Music lovers describe the impact of the tune, Simple Gifts, a Shaker Hymn which was used by composer Aaron Copland. From August 2011. Show more Simple Gifts started life as a Shaker Hymn and became ...

In a small, wood-framed church on a hill overlooking the ocean in Sedgwick, Maine, Bill Henderson belts out hymns. In Simple Gifts (Free Press, 162 pp., $12.99), Henderson -- who founded and edits the ...

It's almost more truth than I can bear to express," writes Henderson about a line from "Amazing Grace" in his brief meditation on the importance of hymns in American Christian life. Henderson, the ...

Simple Gifts started life as a Shaker Hymn and became incorporated into the hymn Lord of the Dance and Aaron Copland's ballet suite Appalachian Spring. Nora Guthrie describes the central place this ...