />
For most of our performances over the past 5 months, 1/3 to 1/2 of the choir had attended only 1 or 2 get-together rehearsals, but the sound and dynamics were astounding. Less cost, less travel, less time to be an active member of the Church. More importantly, in my view, the hymns were being sung in more homes.</p>
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