'Imagine': An Interview with Regi Stone
  Let's Worship - Fall 2007 $19.95 |
Regi Stone is director of praise and worship at Christ Church in Nashville, Tennessee. He is also publisher, co/owner of Belden Street Music, which provides music and drama resources to the church. Stone travels throughout the country leading worship and presenting concerts of hope.
Regi recently sat down with Let's Worship magazine to discuss his recent collaboration with LifeWay Worship Music Group — the new Christmas worship musical, Imagine. The following is an excerpt from that interview:
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Let's Worship: Tell our readers about the Christmas project you are working on with LifeWay.
Regi Stone: It's called Imagine. It is a Christmas worship experience. We tried to create a collection that was Christmas in nature but also was from a worship perspective that would allow the congregation, the choir, and the praise team band to experience Christmas but also experience worship.
LW: So it's more of a worship musical than a theatrical type presentation?
RS: Yes. The beautiful thing about it is that those who want to do a nativity scene or shepherds can certainly work that into the presentation. I was reading a book last year by John Grisham called Skipping Christmas, and that's sort of where the idea came from.
LW: Sort of the Christmas with the Kranks idea?
RS: Right, but the idea here is reflecting on the question, "What if there was no Christmas at all?" So the songImagine a World Without Christmas is really the first song that was written with the musical in mind. We decided to call it Imagine. Working with J. Daniel Smith, Bruce Cokeroft, and Mike Harland, this project has just been a super pleasure
LW: Now that it's all done, what are some of the songs you are particularly proud of and excited about churches singing?
RS: Geron Davis and I wrote a tune calledJoy that's just a fun tune, really up.
LW: And he's a buddy from Christ Church?
RS: He's a buddy. David Edwards and I wrote a couple of tunes. Christy Southerland is another wonderful writer. Jeff Ferguson, a wonderful lyricist, and I wrote the main song in the book called Imagine a World Without Christmas . Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman also wrote forImagine. There are some wonderful tunes. Made to Worship is part of it. Probably some of your readers are already singing that.
LW: It sounds like this goes beyond the parameters of Christmas.
RS: Many of us looking to buy a book typically want to try to find at least four tunes or maybe five that we can use out of a book. The cool thing about this one is that not only can you use this book for Christmas, but you can take several of these worship songs out and use them as anthems down the road.
LW: You have some leftovers from the wrapping of Christmas to use in January, February, or March . .
RS: Exactly. Wonderful narration goes throughout the book. We used two different people to record that. We used a male and a female just to kind of mix it up. The narration was written by Mike Harland, and he did a wonderful job to take us from the beginning to the end with really good narratives.
Read the entire interview with Regi Stone in the Fall 2007 edition of Let's Worship - available now! Or order a CD Promo Pak of Imagine today to preview this great new Christmas worship musical.
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