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Track 4: Shepherd's Piece
"Shepherd's Piece" was the last song arranged and recorded. When the cellist was coming to the studio, I spent some time at the piano...

Esther McKay
Oct 11, 20231 min read
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Track 2: Just Going to a Mansion in Beulah Land
This title is one big casserole of song titles. This track includes: Just a Closer Walk with Thee Mansion over the Hilltop Dwelling in...

Esther McKay
Oct 10, 20232 min read
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Track 8: Elizabeth's Prayer (with Lord be Glorified)
"Always winter and never Christmas" - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe It was November of 2010 and this quote from the fall musical...

Esther McKay
Oct 8, 20232 min read
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Track 1: Thanksgiving Mashup
Which song best describes a heart of gratitude to God? With four songs together, I didn't have to pick just one. Sure there are other...

Esther McKay
Oct 6, 20231 min read
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Track 6: Come Thou Fount (with I Have Decided to Follow Jesus and Canon in D)
I made a first arrangement of this song around New Year's of 2005. I don't remember why I chose this song, but one of my students had...

Esther McKay
Oct 4, 20231 min read
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Track 7: What Are You Looking For?
This is a collection of three songs about what our life journey and purpose is. More Precious: "Nothing I desire compares with...

Esther McKay
Oct 2, 20231 min read
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Track 10: My Friends are Leaving
Well, that was a bit of an exaggeration.... however in one day, I found out that two of my friends at work were moving on to new projects...

Esther McKay
Sep 30, 20231 min read
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Track 5: Prayer for America
I have long thought that people, after God, are the most important thing. And so when I thinking of my country at patriotic seasons, what...

Esther McKay
Sep 28, 20231 min read
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Track 12: Cleanse Me
How do you play silence? How do you create solitude in a musical piece? When I picture where this song is being played, I think of being...

Esther McKay
Sep 25, 20231 min read
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Track 11: Abide with Me (Eventide)
What song do you play at a funeral? What do you want to say to the people who remain behind? I arranged this song for my great aunt's...

Esther McKay
Sep 23, 20232 min read
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Track 3: Wonderful, Merciful, Savior/Be Unto Your Name/Holy, Holy, Holy
The third track has 3 songs to it and is done in a 3/4 feel. The first two songs are given a chance to state their story and then they...

Esther McKay
Sep 16, 20231 min read
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Track 9: Three Rivers
About the track "Three Rivers"

Esther McKay
Sep 16, 20231 min read
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Why Seasons?
Why call this album Seasons? To answer this, let me go back to the first album "Songs with Stories." Why use that name? Some of the...

Esther McKay
Sep 10, 20232 min read
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