Choirs & Music
The Emmanuel inter-generational choirs
provide musical leadership at the 9:30 a.m. service of Holy Eucharist on Sundays and holy days.
provide musical leadership at the 9:30 a.m. service of Holy Eucharist on Sundays and holy days.
Children's Choir
The Emmanuel Children’s Choir is a wonderful place for children to contribute as worship leaders while learning music, language and Bible stories, gaining skills by working together as a team, and having fun! The choir also function as youth fellowship opportunities for the youngest of our children that, we hope, lead to enduring friendships. The leadership of our children is greatly valued by the congregation at Emmanuel.
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The CHILDREN’S CHOIR (age 4 - 5th grade) rehearses on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 - 7:00 pm after the fellowship dinner. They sing during the 9:30 am worship service at least once a month. The children’s choir learns songs both by rote and by reading music, and the singers often learn motions or sign language to go along with the lyrics. Hand chimes, barred instruments, and other percussion instruments are also played by the choir members. Music education and Bible stories are reinforced by games, music, and shared discussion.
Contact: Lauren Romano, Children's Choir Director |
Adult Choir
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This choir’s repertoire encompasses anthems by prolific Western European, Non-Western, and American church composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, motets and other works by well-known Baroque, Classical, and Romantic composers, and a sampling of Renaissance literature from the Anglican tradition. With a roster of about 20 lay and professional vocalists, the choir is open to all singers of varying levels of experience and rehearses on Wednesdays at 7:05 pm in the choir room. Upon "graduating" from the Children's Choir, student musicians are welcome to join the adult choir.
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Paid Section Leaders: Lauren Romano, alto & Patrick Zelaya, tenor
Contact: Choir Director and Organist, Jae Park.
Contact: Choir Director and Organist, Jae Park.
Our Holtkamp Organ
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The Holtkamp Organ is one of Emmanuel's treasures. Walter Holtkamp, Jr. (Holtkamp Organ Company of Cleveland, Ohio) originally designed and installed the organ in 1964. Holtkamp's opus no. 1790 consisted of 37 ranks, a total of 1,956 pipes, and was dedicated the following year in 1965. But only a few years would pass before the next major upgrade. In 1970, the Edward B. Sieckmann Organ Company of Saint Louis expanded the instrument with a new 5-rank antiphonal division, increasing the total number of ranks to 42 extant. The most recent renovation occured in 1997.
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Enabled by the generous contributions from the parish to the Music Preservation Fund, the St. Louis Pipe Organ Company repaired and modernized the instrument, most notably with solid state combination action. (Solid state technology allows the organist to program multiple memory levels of numerous combinations of stops. A quick, user-friendly recall system, solid state was an innovation at the time of Holtkamp's original installation and was not widely adopted. It is now the industry standard.) Many hands and contributions have brought the instrument to life and continue to enrich our worship and liturgy today.
Holtkamp Organ Specifications. (Click here for updated specifications)
Holtkamp Organ Specifications. (Click here for updated specifications)
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