Updated: 22-AUG-05
Music With a Mission
Trinity Lutheran Church has a long tradition of an integrated and active music program. It is clear that music plays an integral role in each service where, as in the Lutheran tradition, it proclaims the Word, praises God, and contains the prayers of those gathered. Using The Lutheran Book of Worship, With One Voice, New Hymns and Songs, and a constellation of other resources, we craft the musical elements of each service not only to decorate both the word of God and the spirit-charged preaching we are lucky to hear each week, but to divine what it is that the Holy Spirit would have us understand. Hymn singing at Trinity is lusty and confident. The sanctuary is a fantastic place to make music and truly a place where the Gospel is proclaimed. If you are interested in joining any of the groups you may read about on this page, contact music@trinity-chelmsford.org, or call Patrick Gagnon 978-851-0513 for more information.
God our creator, earth has many languages, but your Gospel announces your love to all nations in one heavenly speech. Make us messengers of the good news that, through the power of your Spirit, everyone everywhere may unite in one song of priase; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. -- Lutheran Book of Worship, Prayer for the Day of Pentecost, 1978
Music Director: Patrick Gagnon (music@trinity-chelmsford.org)
Worship & Music Committee mailbox (wm@trinity-chelmsford.org)
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Vocal Ensembles - Rehersal Times
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Learn more about our 1976 Stuart 2 Manual Tracker Organ
The Cherub Choir is for children in Kindergarten through grade 2 who can read. The rehearsals are short and focused. Children learn hymns, songs, liturgical music, and, when appropriate, participate in musicals. The Cherub Choir sings several times during the choir season alternating between the 8:30 and 11:00 services.
The Believers is our choir for middle school
and high school aged children. This choir rehearses one hour every Thursday
during the school year and sings in services approximately once each month.
Members of this choir often sing the Kryie and the Psalm during worship and
members who have been confirmed are eligible to become Worship Assistants. As
the choir grows, its repertoire changes, but most pieces are drawn from contemporary
repertoire and are sung in three-part harmony. Young men and young women are
both needed in The Believers this year!
The Trinity Choir is the adult vocal choir
at TLC. We rehearse This well-established choir has handsomly managed much of
the standard repertory including Schubert Mass in G, Faure Requiem, Mozart Requiem,
Elanor Daly Requiem, Bernstein Chichester Psalms, J.S. Bach Jesu, Meine Freude
and Cantata 140. Most Sundays this choir sings two anthems, often without accompaniment.
We are always seeking new members to join our ranks!
The Treble Choir is for children in grades 3-5. The rehearsals are 45 minutes in length. Children in this choir learn hymns, songs, liturgical music, and musicals, and play hand drums. Treble Choir sings in two-part harmony.
The Morning Choir rehearses only on Sunday Mornings
before the 8:30 service. This is a group of people that prefer to attend the
early service and who love to sing, but cannot commit to a weeknight rehearsal.
The Morning Choir sings a variety of music including Baroque pieces and contemporary
pieces. Please come join us at 8:00 each Sunday.
The Men's Choir performs every year on Father's Day in June. There is a rehearsal at 8:00 a.m. on the morning of Father's Day where the Men's Choir learns two anthems for the first 9:00 summer service.
Bjällerklangen (which is Swedish for "the sound of bells") is the adult handbell choir at Trinity. We ring four and one-half octaves of Schulmerich handbells, and six octaves of Schulmerich and Malmark handchimes. The choir rings regularly during the year and also participates during March in the Merrimack Valley English Handbell Festival held at Tewksbury Memorial High School. Bjallerklangen rehearses on Thursday nights from 7:30 until 9:00. No prior musical experience is necessary to ring handbells, but a good sense of rhythm, and the desire to be with a fun group are essential. New members are always welcome! Learn more about English Handbells.
The
Trinity Brass Choir plays regularly throughout the year, but especially
on high feast days, Christmas Eve, and Easter Sunday. Rehearsals are run by
its members and happen after the second service in the weeks preceding a performance.
New members are always welcome!
The Praise Band plays that liturgy several times each year at both services and has been doing so for more than two decades. This group has comprised flutes, guitars, basses, violins, singers, and pianists. It is a bit different each time we worship with the Praise Band at TLC and is always improving and expanding.