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Hymn Story: Simple Gifts

October 17, 2021 Leave a comment

<img width="400" height="280" src="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/gift-553143__340-1.jpg?resize=400%2C280&ssl=1" class="alignleft wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/gift-553143__340-1.jpg?resize=400%2C280&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/gift-553143__340-1.jpg?resize=100%2C70&ssl=1 100w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" data-attachment-id="6676" data-permalink="https://dianaleaghmatthews.com/fear-of-the-lord/gift-553143__340-2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/gift-553143__340-1.jpg?fit=510%2C340&ssl=1" data-orig-size="510,340" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="gift-553143__340" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="<p>What gifts do you possess? How can you use them for the glory of God?</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/gift-553143__340-1.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dianaleaghmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/gift-553143__340-1.jpg?fit=510%2C340&ssl=1" />

Simple Gifts is attributed to Joseph Brackett, a member of the Alfred Shaker Village. It was composed in 1848, and relatively unknown until Aaron Copeland used the melody in the score of Martha Graham’s ballet Appalachian Spring, first performed in 1944. Copeland used the song a second time “in 1950 in his first set of Old American Songs.” Several Shaker […]

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Hymn Story: Simple Gifts