Easter Anthem - William Billings

Ministry through Music - April 21, 2013 - Ensemble from The Chancel Choir; Scott Dean, director. Colonial composer William Billings, the father of American choral music, was writing and publishing collections of sacred songs without any formal training in music and limited elementary education. The result was a vigorous, unique proclamation of faith for mixed voices in harmony that fed the Sacred Harp style of American worship songs, to which Easter Anthem belongs. The words and music of these believers,