Welcome All Wonders: A Composer's Journey

by J.A.C. Redford

Book Overview

Welcome All Wonders is at once a revealing look at Mormonism, the fascinating story of J.A.C. Redford's development as a composer, and the inspiring testimony of how God used music and art to speak to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801011205
• ISBN13: 9780801011207
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Baker Publishing Group (MI)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

A delightful surprise

I actually met J.A.C. Redford before I knew that he did music for movies. Even then, I didn't think much of it, until I chanced to look up his profile on [...]. I was floored by the great music he'd done, and the famous movies he'd worked on. Last week, I did some temp work in the office of my church, and they had a few copies of the book laying around. I'd always wanted to read it, so in between answering phone calls, I did. It was elegant, but simple and easily accessible to most readers. I highly recommend it!

Behind the Scenes

I say "ditto" to the previous reviews. It is a behind the scenes look at leaving the Mormon religion and the life of an artist. But I was overwhelmed at the thought that I had heard this man's music in so many TV shows and movies and had known nothing about him. It is thrilling to me to know that there are people like him behind the scenes in Hollywood-- quietly making a difference, and doing so with excellence.

Very Insightful

This book is great. It is a story of a man and his family who leave the LDS religion after generations of his family being in it. It takes you through many hardships in his life and most importantly, finding God's grace. Most people do not understand how hard it is to leave the Mormon church, and he has explained it all so well It is also hard for a lot of people to understand the Mormon religion, I think this book does an awsome job without offending anyone. Being a Christian married to a Mormon, I found it very interesting. I even read it to my husband and I think it opened a lot of doors. I think any Christian who has contact with mormons should read this book, It explains a lot and helps to understand what they beleive and why. I have owned this book for about three months and it has been read four or five times by different people, and they all have liked it. The end moves a little slow, but overall an AWSOME book.

The Best Book I've Read For A Long Time

I bought this book on a whim and wasn't sure that I would like it until I started to read it. I identified with Redford from the first page. I read the entire book in two days even though I had to go to work and finish writing an essay. Redford is as good of an author as he is a composer. Some of the paragraphs are marvelously beautiful. My favorite passage is on page 174: "In the wake of the chisel, there emerged the features of a deeper truth, resonating with the music and literature that had been speaking to me sense my childhood. . . . It was there in my grandmother's hamburgers and in the soaring beauth of her voice, interweaving with my mother's as they sang "Homing." It was there in the pages of Tolkein and C.S. Lewis, in the poetry of ee cummings and Geranld Manley Hopkins. It was there at the heart of Christmas. . . . It bade me welcome in "Five Mystical Songs" and asked, "Know ye not who bore the blame?" And suddenly, Christ the tiger broke upon us in a riot of color and flame and seized us in his magnificent jaws." This book, along with "Can Man Live Without God" by Ravi Zacharias, goes down as the best I've read in a year.