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known for its outstanding music program. We believe that through singing we
amplify God’s Word as it is proclaimed in worship each week. Music at PPC
expresses our joy in God's love, enhances worship, enriches church members young and old,
and serves as an inspiring vehicle for community outreach. |
The
music ministry at Pasadena Presbyterian Church includes five choirs and
ensembles, involving over one hundred musicians from Kindergarten on up.
Participation in choirs open to any who wish to join.
See more about how you can
enjoy the wide variety of
PPC's ongoing musical offerings:
Kirk
Choir - for Adult Singers
Children's Choirs - for grades K - 5
Handbell Choir
Free
Wednesday Noon Concerts
Friends of Music Concert
Series
The Chiming of the Carillon
PPC Choirs ~ Rehearsal Schedule
CAROL CHOIR is
for children in Kindergarten and first grade and is directed by Vena
Luthey. This choir emphasizes
early musical experiences and participates in worship several times each
year. Rehearsals are held on Sundays,
11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. beginning
SEPTEMBER 16.
RAINBOW CHOIR
- CORO ARCO IRIS - is
directed by Greg Norton and is made up of second through fifth graders.
This choir participates in worship on a regular basis, sings at the
annual Christmas Eve pageant, and engages in other activities - like
festivals and musicals! Rehearsals
are held on Sundays, 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. beginning SEPTEMBER 16. Transportation arrangements and coordination support are
provided by Margie Madrigal.
KIRK CHOIR (adults),
is
directed by Greg Norton.
A
capable and committed group of singers, the Kirk Choir
serves as the church’s principal choir at Sunday morning worship
services.
Their diverse repertoire embraces the breadth of traditional
choral music, music written in our time, and a variety of music from
other cultures.
The choir is seen weekly on the church’s television broadcast
and presents several concerts each season as a part of the church’s Friends
of Music concert series.
They have also performed on the CalTech concert series, at Walt
Disney Concert Hall with Garrison Kiellor and the Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra,
at a national convention of the American Guild of Organists,
and they have been heard across the U.S. on the public radio programs Pipedreams
and With Hearts and Voices. The Kirk Choir was founded in the
1940s by Howard Swan, PPC's music director from 1940 to 1960.
A compact disc recording of their
singing, New Songs of Celebration Render, is available
nationally on the Arkay label. Rehearsals are in the Kirk Choir Room
Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. beginning in September.
VAN ETTEN
HANDBELL CHOIR (youth & adults) is
directed by Tim Howard and is open to adults and older youth who have some
music reading experience.
The choir participates in worship monthly and in special concerts
both at PPC and in the community.
Rehearsals are held Thursdays from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. beginning in
September.
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CD of PPC's Choir,
Organ, Bells and Brass
Now Available to order On-Line!
New Songs of Celebration Render is a selection of
hymns and anthems which are among the favorites of the choirs and
congregation at Pasadena Presbyterian Church. The emphasis is on new
songs: texts and music composed in recent decades as well as older
material which is just now making its way into new denominational
hymnals of the past few years. The forty-voice Kirk Choir is accompanied
by the Van Etten Handbell Choir, the Modern Brass Quintet and the
church's majestic Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ in this celebration of
faith and sacred art. |
Click Here
to Hear Samples and Order Your Copy
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WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT MUSIC AT PPC?
Contact Greg Norton, Minister of Music
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