• September Salute to American Folk Hymns and Spirituals [Greg's Music Blog]

    Updated: 2010-08-31 22:58:30
    HOME ABOUT US NEWS WORSHIP EDUCATION MUSIC MEMBERS CONTACT US EXTRA Greg's Music Blog You Are Here Home MUSIC Greg's Music Blog View Printable Page This blog is written each week by Greg Jones , Music Director Greg would like to encourage you to comment on his blogs . September Salute to American Folk Hymns and Spirituals Greg's Music Blog 08 31 2010 By Admin , Admin Labor Day . A holiday created to honor the working force in America . This is a perfect time to honor the unsigned folk hymns and African-American spirituals in our Christian heritage . All through the month of September , at every service , you will hear from either organ , choir , or soloists some representation of Early American Hymnody . Many of these hymns were collected in hymnbooks such as Southern Harmony and Ingall's

  • THIS SUNDAY'S MUSIC AT BETHEL [Greg's Music Blog]

    Updated: 2010-08-31 22:58:30
    HOME ABOUT US NEWS WORSHIP EDUCATION MUSIC MEMBERS CONTACT US EXTRA Greg's Music Blog You Are Here Home MUSIC Greg's Music Blog View Printable Page This blog is written each week by Greg Jones , Music Director Greg would like to encourage you to comment on his blogs . THIS SUNDAY'S MUSIC AT BETHEL Greg's Music Blog 08 26 2010 By Admin , Admin Vocal Music At 9:00 a.m . we get a dose of mid-20th Century Gospel Music . Tommy Davis sings words by Gospel legend Dottie Rambo , set to an old Irish ballad melody . At 11:15, the Chancel Choir sings old English things--a brief English hymn from the late 1600s opens and closes the service . The anthem is a fragment from Handel's oratorio Jeptha . A bit of the Victorian English composer John Stainer also wafts . through Classical Guitar At 11:15 a.m .

  • Classical Music Performer, Composer or Conductor: #fermata focus, #legato breath control and #rubato creativity

    Updated: 2010-08-30 20:16:01
    Whether performer, teacher, composer, conductor or lover of classical music, three basic principals come into play- #Fermata focuses patience. #Fermata sustains us under duress. #Fermata is the strength of determination. It is the optimistic energy passed from teacher to student, student to professional, evolving professional, to the professional learning to sustain or recover from injury, [...]

  • Sunday Music Quote: I am Music

    Updated: 2010-08-29 17:16:05
    From Music Lovers Quotations, edited by Helen Exley. I am Music- By Anonymous- I tell the story of love, the story of sorrow, the story that saves and the story that destroys…. I am the smoke which palls over the field of battle where men die with me on their lips. I am close to [...]

  • Instruments Of The Orchestra Online Music Activities

    Updated: 2010-08-20 08:50:42
    A member of our Fun Music Company Community recently introduced us to this very cool website link put together by the team at DSO Kids. When you first get there, it simply looks like a list of instrument links, but press on individual links and you’ll get; information about the instrument you’re interested in a [...]

  • Service Music, Sunday, August 22 at Bethel [Greg's Music Blog]

    Updated: 2010-08-18 11:29:41
    HOME ABOUT US NEWS WORSHIP EDUCATION MUSIC MEMBERS CONTACT US EXTRA Greg's Music Blog You Are Here Home MUSIC Greg's Music Blog View Printable Page This blog is written each week by Greg Jones , Music Director Greg would like to encourage you to comment on his blogs . Service Music , Sunday , August 22 at Bethel Greg's Music Blog 08 17 2010 By Admin , Admin VOCAL MUSIC At 9:00 a.m . we hear an old English folk song sung with sacred text by Soprano Rosemary Giesey . At 11:15 a.m . we hear responses on an ancient German hymn , an anthem on another German classic Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken set to music of Franz Joseph Haydn , and still more German . From Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio Hymn of Praise Lobegesang we hear the epic duet for two sopranos Janice Grant and Tiffany Beckley I

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