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From Choir Directors/Music Directors Response to a request for Easter choral music (info may be very dated!)
My choir director's name is Garry Miller, and you can reach him at garry@mazin.net from Claudia, Jonesboro, GA: Carol Turner is our Choir Director. Her home number is 770-306-9442. She has done an excellent job of selecting music, year round. Claudia Naylor Try Don Discenza at don@unitynorth.0rg. Unity North has a large choir and a good repertoire of music. For my church my music minister Jennifer Ferren and I went to Sweet Spirit Christian Bookstore and ordered several accompaniment CD's for The Holy City. Since we have such a small music program we use background CD's to support our singers. There are even tracks with the vocal harmony parts so we always sound great even with a few singers. Check your local Christian Bookstores. For sheet music J.W.Pepper in Atlanta is a source for arrangements. They even send out a demo CD of various Easter songs so you can pick and choose what would work for your choir. Please contact my music minister Jennifer at jferrensings@aol.com for more information.
If I can help any more on the music I would be glad to help. My college degree is a Bachelor
of Music Education with a major in cello. I work with my musicians a lot. Unity of Harrisburg,
where I grew up, has a fantastic Music Director and Choir... call the church office at
Fax: 717-732-9074 Phone: 717-732-9773 Richard Burdick in Sacramento. He is Michael Moran's music director: Sacramento, Ca 95816 Tel: 916.448.6508 Fax: 916.448.6308 (From Coco Ramos) [coco@cocoramos.com] Re choir music—Try phoning our Unity of Vero Beach Music Director. Jean Rasp. (7722) 567 7313. Love and blessings, G. Richard [from rmrieger@gate.net (G. Richard Rieger)] I really don't know of any Easter music except for the same old stuff. The music director at Unity Whole Life Church in Johnson City is Connie Wurster. Her email address is: WursterCW@aol.com You also might try Rev. Terry Dearmore at Unity of Fairfax in Virginia. He's really familiar with a lot of music. His email address is: terry@unityoffairfax.org from Carolyn Cla iborne, TN mtnlady11@earthlink.netHello, Dear One - Love and Light, Leddy (Clearwater) from leddy@unityofclearwater.org I recommend you contact Dixie Hickman at
dehickman@mindspring.com.
She is a wonderful musician and a leader in our choir and in the church. I am sure she could
give you some ideas. Why don't you give our choir director, Garry Miller, a call. His home number is 727-522-4540. Or
better yet you can email him at garry@mazin.net Hi, I don't know who is in charge of the choir at Unity Temple on the Plaza in KC but they have a large and effective choir /music ministry. I have been the Music Director at Unity of Panama City for almost 5 years. We have about 20 people in the choir and a lot of soloist and musicians who come in. We have tried a lot of different styles of music over the years depending on her message. Pop, jazz, gospel, sacred etc. We have found that the music from the Agape International Spiritual Centre in Culver City always goes over well. It is basically pop R& B, very up beat with totally appropriate lyrics for Unity. They have 3 song books and their phone is 877 999-9802. I have written 2 concerts for the church in which I used several of their songs and they always went over really well. [I Rise in God, Light Chant, Spirit says to sing Your song, I walk in the Love of God, etc. It might be on their web. I have collected songs for Easter from other choir directors. One pop song we often do is "With You
I'm Born Again. Other songs: Every morning is Easter Morning. Halle Halle, Hallalulah now be Joyful,
In the garden, I can mail you some stuff it you'd like. I'm just planning for Valantine's day now and
then Easter. You can call me at 850-215-9390 if you'd like. Hope this helps. We've centered our music that the choir sings around the Agape Church's music written by Ricki Byers-Beckwith. We sent our director out to Agape in August for training and we have been beautifully repaid. Ricki sells her music. The telephone # 1-877-999-9802. Let me know if I can help further. I would contact Judy Blackwelder at 615 847 4082. She put together a great choir with wonderful music etc. She is in Nashville. love, Sondra, svgunity@yahoo.com (Texas) We used a song called SING YOUR PRAISE TO THE LORD (Amy Grant) last Easter. It's a joyous song which does have a bit of the traditional flavor. But is Contemporary Christian. Dana Schultz does most of the selecting of music for our choir and she has been to the AGAPE workshops in Los Angel es. My background is more in a traditional and Contemporary Christian venue. I'm just not afraid of using the familiar because there's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to Jesus and Easter. Some people really like to have a more purely Metaphysical message. Dana is more prone to know more about this kind of music.
Dana's e-mail is schultztroupe@aol.com You might want to drop her an e-mail and she can give you
some suggestions of other music. A resource for me is the FAMILY CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORES here in town. Sometimes we will use the songs
via tracks that are available and other times I will program the music on the keyboard the
church has provided for me to use in the services. Other times, it's just me at the piano with the
choir. Many times I will make special arrangements for the choir, but that has been less and less lately. A great lady who did the music at a retreat I attended is Lucille Lucimusic@aol.com She may have some ideas for you. Dan [UNITY MONTGOMERY]
You can contact our music director, Karen Nagy. Her address is Ku@peoplepc.com. Our choir is small
and doesn't sing that much but she might be able to help.
Rev. Larkin sent word that you were in need of ideas for choral literature for Easter. I'm the
choral director at First Church Unity in Nashville. I like to use Pepper Music to obtain music and ideas.
They have a website and will gladly furnish you with free catalogs. They will also send your order to
you within 10 days. I have also used pieces from "The Creation" by Haydn, from "Messiah" by Handel,
and "Alleluia" by Randal Thompson.
Sharon West is an excellent long time Unity choir director. The last I heard of her she was in the
Columbus, Ohio church. The choir leader in Tallahassee might be able to help. Her name is Gwethlyn Jones. She can be reached at the Unity there that the Worth's started. Emily Gillespie, revvyrev@atlantic.net |
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