the song leaders' song

On August 25, nine Neffsville song leaders presented "Fairest Lord Jesus."  I call them  the Canticles.  I arranged the hymn which is  #117 in Hymnal: A Worship Book.  I had the challenge of balancing five male voices with four female and only with a 20-minute "run-through" before the morning service.  One expects good voices and musicianship with song leaders and we got exactly that!  Enjoy!  Click this or the "box" below:  https://app.box.com/s/c4pwn03b7qswqq6ua9e3

"let the chldren come"

The children did come, mostly elementary school age but some older.  The event was one of the classes in the week called "Created 2 Praise."  My part of that was "explore the organ."  Eight kids and one older helper went through exercises of listening, singing, rhythm, imitation and actual playing the organ for each other.  Here's the happy group!

trumpet Palm Sunday

Last Sunday at Neffsville, Palm Sunday, a trumpeter added music to a service full of singing and choral music.  I wrote the trumpet part on the hymns.  The file is 17 minutes long or so, but if you want to sample the sounds:

singers at singing

Harmonies held its annual hymn sing at Blossom Hill Mennonite Church Sunday, March 24, 2013.  A choir of select singers from Berks and Conestoga Christian high schools added choral sounds.  The hymns sing itself featured a set of newer hymns from "Sing the Story" on the theme of season of spring (Passover, Pentecost, etc.) and a set on season of prayer, 19th and 20th century traditional hymns on prayer.  Here are the singers warming up.

flute solo audio file, Dec. 16

Yesterday Brynn Godshall played flute for an arrangement I made of "My soul proclaims with wonder" (Hymnal a worship book #181).  I played the organ.  I captured the performance (2:45 min.) on my H2 recorder.  Lovely flute.  Thanks, Brynn.  Listen here:

https://www.box.com/s/3vwexe2a7ptvy72tlmv1

The tune was written in 1990 by J. Harold Moyer, a long-time prof at Bethel College, Kansas.  One of his hymn tunes, FAITH, has gotten a lot of mileage in several hymnals, "I sought the Lord."