"The Sounds of Worship"

©2020 Tierce de Picardie / Music in the “Elevator”

 

“The Sounds of Worship”

     As a very young college student, the Chairman of the Music Department (whom I later discovered was both an Organist and Choir Master), invited me to take an Organist position for a congregation in Scottsdale, AZ. Years later while studying Pipe Organ privately, I realized there is nomenclature which properly explained sounds emanating by air flow through each pipe. Indeed, “Diapason 8’” was not the sound of “a cloth diaper swishing around in a diaper pail”. 😊

  

     When contemplating appropriate terms to describe those who are Organists, Choir Directors, Musicians, Soloists, and/or Choir Members, the nomenclature encompassing all in the myriad sounds of Congregational worship are as varied as the pipes in the Pipe Organ ranks...

     Therefore, not to exclude anyone - including the worshippers - this year’s 2020 tierce de Picardie Award goes to those participating in any musical capacity, often nameless, who willingly contribute to the Sounds of Worship in our beloved Communities.

Photo: via Wikimedia Commons - Pipe Organ Metropolitan Museum of Art / CCO