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BACH VESPERS will open worship for the conference on Sunday at 7:00 p.m. at St. Paul's Cathedral. Led by Richard Erickson and his Bach Choir & Orchestra from Holy Trinity Lutheran, New York City, this service will serve as one of the fine examples of Lutheran worship in the 18th century.

MORNING PRAYER will be sung to a new setting in a collegiate chapel environment (Founders Chapel, on the campus of the University of San Diego on Monday at 8:45 a.m.) with organ accompaniment and in a ballroom environment (The Town & Country on Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.) with an alternative accompaniment.

A HYMN FESTIVAL, "Hymns of the Immigrant Lutheran Traditions," led by Carl Schalk and Mark Sedio, will be sung on Monday at 10:30 a.m. in the beautiful Imaculata on the university campus.

A CONCERT & HYMN FESTIVAL, "We Are God's House of Living Stones," will be presented on Tuesday at 7:00. The National Lutheran Choir and director David Cherwien will present a combination of choral music, hymnody and commentary. In addition to the hymnody, choral literature includes works by Leland Sateren, Peter Hallock, selections from Messe Solonnelle by Louis Vierne, Give me Jesus by Larry L Fleming, Fest und Gedenkspruche by Brahms, Oremus by Urmas Sisask , Tu es Petrus by Gretchaninov and Lord God You Have Called your Servants by Aaron McDermid. Commentaries will be presented by Rev. Brian Johnson, organists will be Bruce Bengtson and David Cherwien.

IKONS IN SONG will be led by John Ferguson on Wednesday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. "We will explore a famous new cathedral and organ through the singing of the great hymns of the church, old and new.” The community is invited; we are told that every time they open the doors, 3,000 worshipers enter.

COMPLINE will be sung unaccompanied following the Hymn Fest. 

THE CLOSING FESTIVAL EUCHARIST on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. will be held at First Methodist Church. Organist John Ferguson and choirmasters Bradley Ellingboe, David Cherwien and Richard Erickson will lead a service sure to lift us to the sky! The National Lutheran Choir and the Trinity Bach Choir will offer several anthem settings of "Tu es Petrus," then the "Entire Conference as Choir" will sing the introit, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's magnificent "I Was Glad" for double choir and organ.

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