Music

make a joyful noise

If you have a desire to serve God and use your musical gifts, we want to help you find a place of service. Our diverse offerings include opportunities for children, youth and adults.  If you have questions about which ensemble might be right for you or a member of your family, please do not hesitate to contact any member of our music staff. Join us as we lift our voices in praise to God!

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Children & Family Music

 

Midday Noels

A Concert Series: "Gift to the City"

‘Midday Noels Concert Series – Thursday, December 5, 12, 19, 2024; 12:00-12:45 pm

Once again, FPC offers its holiday ‘gift to the city’ with three free concerts in the church's sanctuary. 

Dec. 5 - Two Pianos Dec. 12 - Choral Celebration Dec. 19 - The Dirty River Jazz Band

Our Organ

The Robert L. Sipe Organ of First Presbyterian Church

First Presbyterian Church’s Robert L. Sipe organ, completed in March 1999, is an instrument of 55 ranks of pipes, many of which came from the preexisting 1968 Holtkamp instrument, but which have been rescaled and revoiced. The detached, three-manual console is built from mahogany and rosewood with sharps from ebony and natural key coverings carved from 100,000 year-old mammoth tusks. Each of the pipes is handmade to specific requirements, some of metal, some of wood. All the pipes have been carefully voiced for the acoustics of First Presbyterian Church.

All the pipes in the façade are speaking pipes. Visible from the chancel are Pedal Principal pipes and horizontal Festival Trumpet pipes. The upper center section behind the façade contains the Great organ. The enclosed Swell division is positioned behind the Great. The enclosed Choir division, decorated with Scottish thistles, is beneath the Great division. The Pedal division is divided on both sides of the organ. The Festival Trumpets may be played either from the Choir, the Great or the Pedal divisions.

 

 

 

Annual Music Events

 

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Celebrating Our Hymnal

Worship and Rejoice Hymnal 

In February 2020, the FPC Session unanimously approved the Worship Committee's recommendation to adopt a new hymnal to enrich our congregational singing in traditional worship services for decades to come. This was the culmination of an extensive, thoughtful evaluation process that began in April 2019 by a Hymnal Taskforce formed by the Worship Committee.

Our new hymnal was consecrated to the ‘Glory of God’ in our Traditional worship services on Sunday, October 31, 2021.  Many thanks to all the donors who so graciously donated funds to purchase hymnals ‘in memory’ and ‘in honor’ of friends, family, and loved ones.