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I enjoy the singing of Katherine Jenkins,the Welsh beauty,who has so much variety from opera to pop. So many songs about faith,hope and love too!
It depends on my mood. My music collection includes Blues, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classical, Country, Raggae, 40s Standards, 50-60s oldies and Easy Listening.I enjoy the singing of Katherine Jenkins,the Welsh beauty,who has so much variety from opera to pop. So many songs about faith,hope and love too!
If you like, I'd like to listen to a youtube example of a song or two of hers you like.I enjoy the singing of Katherine Jenkins,the Welsh beauty,who has so much variety from opera to pop. So many songs about faith,hope and love too!
I enjoyed both of these beautiful renderings. Thankyou for sharing them. I cannot transfer YouTube on to this forum. Katherine Jenkins singing,'How Great Thou art',would be my first choiceIf you like, I'd like to listen to a youtube example of a song or two of hers you like.
Here's a couple of the very many I like a lot in the last year:
I also like various types of music ... Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classical, Chant, etc.It depends on my mood. My music collection includes Blues, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classical, Country, Raggae, 40s Standards, 50-60s oldies and Easy Listening.
I also like various types of music ... Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classical, Chant, etc.
I got into a lot of Classical music in my early adulthood, so, a lot of Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Vivaldi, etc.
I sand with an Orchestral Choir for 12 years, and so, became a fan of the various Requiems (Brahms, Mozart, Verdi, etc.), as well as some Opera. My exposure to Opera has been lesser, but I enjoy the singing of Kathleen Battle, Pavoratti, and the operas "La Boheme", and "La Traviata".
However, I am also a fan of the "light rock" bands Chicago, and the Eagles, plus a wide variety of other popular music. I liked Whitney Houston, Madonna, and others.
I also like various chant=type choral music, especially like the work "Brother Sun - Sister Moon" by the Cambridge Singers.
It can be like that ... I spent one sick day listening to different covers of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" ...I'm not a musician so that part of the musical world I'm completely ignorant of. M'Lady, who is a singer, has analyzed me and decided that I like the rhythm of music rather than singing. She is most likely right.
Most of the time, I set my music player to just play random songs from all the genres in my collection. Other times I crave just one style. Once or twice a year I seem to really need to hear "Hallelujah" over and over again. I go to YouTube and start with the Pentatonix version and end with Leonard Cohen but find random versions in between.
I like all kinds of music. For Christian music I like the old hymns, the choruses and songs from the 70's and 80's and some contemporary music. It is interesting to note that many hymns, particularly those written by Charles Wesley were subject to extreme scrutiny to test for scriptural accuracy in the words. We don't find that today. I can tell you easily Christian music I don't like, repetitious and lacking in real meaning. For me songs that build faith, relate the gospel and the Christian walk and those that lift up Jesus or the Father and not just play to our emotions are more for me. I will take the Old Rugged Cross over Fill Me Up any day or All Hail the Power of Jesus Name over One Thing Remains or any song that focuses on I see your face, I see your face. Not all but a lot of modern Contemporary Christian Music lacks real meaning, is simply to engage your emotion or in some cases factually innaccurate and in a few cases blasphemy.
That is not to say I don't like some modern CCM but overall I will take a hymn. Want to see your church light up on Sunday, sing All Hail the Power of Jesus Name or How Great Thou Art or one of my favorites Blessed Assurance or It is Well with my Soul. I could go on and include Victory in Jesus, Come thou Fount and not the modern version, or On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand, again not the mixed up version. So yes, I am not crazy about contemporary christian music but I do like some of it a lot. Most of it not so much. Too much repetition, too little truth and too much emotion. Give me some older Bill Gaither, Lanny Wolfe and newer songs about the gospel and Gods mercy and I am good.
A quote I recently read, don't know the origin - “Praise songs are to hymns what greeting cards are to literature”
You mentioned Jarrod Cooper. I like his singing and preaching. 'You are my Healer' by Jarrod CooperHere's my list of 'currently playing'. A good mixture of the old and new.
Allelulia Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol) - Choir of Norwich Cathedral
Lord Have Mercy - Robin Mark
Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God - Keith & Krytsten Getty
Jarrod Cooper - Eagles Wings
How Can I keep From Singing - Robert Kochis
Columba's Blessing - Northumbria Community
Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer - Kingsway Music