Holy Event for the Cimbasso

[PaulMaybery]

This Sunday, Holy Trinity United Methodist Church in downtown Prior Lake, Minnesota is holding a music appreciation service at 9:30 AM. While we are a rather small and traditional congregation, we do have a few "pretty good" instrumentalists and singers.

I am always looking for venues for the cimbasso, either in orchestras, bands, ensembles or as a solo instrument. I also enjoy offering the euphonium for a beautiful hymn tune arrangement for the worship service. I seem to have become a regular now about once a month. Often my oboist wife Brenda and I perform as a duet. With my years of arranging experience we can basically do anything that I have time to commit to paper.

This Sunday I have fashioned and arrangement of "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" for the Cimbasso with piano accompaniment. I based it on a version that Elvis had done many years ago. In my personal philosophy of "music in worship" I would probably not choose such a piece, but this service is intended to be more of praise and a joyful spirit of worship rather than quiet contemplation. So "look - out."

Brenda and I will also do "Sabbath Prayer" from "Fiddler on the Roof" for english horn and euphonium.

Then on euph with piano, I will offer up "The Palms" by Faure.

The Choir, Handbells, organ, piano, vocalist will also be on the docket.

Over the past year since finally getting a decent euphonium, I have take to collecting some of my favorite classic tunes and arranging them with piano accomp. Not just for euph but also the F tuba and the cimbasso. I find that our church congregation is very receptive when something is presented well and has a clear and profound message.

I really need to credit Dave Werden for the idea, after watching so many of this videos from All Saints Lutheran, in Minnestonka.

So, If any of you are close by, please feel invited to stop by on Sunday AM. Should be a fun morning.

Paul "Cimbassista" Maybery

[Three Valves]

This has got to be 100% better than those hokey folk guitar services!!

Not that I'm biased....

[bort]

Yeah Paul! Hope it's a huge success so you'll do it again in the fall!

[opus37]

This has got to be 100% better than those hokey folk guitar services!!

Not that I'm biased....

I call these services the 7-11 service. Seven words sung 11 times.