This was the last Sunday for our outgoing interim “classic service” worship pastor and jazz pianist, Jim Martinez. The classic service values beauty in its presentation, while the contemporary services, held in a different building are, well, contemporary. Am I biased? Certainly, and I sang plenty of contemporary music, in the congregation and in the choir at another earlier church. I even went to concerts pre-2020, although no longer because I have lost far too much hearing to want to continue that.
This excerpt is of the call to worship anthem, but there is also some great jazz at the beginning and end of the livestream recording. Yours truly was turning the slides and captions, not singing, at the back corner of the room behind where some of the really old folks sit because it is more acciessible for them. I spotted one of them bobbing his head in time to the jazz.
I was surprised to see the livestream lyric captions doing weird things. Some of them contained too many lines and were cut off. I control the slide and caption timing during the service, and I do final checking and corrections for the slides beforehand when it is my week to do that, but someone else reformats and checks the the three-line captions appearing at the bottom of the video feed. There is a lot of work that goes into these services, much of it by a volunteer team of approaching 100 people (counting all rotations). Things happen.
I am having to post anthems on Mondays, due to some kind of weirdness with YouTube that now causes my downloader software to fail on Sunday for the latest recording. Who knows.
Recorded April 23, 2023 at Christ Community Church, Carmichael, California. Excerpted from youtu.be/a5NLc6es-60
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By Geron Davis. Arranged by Bradley Knight.
This was the last Sunday for our outgoing interim “classic service” worship pastor and jazz pianist, Jim Martinez. The classic service values beauty in its presentation, while the contemporary services, held in a different building are, well, contemporary. Am I biased? Certainly, and I sang plenty of contemporary music, in the congregation and in the choir at another earlier church. I even went to concerts pre-2020, although no longer because I have lost far too much hearing to want to continue that.
This excerpt is of the call to worship anthem, but there is also some great jazz at the beginning and end of the livestream recording. Yours truly was turning the slides and captions, not singing, at the back corner of the room behind where some of the really old folks sit because it is more acciessible for them. I spotted one of them bobbing his head in time to the jazz.
I was surprised to see the livestream lyric captions doing weird things. Some of them contained too many lines and were cut off. I control the slide and caption timing during the service, and I do final checking and corrections for the slides beforehand when it is my week to do that, but someone else reformats and checks the the three-line captions appearing at the bottom of the video feed. There is a lot of work that goes into these services, much of it by a volunteer team of approaching 100 people (counting all rotations). Things happen.
I am having to post anthems on Mondays, due to some kind of weirdness with YouTube that now causes my downloader software to fail on Sunday for the latest recording. Who knows.
Recorded April 23, 2023 at Christ Community Church, Carmichael, California.
Excerpted from youtu.be/a5NLc6es-60