Waters of Life VAO 1/95

This song by Laura Kutscher is an obvious pick for baptism, sprinkling and associated liturgies (“Baptism of the Lord” etc). Is she the same person as Laura Kutscher-Dankler who works at GIA according to the link?

It has a call and response refrain that will need a cantor and the verses are really fiddly rhythmically, in a different key and are suggested for a cantor so the assembly is just echoing the cantor in the chorus and otherwise just listening. The refrain has a held Eb in the response which isn’t going to fly in our assembly. I like the song a lot, but it is quite impractical.

The guitar music that I have has, to save space, squashed the verses into half the space which is most confusing.  The sample of the full music is fine however, and has the text at WLP. The extract to listen to there has a suboperatic cantor that would put me off I’m afraid.

My backing doesn’t sound anything like that and I’ve separated the vocal lines.

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