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Everyone is cordially invited to join the music ministry at OPMH. Below is listed information about the various groups. Please feel free to call the Minister of Music anytime (703-549-6670) if you’d like to join a choir, if you’d like to sing/play in worship, if you have questions, if you have ideas you’d like to share. Please Note: Some musical groups emphasize performance over participation while others emphasize participation over performance. If it would help you feel more comfortable joining a musical group, I will happily meet with you individually or in small groups for voice lessons, technique, music reading lessons, or extra help with any of the music. GROUP/ACTIVITY | REHEARSAL TIME/PLACE | DESCRIPTION | Adult Choir | Thursdays, 7:30-9:30 pm Sunday, 9:55 warm-up Church balcony | Sings every Sunday, Sept-June. Two major works per year, classical/traditional repertoire | Cherub Choir | Sundays, as part of Sunday School Classrooms of Education Building | Sings about once a month at the 11 am Service. Occasionally do a musical. Pre-school and Kindergarten. | Covenant Choir | Sundays, 12:05-12:50 pm Room 22, Education Building | Sings about once a month at the 11 am Service. Occasionally do a musical. Grades 1-3 and Kindergarten welcome! (Snacks provided) | Alleluia Ringers & Singers | Sundays, 12:05-12:50 pm Church balcony | Sings/rings as ready. Grades 4 and up/Intergenerational. Snacks provided. | Youth Music | As time permits. Occasionally sing with Adult Choir. | Solo, ensembles – vocal and instrumental. Anytime of the year, particularly in the summer. | Good Old Hymns | Any day of the week Community of Alexandria | An “ad hoc” group of members that sing the “good old hymns” for nursing homes, retirement homes, and shut-ins. Trips are about once or twice a month, in good weather months. | Reunion Choir | One Sunday after Easter, 8:30 am Elliot House & Sanctuary with 8:30 am breakfast. 9:30 am rehearsal | Former members from far and near join the Adult Choir to sing for the 11am service. | Family Choir | Sundays, 9 am, Sanctuary | Joins with the Adult Choir on the last two Sundays in June. | Summer Music | Set up on individual basis | While the choirs are on summer break, singers and instrumentalists from the OPMH congregation (and occasionally guests) provide solos, duets, ensembles for worship. (Some solos, etc., occur during the choir season as well.) | Concert Series | Friday or Sunday evenings Sanctuary | “Concerts with a Cause” are benefit concerts in which free-will offerings are taken, 100% of which goes to various charitable organizations supported by OMPH. Concert expenses paid by OMPH. Admission is free. Four “products”: Musical Enrichment. Evangelism. Publicity & PR for the church. Helping the needy. |
Two pipe organs: 1849 Erben behind Pulpit and 1997 Lively-Fulcher in Balcony
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