Worship: Music
Music at Pasadena Covenant
This is the first of several blog posts about our worship over the past hundred years. This month the focus is on music; we’ll return in the future to other topics, including visual and dramatic arts.
Watch and listen to this ten-minute video to learn about the history of worship through music at Pas Cov over the last ten decades.
Beyond 100
Music has changed and will continue to change, but worship will continue. What do you think music at Pasadena Covenant will be like in the next decades of our church?
Comments
Are there some hymns, songs, or musical events at Pasadena Covenant that you remember? Tell us about them in the comments.
Do you remember the Sonlight Singers? Here’s a 1972 church newsletter article with some reflections from members.
P.S. During the worship service on Dec 12, 2021, we combined the centennial preparation emphases of language (November) and music (December) as a two-part choir sang a Christmas song in Swedish. Adults were in front and kids were in the balcony.
led by Mindy Gustafson, accompanied by Becky Still
Sources
I selected the music in the video to illustrate the text, choosing sources to reflect as far as possible what the music would have sounded like at Pasadena Covenant during the various eras of musical worship. —Kitty Purgason
Blott en Dag (Day by Day) - Sissel Kyrkjebø performing on Norwegian television with audience singing along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVp9yqkRee0
O Mighty God - Swedish folk melody arranged by Norman Johnson; sung by North Park College Choir, recording on an LP “Hymns of the Covenant Heritage” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV5cKIldBVA
In Christ There is No East or West - southern melody arranged by Norman Johnson; sung by Cathedral Choir of St John the Divine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf4M6fWSdh0
The Majesty and Glory of Your Name - Tom Fettke; sung by Sanctuary Choir of Pasadena Covenant Church led by Roland Tabell, from the 1999 CD The Majesty and Glory
Come Share the Lord - Bryan Jeffrey Leech & Roland Tabell; sung by Voice of Praise, HKBP Menteng, Jakarta, Indonesia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPVnWFxi7PA
The Heavens are Telling - from Franz Josef Haydn’s “Creation”; conducted by Nicholas Bowden at Peachtree Presbyterian Church, Atlanta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ5olabSpOQ
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying - Ken Medema, from the 1973 album Son Shiny Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK3KJTyUqX0
Always Loving Him - from “Resurrection” by Bryan Jeffrey Leech & Roland Tabell (from a recording of Roland’s memorial service) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hghmtIgiA-Q
You Shall Go Out with Joy - Stuart Dauermann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unWnWSgoSt0
Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love - Ghana folk song, #165 in the book The Song Goes On edited by Roland Tabell; sung by choir of First-Plymouth Church, Lincoln NE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvQz513Jl8M
10,000 Reasons - Matt Redman; recorded at Central Church of God, Charlotte NC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLXmaqkm0z8
You are God (Eternal Word of God) - written by Jaewoo Kim, Josh Davis, Paul Neeley, and Carol Steddom; Dan Huang leading worship, recorded at Pasadena Covenant Church 9/19/2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BhjD8YcN1k&t=377s
Lift Up Your Heads - Jody Lindh; sung by Children’s Choir of Pasadena Covenant Church led by Joan Reeve Owens, from the 1999 CD The Majesty and Glory
We Are God’s People - Bryan Jeffrey Leech; #50 in in the book The Song Goes On edited by Roland Tabell; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QPymRVOCyU