Stephen Kramer

Children's Book Author

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“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”    Alphonse de Lamartine

“Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.”    Keith Richards

 

I love listening to music.  I’m a dabbler when it comes to playing music.  

There’s a piano in our house, a keyboard beside my computer, a banjo, a couple of recorders, and several tin whistles.  I also have a closetful of instruments not seen in a typical music store: a hurdy-gurdy, a harmonium, a half-set of uilleann pipes, an Anglo concertina, a mountain dulcimer, and a hammered dulcimer.  I’m not very good at playing any of them.  But, I was enchanted enough by the sound of each that I have spent some time trying to figure them out.

I’ve also dabbled in songwriting.  When I first started, a few years ago, my focus was country music.  Since then I have tried my hand at sacred music.  I’d like to experiment with some EDM and pop ideas as well.

A song I wrote, “Lord, Fill My Heart with Thankfulness,” has been published as a choral anthem by Augsburg Fortress (Minneapolis).  The arrangement, by Walter Krueger, can be found here:

Augsburg Easy Choirbook Vol 3

The song has lyrics about gratitude and a melody with sort of a Celtic feel.  I created a stop motion video for the song using cut paper.  The video is made of almost 6,000 still images.  Here are the lyric and non-lyric versions, as well as another video with some footage showing how the video was made:

Lord, Fill My Heart with Thankfulness (lyric version)

Lord, Fill My Heart with Thankfulness (non-lyric version)

The Making of Lord, Fill My Heart with Thankfulness

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