joy of the job

One unblemished joy of the job is getting new music. In this case, new anthems for the adult choir.

They look pretty. Smell good. And most of all they sound good.

Here's how you do it. You, hopefully, go to an anthem reading session, which is sponsored by several of the biggest publishers. A fellow church musician who faces the same congregational situtation you face has already winnowed out the titles which will not fit. Then the group of other church musicians sing through a stack of 50 or so titles. I mark down the ones I think Zion would appreciate.

Then I take them to the piano in the sanctuary and run through them myself. And I take the cream of the cream. Photo is the anthems which came in this week.