It was Palm Sunday. Just as the crowds at Jesus's "parade" were exultant and noisy, the people coming into the sanctuary getting a palm branch made a steady din of chatter. I don't know if anyone heard the organ music before the service. But anyway, at ten till the hour I led off with "Let My People Go," to make the connection between Jesus and Moses, as liberators of the people of God. Then a Couperin 16th century light piece to signal the start of spring.
I ended the prelude time with a tune from Duke Ellington's sacred piece "Something about believing..."
In the evening the other part of my professional life, Harmonies Workshop, sponsored an evening featuring Marcy Hostetler leading the packed out Blossom Hill Church in "top ten" favorite hymns and Jim Baer of the Kraybill campus of the Lancaster Mennonite School brought his "woodshed singing boys."
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