Category: Music

Sunday, Lakewood will celebrate All Saints Day. Of course, the postlude has to be Sine Nomine! I assembled this video for online devotional last year (year before? this pandemic has gone on SO long).

I think I wrote both the trumpet descants, but I honestly can’t remember. For a working church musician, stuff like that gets lost in the shuffle and is lucky to even get written down somewhere scribbled on the back of a church bulletin or penciled into some hymnal.I know the last descant is mine, but not sure of the first one. If someone knows of a source (other than me) for the first one, please let me know. I’ll be doing an organ solo version of this video for Sunday.

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).

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