Faith Of Our Fathers
A year or so ago, I was channel hoping on the television and came one of the religious channels that had an all woman choir singing "Faith of Our Fathers". What caught my attention was that it sounded different than what I was accustomed to singing. I noticed that it appeared that the music the tenors were singing was very high and this really made the song wonderful to listen to and the words seemed to take on a new meaning to me.
I started searching for this arrangement and never could find it. But then I was working off of my memory and what the music should look like. After a while finding nothing but the traditional arrangement, I gave up and moved on to other things.
Then a strange thing happened. This past weekend I was scrolling through the PDF of E. O. Excell's hymnal, "Joy to the World", this song went by and I thought "High tenor notes?" And the memory of the song on television came rushing back. I then noticed that the arrangement was by H. F. Hemy and not by J. G. Walton. If I were to guess, this was the song I was looking for! I quickly re-scored the song with Mup and it's now part of our collection.
Faith of Our Fathers is one of those songs that reminds us of how important our faith is to us. Very encouraging and a joy to sing. I hope you like this arrangement.
Enjoy!
Ted