Choir Schedule
Choir rehearses on Sunday at 9 AM in the sanctuary and sings at the 10 AM worship service. No ongoing commitment required - sing when it works for you!
January 19
"God of Wonders"
by Steve Hindalong & Marc Byrd
Pop
Easy: Beginning music-reading skills would help you learn this in our single rehearsal, especially if you've listened to this recording and looked at the music.
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Service music notes
"God of Wonders" was nominated for best Worship Song of the year at the 2004 GMA Dove Awards. It was simultaneously number one on three Christian radio charts — adult contemporary, inspirational, and Christian hit radio — ordinarily three vastly different musical formats.
Guest musician Jef Caers will play two movements from Claude Bolling's Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano as the introit, offertory and musical amen.
Jef is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Stanford, holding a PhD in applied statistics. He studied at the Performing Arts Academy in Belgium, his birth country. Jef has been playing and performing flute for 40 years and regularly performs in San Francisco. He especially enjoys Bach and the romantic repertoire.
January 26
"Many Gifts, One Spirit"
by Alan Pote
Folk
Easy: Beginning music-reading skills would help you learn this in our single rehearsal, especially if you've looked at the music and listened to this recording.
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Service music note
'Many Gifts, One Spirit' is a reflection on the scripture (1 Corinthians 12:12-31a) that begins, 'For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.'
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Celtic Moon is a duo band playing Celtic-inspired music from many genres, including traditional folk, rock, and movie soundtracks. Lynda MacNeil is a lifelong full-time musician, teaching piano, voice, and music theory to students of all ages since she was 20. She has a BA in Music from University of Maryland. She plays guitar, harp, and piano. Verlene Schermer plays piano, violin, guitar, Celtic harp, mandolin, banjor, ukulele, concertina, Swedish Nyckelharpa, Swdish Cittra, Norwegian hardinfele, harp-guitar, and viola da gamba. In addition to her public performances with many groups, since 2003 she has been a hospital musician at Stanford Hospital and Cancer Center playing soothing music at patients' bedsides.
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February 2
"The Gift of Love"
Traditional American, arranged by Hal Hopson
Folk
Sing-along easy: You don't need to read music to learn this easy/familiar melody during our single rehearsal, especially if you've listened to this recording. The melody is easy to hear in this recording. We’ll sing this in two parts; some singers who can read music will be asked to sing harmony parts.
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Service music note
The melody of "The Gift of Love" is from an old English folk tune, "The Water Is Wide" or "Waly Waly". Here's a lovely recording.
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February 9
Joyful Noise handbell choir will play. No singing choir today.
February 16
"Jesus Christ, The Apple Tree"
Folk
Easy: Beginning music-reading skills would help you learn this in our single rehearsal, especially if you've looked at the music and listened to this recording.
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Service music note
Our anthem's words were written in the 18th century and have been set by several composers. Learn more on Wikipedia. The music we'll sing, composed in 2011, is lyrical, with a lovely, folk-like melody.
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Doug Young will join us again on guitar. Doug is an instrumental fingerstyle guitarist from Mountain View, who enjoys composing and arranging music for the guitar. He performs and teaches mostly around the Bay Area, and also focuses on recording himself and others in his home recording studio.
