She wrote a verse about each of them that could be sung over a common harmonic structure. The idea reminded her of her childhood home and the strength she had always drawn from her mother’s prayers and her father’s priesthood. He saw a sampler stitched with the words ‘Love Is Spoken Here’ and said, ‘There’s your title. “When Doug learned I had known about the competition for a year, he rolled his eyes but said he would try. Perry ) for an interesting idea,” Perry says. “Two days before the entries were due, I asked my husband (Douglas C. Sometimes she procrastinated and still won, as exemplified in a 1981 contest entry. Perry began entering and winning Church song-writing contests. “Almost immediately, though, she gravitated toward inspirational music.” “Mom started writing in many styles,” says another son, musician and composer Steven Kapp Perry (’87). “I told myself back then that I probably could write songs and maybe someday I just might do it,” Perry recalls. A friend challenged her to write something she accepted the challenge, got help from her mom, and composed “I Walked in God’s Garden.”
Janice had shrugged and said she thought anybody could if they wanted to. While walking home from school with friends, someone had asked how people wrote music. It was like taking dictation.” -Janice Kapp PerryĬontemplating the assignment, she remembered an incident from her adolescence. “The words seemed to come faster than I could write them.
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Mom couldn’t just sit and watch TV while she waited for her ankle to heal, and as she looked around for a safer activity to give her fulfillment, she was invited to write original music for our ward road show.” Perry (BA ’92) explains, “She actually had two lucky breaks. She broke her ankle playing basketball.Īs her son John D.
Sports, though, remained at center stage in her life until, at age 38, Perry got lucky. She studied music at BYU and promised her father she would find a way to use her music major. “Their encouragement was everything,” she says of her parents.
After her father, Jacob Kapp, passed away, Janice filled in on percussion, backing up her mother’s piano. The Kapp Family Band usually played, and as Janice twirled with her partner, she would give subtle hand signals so her mother could see how Janice rated the guy. She had played the organ in church throughout her adolescence and loved going to dances. Yet music also mattered as Perry grew up. As an adult, she competed on many city league softball teams, often winning tournaments, and regularly played volleyball and racquetball-her favorite sport. She grew up with a ball in her hand and was especially renowned for her skill as a pitcher. Much like her mother, Ruth Saunders Kapp-who routinely braved rain, wind, and snow to locate a spot near their home in rural Oregon that could pick up the scratchy sounds of Cougar sports on the car radio-Perry lived for athletic competition. Born into a musical family, Perry was passionate about music and sports-and sports had the edge. However, the legacy for which Perry has become widely recognized did not begin until she was nearly 40. Perry’s prolific musical outpouring of more than 1,300 songs has, in turn, provided tender mercies worldwide, giving generations of Church members words and melodies to express their faith. “It was one of my life’s tender mercies,” she says. As Perry watched the funeral on television, she was overwhelmed as she heard her music sung by a choir she loved honoring a man she revered. 29, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir director called to ask permission for the choir to sing the song at President Hinckley’s memorial service. Remarkably, however, President Hinckley had signed his consent Jan. When President Hinckley died in January 2008, a couple of weeks after Blacker’s death, Perry’s first thought was sorrow at his passing her second was that the song would never be published. Perry secured permission from the prophet to write music for “ What Is This Thing That Men Call Death?” for her niece, but she did not receive an immediate reply when she also asked whether she could publish it. Hinckley, which Blacker found comforting and which she hung on the wall over her bed. Although Janice Kapp Perry (’60) writes most of her own lyrics, Blacker wanted Perry to use a poem written by President Gordon B. When Kathleen Kapp Blacker realized she would not survive the cancer that was spreading through her body, she asked her aunt to write a song for her.
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