Contemporary Orchestrations

I just spent a few minutes on the wordmusicnow.com site, and was pretty impressed with the amount of stuff available on their site.  They sell orchestrations of contemporary worship songs for rhythm section, along with choral parts and orchestra parts.

Have any readers used any of their materials before?  Any staff arrangers you like or don’t like?  I’d love to hear your impressions of it.

His Faithfulness – Amy Carmichael

Recently I’ve been enjoying His Faithfulness, a CD by Jim Spencer in which he puts 10 Amy Carmichael’s poems to new, original tunes.  I’ve been enjoying not only her poetry, but also the way Spencer has set them to simple, beautiful tunes.  It didn’t blow me over on the first listen, but the more I’ve listened to it, I’ve been noticing the quiet beauty in the way it’s put together.

It also is a good primer on putting together string parts for a soloist – Carl Marsh did an outstanding job.