The Music Committee is hoping to get more people (members, friends, and guests) involved in performing music during worship services.  There is a surprising amount of music during each service, something we tend not to notice when the pianist does it all.  While our pianist Jennifer does a fine job with this, we think it would be good to get other people involved as well.

In particular there are small pieces performed for prelude, offeratory, and postlude.  Sometimes these are a song that seems relevant, other times just an instrumental piece.  We also sometimes have “special music”, often an original song from a member or else a song that closely fits the theme of the sermon or the service.

So this is an invitation for people to perform some of this music.  You don’t need to be perfect!  Many of the pieces performed are short snippets from longer pieces, so you don’t need to have a whole piece learned either.  Music for prelude and postlude can run in length from less than a minute up to 3-4 minutes long, and the offeratory should be between 2-5 minutes long.  And while we often think of this music as being serious, meditative, or whatever, it could also be a fun piece performed by kids.

If you’re interested, please contact a member of the Music Committee (Jim Cubit, Joyce DeWitt, Scott Helmke, Mark Wilson and Mary Honegger).