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Grant Recipient

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New Choir / Revitalization Grant Awarded!

Congratulations to Ms. Joy Morin and Holy Faith Church of Saline, MI who were selected to receive our 2023 New Choir / Revitalization Grant!

Joy, who has been with Holy Faith since October, is working to relaunch the church choir after an absence of nearly three years due to the pandemic. Joy says, “My education and experience as a classically-trained pianist and pedagogue serve me well in certain ways, but I would benefit from mentorship and training in leading a choir — particularly when it comes to vocal technique, diction, and rehearsing…”

All of us at SJMP are thrilled to connect Holy Faith with some choir mentors as well as coach them through some really relevant recourses in the catalog. We’re glad to invest in Joy’s continuing education and can’t wait to watch her growing skills infuse the newly relaunched choir with energy and

Last minute music for Christmas!

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We’ve been there! You check your email on Saturday night only to find out that the entire tenor section is down with food poisoning from bad nachos at the bowling alley. So now what?

With nearly 1700 pieces in our catalog (hundreds of which are for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany), you don’t have to worry about those last-minute changes! All of our music is available for download instantly and members already have permission to stream it all!

Check out these suggestions to make the swap even easier!

On Christmas Night

Ralph Vaughan Williams’ wonderful arrangement of the Sussex Carol in three versions: SATB, SAB, and Two Part Mixed. – View

In Dulci Jubilo

Ian Higginson brings your this classic in two-part and a unison arrangement using the Robert Pearsall translation. Also available for SATB. – View

What Child Is This?

Malcolm Archer brings you an arrangment for two-part or unision choir and keyboard. A treatment of this traditional carol to the tune Greensleeves. The upper voice can also be played on a treble instrument. – View

Call for Compositions!

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We know you guys are Barons of the Organ Bench, Counts of the Choir, and Belles of the… well, Handbells! But SJMP knows you go deeper than that. Who among you are the Commandants of Compositions?

While we’re starting to fill our publication schedule for 2022, we’d like to invite you to submit any of your polished original works for publication! Show us your beautiful, bold, or light-hearted scores. We’d love to see what you’ve been up to – now or anytime.

We also have a NEW, streamlined, process for submitting your work. You can click here or find us any time on our website to view submission requirements and guidelines.

Last minute music for Holy Week and Easter

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Need some last-minute music to fill some gaps in Holy Week and Easter Services? Have a look at some of our favorites that can be put together in little to no time at all:

Sing my tongue, thy Glorious Battle – Charles Wood – for Unison Choir 
With a Voice of Singing – Martin Shaw – 2- part Choir
In This Thy Bitter Passion – Johann Sebastian Bach – for SATB or Unison Choir
Wondrous Love – arr. Arlen Clarke – for Unison Choir 
This Joyful Eastertide – arr. Vernon Holye – For SATB or 2-part or Unison Choir

And don’t forget to check out some of our favorite hymn treatments and descants:

Hymns Made Heavenly – Lent and Easter
Maccabeus for Brass a 5
13 Easter Hymns Made Fancy
Easter Hymn for Brass

New Trisagion and Upcoming Webinar!

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We’re thrilled to have published a new work by Dr. Marty Wheeler Burnett (of COVID Conversations fame). It’s a setting of the Trisagion for unison voices, handbells, and flute (or other treble instrument) that could be very effective this Advent.  Now available exclusively to SJMP Members!

Dr. Burnett will be talking about this and more during an upcoming webinar by Virginia Theological Seminary – Hope Incarnate: Planning Worship for Advent and Christmas. You can attend this Wednesday, September 16th from 3-4:30 PM ET. 

Click here to register. 

SJMP Radio Show – Number 2

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If talk about aerosols, social distancing, other challenges with church music amid COVID-19 raise your blood pressure, you’re not alone. Let’s talk about safe and healthy ways to move forward together. Sit down with Dr. Marty Wheeler Burnet and Dr. Kevin Simons for a conversation about church music amid COVID-19. Consider this the staff meeting you always wanted.

Click here to watch the show!

Liturgical Idol Ends Today!

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Submit a recording of Ian Higginson’s “Venite” and the winner will have their recording live forever on the SJMP website! The winning singer will also receive a COMPLETE set of Mark Schweizer’s Liturgical Mysteries!

Here’s what you need to know:

  • You may submit either the Rite I or Rite II version
  • Submissions must be an .MP3 file
  • Email to kevin@sjmp.com
  • Deadline to submit is July 1, 2020

Check out these latest additions to the SJMP catalog and then get singing!