Coffee Hour: The Musical Edition

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
Chuck Dervarics
Laura Bishop
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
Nettie Briggs
Patty Vance
- Eternal Father, Strong to Save (The Navy Hymn, USN Midshipmen Glee Club) (Alt. Almighty Father, Strong to Save)
Beth Boland
Anna Mary Portz
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
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
Chuck McCoart
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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