Charis Connect

30 Jun 2004

by Terry White

A little Milhaud with your coffee? While MasterWorks festival is in town, several performances a day by students occur around the Village of Winona. Here a woodwind quintet plays a Milhaud piece Wednesday afternoon on the porch of the Clock Tower Bakery on Park Avenue. MasterWorks is a joint project of the Village at Winona, Grace College, and MasterWorks Festival.

2 Comments

RevPharoah July 13, 2004 at 5:20 pm Reply

As a graduate of Grace College's music department, I was thrilled to read about the partnership of Grace, Winona Lake, and Masterworks. At our church, we are trying to figure out the relationship between traditional church music, contemporary praise and worship music and pursuit of the fine arts including classical music. All have value as expressions of worship and all have devotees within our small congregation. The question, of course is how to pursue a broad range of diverse musical expression while not disrupting the unity of the body of Christ.
Terry White July 13, 2004 at 10:10 pm Reply

Boy...that seems to be EVERY church's problem, Steve. I also am a grad of Grace's music program, and I vote for a blended menu, even though many feel it cannot work--it seemed to, in the last church where I led music.

The MasterWorks quality is astounding. It's almost unbelievable that they can produce the quality of music they do in such a short time. Patrick Kavanaugh is slated to become head of the Grace music department in two years, and it will be very interesting to see what happens, particularly in the area of preparing people to work in church music programs.

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