Music

Interim Music Director

Rob Carefoot, BA, MA, PhD

Rob has many years of experience as Organist and Choirmaster. He has advanced degrees in French and Musicology, History and Literature. Rob also has lived in France and was active in a national prayer movement there. We look forward to Rob’s leadership as a permanent Choirmaster/Organist is sought for.

Adult Choir

Choir has approximately 22 singers singing a variety of choral styles ranging from the Renaissance to the Contemporary Periods. The choir sings for the 10:30 a.m. service each Sunday, September through June and special Feast Days. The choir annually presents a service of Lessons and Carols and a large work with instruments during the Spring. The Choir has sung the Vivaldi Gloria, Rutter Requiem, and selections from Handel’s Messiah and Brahms’ German Requiem with members of the Colorado Springs Symphony.

Sonrise Singers

The Sonrise Singers, a group of 8 to 10 men and women, sing an anthem at the 8:00am service and help with the congregational singing about once a month. Persons interested in being a part of this group should contact Linda Page.

Children’s Choir

Our Third Sunday services often include an anthem by our Children’s choir. The children also sing at some special services during the year.

The Pipe Organ

A pipe organ was installed by Wilson and Associates of Colorado Springs in August 2003. The instrument is the result of over eight years of planning and is the expansion and relocation of an instrument completed in 1965 by the Andover Organ Company. The organ was dedicated in June, 2004.

Organ Specifications

Original instrument built by the Andover Organ Company, Methuen, MA.
Additions and installation by Wilson and Associates, Colorado Springs, CO

Great, Swell, Positive I and II, and Pedal actions are electro-mechanically controlled from a three manual console of three reverse color manuals and pedal housed in a solid oak case.

The pipes (63 ranks) located in five divisions are placed in an oak case speaking directly into the nave of the church.

Pipes
Great Swell Positive I Positive II Pedal
16′ Prestant
8′ Principal
8′ 2nd Principal
8′ Bourdon
8′ Harmonic Flute
4′ Octave
4′ Chimney Flute
4′ Nachthorn
2 2/3′ Quinte
2′ Fifteenth
2′ IV Mixture
1 1/3 III-IV Mixture
8′ Trompet
8′ Festival Trumpet
4′ Clarion
Chimes		 16′ Lieblich Gedackt
8′ Diapason
8′ Salicional
8′ Celeste
8′ Chimney Flute
4′ Principal
4′ Flute
2 2/3′ Nazard
2′ Recorder
1 3/5′ Tierce
1 1/3 III Mixture
16′ Bassoon
8′ Trumpet
8′ Oboe
4′ Clarion
Tremulant		 8′ Gedackt
4′ Hohlfloete
2′ Principal
II Sesquialtera
II Cymbal
8′ Krummhorn
8′ Kleine Trompete
Cymbalstern		 8′ Rohrfloete
4′ Principal
2′ Waldfloete
1 1/3′ Larigot
1′ Siffloete
II Mixture
8′ Festival Trumpet
Tremulant		 32′ Bourdon
16′ Open Wood
16′ Sub-bass
16′ Gedackt (sw)
8′ Octave
8′ Gedackt
4′ Choralbass
IV Mixture
32′ Contra Trombone
16′ Trombone
16′ Trumpet
16′ Bassoon (sw)
8′ Trompet
4′ Clarion
4′ Schalmei
Couplers
Pedal Swell Positive Great
Great to Pedal 8′
Swell to Pedal 8′
Positive to Pedal 8′		 Swell to Swell 16′
Swell Unison Off
Swell to Swell 4′		 Positive to Positive 16′
Positive Unison Off
Swell to Positive 16′
Swell to Positive 8′
Swell to Positive 4′		 Swell to Great 16′
Swell to Great 8′
Swell to Great 4′
Positive to Great 16′
Positive to Great 8′
Great to Great 16′

The console also utilizes a Kurzweil PC88MX synthesizer and a Content 220 sound module with the use of eight MIDI channels.

St. Mary’s Hall also houses a smaller 16 stop tracker instrument installed in 1978.