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"Worzlship teams" haw haw haw.
Without choirs, the congregation stopped singing. The loss of music in worship is devastating. Making music is a critical part of worship participation. Music teaches theology at a deep level. Music gives people a way to connect to God, especially when they struggled.
Drinking songs also.
I apologize if this sounds stereotypical, but the best church choirs around here are in the very highchurch Episcopalian churches that attract the LGBT+ community. Lovely and classical.
Church choirs are disappearing but singing groups are forming, four part harmonies and all. No one sings praise the lord but people are singing.
Watching in Toronto. Have been singing in the same church choir for 17 years. This video is a good summary of today's concerns.
Singing together isn't just a Christian thing it's a human thing we want it back.
Thanks!
Northeast Florida, 2130 EST. Appreciated church choirs when I was still a believer. Nobody did choirs like the Episcopal Church. I miss that aspect of church.
First Presbyterian Dayton Ohio? Hasn't existed under that name since around 1920 when it merged with another church…
I am 78 years old. I sing bass. I support the musicianship of the younger members of our church choir. Maybe I'm different. My music education began in 7th grade when I began flute lessons. Through those studies and through playing in the high school band I learned to read music, phrasing, breath control and ensemble performance discipline. All of that I carried forward to the time about 12 years ago when I joined the church choir at a Catholic suburban parish north of Detroit, MI. We perform Gregorian chant, sacred polyphony and church hymns. I am proud to say that we have sung in Latin, German, French, English and even church Slavonic. We have sung composers works from Thomas Tallis to John Ritter and dozens in between. One thing that is currently holding us back is that the organ has been neglected… criminally. So now it will take an expenditure in excess of $1 million. Our choir director is dedicated, well educated (working on PhD) and talented. My current plan with the choir (we number 12 to 18 voices) is to continue singing until I achieve my biblical four score and then bow out. Learning to sing in a choir is daunting to anyone without basic music literacy. You do have to work at it and be consistent in showing up for practice. But the rewards are amazing. When you know you've turned in a solid performance of a classical composition in praise of the Most High, you experience great joy and satisfaction. Further, we have sent out two of our choir members to lead choirs in other parishes. And we recently lost our assistant music director who also took a position at a neighboring parish.
I've been seeing this loss for a few decades now. Very very sad.
11:09 PM North Carolina, Feb 17. I was in the choir for a few months when I was 12
On the isle of man I'm in the middle of a furious polemic about this….I'll attach this.
I am a former church choir director. A few things were not mentioned in the video was a shift in the mindset of the leaders of the church:
— A distinct, bitter dislike of choir music by the administration of the church. Choir was not rock and roll, and it wasn't loud enough. Choir music was seen as not contemporary, and running contrary to what the next generation would want to hear. This happened during a period when the church was obsessed with retaining their youth, and so older adult pursuits were in general being de-emphasized or eliminated from church programs.
— A systematic declassification of the church choir as a fundamental part of the worship of the church. This included an expectation of shortening the time allowed for a choir, accompanied by a general shortening of the length of the worship service itself. The rock band stage eliminated choir lofts and seating, making transition times onto and off of the stage a detriment to choirs as well..
— A decline in budgetary commitments to fund choir expenses. This included budgets for music and musical instruments. In my context, this happened during very robust financial times, in a growing congregation. Choir was not rock and roll and it was not popular Christian radio music so it was irrelevant.
— A decline in church leadership in allocating space for choir rehearsals. In our case, a growing program literally took over the room that had been the choir room for the past thirty years. Why? It was convenient to do so.
— An elimination of children and young adults from performing solos, duets and instrument playing in the worship service. In 2010 we had this regularly. With leadership change, this 30 year long tradition in our church was eliminated, disenfranchising and undermining our youth from participating in both worship and from feeding into the longer term roles of public instrument performance at church as well as singing in front of the congregation. This is a part of the performance emphasis that the video covers very well.
My father was born in 1928. I
They are not vanishing in the Orthodox churches. You need to expand your exposure to different forms of Christianity and go visit your local Orthodox parish. It is collapsing in protestant and catholic gatherings because you try too hard to cater to the popular culture rather than being a bulwark against it. You try to be sentimental rather than theological, you focus on the self and what the self feels, rather than on God and what and how He wants us to worship Him. Seriously, just go to your local Orthodox parish. Thousands of others have, and they are converting to Orthodoxy at rates never seen before.
17:41 Poland
I'm retired and living on a fixed income. I'm watching from Baltimore, Maryland, USA in Eastern Standard Time.
The goal of Christianity should be to proclaim The Life, Death and Resurrection of The Great Lord Messiah and Savior Jesus Christ
Oxford Maine in my office at church at 2:10 in the afternoon on a Wednesday.
Something very positive: There are many church choirs where Russians and Ukraineans sing together at every single church service. Sometimes an Ukrainean is the leader of the church choir in a Russian church.