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🦇 NEW! Bat von Flapp’s Fairy Tales and Scary Tunes, V. U. Level D
Interested early-primer OCMS Students may get this (in addition to all music used for lessons) free this week and next to be ready for Halloween. Bat von Flapp’s Fairy Tales and Scary Tunes, V. U. Level D will delight your young piano players with SPOOKtacular musical twists on popular fairy tales. Children using this early […]
🍁 Fall Listening and Coloring Pages
The Shades of Sound Listening and Coloring Books are a great way to encourage students to listen to great piano and orchestral repertoire. Students of all ages will love coloring the fun pictures while listening to and learning from the music of the great composers. This Shades of Sound Halloween edition includes 13 spooky pieces […]
🔔 Free Handbell Concert
Come experience the joy and beauty of handbell music on Saturday, November 21, at 2:30 p.m. in the Grace UMC Fellowship Hall in Manassas! We’re especially excited that Pender’s Joy Ringers and Carillon will be among the 10 handbell choirs coming together for this special concert, directed by renowned composer and conductor Jason Krug. (MaryO […]
🎃 Halloween Music: In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg
The translation of the title of this piece from Norwegian isn’t quite literally “mountain king”. The “king” in this instance is actually a troll that Peer Gynt invents in a fantasy. The introduction of this movement is, “There is a great crowd of troll courtiers, gnomes and goblins. Dovregubben sits on his throne, with crown […]
🎃 Halloween Music: Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns
Danse macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition. In 1874, the composer expanded and reworked […]
🎃 Blog Posts Halloween Music: Dies Irae
Although not technically a “halloween piece” this very old Gregorian Chant (from the 300s!) is used in a lot of music that sounds spooky. Dies Irae is a Latin term that means “Day of Wrath”.
🎃 Blog Posts Halloween Music: “Catacombs”
Modest Mussorgsky composed this multi-movement work in memory of his friend, artist Viktor Hartmann. Each movement corresponds to a picture in Hartmann’s gallery, with one pairing with Hartmann’s Paris catacombs.
🔔 Adult Handbells!
Handbells are not just for children and teens! We have adult handbell groups for beginner to advanced ringers. The difficulty level of handbell music is rated from Level 1 (easy) to Level 6 (most difficult). Each of the groups rings 6-8 times in worship between September and June and participates in the annual Christmas handbell […]
🔔 A Joyful Life
The Pender Joy Ringers, under the direction of Brian Stevenson, shared a beautiful Prelude performance of “A Joyful Life” by Ron Mallory on handbells. This uplifting piece celebrates the joy and gratitude that come from a life rooted in faith and community. With bright harmonies and resonant tones, the Joy Ringers invite us to reflect […]
🥁 Today - Fun with Music for Preschoolers
Step into a world of giggles and song with “Fun with Music" at Pender! This is not just any music class – it's a journey through sound and imagination designed especially for preschoolers and their favorite grown-ups. Since 2013, Jim and Roberta Pont have been creating a space where tiny toes tap, and little voices […]

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