Saturday, July 16, 2016

Music at St. Dunstan's


Although St. Dunstan's is not a huge church, we have an abundance of talent in many areas, not the least of these being music.

Under the excellent leadership of our Parish Musician, Dr. Tom Gibbs, parishioners at St. Dunstan's are treated to a wide variety of music, ranging from vocal performances by our Adult and Youth Choirs to instrumental performances, both by invited guests and as well as performances from our own parishioners.

An example of this was Alexander playing the oboe last Sunday.  His Voluntary was the Meditation on Lobe den Herron by Charles Callahan.  If you've got a hymnal handy, it's Hymn 390, Praise to the Lord, the Almighty.

You can hear Alexander's performance here.

Due to the terrible incidents last week, many preachers wrote and delivered sermons which caused us all to think about our situation and asked us to consider what we, as Christians, can do about it.

Read what Tricia had to say in her sermon, which is on our website.

Back to music.  Sad to say, but our anthem was very appropriate for the incidents last week.

The words are found in Hymn 572.

Listen to the choir performing Tom's arrangement here.