The Hymn That Changed: Taverner's Corrected Verse and Three Deaths
The Hymn That Changed: Taverner's Corrected Verse and Three DeathsA dry, laminated hymn sheet-over a century old and missing from the church archive since before 1932-was found tucked into a lamp bracket on a dewy morning in Taverner, Tennessee; its final verse had been altered in a different hand in 1893 to change "grant her mercy" into "require her silence." Who rewrote a burial hymn linked to three deaths, and why would the melody itself be changed from rest to unresolved tension?In this episode, we trace the discovery on September 11, 2019, and follow the church records, choir ledgers…
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