Week of 28 December 2015

29 December 2015
          While working on back-list restorations today, I started new engravings for Robert Manookin’s choral setting of Beautiful Savior. It hasn't sold well, but it is an important part of his history, and I have decided not to let it go to “download only”. He wrote the arrangement in response to an invitation from Jerold Ottley and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the 1980s. It is chromatic and a bit challenging to the ear—probably one of the first in that series. He mellowed greatly later on—calling the process ”repentance.”