St Luke Choir
The Choir's Mission is to praise and glorify God by singing at Sunday worship services.
Members of the choir are volunteer congregational members who love to serve God through singing, and to learn more about the craft of singing through practise. No former voice training or choral singing experience necessary.
We
are truly fortunate to have Charlie Metzger as
our choir director. Charlie is renown for his expertise in the world of barbershop
quartets and choirs.
Mary Kostashuk accompanies the choir faithfully and directs the choir whenever Charlie is on the road attending his musical engagements.
New soprano, alto, tenor, and bass voices are always welcome, as are accompanists and choir directors. We also love to be accompanied by flautists, trumpeters, and other instrumentalists.
Practice times We practise regularly on Thursday evenings - 7:00 to 8:30
pm
We generally meet 30 minutes before each service in which we sing in order
to polish the pieces to be performed.
We generally sing three times per month. For special services (Easter, Christmas, and other) we also sing at the 10:30 am Contemporary service.
2011 - 2012 Season
50th Anniversary Celebrations
The Choir sang "A Sure Foundation" and "Jesus the Living Stone" for our anniversary celebrations.
Photo courtesy of S. Bowler Photography
This year's material
Some of the choir members again attended the Northwest Musical Services reading in August to hear what's new this year and help Charlie select material for the coming year. Charlie has selected the following, but see Groupanizer for the official list.
This list does not yet include songs which we have learned in previous years and will bring back this year.
50th Anniversary
- Sure Foundation
- Jesus is the Living Stone (from 2001)
Thanksgiving
- The Time for Turning
- Thanks Be to God
Trinity in General
- Go in the Grace of the Lord
- What a Friend
- Search Me, Lord
Advent
- My Lord, He is a-Comin' Soon
- Keep the Watch, People of Zion
Christmas
- O Come to Set Us Free
- The Snow Carol
- Calypso Lullaby
- Amen, Amen
Palm Sunday
- Blessed is He Who Comes
Lent
- Cup of Sorrow
- Lamb of God
Easter
- Hallelujah! Resurrection Day!
Trinity
- Saviour Like a Shepherd Lead Us
- No Turning Back
- Walk Like Jesus
- In the Stillness of This Moment
- You are Mine
2010 - 2011 Season
A number of the choir members attended a "reading" on August 18, 2010 to help select music for the coming year. The reading was hosted by Northwest Musical Services Ltd. at the St Georges Greek Community Centre.
Pepper
Choplin led the reading of
approximately 60 pieces and was accompanied by a fabulous pianist, Eric
Hominick.
Thanks to Charlie
and Karen Metzger, Ray and Elaine Lasota, Mary Kostashuk, Brenda Folvik, Laurel
Dawe, and Eric Weiss for attending and helping
Charlie to make his selections
for the coming year.
Repertoire
The songs below were selected for the coming year:
TITLE |
MUSIC BY |
|
Besig / Price |
|
Byrd / Young |
|
Choplin (Cantata) |
|
Choplin |
|
Hayes |
|
Larson |
|
Martin |
|
Martin |
|
McDonald |
|
Raney |
|
Raney |