Pasadena Presbyterian Church: CD of PPC’s Choir, Organ, Bells and Brass

New Songs of Celebration Render is a selection of hymns and anthems which are among the favorites of the choirs and congregation at Pasadena Presbyterian Church. The emphasis is on new songs: texts and music composed in recent decades as well as older material which is just now making its way into new denominational hymnals of the past few years.

The forty-voice Kirk Choir is accompanied by the Van Etten Handbell Choir, the Modern Brass Quintet and the church’s majestic Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ in this celebration of faith and sacred art.

About Kirk Choir:

Kirk Choir (Adults), is directed by Director of Music, Dr. Timothy Howard. A capable and committed group of singers, the Kirk Choir serves as the church’s principal choir at Sunday morning worship services. Their diverse repertoire embraces the breadth of traditional choral music, music written in our time, and a variety of music from other cultures. The choir is seen weekly on the church’s television broadcast and presents several concerts each season as a part of the church’s Friends of Music concert series. They have also performed on the CalTech concert series, at Walt Disney Concert Hall with Garrison Kiellor and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, at a national convention of the American Guild of Organists, and they have been heard across the U.S. on the public radio programs Pipedreams and With Hearts and Voices. The Kirk Choir was founded in the 1940s by Howard Swan, PPC’s music director from 1940 to 1960.

For more information, contact Timothy Howard, Director of Music (626) 793-2091 ext. 243 or email him at timothy.howard@ppc.net.

Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 585 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, (626) 793-2191, or visit www.ppc.net.