Happy Easter!

Sunday, April 16…

Current Bldg (last enlarged & 
renovated in 1928)

Easter Sunday. I decide to add more music to my day by attending two church services. I already know the local LDS ward doesn’t have a choir, so after 9am sacrament meeting I head into town for the 11am traditional service (no rock band) at Mulberry United Methodist Church. I was a Methodist for 20 or so years way back, and this particular church has been around since the 1800s and is very similar in style (though much larger) to the one I attended as a kid. Huge, beautiful stained glass windows. The music director is Dean of Music at one of the local universities (there are 3 in Macon). 

Allow me to bore you for a bit while I reminisce: The service opened with a “Voluntary” for organ and brass quintet (w/ timpani). Three traditional Easter hymns (2 enhanced w/ choir descants), 2 choir numbers (Beethoven’s “Hallelujah” and the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah), and a lovely folk number (“Dogwood’s a Bloomin’”) performed by a vocal trio accompanied by violin, viola & cello – all 6 appeared to be high school students. The service closed with another piece for brass & organ. Fabulous! (The message was good too.)

I met some nice folks and chatted briefly w/ both the music director and pastor afterwards. (Of course, I really wished I’d been in the choir, but I did thoroughly enjoy the service.)