{"id":255,"date":"2018-04-28T03:59:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T03:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/?page_id=255"},"modified":"2023-04-16T14:58:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T18:58:37","slug":"music-ministries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/music-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The primary purpose of our music ministry is to enrich worship as a church community by providing musical leadership and encouraging participation by the congregation.<\/p>\n<p>FUMC sponsors a Concert Series that brings nationally and internationally known organists, musicians, choral groups and vocalists to Schenectady. The Concert Series is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The Bell Choir participates in worship services throughout the year. They rehearse on Wednesdays at 6:45pm.<\/p>\n<p>As part of FUMC&#8217;s 200th Celebration events in 2007, the Music Ministry has had a new organ composition written by Steve Best. It was first played at the Open House in September. The piece, entitled, &#8220;Celebration!&#8221; is available at no charge and can be downloaded <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.evensongmusic.net\/celebration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" type=\"1\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary purpose of our music ministry is to enrich worship as a church community by providing musical leadership and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/music-ministries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music Ministries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3172,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}