The Music Corner News
Dear Musicians,
Thank you for your participation in the Christmas Choir and the Orchestra ensemble for our services. The Messiah Sing-Along participation was great - 70 people took part! And the Children had a practice run with a handbell special piece. We are making joyful noises to the Lord.
Organ
We are purchasing a new organ for the Sanctuary! Praise the Lord! Our present organ needs very expensive repairs, which would not change the many issues it is having and the many expensive tunings it would require.
We have a solution! A new Digital Organ with Pipe organ sounds and more!
I am very excited to introduce this organ to the congregation for our Worship Services each Sunday. The organ is an important worship leader for Liturgy as well as the many beautiful hymns that we sing. The variety of sounds including actual German, French, and English Pipe Organ sounds are just a few samples to look forward to, and the wonderful plus is that we do not need to spend any money on tunings. It will be perfectly in tune which will complement our orchestra ensemble greatly. Thank you for your support!
As a Special New Organ Fundraiser, the Maryland Accordion Club has suggested that we have them as guests after church on January 25th for Fellowship at 10:45 AM (POSTPONED-CHURCH SERVICE CANCELLED 1/25/26 DUE TO WINTER STORM- STAY TUNED FOR AN UPDATE)! January is POLKA MONTH and what better way is to have a Fundraiser with Accordion Polka Music. Come to our service and afterward, we will celebrate Polka Month!
Click Donate if you'd like to help support the New Organ Fundraiser.
Thank you!
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FEBRUARY MUSIC NEWS!
February will be a busy music month preparing for our new Rodgers Digital Organ. Daffer Organ Company from Jessup, MD will be setting it up for us. We are very blessed to have an organ company so close by. They service organs all throughout the country.
Our current pipe organ has been out of service for the past year. We will be looking for new sounds, exciting use of our new organ for our services, and joyful music for the Easter Season.
Thanks to so many of you who contributed to our organ purchase! In a special dedication service, we will be preparing to play a special piece of music or hymn that anyone contributing to the organ chooses. I will work very hard to use as many registrations as possible of sounds for our services. You will see me a lot at church in the coming weeks, practicing! It will be very exciting for me!
Is anyone interested in learning to play the organ? Keep an eye out for an opportunity to sign up for lessons in the future! In order to learn to play the organ, a piano background of at least four years is required. Learning the piano would be a great start at any age. Together we can build our keyboard program at St. Paul’s! We have few people who play piano in our church. This is a common issue in churches today. Learning piano is a basic for music education. If anyone is interested in pursuing this idea, please talk to me.
Donna
MUSIC AT ST. PAUL'S