Summer Choir 2017

Sundays, July 2 – September 3, 2017 The Chancel Choir welcomes adults, youth, and children who can learn a simple anthem fairly quickly to join in singing for our worship service. Warm up begins at 10:30 a.m., but anyone who would like more practice is welcome...

“Found” in Translation

Have you ever come to the end of a really funny story or joke only to have it deflated by the listener who says, “I guess it loses something in the translation”? Have you ever read a gripping novel that doesn’t seem quite as convincing in the movie version – or...

Our Response

Originally published in the 2017 Spring Quarterly Explorer “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” — Leonard Bernstein These words Leonard Bernstein wrote on the day of the assassination of...

Give Me Jesus – Arranged by Moses Hogan

Give Me Jesus – Arranged by Moses Hogan Recording by Taylor DaCosta, mezzo-soprano soloist – Ms. DaCosta is a Choral Scholar here at River Road. She is completing her senior year at VCU. Robert Gallagher, Minister of Music Recorded on Sunday, April 30,...