November 2020
Best Ideas: Music & Worship in This Most Unusual Time
**Registration for this event has closed** CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FROM PRACTITIONERS; Discussion Facilitated by Dr. Tim Sharp (Executive Director, American Choral Directors Association) & Dr. Michael Bedford (President, American Guild of Organists) Come explore the creativity of church musicians across the country, while sharing your own innovative ideas for coping with these unusual times! Contribute your “best ideas” on music in worship during the pandemic in one or more of the categories below as “payment” for your registration. Then, tune in…
Find out more »January 2021
Organ Music for Meditation
Eric Birk American Guild of Organists New York, NY Online, limited in-person, and non-existent worship scenarios present organists with extraordinary challenges and opportunities. NYC organist Eric Birk will demonstrate ideas and approaches for both selection and presentation that provide deep meaning and spiritual engagement for worshippers hearing organ music, whether they listen online or attend in-person worship. The Saturday Session will occur at 10:00 am (CT) on January 23rd. Registration closes at 12:00 noon (CT) on Friday, January 22nd. Free…
Find out more »February 2021
Church Music and the Christian Faith
Book Discussion Series: People and Ideas that Shape Church Music Mondays in February @ 1:30pm-2:30pm CT (Feb. 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd) Church Music and the Christian Faith by Erik Routley Erik Routley was a tall figure in the field of worship and music in the 20th century, inspiring clergy and musicians alike to ask the questions necessary to meaningful congregational worship. Are his ideas still relevant? Are the questions he posed those we should be asking as 21st century worship…
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Book Discussion Series: People and Ideas that Shape Church Music Mondays in February @ 1:30pm-2:30pm CT (Feb. 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd) Church Music and the Christian Faith by Erik Routley Erik Routley was a tall figure in the field of worship and music in the 20th century, inspiring clergy and musicians alike to ask the questions necessary to meaningful congregational worship. Are his ideas still relevant? Are the questions he posed those we should be asking as 21st century worship…
Find out more »Church Music and the Christian Faith
Book Discussion Series: People and Ideas that Shape Church Music Mondays in February @ 1:30pm-2:30pm CT (Feb. 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd) Church Music and the Christian Faith by Erik Routley Erik Routley was a tall figure in the field of worship and music in the 20th century, inspiring clergy and musicians alike to ask the questions necessary to meaningful congregational worship. Are his ideas still relevant? Are the questions he posed those we should be asking as 21st century worship…
Find out more »Church Music and the Christian Faith
Book Discussion Series: People and Ideas that Shape Church Music Mondays in February @ 1:30pm-2:30pm CT (Feb. 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd) Church Music and the Christian Faith by Erik Routley Erik Routley was a tall figure in the field of worship and music in the 20th century, inspiring clergy and musicians alike to ask the questions necessary to meaningful congregational worship. Are his ideas still relevant? Are the questions he posed those we should be asking as 21st century worship…
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