Hal Hopson: "The Gift of Love"

The Strathroy United Church Junior Choir leads the Senior Choir along with soloist Dawn Moyer in a lovely rendition of Hal Hopson's "The Gift of Love" as directed by organist and choir director Edith Hanselman as part of the May 11, 2008 Pentecost Christian Family Sunday service.

Hal H. Hopson is a full-time composer and church musician residing in Dallas, Texas. He has over 1000 published works, which comprise almost every musical form in church music. With a special interest in congregational song, he continues to make a significant contribution to the new repertoire of hymn tunes and responsorial psalm settings as evidenced by the proliferation of his settings that are included in newly published hymnals and psalm collections.

His cantata, God with Us, was one of the few compositions selected by a panel at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, to be placed in a capsule during the American Bicentennial in 1976. The capsule will be opened at the Tricentennial in 2076 and will be heard again as a representative piece of American choral composition of this century.

Hal is active as a conductor and clinician, having conducted choral festivals and workshops in this country, Europe, and Asia. More recently he has been recognized for his contribution to music by being included in The International Who's Who in Music, Cambridge, England, and by being awarded the esteemed title of National Patron by Delta Omicron, a national professional fraternity of musicians. He is active in several professional organizations, having served on the national boards of The Presbyterian Association of Musicians and Choristers Guild. As a member of ASCAP, Hal has received an annual award from that agency for many consecutive years.

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[ianfrancisvelasco]

The song justifies the singing.

What is righteousness, what is excellence in singing, if it is sung without love?

Peace and love. :)

[singintherain417]

he's my great uncle :D

[lastsonkrypton]

Tempo?

[gaarasemogirl7]

ic ant even hear the solo

[antrimbay]

Soprano solo sang well. Kids need more practice

to get confidence., The choir did pretty well though.  Not an easy anthem - so good on them for

attempting it.