I’m grateful to Dr. Wayne Wold for inviting me to participate in this year's Shenandoah Conservatory Church Music Institute from June 16-28, 2024. I'll be part of Week II, offering sessions around the theme "Sharing the Song: Leadership Skills and Resources to Inspire Congregational Voices."
Read MoreAs we step into the season of Lent, here's a playlist I put together for The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, the congregation I’m serving as interim musician.
Read MoreJust before Advent, I received sample copies of an arrangement of “Glory to God, Whose Goodness Shines on Me” by Joel Raney that also weaves in a bit of the hymn “To God Be the Glory” (a more inclusive text, too). It’s an accessible SAB arrangement and available for purchase from Hope Publishing Company. It’s fun to see something you’ve written come back in a new way!
Here’s a preview recording of the arrangement from the publisher’s website.
Last week, I visited United Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA to celebrate the installation of their new Schoenstein pipe organ. Doug Brown, the seminary’s musician, had the creative idea to bring the instrument into relationship with music of the Global Church, so we found thoughtful and playful ways to integrate the organ into music from Indonesia, Argentina, South Korea, the Philippines, Brazil, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe.
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I’m grateful to be included in the most recent edition of Call to Worship, the liturgical journal of the Presbyterian Church (USA). There’s a fun photo on the cover as well as an article focused on paperless singing and my work with Music that Makes Community. And I was delighted to read the work of so many colleagues and friends in the same edition.
Thank you, Kim, for the invitation to share and the grace when pandemic burnout required some extra time to find my writing voice.
You can purchase a downloadable copy of the journal here.