How Beautiful Is the Child

Their first Christmas collection!
Carey Landry and Carol Jean Kinghorn, composers of some of the most popular music for children and for liturgy over the past 35 years, have created their first Christmas collection!

14 wonderful songs for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany
Designed for adult choirs, children''s choirs, liturgical celebrations, liturgies with children and catechetical moments, How Beautiful Is the Child offers 14 wonderful songs for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.

Includes new arrangments of traditional hymns
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 arrangement of his classic hymn "Hail Mary: Gentle Woman" and "Silent Night" to form a beautiful medley; an innovative setting 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.

Music in a variety of styles for children and adults
From energetic music for children to more contemplative hymns for adults, Carey and Carol Jean have included songs in a variety of musical styles, both contemporary and traditional.

Two programs for Christmas pageants
The songbook includes two programs for using the music -- in the sequence of the recording -- in a Christmas pageant. Program 1 is for a pageant featuring an adult choir and a children''s choir. 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.

Instrumental CD serves as accompaniment or background for prayer
The instrumental CD is perfect for use as accompaniment in the classroom and for the children''s or adult choirs in a Christmas pageant. It can also serve as a soothing background for prayer and meditation during Advent and Christmas.

The collection closes with the adult choir urging all to "Go Out and Tell the Good News." Celebrate the Good News of Jesus'' birth with the music of How Beautiful Is the Child!