Music at College Lutheran
Meet our new Interim Director of Music - Earle Goodwin
From Beautiful, Bedford, VA, Earle has a BM, BA from Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music, Ober-lin, Ohio. His Master of Sacred Music is from Union Theological Seminary, New York City. He has extensive experience directing Adult, Boys & Girls, and Handbell choirs. According to Earle, one of the highlights of his career was his 8 years on the radio at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York as director of musical programs-Radio Station WQXR broadcast each Sunday.
Mr. Goodwin's gift of music is such a blessing to us as we begin our Fall worship together in Christ’s name. What an exciting time to continue to develop our music programs under his direction. Please introduce yourself to Earle and consider singing or playing in one of the choirs…you will be enriched beyond measure and will be a tremendous blessing to others.
Sanctuary Choir
The Sanctuary Choir sings weekly at the 10:00 service. We rehearse on Wednesday nights from 7:15-8:30 p.m. in the Choir Room. For our services, we sing in the balcony and are certainly one of the few churches blessed to have an elevator that goes from the choir room right to the balcony! Our music is varied, yet tries to maintain high standards. We sing music of some Great Composers of the past like Bach, Handel, Palestrina, Faure, and others, but we also sing newer works of high quality by a variety of composers. In fact, our Sanctuary Choir has premiered the works of several composers over the past few years.
The Sanctuary Choir is open to Adults and Senior High Youth. We hope to see (and hear) you soon!
Handbell Choir
The Handbell Choir is open to adults and youth grade 9 and higher. We rehearse on Wednesday evenings from 6:00-7:00 p.m. in the choir room. The handbells play during church services several times throughout the year.