2025 Sacred Piano Reading Session: Part 1

Stanton’s Sheet Music is pleased to welcome back Mary McDonald as our clinician for our annual Sacred Piano reading session, held on Saturday August 9, 2025 at Stanton’s Sheet Music in Columbus, Ohio.

This session features 17 of the best new collections for 2025, hand-selected by Stanton's Sacred Piano Music Specialists from the hundreds published each year, and presented by our clinician Mary McDonald. With a career that spans over forty years, her songs appear in the catalogs of every major publisher of church music. More than 1200 compositions through anthems, seasonal musicals and keyboard collections testify to her significant contribution to church music. Her greatest desire is “to give God glory for the songs He has allowed me to compose. He alone is the true Creator behind my pen.” In 2011, after serving as sacred music editor for The Lorenz Corporation in Dayton, Ohio for more than twenty years, Mary answered a new call. Now she takes her tremendous passion and love for music making directly to churches as an independent artist. Since then, she has been in constant demand in churches across the nation for composer weekends as well as served as host for many of the top choral music dealer conferences in the United States and Canada.

This video is PART 1 of this session. View the complete session here:    • 2025 Sacred Piano Reading Session with Mar...  

Sacred Piano Reading Session 2025 Part 1 Chapter Selection:
0:00 - Sacred Piano Reading Session 2025: Part 1
0:07 - Welcome & Introduction (Julia Moessner, Stanton’s Sheet Music)
10:23 - What a Beautiful Name arr. Mary McDonald • https://www.stantons.com/sheet-music/...
11:30 - “Goodness of God/God Is So Good” from What a Beautiful Name
17:00 - “The Lord Almighty Reigns/Jesus Shall Reign” from What a Beautiful Name
21:30 - Through It All arr. Mark Hayes • https://www.stantons.com/sheet-music/...
22:45 - “Soon and Very Soon” from Through It All
24:21 - “Jesus Is the Answer” from Through It All
26:33 - A Baroque-Style Service arr. Faye López • https://www.stantons.com/sheet-music/...
28:04 - “Come, Christians, Join to Sing (inspired by Scarlatti’s Sonata in E Major” from A Baroque-Style Service
29:55 - “Jesus Paid It All (inspired by Pachelbel’s Canon in D” from A Baroque-Style Service
32:32 - He Knows My Name (Praise Hits of the ‘90s) arr. Jay Rouse • https://www.stantons.com/sheet-music/...
34:24 - “Shout to the North” from He Knows My Name
36:14 - “Breathe” from He Knows My Name
38:36 - Down by the Riverside arr. Marianne Kim • https://www.stantons.com/sheet-music/...
40:03 - “Down by the Riverside” from Down by the Riverside
42:08 - “Deep River” from Down by the Riverside

Special thanks to Alfred Music and The Lorenz Corporation, as well as Mary McDonald.

Stanton’s Five Star Features are selected by our experienced Sacred Piano Music Staff every season: https://www.stantons.com/sheet-music/...

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