The Mount Vernon Presbyterian Choir says a big “how do”! Usually the choir breaks for summer, but we’ve been having so much fun that we’ve continued through the summer. Our choir is smaller in the summer, but not a bit less fun. On this Sunday we sang “God So Loved the World” by John Stainer. This was a new piece to my ears, but one the choir was very familiar with.
I received an email later after the service saying how “clean and crisp” the choir sounded. I couldn’t agree more. The choir always sounds excellent, but on some occasions they really outdo themselves, and the John Stainer piece was one of those times. For choir directors that haven’t heard the piece, I highly recommend checking out his arrangement. It has beautiful layers, lets all SATB parts shine and the words are a perfect fit to the music. The words are from John 3:16
We have two choirs at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church. The “Chancel Choir” is the one pictured here; they cover all the classical repertoire and songs with four part harmonies. They also learn the parts for the hymns to enhance the congregational singing. A capella singing is also one of their strong points.
Our other choir is called “Glorify”, which does primarily contemporary praise music. Glorify music is usually unison to accompany the congregation in worship music, with some harmonies.
Or another way I like to think of the two groups is this: The Chancel Choir sings music the congregation listens to, and Glorify sings music along with the congregation.
A picture from summer worship at MV Pres.
Greetings, I’m pretty sure that I am contacting the right Conrad. How many Conrads could there be when googling “Conrad Victorville”?
This is probably going to be one of the most random emails you are going to get, if not THE most random 🙂
When I was rummaging through all the books in my closet, I ran across old piano books and sheet music. The piano books were mostly from Bastien and the sheet music were all xerox copies (some of them were red xeroxs) compiled into a binder. I opened the binder and looked at the dates written on the first page of every new piece. The oldest one read 5/31/91 to the earliest 9/22/94. Then I remembered that I had a piano lessons with Conrad for more than 3 years in Victorville. I was one of your students at Tom’s Music, I was only 8-11 years old at that time. I remember the white walls and that long hall way in the back of the store.
I was that little asian kid. I don’t know if you’ll remember me and it’s totally okay if you don’t because it was some 12-13 years ago. I just remember the studio/office you taught me in, with all the recording stuff and your keyboard, and the big tall black box thing on casters with bunch of buttons and knobs all over and wires. I stopped receiving lessons from you in ’94 because I moved to different city where I continued my lessons with someone else. But I quit those lessons because she strictly taught only classical music, whereas with you I remember playing literally everything from classical to jazz, to ragtime, blues, pop, etc. And those great nerve racking receitals. Anyhow, I guess everybody gets a little nostalgic about their childhood days.
Although I’ve lost a lot of my piano playing skills, I am so thankful that I did learn because I would probably never appreciate it as much as I do now.
I knew you had so much passion in your music and it makes me happy to see that you are successful with it. Thanks to the nice technology of the internet, I could just drop by and say “hello”. I see that you’re all over the place and wish you luck in that.