Sunday, September 20th, Emmanuel’s Pied Piper, Ryan Fitch, Emmanuel’s Music Director, hosted Zoom Coffee Hour. The topic was favorite hymns, songs and music: secular and sacred. And so much fun! Ryan, a gifted teacher, choral director and organist makes everything fun!

The Zoom screen was more than Brady Bunch full, as people shared their favorites and the stories behind them: sweet, funny, poignant, and moving. The music came from everywhere: Broadway musicals, church choirs, classical composers, summer camp, film scores, and Christian radio. And oh yes, lots of folks came with the music they have lined up for their funerals.😊 (Ryan also recommended a book: “1000 Recordings to Listen To Before You Die”😊.)

There were also some great choristers (meaning everyone!) this morning. If you would like to join Zoom Choir Practice with Ryan on Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m., contact the office for the link.

Here follows the list, in no particular order, with links to listen.

Ryan Fitch:

• Will You Come And Follow? (The Summons)
• The 9th Movement of Durufle’s Requiem (St. John’s Cambridge Choir)

Bonnie Fairbank

• How Great Thou Art (Josh Turner)

Chuck Dervarics

• O Come, All Ye Faithful (Westminster Abbey)
• Godspell, the Musical (CYT Tri City)

Laura Bishop

• One Voice (Brooklyn Youth Choir)

Meredith Wade

• For the Beauty of the Earth (John Rutter, Cambridge Singers)
• Salve Regina (Stellenbosch University Choir)
• Hamilton, the Musical (Helpless, Original Cast & Jimmy Fallon)

Sarah Hastings

• Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (Eclipse Six)
• I Shall Not Walk Alone (The Blind Boys of Alabama)

Nettie Briggs

• Old Rugged Cross (The Fountainview Academy)

Patty Vance

• Eternal Father, Strong to Save (The Navy Hymn, USN Midshipmen Glee Club) (Alt. Almighty Father, Strong to Save)

Beth Boland

• Just As I Am (Acapeldridge)
• Here I Am, Lord (Rings True)
• Were You There? (Pegasis)

Anna Mary Portz

• The Borning Cry (Polk Street United Methodist)

Sue Kenny

• Surely It Is God Who Saves Me (Unity Lutheran)
• I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light (The Unionaires)
• It Is Well With My Soul (Audrey Assad)

Katherine Conner

• Song in the Morning (Shrine Mont St. George’s Camp)
• O Happy Day (Edwin Hawkins with First Baptist of Glenarden)
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (Fairfield County Children’s Choir)
• Waymaker (Leeland)
• The Blessing (Zimbabwe version)
• Alleluia, Sing to Jesus, (Hyfrodol, First Plymouth Church)

Peggy Conner

• Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (The Staples Singers)
• Lift High the Cross (Chris Rupp)
• I Sing a Song of the Saints of God (St. John’s Children’s Choir)

Nan DeRenzi

• Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us (Fernando Ortega)
• Lord, You Have Come to the Seashore (FCCC Children’s Choir)

Karen Coda

• Softly, Tenderly (From “Trip to Bountiful”)

Mary & Phil Kasik

• Dvorak: 2nd Movement of the 9th Symphony (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
• I Sing a Song of the Saints of God (St. John’s Church Choir)
• Eternal Father Strong to Save (The Navy Hymn, USN Sea Chanters)

Jode & Hayes Willingham

• Jerusalem, My Happy Home (St. Clement’s Choir)
• Ode to Joy (Royal Albert Hall, London)
• BBC Radio 3: Choral Evensong

Judi Brush

• Be Not Afraid (Kitty Cleveland)

Chuck McCoart

• How Can I Keep From Singing? (Audrey Assad)

Joani Peacock

• Let It Be (The Beatles)
• Be Thou My Vision (Elenyi)
• Saint Patrick’s Breastplate (St. Peter’s Singers of Leeds)
• The First One Ever (St. Andrew’s Ann Arbor)
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Audrey Assad)

Enoy and please, feel free to share!

• Reported Out by JLP, Ryan’s Stenographer😊

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