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Song Study 11. AN INTERLUDE: SOME GREAT WELSH HYMNS

SONG STUDY (11) An Interlude: Some Great Welsh Hymns I am not of Welsh descent, but I find the Welsh hymns very stirring. I'm sure this is true of many of you. Here is a short list of videos and a video on the Welsh Revival of 1904/5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6UZF8_BQL    Love Divine All Loves Excelling, to the tune Blaenwern. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm93QW08yZQ    Guide me O thou Great Jehovah to the tune Cwm  Rhondda with soloist Harry Secombe. This begins with Harry singing overlooking the Rhondda valley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIep17oeV20&list=RDpIep17oeV20&start_radio=1   Guide me O thou Great Jehovah, sung in Welsh by a male choir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHVmcSQjHTE Here is Love, Vast as the Ocean. Sometimes called the love hymn of the 1904/5 revival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMcsNEHVGdU J Edwin Orr speaking about the revival of 1904/5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM4mIlYKG9s   The Welsh National Ant