For many years, All Saints was on a schedule of two services for Christmas Eve — the 4pm Family Service and the 10:30pm service with Coventry Choir, that began with a 30-minute “concert”, >
When I was hired as associate organist, there was one adult choir and one sung service each Sunday at 10 AM. It was sweet, sweet, sweet.
Within a year or so, that one service had grown to the point that people really couldn’t find a seat. The decision was made to move to a two-sung-service >
It was time to get serious. After a year of being “Seasonal Choir,” singing about one Sunday a month and rehearsing two Saturday mornings each month, the members were up for the challenge of increasing their duties. As I recall, we added one Wednesday evening per month to the two Saturdays, making a total of >
This was the first Coventry Choir Retreat, with Ray Egan as Director of Music. This 1983 retreat was the first of three overnight retreats at retreat centers in the San Gabriel mountains. For whatever reason, we soon grew tired of sleeping in sleeping bags for these events. This first year, we were all in one big room!
It was the summer of 1982, and I was 25 years old — fresh out of grad school and content with my work as Organist at Westwood Presbyterian Church and College Organist at Occidental College — when I received a phone call from the Director of Music at All Saints. He told me about an >
All Saints served as the USC teaching organ for the studio of Cherry Rhodes from 1976 until 1991. So, I came to ASC for my lessons with Professor Rhodes every week for four years (the first year as a private student and then three years in the master's program. Almost all degree recitals given by Cherry's students were at All Saints. We got 20 hours of practice on the instrument in the two weeks prior to the recital.
