The Music This Week: September 21st, 2014

Tomorrow our service will be about the Winnipeg Mission Trip and thus most of the music I have chose uses First Nations' melodies.

The adult choir will be singing for the first time this year! It's a piece we did in the spring called "Many and great, oh God, are your works" (301 in the hymnal). I enjoy its chant-like quality and because it comes from a First Nations' tradition, its melodic qualities are new and refreshing to our ears.

I am also delighted that Amy, Madison, and Bekah Lightfoot will be singing "On Eagle's Wings" (57 in the hymnal) for the offertory. There's always something so special about families singing together because of the way their voices blend.

The prelude and postlude didn't make it in to the bulletin properly, so I've listed them here:

Prelude: May the hope of God go with us every day - Hispanic folk song
Postlude: Land of the Silver Birch - First Nations folk song