Music
Music occupies a central place in the life of Good Shepherd because it is the fabric of our liturgy, which lies at the heart of what we do and who we are as a parish of the Episcopal Church. By participating together in the music of the liturgy, we join the celestial song that echoes throughout creation. Every voice is indispensable, whether sweet, shrill, strong, shy, shaky, or sure.
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Good Shepherd welcomes Choirmaster Jonathan Babcock
Good Shepherd is pleased to welcome to our staff Jonathan Babcock, who will serve part-time as Choirmaster of the Good Shepherd Choir and Evensong Choir. A respected choral musician, educator, and clinician throughout the US, Jonathan is an assistant professor at Texas State University, where he conducts the University Singers and Men’s Choir and teaches choral conducting, literature, and pedagogy.
Choirs
Good Shepherd’s four choirs of children and adults lead and interact with congregational singing, sing portions of the liturgy which it is impractical for the entire congregation to sing, enrich our celebration of the liturgy with appropriate offerings of beauty, and foster musical growth, spiritual formation, community-building, and an attitude of service among the choristers.
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Congregation, choir, cantors, and clergy regularly share the responsibility for singing the liturgy, but the balance among these forces is not the same on every occasion. At some services Good Shepherd’s choirs do a good bit of the singing.
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In addition to the choristers, choir parents, and other parishioners who constitute and make possible our ministry of music, these individuals lead that ministry in particular ways.
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Though the human voice is our primary vehicle of prayer and praise, other instruments – just like choirs and cantors – lead and enrich our liturgy in various ways.
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