In the Presence of Jehovah
By Geron Davis. Arranged by Paul Ferrin.
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In the Presence of Jehovah
From a distributor’s page:
…this spiritually dynamic offering captures the mystery and majesty of personal worship. Easy to learn, but hard to forget, this gospel classic will inspire and uplift.
Behind the Scenes
Well hooray! We do have a livestream recording this week, though I can’t predict what will happen in the future. The balance was quite good between our soloist and the choir. There are some audio issues still, particularly with the kick drum, but I was on the verge on tears listening to the playback, from the music itself, not the audio quality.
I was running screens for this one—turning the slides—rather than singing, but we still had a good turnout of altos. Screens is a high concentration, occasionally nervewracking job where I don’t get to become emotionally involved, let alone cry. For the livestream it consists of timing the lyrics displayed at the bottom of the screen. The main (audience) screens, displaying lyrics over animated backgrounds, may sometimes be caught by the cameras, but not this time that I could see. Here’s how it looked from the screens console, early this morning.
The lyrics timing was a little choppy because I had limited opportunity to practice the precise turns. I noticed that there were also issues with how the lyrics looked, but I don’t create the slides and I don’t have time to proof and correct the “lower 3rds” feed to the livestream booth, so what you see is what I receive from the team, and the present console configuration does make lower thirds somewhat difficult to proof.
Next up, Palm Sunday.
Recorded at Christ Community Church, Carmichael, California, April 6, 2025
Excerpted from this livestream.