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"Mother has come with her beautiful song"
A Memorial Tribute to Sister Mildred Barker
Sister Ruth Mildred Barker (1897-1990)
at Sabbathday Lake, Maine
© photo by Gail M. Hallt permission]
I had the great pleasure and honor of knowing Sister Mildred Barker for over 15 years.
We both shared a deep love of Shaker music, and she was always happy
to sing for me.I believe she was the greatest Shaker singer of our time.
She also wrote meaningful poems. I have set two of her poems to music as hymns:
"A New Year's Prayer" (Search Thou My heart)
"A Prayer" (With the dawn of each new morning)
Both hymns are available on "Celestial Praises" and "My Shaker Home" CDs.
'Motrher Has Come With Her Beautiful Song"- composed by Sister Paulina Springer. It was Sister Mildred's favorite song.
She had a special fondness for Maine Shaker music and such Shaker authors as: Eldress Mary Ann Gillespie ("Redeeming Love")
and Elder Otis Sawyer ("Lead Me On To Greater Victory").I interviewed Sister Mildred in 1980. A portion of that interview is on this
multimedia collection:
Another interview with Sister Mildred was made by disc jockey and record producer, Bill Randle and included on this 2 CD set:
Read more about this remarkable humble Shaker Sister in the new article:
"Tarry Not" - How Two Shaker Musicians Preserved Their Music
Sister Mildred Barker may be heard singing and speaking
along with other Shakers on these CDs:
A conversation with Sister Mildred Barker is included on this
multimedia collection:
This CD includes an excerpt of the Sister Mildred interview
in 1980 -- here
Two of Sister Mildred's beautiful poems
("A Prayer" and "Search Thou My Heart")
were set to music by Roger Lee Hall
and are included on this CD --
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