"singing "The Lord Bless You and Keep You" was a religious experience in itself."
Among the most beautiful pieces ever composed. Many choirs and chorales sing it after every rehearsal and after concerts.
One those pieces that if sung badly is good, if sung well will make good men cry and bad men sweat.
We used it as a warm-up piece a lot of times. Sometimes, when things just weren't working, the director would call a time out, and we'd sing it, to get back together. When we went to contest my senior year, we got to warm up on stage because we performed right after lunch. After we sang it, there was nary a dry eye there. I was profoundly moved. We proceded to sing Charles Ives' "67th Psalm", (eight part "harmony" in 2 simultaneous keys a-capella) and that was one of three times we sang it that we began and ended on pitch. The Lord was watching over us at contest that year.