LDS Music Competition 2008

And the results are in! Well, neither of the pieces I submitted won this year, but I did have another finalist. My setting of “Come Thou Fount” apparently went over well, and that’s the piece I had the highest hopes for. I’m content with that. I figure with my limited experience, being a finalist alongside [...]

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LDS Music Sites

I noticed on my stats that I’ve been getting a lot of people directed to my site who are googling the LDS music competition, which I wrote about a while back. (Keep your fingers crossed for me, this year’s results should be back in another week or two. Unfortunately, I realized that we moved after [...]

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Sing, sweet nightingale

So if you’re a regular reader of this blog, or if you’ve ever met her, you’ll know by now that Amanda loves to sing. When she started singing late at night a few weeks ago, it took us a while to figure out what she was singing. I know Mike figured it out and told [...]

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Music of the night?

Last weekend, Amanda spent the day at her Grammy’s house, and so she took a late nap that afternoon. She was a bit cranky at bedtime, since she was still a little tired out, but she fell asleep after crying about being in bed for a while. Katie usually goes to bed a little while [...]

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Big fish in a big pond

I thought I’d write about something random today, to get my mind off the fact that we’re attempting to potty-train Amanda – it’s not going so well (I’m sure we’ll have fodder for some posts, though). I remember when I was at BYU, and even just when I was getting ready to start my freshman [...]

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Music competition

So, if you’ve read my profile, you’ll know I write music. Mostly as a hobby; I haven’t gotten anyone to publish it yet. Unfortunately, there’s only one big LDS publishing company out there, and they don’t seem to like my music. However, last year I entered a piece into the annual music competition on www.lds.org. It’s [...]

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