In this introductory YouTube video, pianist Jon Cheney announces the release of his new album "A Sunday Afternoon," featuring 12 piano arrangements of beloved hymns and medleys. He explains that each track will receive its own dedicated playthrough video, allowing viewers to navigate the collection song by song. The album, originally written ten years ago, is now accompanied by sheet music available at joncheney.com. Cheney shares personal background—growing up with a piano, playing hymns on Sundays, and creating on‑the‑fly arrangements. He highlights several pieces, including a popular mash‑up of "When I Am Baptized" with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," "Come Follow Me," "In Humility Our Savior," "I'd Love to See the Temple," "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing," a funeral medley for his late grandfather, and a rendition of "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music. He notes the album’s release date (January 23, 2025) and invites viewers to enjoy the upcoming song‑by‑song videos, starting with "Come Follow Me."
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Okay, I decided to play some piano for you today. I have a new album that's just come out. Hopefully you can see it in the video. The Sunday Afternoon, 12 arrangements of beloved hymns and medleys by Jon Cheney. So I'm excited. Today I'm going to do a playthrough of the entire album. I'll do it one song at a time. Each video will be one song, and so you can just kind of bounce through it., and, uh, it's available today at joncheney.com. Today is January 23rd, 2025, so, um, I hope you guys, I hope you guys enjoy it. I just launched it today. I hopefully will get these videos up today, maybe tomorrow, so maybe the date isn't January 23rd, but it is available as of today. So, um, there are, there's about 52 pages or so in this book, lots and lots of work. This book was written— I play the piano a lot, obviously. I have a beautiful piano here in my home. I grew up with a beautiful piano in my home, and I often would play hymns on Sundays. And, you know, I just sit down, I'd open up the hymn book and just kind of make stuff up and, you know, play hundreds of different songs and just kind of make my own arrangements on the fly. Often on a Sunday afternoon you just hear hymns and nice peaceful music playing through my home. I wrote an album 10 years ago called "A Sunday Afternoon." It has, again, these 12 songs in it. I'm just now coming out with the sheet music. I've had so many people request "When I Am Baptized" mixed with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." that is a beautiful song. It's a great one if you're gonna play it for a baptism or something like that. I'll play it through in a minute and talk about it a little bit more then. But there's that, there's "Come Follow Me" and "In Humility Our Savior," "I'd Love to See the Temple," "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing." There's a medley in here that I wrote for my grandpa Cheney when he died. I played it at his funeral. And I'll talk about all these different things, even "My Favorite Things," which isn't a hymn, but it's It's a nice song, and The Sound of Music is one of those movies I was allowed to watch on Sundays. So anyway, with no further ado, I will jump right into this. Go ahead and skip the next video. We'll start with Come Follow Me.
