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Musical Groups at Calvary
Calvary Bell Choir
Calvary has a bell choir which adds to our worship service
monthly. We practice each Thursday night at 6:00 p.m. and
play in worship on the 4th Sunday each month during the school
year. Dr.
Jim Brown leads the Bell Choir. We welcome experienced and
novice ringers, and would love to have you come and join us.
Calvary
Choir
Calvary’s choir participates in worship at our 8:30 and
11:00 services in our lovely sanctuary. Whether singing from our
loft or at the front of the church, the choir adds an uplifting
musical component to worship at Calvary.
Dr. Jim Brown
leads the Calvary Choir. If you would like to give the choir a
try, come to rehearsal on Thursday nights at 7:15. In addition
to a great musical experience, you will find new friends and
fellowship!
Deeper Life Band
Our
Deeper Life Band provides music for our Deeper Life worship at
11:00 a.m. on Sundays. It is a group diverse in age and musical
experience, and also rich in spirit and fun. We practice on
Monday nights at 6:30 p.m. We play throughout the year, summer
included. If you are interested in joining our
group, contact the church office or email Tony Willing, our
director at
tony@calvary-elca.org.
We provide music all year.
Tony
Willing
Church Musician,
Composer,
and
Director of Deeper Life Band
Dr. Jim Brown
Calvary Choir & Bell Choir Director
Praised for his “generous tenor” by Early Music America,
choral director, stage director, singer and voice teacher James
L. Brown is an active proponent of both early and new music.
James is the Chair of Vocal Studies at Pacific Lutheran
University in Tacoma, WA where he oversees a large and diverse
voice program. As the director of that school’s Opera Workshop,
he has been the recipient of several grants including a Regency
Scholarship Grant and a Production Grant from the Kurt Weill
Foundation for Music in New York, NY.
Opera News stated that “His lyricism is most appealing.” Brown
has sung with such opera companies and presenters as New York
City Opera, New Orleans Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia,
Bronx Opera, Rogue Opera (Oregon), Chautauqua Opera, Seattle
Early Music Guild, Skylight Opera Theatre (Milwaukee), Aspen
Opera Theater and The Spoleto Festival in Spoleto, Italy. The
tenor has sung roles under the baton of such well-known
conductors as James Conlon, John DeMain, Richard Hickox, Julius
Rudel and Robert Spano and early music directors Rinaldo
Alessandrini, Arthur Haas, Andrew Lawrence King and Stephen
Stubbs.
James has introduced many world premieres in the last several
years, among which are: Russian composer, Vladimir Ryabav’s The
Border Between Light and Darkness, Sheila Silver's The Thief of
Love (recently released on DVD), Jack Beeson's The Equilibrists
and Mexican/American composer Riccardo Zohn-Muldoon's Comala at
the Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
As a concert soloist, James has appeared at Lincoln Center’s
Alice Tully Hall, Seattle’s Town Hall, Harris Concert Hall at
the Aspen Festival, The Ravinia Festival in Chicago and the
Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California. James
sang the title roles in New York State Baroque’s productions of
Rameau’s Pygmalion, Handel’s Jephtha and Bach’s St. John Passion
(Evangelist).
Recent performances have taken Brown back to New York for the
title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (Stony Brook), Boston for
three Fringe Concerts at the 2007 Boston Early Music Festival,
Seattle for Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo
with the Seattle Academy of Baroque Opera, and Britten’s
Serenade and Cantata Misericordium with Choral Union in Tacoma,
WA (2008).
Brown holds a Bachelor’s Degree in voice performance from Loyola
University/ New Orleans, a Master of Music degree in voice from
the Juilliard School and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from
the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Music News from Calvary
Bell Choir Gets New Bells
On Sunday, February 14, we dedicated
our new set of bells...a 5th Octave! This set has 7 really large
"low" sounding bells and several really small "high" ones.
Choir Chairs The Calvary
Choir has struggled for some time (many years actually) with
uncomfortable noisy metal folding chairs in the balcony. It
seems impossible to sit in one of those chairs without our
wonderful acoustic picking up the sound. Sometimes we stand
between the movements of our music so we don't spoil the mood
with the creaking.... Well, there is a solution for this
problem. We are going to buy some new chairs- great idea, eh?
Here is your chance to show your appreciation to our choir in a
really tangible way; write your check for a portion of the
$3,000 and place it in the offering or send it to the church
office. Please note it is for "choir chairs". If you wish to buy
a whole chair, the cost is $100.74. Thanks for your support.
Music Appreciation Day Scheduled
Sunday, May 9th
We will give thanks for all the
musicians who bless us throughout the year.
Calvary Choir presents
portions of "Messiah" on December 20.
Congratulations to Dr. Jim Brown
After months of preparation, Jim has received tenure and promotion at
Pacific Lutheran
University.
Join the Bell Choir ,Calvary
Choir or Deeper Life Team
Explore your gifts
Try something new
This is your chance!
Group
Rehearsal
Location
Bell Choir Thursdays,
6:00 p.m.
Loft
Calvary Choir
Thursdays 7:15 p.m.
Sanctuary
Deeper Life Band & Singers Mondays, 6:30 p.m.
Great Room
For more information:
Calvary Choir or Bells:
Jim Brown
Deeper Life Team:
Tony Willing
Join these musicians:
We Love Our Musicians  On behalf of the Worship & Music
Team and the entire congregation, I would like to acknowledge
the commitment and dedication of all our musicians. Each person
involved gives of their time and their talent to enhance our
worship.
Our Bell Choir practices weekly for an hour, and they play two
services once a month. They arrive early to set up and be ready
to play at 7:45 A.M. and stay through 11:30 to play for the
11:00 service.
Calvary Choir rehearses at least an hour and one-half per week
and is in place 45 minutes before each time they sing to warm up
their voices and be ready for service. On festival Sundays choir
sings both services.
Deeper Life Band practices every week and finds new music to
keep the worship fresh. They have a lot of set up and take down
of equipment and they do this year-round.
Tony Willing is integral to all three worship services of course
and is shifting gears rapidly to keep the pace of Sunday
morning. He spends many hours in private rehearsal to make sure
he is ready to not only lead the hymns, but accompany the voices
with a wide variety of challenging music.
Jim Brown leads our choirs with energy, caring and patience.
Each rehearsal is a teaching session and a sharing of his
commitment to sacred music and his Christian faith. Our choirs
and the music they provide are enriched by his enthusiasm and
joy.
Glenn Sawyer goes about his work quietly with purpose. Not only
does he make sure everyone is mic’d up for service, but that he
has recording microphones in place. This means coming to choir
dress rehearsal at Christmas and Easter to make sure he gets the
best sound. At 7:30 on Easter morning Glenn approached choir
director Jim with his first “gold record”, a masterful recording
of the “Seven Last Words” that we had sung just two nights
previous! Each choir member was handed a copy as well.
Thanks to each of you who shared your musical talents this year,
we truly appreciate your hours of preparation and willingness to
provide such a rich assortment of worship music. And thanks
again to our leaders who create an environment of love and
passion for our music ministry.
Marj Hause
Thanks!
A special thank you to all who provide special
music. You are awesome, but don’t stop now! Once
again, we would appreciate your offerings of special music. Please see the
sign-up sheet in the church lobby.
Hear Original Compositions at Deeper
Life Service
Did you know our Church Musician,
Tony Willing, is also a gifted composer? Come worship with us at
the Deeper Life services at 9:45 a.m. in our Great Room
and hear some of the great songs Tony shares with us!
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