Ella Fitzgerald said, ”The only thing better than singing is more singing!” Use song to find wellness in ourselves, each other, and our world. In each episode, Patricia introduces a song that she trusts to help her navigate life. These songs provide a great soundtrack to your day — whether it’s comfort, presence, delight, grief-tending, or simply easing the way. Periodic interviews with song creators add color and understanding. Songs have helped Patricia heal, adapt, and grow, and she hopes these selections will become companions for you as well. Visit the website, abreathofsong.com, to learn more and suggest a song!
Episodes
Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
Wednesday Sep 24, 2025
Song: Set It Right Again
Music by: Ana Hernández
Notes: Ana Hernández has been in the music business for quite a while, finding ways to follow the sounds she loves, to express her activist wishes, to ease her anxiety, to remember wise words... and she writes powerful, moving community songs to do all these things! Her book, the Sacred Art of Chant, was a game changer for me when I discovered it in 2019 for the way it named how singing with repetition changed my body. It was a huge honor to be in conversation with her, and then play with harmonies as we sang together (no, I didn't get ALL of them "right"! 😊 But I was having a great time!!!) "Set It Right Again" is a song to take into protests, and Ana advises listening to the speeches to adjust the lyrics to fit... newsletter subscribers will see the flowers and the little black book that get described.
Songwriter Info: Ana Hernández is a composer, recording artist, retreat leader, and activist song leader creating and collecting tunes to build living and just communities through skillful action. A theomusicologist with NYS Poor People’s Campaign, Ana is also the author of The Sacred Art of Chant: Preparing to Practice (Skylight Paths/Turner Publishing).
Sharing Info: The song is free to share in public resistance actions and oral tradition groups. Please contact Ana for recording, streaming, or performing permission.
Song Learning Time Stamps:
Start time of teaching: 00:03:34 and 00:06:39
Start time of reprise: 01:11:55
Links:
Ana's website: https://anahernandez.org
Ana's Patreon: www.patreon.com/anahernandez
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/in/artist/ana-hernandez/214582777
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0NGPpe3jeQqHFeFArIqYEH
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/anahermusic
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-p9kisJu1ISLW7w6Wy2lVA
Poor People’s Campaign: https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/committee/new-york/
Sojourner Truth: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sojourner-truth
Gandhi’s mantra Om Sri Rama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanama
Aham Prema: you are divine love: https://www.yogapedia.com/definition/9462/aham-prema
Raimon Panikkar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimon_Panikkar
Malka Heifitz Tussman: https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/quotes/quotations/view/33350/spiritual-quotation
Marcia Falk The Book of Blessings: https://www.marciafalk.com/blessings.html
Hold My Hope: https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/teach_me_to_be_love
Open My Heart: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnE5GMkSsA
Louis Armstrong: https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/biography/
Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain: https://www.milesdavis.com/albums/sketches-of-spain/
Cantus Firmus in Monteverdi Magnificat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RajAq0Yd-s4
St. Columba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba
Ranunculus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus
Alice Parker: “My belief is that a page of music conveys about five percent of the information needed to perform it.” https://giamusic.com/resource/the-anatomy-of-melody-book-g6765
Augsburg Fortress Publishers: https://www.augsburgfortresspublishers.org/
Banquet of Love album: https://anahernandez.org/album/banquet-of-love/
Mame: Ethel Merman play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mame_(musical)
Sending You Light album: https://anahernandez.org/album/sending-you-light/
Melanie DeMore: https://www.abreathofsong.com/apps/search?q=melanie+demore
Caravan of Empathy: https://ruralmigrantministry.org/save-new-yorks-rural-economy-a-journey-of-empathy-caravan/
Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Tenderland Suite: https://www.aaroncopland.com/works/appalachian-spring/
https://www.aaroncopland.com/works/the-tender-land/
Amina Alaoui from Morocco – Alcantara: https://open.spotify.com/album/1EDReLi3Q3luXIHcUgR0k7
Correction about the Kuan Yin Mantra: Namo Kuan Shi Yin Pusa - We said it was a Hindu mantra and it is actually a Chinese mantra.
Nuts & Bolts: 4:4, blues minor, call and response
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