{"id":2612,"date":"2011-05-06T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/toto-hosanna\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T23:52:00","slug":"toto-hosanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/toto-hosanna.html","title":{"rendered":"Toto Hosanna?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/p4-progressivepanentheist-praise.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">expressed<\/a> the desire a while back to work on coming up with some <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/songs-for-progressive-christians.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">progressive Christian music<\/a> for use in church services \u2013 whether congregational singing or solo performance. Although I\u2019ve kept coming back to this idea, and wishing I had more time to focus on it, the fact that someone else with a similar interest recently contacted me, asked if I had come up with anything, and <a href=\"http:\/\/ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com\/p\/hymns.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared some of his and his wife\u2019s music<\/a>, got me thinking more actively about this. Hopefully I\u2019ll find more time to think about and\u00a0work on this soon.<br>In the mean time, I don\u2019t worry too much about the lyrics, and am mostly content\u00a0if from time to time\u00a0a song provides an opportunity for a keyboard solo or something else interesting for the keyboard part. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been wondering whether one way of giving myself an opportunity for a good keyboard solo wouldn\u2019t be to rework the classic Toto song \u201cRosanna\u201d into \u201cHosanna.\u201d How hard could it be? 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