Glad you asked Tiber! It's not necessarily Catholic but it is a Christian connection. I composed that tune about 12 years ago to be performed at the baby dedication of an irish lad at my old evangelical church. we didn't babptize babies! I recently asked the father of this young man who is now 12 if he has been baptized and thankfully his dad said yes!
Whenever I play the hammer dulcimer I imagine that each note is a prayer that goes up to heaven . I sometimes think that it is such a beautiful instrument that surely God is glorified by it's sound and I give Him all the credit for gifting me with the ability to learn to play it. The Tibetan's have a prayer wheel they spin as they walk by that says prayers for them. Well, this isn't that , but surely nearly a thousand notes are played in one short song and I like to imagine that each note is a praise to the Lord. When this tune was recorded, I was playing live on a radio station in northern Jersey and was praying like crazy that I wouldn't hit a bad note!
What does this have to do with Crossing the Tiber? What can possibly be the Catholic connection here?
ReplyDeleteGlad you asked Tiber! It's not necessarily Catholic but it is a Christian connection. I composed that tune about 12 years ago to be performed at the baby dedication of
ReplyDeletean irish lad at my old evangelical church. we didn't babptize babies! I recently asked the father of this young man who is now 12 if he has been baptized and thankfully his dad said yes!
Whenever I play the hammer dulcimer I imagine that each note is a prayer that goes up to heaven . I sometimes think that it is such a beautiful instrument that surely God is glorified by it's sound and I give Him all the credit for gifting me with the ability to learn to play it. The Tibetan's have a prayer wheel they spin as they walk by that says prayers for them. Well, this isn't that , but surely nearly a thousand notes are played in one short song and I like to imagine that each note is a praise to the Lord.
When this tune was recorded, I was playing live on a radio station in northern Jersey and was praying like crazy that I wouldn't hit a bad note!
Doesn't sound familiar...gloves, remember?
ReplyDeleteThat' s why I never do cover tunes!
ReplyDeleteI live in fear that someone won't recognize what tune it is!
Just kidding, Bro! Like I wouldn't recognise your opening tune at every performance I've been to?
ReplyDeleteOh wait...maybe it's Jacob's Ladder...aw, I forget.
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