Product Description
Looking for the perfect song for your Christmas Eve service? As music director and pianist at my church, I was too! So one year I decided to write this one. Perhaps the ideal way to present this song is with a soloist who is joined by a choir of adults (or children!) singing in unison on the second
and third choruses--emulating a choir of angels. When used this way, this song provides an
easy way to stretch your rehearsal time at the Christmas season, as the
choir can easily participate, yet there is no learning of extra parts. Brimming with worship of the Christ Child from the very first lyric, Heaven's Here to Stay begins by quietly evoking the atmosphere of the stable. When the chorus arrives, the jubilant singing of the angels arrives as well: "Glory in the highest, for the Peace of heaven comes to earth! Glory in the highest--Hope itself was born in Jesus's birth. For Death is dying, Fear is cowering, Light is chasing Night away. The burning love of heaven's here to stay." The second verse takes us from the manger scene to the hills of Judea, where we hear Jesus's words: "Come, you weary ones to me, I will give you rest. Trade your tattered rags for my robes of purest white. Come, you hungry, eat, be satisfied. You're all need, but I'm all giving; be still and just receive." The PDF contains parts in this order: 1.Voice/Piano full score in C 2.Violin part in C 3.Lead Sheet in C 4.Lead Sheet in D 5.Violin part in D 6.Piano/Violin/Voice full score in C.
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