This is a tradition at Holy Communion every All Saints Sunday. This anthem of mine is melodically based on the first phrase of the great hymn "For all the Saints." The choir sings it during the reading of the names of those members of the congregation who died during the past twelve months. "We are
Several years ago, Derek Machan, the choral director at Waterford High School, commissioned me to compose a new requiem in memory of his good friend Kris Noveaus, the choir director at Union Grove High School, who had been tragically killed (along with her husband) in a motorcycle accident. I ended up composing a Short Requiem
It scarcely seems possible, but the calendar does not lie. It was twenty years ago this month that I first unveiled to the good people of Holy Communion Lutheran Church a folk liturgy I composed for them titled "O the Joy in Knowing Jesus" - or "O the Joy" for short. Pastor Jeff Barrow (our
