'Hymn Creations' new album from Michael R. Hicks

Thousands of LDS teenagers hear and sing his vocal arrangements
every summer at Especially for Youth camps, but on this new
album, composer and arranger Michael R. Hicks lets the
instruments do the work.

Hymn Creations runs the gamut of styles, featuring big
celebratory arrangements like "Rejoice the Lord is King," and
more contemplative performances like "I Need Thee Every
Hour."  In this interview Mike talks about his personal—and
sometimes surprising—connection to the hymns he's chosen, about
doing his best writing away from the piano, and why he thinks
hymns are to music what the scriptures are to literature.

That's this week on The Cricket and Seagull.

Playlist
Come Ye Children of the Lord
How Gentle God's Commands
Come Thou Fount
Jesus the Very Thought of Thee
Amazing Grace
Dearest Children God is Near You
Green Hill
We Thank Thee
Come Follow Me
Rejoice the Lord is King
I Need Thee Every Hour
I Know that My Redeemer LIves