Hear examples of hymns and music suitable for each Sunday of the Church Year, mostly drawn from IMSLP’s (International Music Score Library Project) online and free printable database.
LCMS Worship Institute: S1Ep11. Faithful, Practical, Musical: Profiles in American Lutheran Church Music – Benjamin Kolodziej
Benjamin Kolodziej reviews the impact of several key musicians on American Lutheran church music.
LCMS Worship Institute: S1Ep10. Organ Registration for Worship – Jinah Knapp
Explore creative and appropriate registration ideas for hymn playing, solo organ music and choir accompaniment.
LCMS Worship Institute: S1Ep9. Digging Deeper into Book IV: A New Exodus, A New Song and the Messiah – Adam Hensley
Come dig deeper into the design and theology of Book IV of the Psalter with our keynote speaker, Rev. Dr. Adam Hensley.
LCMS Worship Institute: S1Ep8. Untangling the Confusion over Liturgy and Worship – Paul Grime
How is our Lutheran theology uniquely positioned to help us wade through the debates surrounding our understanding of worship?
LCMS Worship Institute: S1Ep5. Comfort in Suffering: How the Psalms Bring Consolation and Strength – Michael Frese
This session will explore how the Church Fathers and Fathers of the Reformation saw suffering and how they sought comfort in the Psalms.
LCMS Worship Institute: S1Ep4. Creating Variety in Piano Hymn Accompaniments – Christopher Evatt
Even though the piano has more uniformity in sound than an organ with its many colors of stops, there are still many ways to create variety and draw out the meaning of the text when playing hymns on the piano.
LCMS Worship Institute: S1Ep3. Practical Organ Improvisation – Christopher Evatt
Improvisation can be scary for the organist who hasn’t done it before, but it doesn’t have to be!
LCMS Worship Institute: S1Ep2. Standing On Holy Ground: Reverent Conduct of the Divine Service – Geoffrey Boyle
When considering Who it is that comes before us in the Divine Liturgy, Whose place it is, Whose altar, Whose Word and Sacrament, something is called out of us also.
LCMS Worship Institute: S1Ep1. Musician and Pastor: A Faithful Partnership – John Berg and Sam Eatherton
The two people that congregations depend on most to lead them in worship are, unfortunately, all too often at odds with each other. What should we know and do, as pastors and church musicians, in order to work together well?