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If Love Could Sing
Stories of a Hundred Road Trips
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It's always Just like christmas...
When you can give a gift like this one. . .
About Dreams waiting to be realized
Celebrated in theatre, music, and endless travel
Musicians from a dozen different countries
sharing tough times while covering
four hundred thousand miles in only three years.
It's Always just like Christmas...
When you can give a gift like this one
About Dreams Waiting To Be Realized
Musicians from a dozen different countries sharing tough times while covering four hundred thousand miles in only three years.
Advance Praise for a Book Certain to Please
Advance Praise
for a Book
Certain to Please
"...most interesting journey."
"I found Mr. Randolph's book to be a most interesting journey through a tumultuous time in society and in the history of his musical ensemble. He is an engaging storyteller."
- Niel DePonte
Music Director and Conductor, Oregon Ballet Theatre, retired
"It's a great story."
"Written in Randolph's inimitable, finely tuned style and rich with detailed imagery. If Love Could Sing is an impressive account related from a perspective refined by unique experiences leading to uncommon conviction."
- Philip & Gayle Neuman
Early music specialists and instrument builders
"This nonstop adventure..."
"This nonstop adventure notes the singers being alternately seen as far too deeply rooted in conservative soil or far too dangerously out on the most precarious of limbs. Journalists had a field day."
- William Connery
Award-winning author-specialist, American Civil War
RL Randolph
The Author
Asked whether he’s Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, RL Randolph won’t even stop to think about it. What he’ll say will be: None of the above. I’m an idealist. Period.
Understanding the conscience as humanity’s direct inheritance from God, he’ll also say he follows his conscience as refined by spiritual insights gleaned from all the religions he’s examined.
Depending on how you do or don’t understand them, Randolph will say, religions can either help or hinder your growing in Godliness. He’d advise our all keeping our eyes and ears and hearts open while our originally intended limitless relation-ship with God continues to develop — ultimately replacing religion altogether with a worldwide family of God dedicated to the future. Once we understand God, he’ll add, we’ll understand one another and establish a lasting peace.
Born Roman Catholic, Randolph spent what he describes as the best six years of his life in seminary — where he came to realize his true calling. To date he’s lived a remarkably fascinating life. (He’d also say it’s just beginning.)
If Love Could Sing is an engaging, entertaining chapter of the story. Nothing in the way of an autobiography, the book is all about the great many colorful people Randolph knows and loves from everywhere — and others he still hopes to meet.
If Love Could Sing: Stories of a Hundred Road Trips
Who were these people? What did they stand for? What was it they kept singing about?
A truly uncommon phenomenon: This was a contingent of deep-hearted and idealistic young people from a dozen different nations and pretty well from any religious or spiritual background you might ever imagine (perhaps some you mightn't ever), all working together, day by day, side by side, and night by night, from time to time enduring trials that no one had anticipated.
They entertained greater numbers of people than any of them had thought likely, collaterally reaping successes and joys that would characterize the best years of their lives. Together they promoted a vision that, taken to heart and realized, must inevitably lead to lasting world peace.
If Love Could Sing is a story - every bit as true as unbelievable - of what you can do, whoever you are and wherever you might find yourself, when you've got a passion for hope, a vision for the future, and the courage to meet unexpected challenges. It is a story that would make your forebears proud.
The New Hope Singers International had it all - passion, vision, courage - plus a powerful dream. Irrepressibly youthful, with unfailing determination, they performed internationally, ultimately traveling over four-hundred thousand miles in thirty-six months.
Recording artist Lew Foxx briefly sums up this remarkable group, "Beginning as an initially ragtag assortment of nationalities, accents, dispositions, and musical gifts, the New Hope Singers International emerged an ensemble that would entertain thousands as they sang in all the contiguous United States. They were led by a remarkable couple."
When American musician, poet, and author Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) observed, "Music is love in search of a word," he may just have been foretelling the story that's given rise to this book - the dedication to that search; the power of that love.
A truly uncommon phenomenon:
THIS WAS a contingent of deep-hearted and idealistic young people from a dozen different nations and pretty well from any religious or spiritual background you might ever imagine (perhaps some you mightn't ever), all working together, day by day, side by side, and night by night, from time to time enduring trials that no one anticipated.
They entertained greater numbers of people than any of them had thought likely; collaterally reaping successes and joys that would characterize the best years of their lives. Together they promoted a vision that, taken to heart and realized, must inevitably lead to lasting world peace.
If Love Could Sing is a story - every bit as true as unbelievable - of what you can do, whoever you are, and wherever you might find yourself, when you've got a passion for hope, a vision for the future, and the courage meet unexpected challenges. It is a story that would make your forebears proud.
The New Hope Singers International had it all - passion, vision, courage - plus a powerful dream. Irrepressibly youthful, with unfailing determination, they performed internationally, ultimately traveling over four-hundred thousand miles in thirty-six months.
Recording artist Lew Foxx briefly sums up this remarkable group:
"Beginning as an initially ragtag assortment of nationalities, accents, dispositions, and musical gifts, the New Hope Singers International emerged an ensemble that would entertain thousands as they sang in all the contiguous United States. They were led by a remarkable couple."
When American musician, poet, and author Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) observed, "Music is love in search of a word," he may just have been foretelling the story that's given rise to this book - the dedication to that search; the power of that love.
Copies of this book will make great holiday gifts for young people who, reading of the endless adventures lived by their remarkably international, multicultural forebears, are certain to marvel at what their parents’ generation has done to advance the ideals they’ll hope to see characterizing the world they’re going to inherit.
If Love Could Sing is all about heroes.
Once word had begun getting out, the sky was the (only imaginary) limit...
This photograph (from page 110) presents the extravagantly colorful international wardrobe the choir was glad to acquire early in 1976, once they had paid off all their debts and still had a little money in the bank.
"A most delightful reading trip for me."
"Randolph has written one of those rare books that make you feel better simply by reading it. He has combined an unadorned view of a cross-section of America with a truly uplifting vision of hope and optimism for the future."
- Jay Schoenfeld
Executive Vice President Emeritus Backer Spielvogel Bates Advertising, New York
