One of my many favorite hymns! “When We All Get to Heaven” is more of an upbeat hymn.
The lyrics were written by Eliza E. Hewitt. She was a school teacher from Philadelphia. One of her students hit her with a heavy slate on her back. She suffered a severe spinal injury from this incident.
She was an invalid the rest of her life. Eliza chose to write uplifting poetry and gospel hymns the rest of her life. A different person wrote the music to this well-loved hymn.
She met a lady, Emily Wilson, at summer camp. They became friends and Emily wrote the tune to “When We All Get to Heaven.”
Advanced sacred piano solo arranged by Jenifer Cook
Contains: Intro. verse one chorus, key change, 2nd verse and chorus with ending.
Keys: B flat to C Major. Three pages Approximately: One minute and 50 seconds.
Do you have singers at your church who can’t sing Statue of Liberty because of the challenging note range? Hopefully they can sing this patriotic song with the following two changes. (pics below)
A guy in our a church has always sung Statue of Liberty for many years on July 4th Sunday.
This year found him not able to reach the real low or high spots 🙁
So…I tweaked the melody in two places on the first page. I also lowered this patriotic song to A major which better fit his range.
He’s normally a tenor so the lower notes are not his friend but reachable with these two changes. 😉
I have been writing a lot of music for my students who help out on the pianos during the services.
Just finished writing “Jesus Paid it All” today! I will try to do better. It’s just that I’ve been writing a lot more hymn congregationals for my students who are helping out a whole lot more in the services!
Would you like to hear from some of my students who are involved in playing for our services?
My older two grandsons are now learning how to add to the hymns in the hymnal. I LOVE teaching them!
Oh! This article should have been all about this published arrangement but just so excited about my students being involved in our church music ministry!
Early advanced sacred piano solo arranged by Jenifer Cook.
Contains: Introduction, verse one, interluded then verse two with a simple yet elegant ending.
Sacred vocal solo (low voice)
This is one of my favorites that Dad wrote many years ago.
Contains three verses. "Yes I am His and He is mine. Not for the moment but for all time!)
Early elementary sacred piano solo. 2 pgs.
Key of F Major
I wrote this for one of my grandaughters who is almost in book level 2B by Randall & Nancy Faber.
