Hmmm... I had similar thoughts about Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring in high school and arranged it for solo guitar. Later, I added mandolin parts for the choir, a second guitar to fill out the orchestration and a bass. That was 50 years ago this month.

I performed the solo guitar version for nearly 40 years till my left arm became crippled.

A couple of months ago, I decided to have my church choir perform it. As I was asking my wife to record the organ part so that my singers could add their voices (still doing this online), she reminded me that I had transcribed this to Finale in 1992. Oh yea… forgot about that. Well, that made it easy.

One of my singers added a flute to the obligato and I changed the guitar to a harp which sounded better behind the singers,

So, 50 years later,

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