Fusing Modern Instruments & Organ in Worship

Trinity International University
Music Department
tiu.edu/music
Zac Hicks and Chelsea Chen
April 5, 2018

[@jamessimpson2993]

Thank you, some excellent ideas and really well communicated. We're at this sort of juncture I think in our church where there's a desire to appeal to younger generations who may have very little appreciation of western classical, but also not forget the older generations who tend to prefer organ led song.

[@cathycole9577]

This was very interesting. For the first song, at 2:46, the organ/drum intro was a cool way to include the organ in your rock group. However, I don't see this as FUSION. Fusion, being the blending of styles, did not happen. This was writing the organ part into a rock worship band. The rock-worship band style did not change at all. Furthermore, I heard (on three different computers and a phone) the guitars and drum and even piano loud and clear, and the PIPE ORGAN, I hardly heard at all, except for the entrance. The next pieces you sampled were more of the same, where the organ part was written as part of your style of music, but was not a new form of music, such as the definition of fusion depicts. What I agree with, is that it's definitely beneficial to both traditional congregations and contemporary congregations, to blend their styles and use of instruments.