The Weeks Music Service will take place during the worship service on Sunday, April 26. This year we will experience a very uplifting musical and spiritual service. The Chancel Choir will sing Bob Chilcott’s (b.1955) A Little Jazz Mass. This is a beautiful and energetic setting of the Latin Missa brevis. “Missa brevis” is a Latin term which means “short mass.” This can mean that the composition is either shorter in performance length or that it does not include the whole Mass Ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Ite missa est), or that it is simply incomplete. Composers such as Mozart, Palestrina and Benjamin Britten have all composed a Missa brevis. The Chancel Choir will be accompanied by Jim Brewer (bass), Adonai Henderson (piano) and Robert Hosier (drums).
This annual musical service is made possible through an endowment given to Lakewood Presbyterian Church by Kent and Karen Weeks in loving memory of his parents, Senator John and Helen Weeks, and his brother, Gardner Weeks.