Organ Performance
Due to various recent trends, there has become a growing need for qualified church organists to provide music for worship services, memorial services, and weddings.
Though my life's work has been in the area of brass teaching and performance, I have been active as an organist and pianist at various times in my life. Recent career changes have afforded me the opportunity to return to that medium, becoming active at both St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Oakland, MD, and St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Somerset, PA as pianist and organist for worship and memorial services, and at various churches and communities as keyboardist for weddings, or as choir rehearsal accompanist.
You are invited to investigate the repertoire lists and clips below, and to contact me for availability and further information
(Sample clips of my church music performance on organ follow the wedding information below.)
Wedding
Selection
Ideas
Brides are invited to investigate the following pieces (with attached youtube video clips) if
they need help in making repertoire decisions for their ceremony. This is merely a sampling
of possible music.
Seating of the Mothers:
Handel: Air from Water Music (See Clip Below) Beethoven: Ode to Joy
Bach: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Processional (Bridesmaids):
Beethoven: Ode to Joy
Bach: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Johann Pachelbel: Canon in D
Processional (Bride):
Charpentier: Prelude to Te Deum
Clarke: Prince of Denmark’s March
Henry Purcell: Trumpet Tune
Richard Wagner: Bridal Chorus
Recessional:
Beethoven: Ode to Joy
Charpentier: Prelude to Te Deum
Mendelssohn: Wedding March
Mouret: Rondeau
Henry Purcell: Trumpet Tune
Prelude Music (Piano / Organ)
Hymns of the Bride's Choosing
Bach: Air on the G String:
Bach: Arioso
Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Bach: Prelude No 1 in C
Bach: Sinfonia (Piano)
Dvorak (Rolfe): Largo
Franck: Panis Angelicus
Handel: Largo (piano)
Handel: Selections from Water Music
Adagio and Allegro
Air and Minuet
Hornpipe
Aria
Handel: Sarabande
Handel: Sarabande with Variations
Henley and Silbar: Wind Beneath My Wings
Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe
Pachelbel: Canon in D
Schubert: Ave Maria (piano)
Traditional: Annie Laurie
LISTEN!
Handel: Air from Water Music
Timothy DeWitt, Organ of
St. Paul's United Church of Christ,
Somerset, PA
Hymn: Wash, O God, Our Sons and Daughters
Service Music: The Gloria Patri
G. F. Handel: Sarabande and Variations
Hymn: The Lord's My Shepherd
Hymn: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
Hymn: Father, Most Holy