Music
Music Director: Dorothy Billingham
Phone Number: (970) 577-0265
E-Mail: richdorbill@msn.com
We have an active Music Ministry at St. Bartholomew's. The choir is seasonal, singing at Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and St. Bart's Day. Over the past few years we have had several organ recitals, beginning with the Organ Dedication on May 20, 2004 by James Kibbie from the University of Michigan. There was a special Mozart program celebrating the 200th Anniversary of his death, where the program included the soprano motet Exultate Jubilate accompanied by eleven instruments. On Advent 3 in 2005 the Schubert Mass in G was sung as the Ordinary during the 10:30 service. For the past two years our 10:30 Easter Service has been accompanied by a brass quartet and tympani. Our Christmas Eve Festive Eucharist is preceded by one-half hour of music by vocal and instrumental solos, and choir. These services bring many local music lovers to the church. On St. Bartholomew's Day we have special music: one year it was Caribbean, in 2008 we will be doing John Rutter's arrangement of "When the Saints Go Marching In" with instruments.
The Director of Music is Dorothy Billingham. Our primary organist, Dr. Richard Billingham, is a Fellow of the American Guild of Organists and a retired music professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. The Music Ministry of St. Bart's has benefitted greatly from his excellent musicianship. John Breed is our organist at the 8:00 AM Eucharist.