Notes from the Music Director…
My heartfelt thanks go out to Jennie & Jim Ortega who provided special music on our Solar Sun-Day, with an appropriate selection, “Morning Has Broken.” Thank you to Tom Rusch and Cooper Wood for providing our keyboard music and accompanying the choir during September.
Senior Choir has started at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings in the choir room and meets weekly, unless noted ahead of time. We can always use more singers. There are no special requirements to be in the choir. Familiarity with music reading is helpful but not required. In the past few years, I have been choosing and adapting the music that I use to the skills of the singers that attend. We generally work on 2-3 pieces of music each week, so that we are working ahead and have several rehearsals on the same piece of music before singing it in a service.
You do not have to be a church member or make a weekly commitment to be a part of the choir. High school age and above are welcome (and I would consider musically enthusiastic or advanced 8th graders.) Drop-ins are also welcome. If you play an instrument, please let me know. You never know when there might be an opportunity to play.
Church musicians, vocal or instrumental, are providing ministry in another way. We not only serve as leaders of the hymns but also add an anthem to the service which is intended to expand upon the theme of the lectionary or the service.
-- Juanita Edington
