Lenten Choral Communion Service on April 3

Dr. James Bingham directs the TPPC Choir with guest musicians

The Takoma Park Presbyterian Church Choir and friends will present, along with the clergy, a special communion service on Sunday, April 3rd. The choir will be joined by a string quartet, harp, and organ for the occasion. Music, specific to Lent and Eastertide, will be interspersed throughout the service. This service will also be available over Zoom.

TPPC Choir performs with guest musicians

One featured work will be: Woman, Why Weepest Thou? by Heinrich Schütz, written about 1624. Hans Joachim Moser, who wrote the definitive work on the life of Heinrich Schütz, commented upon this work with: 

If everything Schütz wrote except this “Woman, why weepest thou?” were lost, his position as the musical genius of his age would still be incontestably assured.  

Other much-loved works such as Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Fauré, O For the Wings of a Dove by Felix Mendelssohn, The King of Love My Shepherd Is, based upon the Irish tune Columba and arranged by Edward Bairstow will be presented. The final blessing with be the sublime Peace I Give to You by Craig Courtney, bringing a new dimension to Christ’s words as recorded in John 14:27, 16:33. 

This will be a good opportunity to invite friends and relatives to a service of worship that should have great appeal.