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First Presbyterian Church Choir

Come and join us!


God's gift of music is actively offered in praise and thanksgiving at all of our worship services and includes myriad genres of music, from classical to world music, instrumental to vocal, and meditative to energizing.

The choir sings during the Sunday worship service
from September through May, and occasionally during the summer.

Choir practice is held on Wednesday evenings
at 6:30 PM during the season. An option of Vespers at 5:30 PM and/or a carry-in supper at 6:00 PM precedes choir practice.


Cause for Celebration

CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION
 
The Chicago
Staff Band
— William Himes,
Bandmaster  
— with Rudolf Zuiderveld, Organist

This CD contains several beautiful musical selections, with vocal and instrumental soloists.  Three works were recorded at First Presbyterian Church, featuring Rudolf Zuiderveld on the Brombaugh organ:  Now Thank We All Our God —Marche Triomphale, by Sigfrid Karg-Elert; Rigaudon by Andre Campra; and a sonic spectacular: The Finale from Saint-Saens Organ Symphony (No. 3) arranged for band.
$15.00
Call the church office to purchase - 217.528.4311.


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Now available:

Robert Clark's recording of music by Johann Sebastian Bach on the Brombaugh Organ, Opus 35, is available through Arsis Audio, or through the church office (217.528.4311). More . . .

First Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Choir

From the Choir Director -
Bernard Wiseman

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The choir is on hiatus for the summer. Special music guests will add to the worship services:



From the Organist -
Dr. Rudolf Zuiderveld
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Music for
Sunday, June 29


Prelude:
Canon in D
............................................................ Johann Pachelbel

Offertory:
A Wedding Tune for Ann

.......................... Ralph Vaughan Williams

Postlude:
Trumpet Voluntary
................................................. Jeremiah Clarke

Music note :
During the month of June, it is appropriate to hear some of the delightful music often heard at weddings. No doubt, in the last 30 years, Pachelbel's Canon has become an all-time favorite at weddings, particularly as part of the processional preceeding the entrance of the bride: it is a long piece, but can be cut short at anytime. On the organ it must be played as an arrangement, since the original is only possible with three violins (to perform the "canon" or round). S. Drummond Wolff did this, preserving the constantly repeating bass with harmonies (making it a "ciacona"), and melodic fragments and rhythmic motives from the Canon's violin parts.

Vaughan Williams is best known for his organ prelude on Rhosymedre (see No. 534 Blue for a new hymn for weddings: The grace of life it theirs), but today we hear a charming tune that we wrote as a wedding gift in 1943 — a beautiful folksong-like melody.

Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke is the most used wedding processional of our time. Originally a march composed for the entrance of Hamlet in Shakespeare's play (The Prince of Denmark's March), Clarke's noble tune can be given a grand treatment is heard in the postlude. Clarke was music director of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and composed over 20 fine anthems. Sadly he shot himself after finding the organ Diapason flat one Sunday, prompting a commentator to remark that by removing himself to the next life, perfect harmony was possible.

Dr. Rudolf Zuiderveld






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Updated June 25, 2008

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