How Beautiful Is the Child by Carey Landry (CD)

How Beautiful Is the Child (CD)

Music for Advent and Christmas 

Designed for adult choirs, children's choirs, liturgical celebrations, liturgies with children and catechetical moments, this resource offers wonderful music for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.

Composers of some of the most popular music for children and liturgy, Carey Landry and Carol Jean Kinghorn bring us this wonderful collection of music for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. Designed for adult choirs, children's choirs, liturgical celebrations, liturgies with children and catechetical moments, How Beautiful Is the Child offers songs in a variety of musical styles—from energetic music for children to more contemplative hymns for adults.

The collection opens with "Season Full of Promise," a delightful round for children's choir, and "Waiting in Silence," a hauntingly beautiful Advent hymn. Other highlights include Carey's a beautiful medley arrangement of his classic hymn "Hail Mary: Gentle Woman" and "Silent Night;" an innovative set of the traditional hymn "The Friendly Beasts," which children will love; and several pieces in which the adult choir and the children's choir sing together.

The songbook follows the sequence of the recording and includes two programs for using the music in a Christmas pageant. Program 1 is for a pageant featuring adult and children's choirs. Program 2 is designed for classes of children and young people in a faith-based school or Christian education program. Both are based on the Scripture readings for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.

Perfect for use as accompaniment in the classroom and for the children's or adult choirs in a Christmas pageant, the instrumental CD can also serve as a soothing background for prayer and meditation during Advent and Christmas.

Celebrate the good news of Jesus' birth and create beautiful celebrations for your assembly with the music of How Beautiful Is the Child!

List of Selections:
1.  Season Full of Promise - 2:33
2.  Children of the World, Rejoice! - 2:01
3.  Hail Mary: Gentle Woman/Silent Night - 4:32
4. Medley - 
5.  How Beautiful Is the Child! - 3:21
6.  God With a Human Face - 3:13
7.  God's Own Son In A Manger Lay - 2:14
8.  The Friendly Beasts - 2:46
9.  Where Do You Go, My Friend? - 2:51
10.  We're Going to Bethlehem - 2:14
11.  No Longer Gold and Frankincense - 2:37
12.  Peace! Peace! Let There Be Peace! - 3:15
13.  Go Out and Tell the Good News - 2:26
14.  A Little Child Shall Lead - 3:16
16.  Waiting in Silence - 3:45

Product Details:
Artists: Carey Landry, Carol Jean Kinghorn
Release Year: 2003
Genre: Holiday, Christian & Gospel, Christmas

Label: Oregon Catholic Press
Style: Christmas
Original Release Date: January 1, 2003
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Total Length: 40:16
Publisher: OCP
All selections BMI.
Made in the USA
Copyright: ? 2003 OCP All rights reserved
© 2003 Carey Landry and Carol Jean Kinghorn

Carey Landry and Carol Jean Kinghorn-Landry:
Best known for their Hi God series of songs for children, Carey and Carol Jean have also written songs for general worship—some of the most beloved of our time—including “Abba! Father” and “Hail Mary: Gentle Woman.”
Bio:
Carey Landry and Carol Jean Kinghorn-Landry are partners in marriage as well as in ministry. They’ve been ministering together in music and liturgy, religious education and prayer since 1972. Their music is known and used worldwide. In addition to their music ministry, Carey and Carol Jean both serve as hospital chaplains. Carey received a master’s in theology from the Catholic University of America. Carol Jean has a master’s in education from Butler University in Indianapolis.

Best known for their Hi God series of songs for children, Carey and Carol Jean have a longstanding commitment to leading children to Jesus. Initiated more than forty years ago, the Hi God series now includes more than seven volumes, including Hi God: First Communion, released in 2015 and the latest Hi God 7, released in 2018. Of course, Carey has also written songs for general worship—some of the most beloved of our time—including “Abba! Father” and “Hail Mary: Gentle Woman.”

Their grounding in parish ministry enables them to bring to their events a deep sense of what is needed at the parish and school levels. They have given workshops and concerts throughout the US and Canada, Australia, Europe, Ireland, and Scotland.

Carey and Carol Jean are coordinators of liturgical music at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Indianapolis, where Carey directs the choir.