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In This Issue
January 2017 - Vol. 4, No. 1
Epiphany

FROM THE DIRECTOR


Read the Epiphany message here.

If you have any comments or suggestions about the website, contact  Director  Barry Bobb


Richard Hillert Award in Student Composition 
- jointly sponsored by the Center for Church Music and  the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians   

Congratulations to winner

Philip Biedenbender 
Concordia Chicago - '16 
first prize winner
" And You Will Sleep",  composition based on Philippians 2:8 was presented by Anton Armstrong and the St. Olaf Choir at the 2015 Christmas Festival


Honorable mention goes to
Scott Gercken - Concordia Chicago graduate student studying with Jonathan Kohrs - 
" Psalm and Hymn for the Evening Service"(Psalm 134 and Antiphon)

SCHALK SCHOLAR AWARD
Identifying up and coming young scholars in church music

Congratulations to award winner
Sam Eatherton Minster of Music at Zion Lutheran, Dallas Texas. Sam is a former student of Charles Ore.

 
Be sure and check out the following conversations ( video interviews)

Scott Wiedler

John Behnke

Gerhardt Cartford


 
Dr. Michael Hawn: 
An Appreciation for Lutheran Contributions to the People's Song
 - October 2016 Lectures in Church Music

 
Charles W. Ore: An American Original
Edited by Irene Beethe
A collection of essays celebrating the 80th birthday of church musician, composer, improviser and professor Charles Ore. 

The Seventh in a series of monographs - Shaping American Lutheran Church music - published by the Center for Church Music; highlighting people, movements, and events that have helped shape the course of church music among Lutherans in North America .

Published by Lutheran University Press and

COMING SOON!

The Carl Schalk and Paul Westermeyer 
Small Catechism and Large Catechism
Understanding Church Music in the Lutheran Tradition


Church Music Lectures Presentations
Steve Wente's The Organ in Early Lutheranism and Dan Zager's The Choir in Early Lutheranism

Elisabeth Urtel's book on Anna Hoppe in Fall 2017

CENTER UPDATES

The Peter Spittler Collection of recordings of Lutheran choral music in the US and Europe has now been moved Center. 
The collection consists of 1400+ LPs and 400+ CDs!  Peter is a relative of Martin Seltz (Augsburg Fortress-Media 1517) and is currently living in a VA home in Redding CA. Peter has been a lifelong collector of Lutheran choral music recordings.



The Richard Hillert music index and
the Paul Manz music index - both are available for online perusal.  

The Center continues to grow and the future looks bright!

Proposed NEW FACILITY (attached to south side of Kretzmann Hall)
January 2015 Preliminary architect drawings completed! Look for more developments.




Calling YOU for Discoveries

Have you found some useful resources that are "off the beaten track" that you have found useful in your ministry? Do you have some "treasure" that needs to be shared?

You are invited to share these discoveries with other church musicians through  Discoveries  on the website .  These resources may be print publications, online pieces, websites, recordings, events, conferences, etc.

If you have discovered some such treasure and are willing to write about it, please contact 

DEVOTIONS ON THE HYMN OF THE DAY

Devotions have been posted from a wide variety of Lutheran pastors, professors, church musicians, and Directors of Christian Education.


Welcome to the e-newsletter of the
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Please make arrangements beforehand by contacting Barry Bobb or Steven Wente . 

Linda Kempke , editor

Center for Church Music
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Concordia University Chicago
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