Comments on: BYU Mens Chorus Closing Hymn in April 2007 Priesthood Session

By: Darren Rollins

Darren Rollins — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:46:04 +0000

This song from Priesthood session was published along with the CDs from general conference that year. Priesthood is included if you buy the CDs of conference. I have this and agree this is as close to angelic choir singing as I’ve experienced.

May I also add that the BYU men’s chorus did a version of “Who is He in Yonger Stall” in their Christmas concert two years ago that was equal or even better than this performance of “I Love the Lord” which is hard to imagine. It made we weep sitting in the auditorium. Each new verse they started I became more moved and conscious of the fact that I was going to lose it in front of my wife and 600 strangers.

Major applause for the BYU men’s chorus for moving hearts and souls. Please keep delivering such performances of this spirit and theme. They’re a blessing to all of us. And, of course, men’s chorus is the greatest. Also, they’re performance of “Sing Praise to Him” was wonderful in conference and introduced me for the first time to that hymn (page 70) which is astounding, yet is oft overlooked.

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By: JACKMAN MUSIC

JACKMAN MUSIC — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:16:17 +0000

By posting the words and the recorded music of this piece of music and any other copyrighted music you are in violation of Federal Copyright Laws.
Jackman Music is the publisher and copyright holder of “I Love the Lord” and we are asking you to remove both word and music from this website.
If there is a need to purchase this sheet music then anyone can get it at jackmanmuisc.com

By: Ifanomezana Rasolondraibe

Ifanomezana Rasolondraibe — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:08:42 +0000

I always love hymns during General Conference because of the Spirit you feel.
I am a counselor in the Stake presidency and am looking for free sheet music of hymns arrangement performed during the last few general conferences (especially: Redeemer of Israel and Called to Serve, by Mack Wilberg) Our Stake choir is planning to sing them during upcoming stake conference, and I would like to know if someone can help me about where I may find these sheet music.
Thanks,
Ifano

By: tapehoser

tapehoser — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:04:41 +0000

Is there a way to post this MP3 to my blog? If anyone has any bright ideas, I’d love to hear it!

And thanks for the song. Gives me instant chills every time I listen. Love it!

By: Janet Kroupa

Janet Kroupa — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:48:51 +0000

I only just heard this hymn and searched to find the lyrics. Thank you so much! The arrangement is amazing!!

By: Rodrigo Bonicenha

Rodrigo Bonicenha — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:56:53 +0000

Dude, thanks so much for this song, I have been looking for it since that conference session … tahnks so so much

By: Troy Quinlan

Troy Quinlan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:42 +0000

Thank you for sharing this. Perhaps the most angelic song I’ve ever heard!

By: aceroinox

aceroinox — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:45:08 +0000

The sheet music is published by Jackman Music. You can download it from Jackman Music Express:
http://www.jackmanmusicexpress.com/cart.php?target=product&product_id=258&category_id=61

or order a hard copy of the sheet music from their main website at:
http://www.jackmanmusic.com/index.php?.State=detail&stock=01792

I put together a double male quartet to sing this number for one of the sessions of our stake conference. It was quite an experience, but you need really strong, accomplished voices to carry this off.

It’s worth noting that this number was sung right after it was first written by the combined men of the Tabernacle Choir and BYU Men’s
Chorus at the priesthood session of the October 1999 General Conference. It has also been recorded by the BYU University Singers on one of their albums. Both performances were also directed by Ronald Staheli, but neither had the impact that the April 2007 priesthood session performance had (as witnessed by the fact that Brother Staheli waited until last year to publish the TTBB version of the sheet music in response to the surge of requests resulting from last year’s performance). Anyone contemplating performing this number needs to take the time to consider why the difference in response, and what they might do to ensure their performance evokes a response more like the latter than the former performances.

You may be interested also in reading the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies article by John S. Tanner (lyricist, Academic Vice President of BYU, professor of English and husband of Susan W. Tanner) discussing the process he went through to write the lyrics to I Love the Lord and another hymn based on Nephi’s Psalm:
http://farms.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=10&num=2&id=253

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:23:25 +0000

I just wanted to also say thank you for going to the trouble to provide this music file. I was at this conference and I have never heard any musical piece that was as powerful as this one was. I normally don’t notice things like that. It’s nice to know that I was not he only one blown away by this performance.