CMI is looking forward to an exciting and busy year! Additional events will be announced regularly through email, social media, and the website. Here are some things to anticipate: Saturday Online Sessions will continue throughout the year. Saturday, January 23 – Organ Music for Meditation with Eric Birk Online, limited in-person, and non-existent worship scenarios present […]
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Best Ideas: Music and Worship in This Most Unusual Time
On November 14, CMI hosted “Best Ideas: Music and Worship in This Most Unusual Time,” a Saturday session exploring contributions from practitioners across the country. Facilitators Dr. Tim Sharp (Executive Director, ACDA) and Dr. Michael Bedford (President, AGO) presented ideas submitted from all participants of the course, and led a straw vote in each of […]
CMI 2020 in Review: Highlights
It was not the year CMI anticipated, and yet, looking back, it perhaps became one of CMI’s best years. By transitioning to online delivery of courses, workshops, and music, CMI reached more people than ever. CMI’s extensive online libraries—accessible anytime, anywhere—became a bedrock for delivery of services to congregations seeking music in new formats for online […]
CMI 2020 in Review: Fun Facts
2020 Fun Facts Arrived in July 2020: “The United States Library of Congress has selected your website for inclusion in the historic collection of internet materials related to the Professional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive. We consider your website to be an important part of this collection and the historical record.” Thank you to […]
During a Time of Silence … Church Music and Church Musicians
by Rev. Dr. Paul Westermeyer The Church is a gathering of people in song at a weekly worship service on the Lord’s Day, around Word, Font, and Table. We gather with song, hear the Word with song, come to the Table with song—the Font too if there are baptisms—and are sent out with song. Service […]
Giving Day on Track to Support Church Music Institute Work
On September 17, 2020, Giving Day kicked off a fall of record generosity to support increasing opportunities from CMI donors to assist congregations who must navigate this unusual season of ministry. At the end of the day on 9/17, donors had given a record number of gifts, and in greater amounts, including funds toward a […]