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COSTLY GIFTS

COSTLY GIFTS

Composer: Alfred V. Fedak
Published in 2 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Alfred V. Fedak

Alfred Fedak (b. 1953), is a well-known organist, composer, and Minister of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill in Albany, New York. He graduated from Hope College in 1975 with degrees in organ performance and music history. He obtained a Master’s degree in organ performance from Montclair State University, and has also studied at Westminster Choir College, Eastman School of Music, the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, and at the first Cambridge Choral Studies Seminar at Clare College, Cambridge. As a composer, he has over 200 choral and organ works in print, and has three published anthologies of his work (Selah Publishing). In 1995, he was named a Visiting Fellow in Church Music at Episcopal Seminary of… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: COSTLY GIFTS
Composer: Alfred V. Fedak
Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7.8.8
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Music © 1995, Selah Publishing Co., Inc.

Texts

Have We Any Gift Worth Giving


Have we any gift worth giving to the Giver of all
things?
What would please the ever-living, one true God
from whom life springs?
Not dead gold or merchandise, but a living sacrifice:
worship both profound and freeing, serving God

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Instances

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Lift Up Your Hearts #872

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Sing! A New Creation #214

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