An overview of Rev. Peter W. Marty’s keynote address at CMI’s 2019 “Best Practices” seminar. Adding Frequencies to the Pastoral Heart: Beyond the Responsibility to Lead Going Off the Map as a Musician: Delighting in the Congregation as Part of One’s Call Beginning with Scripture Rev. Marty began a conversation with about 50 pastors, musicians, […]
Losing Our Lives to Find Them
How do you decide what is worth keeping? While searching for pictures of a lost loved one, boxes of old tax returns, complete with backup receipts and cancelled checks appeared. Pausing my photo mission momentarily, I began shredding the unneeded documents. The old paperwork, however, was a clear reminder of money spent: contributions and purchases […]
Meet the Summer Workshop Instructors
The Church Music Institute is proud to offer a timely online workshop that explores navigating the “New Normal” for those who lead worship with Dr. David Arcus and Dr. Don Horisberger, featured Clinicians as The 2020 Paul Lindsley Thomas and Hal Hopson Lecturers. The workshop will also including the film, Sacred Sound with Rev. Robin […]
Summer Workshop 2020 Schedule – Updated!
Until the Vaccine Arrives: An online workshop for Organists and Choir Directors that explores navigating the “new normal” for those who lead worship in the time of COVID-19. The Church Music Institute’s Summer Workshop for 2020, features Dr. David Arcus and Dr. Don Horisberger as the 2020 Paul Lindsley Thomas and Hal Hopson Lecturers, April […]
Sacred Sound
The CMI Online Summer Workshop will include a screening of the documentary, Sacred Sounds from producer/creator Rev. Robin Arcus. (Watch the film’s trailer below). The two-day, online workshop, “Until the Vaccine Arrives,” will be held August 7 – August 8. Hearing the girl choristers sing at the week-long Carolina Course of the Royal School of […]
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God – Noble Cain (1896-1977)
For many months I have examined the contents of more than twenty boxes of choral music sent by Dr. Eileen Guenther, organist and Professor of Music at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D. C., as a gift to the Choral Library of Church Music Institute. The music in these boxes comprised the personal anthem collection of […]