Salem Lutheran Church and School draws upon rich traditions from our heritage to build a varied and exciting music program. We currently provide music for worship services and for concerts. Nearly every week, one of the choirs helps to lead our singing in worship and also offers an anthem. We have cantors for worship and congregational instruments include a fine pipe organ, piano, harpsichord, electric piano, and handbells for bell choir. In addition, during our 11:00 Sunday worship, congregation musicians provide their own instruments for more contemporary music including piano, guitars, and drums. We are blessed in our congregation with members who are wonderful instrumentalists who enhance our service: flute, oboe, trumpet, clarinet, guitar, trombone, saxophone, and a variety of percussion instruments have supported our services in recent months. Contact our Steward for Music and Drama, Bob Baird, for information.

     Contact the Music and Drama Ministry or the leaders of various arts ministries.

     The Sanctuary Choir-- our adult choir -- currently has about twenty members who rehearse regularly on Thursdays at 7:00 pm and sing in worship nearly each week (off during the summer months). Marshall Bowen, our Interim Minister of Music, directs the choir and Dr. Jay Brunot, our church organist, is our accompanist. We also perform two or three evening concerts each year and last year, for Salem's Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, we commissioned five compositions and performed them in a final concert (after having previously premiered them as part of our regular worship services). If you enjoy singing sometimes challenging music and would like to strive for excellence in enhancing the musical ministry of Salem Lutheran Church, we invite you to join us.

     Joyful Sound is a smaller group of men and women-- about a dozen -- who gather occasionally to offer contemporary vocal music in worship (four part). Dave Siebels leads them from the piano. Contact him if you would like see about to taking part.

    Tintinnabulum, Salem's handbell choir has begun recently and plays every month or two. It is an outgrowth of our successful School Bell Choir under the direction of Cheryl Speer, our Associate Minister of Music and Director of Children's Choirs, and will likely grow and play more frequently.

     Schola Cantorum is our Children's Choir. Or rather is was until the Children's Choir grew so large that it divided into two choirs. So when Jubilate (kindergarten through second grade) and Cantate Domino (grades three through six) sing together they still are Schola Cantorum. But they often sing in worship or in concert separately as Jubilate or as Cantate Domino. Especially emphasized in their musical training by Cheryl Speer, our Director of Children's Choirs, is worship support -- so they learn to chant the psalms and the liturgy and their music is integrated into the service when they attend. They rehearse after school on Wednesdays: Jubilate at 3:30 and Cantate Domino at 4:30.

     Vocal soloists and instrumentalists often serve in worship, sometimes in support of the choirs and often as soloists during the offertory or when serving as cantor.

     Drama has been an important part of Salem's ministry. Although play productions are not always ongoing, we have done musical plays over the past several years including Music Man and The Princess and the Pea. This past summer we performed You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and following the final performance, we began a short series of Bible classes looking at scripture with the help of the Gospel According to Peanuts.

     Salem Lutheran School has a wonderful program of music, with regular instruction and performance, concerts and worship. Their performances and worship are open to the congregation and to the public and you are welcome to attend. Weekly chapel on Wednesdays at 8:45 am often include a musical or dramatic presentation from one of the classes.