Westminster Presbyterian Church seeks a Praise Band
Director to direct all music activity at its 9 a.m. contemporary
worship service each Sunday. Skills include singing and playing
an instrument. Candidate must have a vibrant faith along with
experience singing, playing an instrument (preferably piano) and
directing singers and musicians in worship. This is a part-time
position, up to 10 hours a week. Salary commensurate with
experience. Please send resume to Pastor Wes Nordman at
pastor@wesminsac.org
In May 1854, Clara Schumann gave birth to her seventh
child with her husband Robert, who was at the time an inmate at
an insane asylum near Bonn. She was not permitted to visit him,
so her only source of solace and companionship during her
recovery was the young Brahms. As a gift, he began to bring
her variations on Schumann’s Albumblatt in F sharp minor
from the Bunte Blätter, a piece which Clara herself had used as
the basis for a set of variations (her Op.
René Jenkins is a multi-instrumentalist, ceremonial sound
practitioner, speaker, teacher and professional musician for over
25 years playing trombone, piano, and ancient indigenous
instruments. Versed in many styles of music from big band jazz,
funk, R&B, reggae, salsa, brass ensembles and pit orchestras,
René has backed many established artists in the industry such as
Natalie Cole, Johnny Mathis, the Temptations, Mary Wilson of the
Supremes, Joe Williams, Jah Levi & Gregg Allman, to name a few.
Celist Susan Lamb Cook and Pianist Natsuki Fukasawa play the
“Adagio affettuoso” movement from Brahms Sonata for Piano and
Cello in F Major, Op. 99. Excerpted from the May 30, 2012
Music At Noon concert at Westminster Presbyterian Church,
Sacramento, California.
