At Trinity, music has always been
important -- a pipe organ was the first major furnishing of the church
when it was built. (The ladies of the church financed its purchase
with a series of chicken dinners). A century ago, Trinity even had
its own boychoir. Click the image to the right to see Trinity's choir of
men and boys as it appeared circa 1906 (choristers are identified in the
photo archives).
We have frequent concerts and special musical
events at Trinity Lime Rock. You'll see them announced on our
calendar page, in our Parish
Facebook Page, and on our weekly e-mail newsletter.
Here are some of our recent visitors:
The Choir of Trinity Church, Wall
Street
We count ourselves very fortunate that the
superb professional choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street visits us each Autumn.
2010 marked the
ninth consecutive year that "Big Trinity" has visited us, and
we look forward to welcoming them again 2011 for our tenth anniversary. We invite you to come hear this
extraordinary ensemble!
We always make sure that we take an "official" picture of the
Trinity Wall Street choir
when they are here.
CLICK HERE
to open a page containing all of those pictures since their first visit
to us. It also contains links to more pictures from each of those
memorable visits.
Here's a video of this
wonderful choir, performing at their own House, Trinity Church, Wall
Street:
The Berkshire Choral
Festival
is a wonderful friend to have
right here in our own area! On July 27, 2003, a contingent from
the Choral Festival, under the direction of Fredericka Petit-Homme,
first visited
us at Trinity Lime Rock and honored us with a magnificent performance of
our Offertory Anthem: "Lift up Thine Eyes", from
Mendelssohn's Elijah.
Do you wonder why only a contingent of their
chorus visited us? Well, the entire chorus at the
Berkshire
Choral Festival numbers more than 225 voices!! We're a small
church!! They wouldn't all fit!!
Here are two photographs from
their
marvelous performance! Click on either one to see a larger view.
A Trinity chorister's view of
some of the members of the visiting group in performance.
(Trinity choristers are in the foreground)
Some of our visitors from the
Berkshire Choral Festival with our own Christine Gevert, front row
left, in Walker Hall, following the service. Miss Petit-Homme is front row right.
(You should know that the contingent
from the Berkshire Choral Festival also enjoyed our hospitality sufficiently
that they have returned to us every year since their initial visit to us. At Trinity, we
love good music and we make sure that our visitors know how much they
are appreciated!)
The American Boychoir and Chorus Angelicus
These two groups of fine youthful singers sang their
first-ever joint concert two years ago at Trinity Lime Rock. We've
got photos and videos of the
American Boychoir/Chorus Angelicus concert. Take a look!
The choirs of
neighboring churches of several denominations
These have included, in
recent years, the Choir of the Congregational Church of Salisbury, the
First Presbyterian Church of Millerton, and delegations from the Choir
of St. John's Church in Salisbury.
Click here to see
photographs of the preparations for our
ecumenical choral Evensong
for Shrove Tuesday 2007.
Here,
our choir, crucifer, and Minister of Communion walk outside
to
the back of the church in preparation for
procession on Advent I, 2010
Crescendo was
founded at Trinity and is resident here
Trinity is proud to have been the incubator for -- and the
ongoing host -- a noted musical organization with a reputation that
extends far beyond our immediate area: Crescendo!
Directed by our own Christine Gevert, Crescendo rehearses and
performs to sellout audiences at Trinity and other venues in Western
Massachusetts and Connecticut regularly. Many of our own choristers are also
participants in Crescendo. More information about Crescendo is
available at their website, www.worldclassmusic.org.
There's
a lot to our musical program, so check out the
parts that are of special interest to you.
