Sunday mornings at Duke Memorial have many musical marks of a traditional service: organ music, a choir, and hymns. We also incorporate drama and dance for an experience that will heighten your worship time and bring you closer to others and to God.
While the structure of the worship service is liturgically traditional, you’ll hear much more than Western classical music. In addition to familiar hymns from the 1989 Methodist Hymnal, the congregation and choir sing Taizé chants and contemporary, folk, and international music from The Faith We Sing. You’ll hear children and youth sing share their music. You’ll hear the sounds of Bach, Brahms, gospel, and spirituals come from the mouths of the choir and the pipes of the refurbished Holtkamp organ. During the excitement of Christmas and Easter you can expect to hear brass instruments and bells, but you may also hear conga drums and guitars. This year, our entirely musical Good Friday Service included a modern chant setting of the Passion Gospel, organ music from different traditions, and hymns and anthems from the 16th through 21st centuries.
No matter what your background is, there is music for you at Duke Memorial. Please use the links to the right to learn more.
“Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!
Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!
Praise him with clanging cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
Let everything that breathes praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!”
-Psalm 150:3-6-
