An Overview

Music is provided during worship on most Sundays through the school year by our chancel choir, augmented by pipe organ, piano, and on occasion by others - a volunteer brass group, a volunteer bell choir and hired chamber players.

The choir consists of over forty volunteer singers. Our organist is Joyce Rhodes, an active member of the American Guild of Organists.

Nancy Kromm is our choir director. She started in early September 2006.

Our sixteen rank pipe organ was custom built by Schoenstein and Co. of San Francisco, the largest and oldest pipe organ firm in the West. The instrument was installed in 1986, and is shown above.

Throughout the year other special events take place. When these are scheduled, this web page will announce them well in advance.

The Stone Church Chancel Choir Choir Director Nancy Kromm is in front row, second from the right (click on photo for larger image)	Joyce Rhodes, our Organist

While our choir takes its well-earned summer break, the following indivual(s) will provide worship service music in place of the anthem.

Date	Music Selections provided by:	Composer
July 4	Don and Betty D'Angelo
July 11	Agnes Mah
July 18	Bell Choir (led by Jean Raby)
July 25	Barbara Roberts and son
Aug 1	Jody and Emily Meacham
Aug 8	Mary Burfine, Janice Goertz and friends
Aug 15	Donald Foster, Derk Johnson, Agnes Mah, Judy West
Aug 22	Worship in the Park (Ken Henry, Derk Johnson, Walter Roach)
Aug 29	Walter Roach
Sept 5	Music: Gloria, first movement (recorded) Scenic Slides by Rod Thorn	Francois Poulenc
Sept 12	Bretheren ensemble
Sept 19	Choir returns

Stone Church volunteer brass players include: Fred Oliver, Don D'Angelo and Jennie Kromm, Trumpet; Miriam Rowan, French Horn; Andrew Edwards and Rod Thorn, Trombone; and Bob Johnson and Karen Carlson, Tuba. Members of this group occasionally provide classical music for worship on their own, or combined with the choir.

Handbell Choir

Stone Church volunteer handbell players include (L-R) Top: Stan Searing, Kendall Searing; Middle: Carole Brandt, Mary Johnson, Lizanne Oliver, Katherine Webb Calhoon, Derk Johnson; Bottom: Jean Raby (leader), Joy Cox, Deborah Crim. Hear the Handbell Choir - (from our Sept. 28, 2008 service) <a class="a10" href="ListeningMusic/BellChoir_Sept_28_2008.mp3" target="_blank">Click Here to Play</a>

Members and Friends of Stone Church have found the following groups of interest. Please see their web pages for further information.

• San Jose Symphonic Choir, where several Stone Church choir members participate;
  
• Santa Clara University Department of Music, where Nancy Kromm often performs.

Join and Participate in the StoneChurchChoir Yahoo! Group

Members and Friends of Stone Church who wish to be in close email contact with choir are invited to join and participate in the choir Yahoo! group for that purpose.

• Already a member, just wanting to access the Yahoo! Group Choir page? Click Here to get in.

• Not yet a member? Just enter your email address in the space below and click on the purple "Join Yahoo! Groups" button below. Yahoo! will set you up by sending an email to the address you enter; just follow the simple steps provided in their email.

For your convenience the web now includes a page with links to recorded music that the choir will be singing in the near future. Since this is intended as a rehearsal aid for choir members only, you will need to know the user name and password to enter. Choir members, click Here to get started.

Here's a complete list online of our music library. It reflects changes in the database up to and including July 24, 2010.

• Click Here to view it sorted by composer in PDF format; or
• Click Here to view it sorted by title, in PDF format.