Sing and Rejoice
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This traditional round appears in Singing the Living Tradition as #395, where it was given the tune name MOORE in honor of Rev. Christopher Moore (1929-1987), who was the founding director of the Chicago Children's Choir.
From the website of First Unitarian Church of Chicago:
"[Moore] came to us as assistant minister in 1956, with the mandate to start a children’s choir to supplement our Sunday School and attract children and families to church. He gradually built this into a huge, city-wide organization far transcending our parish and even our Hyde Park community. In addition to our Society’s support, he soon got federal money through Urban Gateways for a while, and later grants from corporations and foundations… Over the years thousands of children of all races, creeds, and social statuses were drawn into the various units of the Choir. Thus our church had an enormous outreach into the entire metropolitan area. Indeed, the Choir regularly tours various parts of the nation, and in 1970 made its first tour of Europe."
This traditional round appears in Singing the Living Tradition as #395, where it was given the tune name MOORE in honor of Rev. Christopher Moore (1929-1987), who was the founding director of the Chicago Children's Choir.
From the website of First Unitarian Church of Chicago:
"[Moore] came to us as assistant minister in 1956, with the mandate to start a children’s choir to supplement our Sunday School and attract children and families to church. He gradually built this into a huge, city-wide organization far transcending our parish and even our Hyde Park community. In addition to our Society’s support, he soon got federal money through Urban Gateways for a while, and later grants from corporations and foundations… Over the years thousands of children of all races, creeds, and social statuses were drawn into the various units of the Choir. Thus our church had an enormous outreach into the entire metropolitan area. Indeed, the Choir regularly tours various parts of the nation, and in 1970 made its first tour of Europe."
Tune Name
MOORE
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Text Meter
Irregular
10.9.10.9
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Lyrics
Sing and rejoice.
Sing and rejoice.
Let all things living now
sing and rejoice.
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