Sweet Hour of Prayer: Reflections on 30 Years of Music at All Saints
I’ve been asked to reflect today on 30 years of music ministry and on my vocation as a musician working in the church.
Evening Contemplative Eucharists start
This first evening Contemplative Eucharist was an outgrowth from our morning contemplative eucharist in Lent of 2012. For many years, we had a series of evensongs — usually six — throughout the program year.
With this service, we began replacing a few of those with this new form. Much silence, an instrumental piece as >
Be a friend to yourself
Be a friend to yourself. And that will be magic in your life. Other people will see your goodness when you have seen it first.
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8
Canterbury and Coventry choirs join the “Symphony of a Thousand" conducted by Gustavo Dudamel
With five months of preparation, 60 members of Canterbury and Coventry choirs perform Mahler’s Symphony 8
No exaggeration. This was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The LA Philharmonic had scheduled all of the Mahler Symphonies to be performed during the 2011-2012 season. Symphony No. 8 requires a chorus of 800 and an orchestra of 200. It was the job of LA Master Chorale Director Grant Gershon to assemble and prepare those 800 >
Szymon Grab’s first Sunday as Associate Organist-Choirmaster
Elizabeth Lenti accepted the position of Associate Organist at the Cathedral in Cleveland and a teaching position at the Cleveland Institute of Music, beginning in the fall of 2011. I had learned a few things about running a search, through the processing of hiring Elizabeth in 2004-2005.
We advertised the Associate Organist-Choirmaster position that summer >