"Eagles' Wings," musically, is another 2-step 'soft rock' piece. The genre is useful for slow dances and hotel lobby pianists, especially if they are near the hotel bar.
"'Eagles' Wings,' musically, is another 2-step 'soft rock' piece. The genre is useful for slow dances and hotel lobby pianists, especially if they are near the hotel bar."
I do not find it so.
Actually, I find that it is quite a bit more difficult to sing well than the other usual three-notes-up/three-notes-down church fare, because it goes through quite a range, and has interesting changes between the verses.
Anyway, I think all we're talking about here is matters of taste: you don't like the musical score. I do.
Nobody can argue that the text of the song is not sacred: it's the 91st Psalm.
So it comes down to a matter of what one thinks of the music.
De gustibus non disputandem.
Dear ninenot,
"On Eagle's Wings" isn't the worst of the new music, by a stretch. It's pretty inoffensive, with all that that implies.
My vote is let's go back to Gregorian chant for a hundred years or so (or at least until I'm dead), and then a future generation, that actually knows what Catholic music sounds like, can deal with the issue.
sitetest