Sentences with phrase «organist for»

People might not know my undergraduate degree was in music education, that the pipe organ was my major instrument, that I used to be a music teacher, and that I was a church organist for about 10 years before I went back to law school.

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After that, I tried once more, and arranged to play for another service with the organist, who was her brother.

Last year our organist wanted to start a contemporary service so we tried it for 8 weeks as a trial basis.

It takes some imagination and some discipline, like the organist spending a few minutes every day at a piano keyboard and reserving certain times of the week, like Saturday mornings, for practice at the church.

It may be the organist who chooses the hymns for a parish Mass, the class teacher for a school Mass, the family for a funeral.

I sang loudly and more or less on key, and because my father was organist and choir director of the various Lutheran churches we attended during my boyhood, I was always drafted for the children's choir and occasionally even given a semi-prominent role, but I was never as good as my family heritage or personal eagerness might have predicted.

Society president David Miller, dean of Wittenberg University's school of music, offered a progress report: the 55 - year - old hymn society, with 2,000 members — including clergy, church musicians, poets and hymn writers — was reorganized last year, has recently taken a spurt of growth and seems to have potential for further growth (one place the society is recruiting is among the ranks of the American Guild of Organists» 24,000 members).

Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

Today the organist is here to play for us and talk about how the organ works.

If there is a choral postlude, chatting over it is an insult to the choir, which has worked hard to prepare something beautiful for God; if there is only an organ postlude (with or without a recessional hymn), chatting over it is an insult to the organist.

But we are commanded to «work out our salvation» which seems to me to be an ongoing issue — not something settled once and for all in a five - minute altar call while the organist quietly plays «Just as I am» from memory.

Another, in East Lansing, Michigan, sponsors a yearly competition for young organists and fledgling composers.

Occasionally a pledge came in for, say, $ 10,000, eliciting all sorts of approving oohs and aahs from the congregation, and for the rare pledge of $ 50,000 the organist would leap from his pew and play a rousing fanfare of «Great Is Thy Faithfulness.»

This Church has fired a well known music composer as choir director because he prayed and was «too spiritual» at choir practice, Fired an amazing organist (who played with one hand because of a disability) for reasons unknown.

Recently, in a surprising move prompted by the 1982 death of his father, William Southcombe Lloyd Webber, organist at All Saints Church near Westminster Abbey, the composer departed in style and set to music the same Latin text of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead that fascinated composers from Mozart to Verdi.

A church in the village of Herxheim in southwestern Germany having a similar issue this year after the organist complained that one of its three bells had swastika and the inscription, «Everything for the Fatherland Adolf Hitler.»

In memoriam... Saddest week for organist and friend, Roberta Kagin, who lost her dear husband Craig Alexander last week.

I don't know if Ryosuke Kikuchi asked for this as his walk - up song, or if the Dodger Stadium organist was just plowing through a list of songs, but this was perfect:

Tim worked for two years in Cyprus as a church organist, and studied for a certificate of higher education with the Open Theological College.

Timothy worked for two years as a church organist, and studied for a certificate of higher education with the Open Theological College.

For that reason, a machine similar to a player piano performs most songs on behalf of an organist.

«In 1915 the newly appointed church organist, Mr Harold Organ, began work on plans for a new instrument.»

Nevertheless, it is a great site for lovers of music, concerts and organists.

We spoke with Lakeith Stanfield, who co-stars as Reggie, the church's music director and organist, about transforming from a non-singer to a church crooner for the film.

In The Sky in a Room, a team of organists will play the 1959 Italian pop song Il Cielo In Una Stanza for five hours a day in a gallery filled with 18th - century art.

In Troubled Water (Film Movement), soft - spoken convict Jan (Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen) starts a new life for himself as a church organist who brings services to life with his music and even stirs the interest of the female pastor, a single mother with a sweet young boy.

The Musicreader 4 system offers this as well as a Bite - switch in case your feet are busy (like an organist) I'm not a salesman for them, just a user and I just want to point out that the foot switch has been available for quite some time.

This quaint countryside church even has its own resident organist you may engage for your Mossman country style wedding ceremony.

The highly prolific Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) composed dozens of works for chorus, orchestra and keyboards, but in his lifetime was most famous as an organist.

This loss is a crucial one for CAPA, which has a history of producing top - tier artists, such as R&B crooners Boyz II Men and Amel Larrieux, as well as jazz bassist Christian McBride and organist - trumpeter - vocalist Joey DeFrancesco.

He can be seen performing throughout the Baltimore and Washington D.C. areas as well as with the Maryland Choral Society for which he is the pianist and at St. Marks - on - the - Hill Episcopal Church where he serves as organist and music - director.

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