What People are Saying
Come Sing a Song with Me was published in October, the Unitarian Universalist Association's first music resource since 2005's Singing the Journey.
"I’m a piano teacher, and many of my students are from my congregation. We’ve just started using the book during lessons this week. I hope to have several of my students play from the book during service at the end of March.
"I love the selection.
The accompaniments are a good bit easier than our regular hymn books, but still
sound nice. It’s too easy for my more advanced students, but since it includes
guitar chords, we use it as a lesson in fake book reading."
—Kelly Muzzin, member and musician at
Bull Run Unitarian Universalists, Manassas, VA
"Come Sing a Song with Me has been a success with our RE classes and our children's choir. Very
good selection of attractive, performable material (at a nice variety of levels
suitable for both beginning and advanced childrens' choirs, and RE classes). The
formatting is very smart, and it's nice to have the different versions."
—Tom Benjamin, Director of Music Ministry, UU Congregation of Columbia, Columbia, MD
"I am happy to report that we used Come Sing a Song with Me when we had a Spirit of Life Adult RE group. One of the participants helped us by using the easy-to-read format, and was able to play for us."
—De Anna Hoyle, RE Coordinator, Pagosah UU Fellowship, Pagosa Springs, CO
"I bought a copy of Come Sing a Song with Me to help the guest accompanists we have from our congregation to play for our monthly Children's Chapel (Ages 3 to 11). It's also been helpful for me to get ideas for what songs are most kid-friendly."
—Leah Purcell, Director of Religious Education, First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany, Albany, NY
"I use it primarily for a "Soulful Sundown"-type outreach service. The
songs in it are what might be called, "low church" versus the "high church"
hymns of dead white Germans and Austrians that usually have to be played on an
expensive organ! The high vs. low distinction is meant in liturgical way,
very formal instead of very casual. The songs lend themselves to a casual
group format, which is where, I believe, all worship services are
moving."
—Dana Reynolds, Interim Minister, Nora Church, Hanska, MN
Last updated on Monday, February 9, 2009.
