Stories Behind the Songs

the story of “The Silver Rain”
August 18, 2021 The Silver Rain Short Story “The Silver Rain”, words by Alice Henderson, music by Marianne Zimmerman. I wrote an a cappella SATB harmonization of this after Mary Alice and I learned it from Harry and Edith Barron who had learned it while living in the

the story behind “I Still Have Joy”
August 3, 2021Dear Singing Friends,This is the first of a series on the songs in our Amidon Online Sheet Music Download Library/Store:I Still Have Joy Short Story“I Still Have Joy”, by Danny Mccrimmon and Joseph Calvin Jackson, is a classic African American gospel song that I arranged for a

Free Downloads
Here is an alphabetical list of Free Downloads, with links to the free pdf files. Unless otherwise noted, all of these are SATB a cappella, arranged by Peter Amidon. Abecedarius – Peter’s unison setting of a 19th century Shaker poem; a children’s alphabetical list of animals. Abolitionist My