Nearer My God to Thee (Wallace Henry Hartley)

(Note: After over four years, I decided to do another video, this one in honor of a relative, a retired US Army Officer, who died of covid. You can find it at ) The intent of this video was an experiment in finding audio visual means of teaching both American culture and American English (ESL) to recent immigrants and refugees in a Christian venue. This video contains a clip from the 1997 movie, TITANIC, starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. I wanted to be able to discuss the hymn, Nearer My God to Thee so I included the vocal by Mary Duff (I think she’s super good). Several visitors pointed out that the music to the hymn was probably not the music popular today. Lyrics were unchanged but “... probably Wallace played Horbury or Proprior Deo, both quite beautiful, too!“ (comment by Rita balbino) Also I wrote that the Titanic sunk in about 4 hours but the actual time was about 2 hours and 40 minutes. The Titanic struck the iceberg just