Would you post the poem? The song was lovely, a pleasure to hear but I would have loved the lyrics at the same time <G> Eliz Not Today and Not without a Fight (Anon) For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. (Dag Hammarskjold) On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Cheryl Williams <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > I wrote to the list in May this year to seek help in finding the hymn > music that accompanied the lyrics my grandmother SARAH THORNE wrote in 1913 > for the Senghenydd disaster. I had no success in finding the music so I > contacted the Senghenydd Heritage Centre asking if they would consider > including her words as a reading during one of the events taking place > during the centenary. To my delight they agreed and it is planned it will > now be sung to a Welsh hymn at the Gymanfa Ganu Service on the 13th October. > > Further to this the Welsh singers and composers Dan and Laura Curtis who > sing the Great American Songbook music asked if they could write new music > for Sarahs hymn. The new music, which is beautiful, has now been recorded > and is currently on YouTube (Prepare to Meet thy God). This talented couple > have also written "A Miners Song" also on YouTube this is the Charity > single to raise funds for the National Mining Memorial. Sarahs hymn with > the new music will be performed at the Blackwood Miners Institute Concert > on the 5th October 2013. > > I would just like to share with the GLA list this wonderful and exciting > thing that has happened through doing Family History research. > > Best Wishes > Cheryl > Kettering. > > > From: Cheryl Williams <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013, 15:04 > Subject: [GLA] Senghenydd Disaster > > > Hello listers. > > The following is a newspaper item printed after the Senghenydd Disaster: > > The memorial service for the victims of the Senghenydd disaster was > conducted at the St Peters Chuch on Sunday evening when the sacred edifice > was crowded. The sermon was delivered by the Rev, Campbell Davies, > curate-in-charge. Among the hymns sang during the service was one composed > by the Bishop of Durham and another by Mrs Thorne, of Abertridwr, both of > which were composed after the disaster and relatives to the same. The dead > march was also touchingly rendered. > > Mrs Sarah Ann Thorne was my grandmother, the hymn she composed was called, > Prepare To Meet Thy God, the four verses were printed on sheets and sold > for one penny. The proceeds of the sale went towards erecting a Memorial > Plate. This Plate is still held at St Peters Senghenydd in memory of those > who lost their lives in the explosion. > > I do not know what music was composed for the hymn, would the sheet music > be held in an archive somewhere? > > As this year is the 100th anniversary of the Senghenydd disaster I would > really like to trace it. > > Can the list help with this enquiry. > > Best wishes > Cheryl > Kettering. > -- > > -- > > To send to the list send to [email protected] > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be > found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >