My arrangements of 19 tunes from the 1835 hymn collection, “Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion,” are now available as a downloadable digital album on Bandcamp. It’s still available for free streaming on SoundCloud. For those who prefer a more tangible form, an audio CD will be available on Amazon sometime in the next 6 weeks–link to come.
The service, generally, for Oct. 24 concerns anti hierarchy and is based on Mark 10:35-45. In keeping with the notion of serving others the music prelude is the hymn, SERVANT SONG (“Won’t You Let Me Be Your Servant?” — #539 in the New Century Hymnal).
Yesterday, we moved the small Allen organ donated to us by Westminster Suncoast to a different, hopefully more advantageous spot in the chancel. It’s been a long while since I’ve played it, but will endeavor to do so more often. This coming Sunday, the postlude will be an old (thankfully, easy!) favorite, Buxtehude‘s Jig Fugue. Here’s a music video of it I recorded from waaaaay back in the early days of the pandemic before I started showing me at the keyboard.
The music video previews below were all recorded at various times during the pandemic. Sunday, I’ll be doing them on solo piano (no added synth orchestra parts).
PRELUDE: Standing in the Need of Prayer — African-American spiritual
MUSICAL REFLECTION: Be Still My Soul –Jean Sibelius
MUSICAL INTERLUDE: Jesu, Joy of Our Desiring — J. S. Bach
OFFERTORY: Keep on the Sunny Side of Life — J. Howard Entwisle
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER: Let the Lower Lights Be Burning — Philip Paul Bliss
POSTLUDE: Sweet Rivers — William Moore
Another piece from tomorrow’s service celebrating Hispanic Heritage.
Lakewood United Church of Christ 