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    Simple Gifts Pendyrus Choir Choral performance of Pendyrus Choir Problems playing this file? See media help. "Simple Gifts" is a Shaker song written and...
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    Air and Simple Gifts is a quartet composed and arranged by American composer John Williams for the January 20, 2009, inauguration of Barack Obama as the...
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    Simple Gifts is a folk trio from Central Pennsylvania founded in 1989. Since 1995, it has consisted of Linda Littleton (fiddle, hammered dulcimer, bowed...
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    Appalachian Spring (category Works based on Simple Gifts)
    lyrics of "Simple Gifts" are connected to the ballet's themes of peace and remembrance during wartime: "'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free"...
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    Shakers (category Simple living)
    instrumental groups mark a departure from traditional Shaker practice. Simple Gifts was composed in 1848 by Elder Joseph Brackett, on or about the time he...
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  • Mourning (2004). An updated version of Stan's story, Colleen Stan, The Simple Gifts of Life by Jim Green, was published in 2009. The 1990 song "Girl in a...
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  • spiritual "gift" could also be a musical revelation, and they considered it important to record musical inspirations as they occurred. "Simple Gifts" was composed...
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  • Lord of the Dance (hymn) (category Works based on Simple Gifts)
    Sydney Carter in 1963. The melody is from the American Shaker song "Simple Gifts". The hymn is widely performed in English-speaking congregations and...
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    composed the quartet Air and Simple Gifts for the first inauguration of Barack Obama. The piece is based on the hymn "Simple Gifts", made famous by Aaron Copland...
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  • Chorale and Shaker Dance (category Works based on Simple Gifts)
    musical themes, an original melody (the "chorale") and the Shaker tune, "Simple Gifts". It begins with a woodwind chorale composed of piccolo, flute, oboe...
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  • Meditations – with Soulfood (2001) Soulfood Music A Simple Gift (2002) Proton Discs (Debut release of Simple Gifts) Guitar Meditations II – with Soulfood (2005)...
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    stores under the name Spencer Gifts, Adler sold Spencer Gifts to entertainment conglomerate MCA in 1967. In 2003, Spencer's Gifts was completely rebranded...
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  • members Philip Lawson and Bob Chilcott. Pieces in this set could include "Simple Gifts", "Deep River", "Down to the River to Pray", and "Stand Still Jordan"...
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    known as the Shakers. The most famous song attributed to Brackett, "Simple Gifts", is still widely performed and adapted. Brackett was born in Cumberland...
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    Gifts Congratulations Gifts Engagement Gifts Housewarming party Gifts Women's day Gifts Valentine's Day Promotional gifts vary from the normal gifts....
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  • published his autobiography: Simple Gifts – a life in the theatre. He died, aged 89, on 5 April 2020. George Ogilvie (2006). Simple Gifts – A Life in the Theatre...
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    American Heritage Lyceum Philharmonic recorded the tune for their album Simple Gifts 2019 – Jenny Oaks Baker performed a Kurt Bestor arrangement of it with...
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  • Old American Songs (category Works based on Simple Gifts)
    (minstrel song from 1843) The Dodger (campaign song) Long Time Ago (ballad) Simple Gifts (Shaker song) I Bought Me a Cat (children's song, Roud Folk Song Index...
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  • "Lord of the Dance" (1967), whose music is based on the Shaker song "Simple Gifts", and for the song "The Crow on the Cradle", which was recorded by Jackson...
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    songwriting of Joseph Brackett, including, according to most accounts, Simple Gifts, and the spiritual healing of the sick by the Shakers. When the Alfred...
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    annual Pioneer Day concert where she performed Scotland the Brave and Simple Gifts. Stirling also announced her first tour dates in Australia, South Korea...
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    Our God" (c.1636), a hymn of German origin written by Martin Rinkart. "Simple Gifts" (1848), a Shaker hymn attributed to Joseph Brackett. "Thanksgiving"...
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  • cappella group the King's Singers covered the song on their 2008 album Simple Gifts and The Young'uns covered it a cappella on their 2012 album When Our...
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    Witnessing a Witness of History", pp. 19–21 in 'Spirit of America, Vol. 39: Simple Gifts', La Crosse, WI: DigiCOPY, 2017, Essay by David Joseph Marcou about his...
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    Ypres (Poem) Christmas Truce 1914 Simple Gifts: 25 December 1914 on YouTube – R.O. Blechman presents Simple Gifts (1977 animation TV special) 25 December...
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    by Thomas Tallis (2006), as well as the Grammy Award winning album "Simple Gifts" (2008). "David Hurley (Koorschool Delft)". Retrieved 30 January 2019...
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  • In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership. A "fee" is a vested, inheritable, present possessory...
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  • songs and favorites including "Country Roads", "Hail, West Virginia", "Simple Gifts" (from Appalachian Spring), "Fight, Mountaineers", "Mountain Dew", and...
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    recorded as a duet with Andy Williams "Thank You for Christmas" (2006) "Simple Gifts" (2006) "It Had to Be You" (2007) Duets (2007) Solitude and Sunshine...
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    Rouge Symphony Orchestra in 2005. He performed John Williams' "Air and Simple Gifts" at the inauguration ceremony for Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, along...
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