Andrea Bocelli, The Lord’s Prayer | Music Lifts 🎶 🏋

In the 11^th edition of Music Lifts (2024), we’re uplifted by Andrea Bocelli & The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square performing, “The Lord’s Prayer.”

WWelcome to Music Lifts 🎶 🏋, a column that seeks to highlight songs that encourage, inspire, and uplift the spirit; songs that exude fortitude, positivity, and resolve, even in the face of adversity.  Featured songs aren’t genre-specific; songs may or may not be faith-based. The goal is for these songs to make you feel better – be LIFTED to new heights!  So, for the 11^th edition of Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 (2024), we highlight “The Lord’s Prayer” as performed by Andrea Bocelli & The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.

Many Christmas albums include a classic penned by Albert Hay Malotte, “The Lord’s Prayer”.  “The Lord’s Prayer” is not strictly a holiday song, of course.  Furthermore, the lyrics – the text – comes from of the most famous scriptures in The Bible, Psalms 23.  This is Malotte’s best-known piece, covered by numerous musicians.  Andrea Bocelli, assisted by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, covers this faith-based gem on his multiplatinum Christmas album, My Christmas, released in 2009.  The first voice(s) heard come from The Tabernacle Choir who sound incredibly warm and reverent (“Our Father / Which art in heaven / Hallowed be Thy name”).  They set the tone sensationally.  Also, setting the tone sensationally is the lovely instrumental arrangement, which includes an orchestra, piano, and organ.  David Foster, producer extraordinaire, crafts a classy and refined backdrop.

When Bocelli enters the mix, his vocals are gorgeous. His tone – celestial to the nth degree. He reiterates the text sung by the choir, continuing the beloved Biblical scripture: “They kingdom come / Thy will be done / On Earth / As it is in heaven.” When Bocelli and choir sing together, the musical experience grows even more emotional, spiritual, holy.  This occurs twice. The first is “Give us this day / Our daily bread,” and most memorably, the powerful ending: “For Thine / Is the kingdom / And the power / And the glory / Forever / Amen.” Andrea Bocelli and The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square shine on “The Lord’s Prayer”.  Notably, Bocelli has also duetted on the Malotte classic alongside his handsome, talented son, Matteo Bocelli. 

Andrea Bocelli // My Christmas // Sugar Srl // 2009

Andrea Bocelli & The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, The Lord’s Prayer: Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 No. 11 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Sugar Srl; Hamid Tajik, Qamar Rehman, vansh mehta, Viridiana Rivera via Pexels]