Choir is back! We welcome the new choir season with the full St. Michael’s Singers at the 10:00 am service this Sunday. The service will be slightly different than usual as we feature Recovery Sunday, and we also change our service music from its summertime flavor to some classic Rutter and Schubert settings. For the anthem, the choir will sing an arrangement of Wondrous Love by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw, sung here during the height of the pandemic by our choir staff singers.

Thank you to our wonderful soloists this summer! We got to enjoy small ensembles singing a few anthems (with minimal rehearsal!, vocal duets, organ+piano duets, classic flute duets, the Misa Coro and instrumentalists at our parish picnic; a first sacred music solo, and a young woman astound us on clarinet this past Sunday. What a glorious array of musical delights to fill the time until our choirs are back for the season on Sunday, September 11.

What a glorious array of musical delights to fill the time until our choirs are back for the season on Sunday, September 11

This coming Sunday, August 28, our St. Michael’s music program has several special treats for you to enjoy.

This Sunday’s organ voluntaries are by William Byrd (1540-1623), in honor of the Byrd Festival

At 10am this Sunday our summer choir of volunteers will sing an anthem by the late Stephen Paulus (1949-2014), with Brian Fairbanks on flute.

This Sunday’s music is brought to you by J.S. Bach, the most esteemed and respected of Baroque composers.

This Sunday at 10am we are privileged to have Tito Amaya, Misa musician extraordinaire, providing and leading the music for our church picnic service at Wilshire Park. Also, the William Byrd Festival is coming in August.

During this coming Sunday’s 10am service we will have special musical offerings from flutists Patti Evans and Brian Fairbanks.

The Rev. Sherman Hesselgrave will not only be presiding on Sunday but will be on the piano in duets with Hannah Brewer on the organ.