SONG.REVIEWSThe Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square
Released March 24, 2009
The Tabernacle Choir's Mack Wilberg arrangement is the reason this 1758 hymn returned to the choir's own church hymnal -- a big, carefully built reading that turns a first-person confession into something a congregation-sized choir can sing as 'we.'
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Forrest Frank's 'Come Thou Font,' from his 2023 lo-fi and hip-hop hymn record New Hymns, is the pun in the title and a genuine attempt to hand a 1758 text to a listener with headphones on.
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Sufjan Stevens recorded his banjo-led version in 2002 for a Christmas EP and released it in 2006 in the Songs for Christmas box set -- a hymn about waiting, recast as an Advent song, that builds to an unaccompanied finish.
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