A choral anthem will be offered this Sunday, August 20 at the 10am service. A summer pickup choir will sing Stephen Paulus’s simple but effective setting of Lift up our hearts, O King of Kings, with Brian Fairbanks on flute.

Don’t miss the special treat of a mini organ demo and organ building workshop this Sunday following the 10am service in the sanctuary.

Tenor Palmer Haffner reprises his 2023 Broadway Night solo “Beautiful City” from the musical Godspell during Sunday’s 10am service. Particularly poignant for Recovery Sunday, the song asks “Out of the ruins and rubble, out of the smoke, out of our night of struggle, can we see a ray of hope?”

Longtime parishioner Chad Southwell delights us on Sunday with Irish and Scottish fiddle tunes to open and close the 10am service.

This Sunday at 10:00 am, baritone Josh English sings Bist du bei mir. This famous aria, often attributed to J.S. Bach, is originally from the opera Diomedes by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel

Monday through Thursday of this week, St. Michael’s organist Hannah Brewer has been attending the American Guild of Organists West Regional Convention right here in Portland.

Our summer highlights continue with an exciting array of soloists lined up for Sunday mornings in July.

Sunday’s 10am service will feature a mix of hymns designated for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost as well as for Independence Day.

This Sunday, at the 10:00 am service, we have a summer pickup choir singing an anthem during the offertory. “Gracious Spirit, dwell with me” utilizes the familiar tune “Adoro te devote”, most commonly sung to the words “Humbly I adore thee” in The Hymnal 1982.

Some of our hymns and instrumental voluntaries this coming Sunday were chosen In recognition of Juneteenth on Monday, June 19. We commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African Americans by singing traditional Spirituals like “Glory, glory, hallelujah!” and hearing the music of the great turn of the century African-American ragtime composer and pianist Scott Joplin (seen above).