An Overview

Music is provided during worship on most Sundays through the school year by our chancel choir, augmented by pipe organ, piano, an occasional volunteer brass group, and occasional hired chamber players.

The choir consists of about thirty volunteer singers. Our organist is Joyce Rhodes. She is an active member of the American Guild of Organists.

Nancy Kromm is our choir director. She started in early September 2006.

Our sixteen rank pipe organ was custom built by Schoenstein and Co. of San Francisco, the largest and oldest pipe organ firm in the West. The instrument was installed in 1986, and is shown on the right.

Throughout the year other special events take place. When these are scheduled, this web page will announce them well in advance.

The Stone Church Chancel Choir Choir Director Nancy Kromm is in front row, second from the right (click on photo for larger image)	Joyce Rhodes, our Organist

Music for Winter and Spring 2008

Please note: The schedule shown below was last updated March 5, 2008. Selections for the rest of the spring will be added soon as they become available.

Date	Selection	Composer
Jan 13	A Joyous Psalm	Benjamin Harlin
Jan 20	How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place	Brahms
Jan 27	Ave Verum	Mozart
Feb 3	How Lovely Are the Messengers	Mendelssohn
Feb 10	O Jesus Grant Me Hope and Comfort	Johann Franck
Feb 17	Deep River	Traditional; arranged by J. Jefferson Cleveland
Feb 24	Offertory (with string quartet)	John Ness Beck
Mar 2	Sanctus	Ariel Quintana
Mar 9	Ave Maria (sung by the Bill Downes’ quartet)
Mar 16 Palm Sunday	The Seven Last Words of Christ	Dubois
Mar 21 Good Friday	Presentations by: Don and Betty D’Angelo, Walter Roach, Mary Burfine, the Bill Downs quartet, Jerry Keifer	Various composers
Mar 23 Easter	Introit: Alleluia Anthem: Worthy is the Lamb / Beautiful Savior Conclusion: Hallelujah Chorus	Arranged by John F. Wilson Handel / Arranged by F. Melius Christiansen Handel
Mar 30	Praise God from Whom all blessings flow
Apr 6	Keep on Travelin’ Forward	Dilworth
Apr 13	Credo	Robert Ray
Apr 20	For the beauty of the earth	John Rutter
Apr 27	Happy and blest are they	Mendelssohn
May 4	Lift thine eyes	Mendelssohn
May 11	Beautiful Savior	Christiansen
May 18	Nunc Dimittis Agnus Dei	Gretchaninov Quintana
May 25	Let there be peace on earth	(traditional)
June 1	Little Innocent Lamb	Bartholomew

Brass Group

Stone Church volunteer brass players include: Fred Oliver, Don D’Angelo and Jennie Kromm, Trumpet; Miriam Rowan, French Horn; Andrew Edwards and Rod Thorn, Trombone; and Bob Johnson and Karen Carlson, Tuba. Members of this group occasionally provide classical music for worship on their own, or combined with the choir.

Members and Friends of Stone Church have found the following groups of interest. Please see their web pages for further information.

• San Jose Symphonic Choir, where several Stone Church choir members participate;
  
• Santa Clara University Department of Music, where Nancy Kromm often performs.

Tour planned to British Isles

Some members of the Stone Church Choir, together with members of the San Jose Symphonic Choir and the Monterey Symphony Chorus, will be travelling to the British Isles in July 2008 to present music in several locations. Click Here for a detailed description of the trip.

Members and Friends of Stone Church who wish to be in close email contact with choir are invited to join and participate in the choir Yahoo! group for that purpose.

• Already a member, just wanting to access the Yahoo! Group Choir page? Click Here to get in.

• Not yet a member? Just enter your email address in the space below and click on the purple “Join Yahoo! Groups” button below. Yahoo! will set you up by sending an email to the address you enter; just follow the simple steps provided in their email.

For your convenience the web now includes a page with links to recorded music that the choir will be singing in the near future. Since this is intended as a rehearsal aid for choir members only, you will need to know the user name and password to enter. Choir members, click Here to get started.