[rodgersorganusers] Re: A Thought About 'Pleasing Folks'

I would like to say to all that responded to my query how 
much I appreciate the support I felt welling up.  I needed 
it and it reminded me of the important point that it is 
music meant for worship.  My pastor told me the same thing 
so I intend to play with gusto for my real audience and 
enjoy it!  Since God is really who I'm aiming for, that's 
who I need to focus on.  Thanks again to all!

Keith Stiles
Waynesville, NC

P.S.  Not only do I live in North Carolina but I was born 
and grew up where I am now playing the organ.  So I guess 
that means some of us do grow and change as people.  Might 
I also add that many in the congregation understand and 
are being supportive as well.

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:12:48 EST
  ProOrgo53@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>Please do not consider what I wish to share as being 
>spoken from a pulpit, 
>high and lifted up, or in any pompous fashion (not that 
>pulpits -- placed low or 
>high merit a negative metaphor).
>
>We often hear or see a phrase similiar to, if not this 
>one indeed: "you 
>cannot please everyone all the time." This causes me to 
>pause and remember words of 
>wisdom spoken by many more than one of my teachers, 
>instructors and 
>professors over many years of study, practice, and 
>presentation (notice, please, I did 
>NOT say "performance"). They go something like this:
>
>     "In church music, it is not 'the people' whom we are 
>to please, for they 
>are not an audience waiting eagerly for our productions. 
> In church music, it 
>is our Maker whom we are to laud, magnify, lift up, 
>assist others (and 
>ourselves) in bringing lives worthy of worship and praise 
>to the Altar and place them 
>at the feet of our ever-present, always-loving Creator."
>
>Brothers and Sisters:  let us NOT please one another. Let 
>us worship the very 
>GOD who sustains us with life and breath - and assist 
>(not make) others 
>toward that duty and delight.
>
>Dale G. Rider, M. Sacred Mus., CAGO*
>Organist (appointed October, 2003)
>Northern Boulevard United Methodist Church
>Independence, Missouri 64050
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>American Guild of Organists
>
>GOD bless you today and everyday!
>
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