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The Cantoria Choir (college age and up) is the primary musical organization for adults in the church. Providing musical leadership for the traditional and blended services on Sundays. The choir sings all forms of sacred choral music from around the world, from spirituals to the great classics of the church. The choir also provides the nucleus for special performances, presenting two major works each year, near Christmas and Easter. The Cantoria Choir also presents special performances, with singers joining from other churches, during som religious holidays.
The Cantoria Choir meets for rehearsals on Wednesday evenings from 7:00-8:30 PM, from fall through spring. When holidays fall on a Wednesday, the choir may skip the practice. Practices are held in the choir room.
For more information on the Cantoria Choir, please contact the Music Director at 440.285.4581 or email us at
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Night of the Father’s Love |
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 December 18, 2011 - 10:45 am
The Choir Cantata performs “Night of the Father’s Love”. Start your Christmas week with the joyful music of Angels, the excitement of the Shepherds and the awe of the Wisemen. All of the mystery, the awe, and the palpable excitement of that night are imaginatively captured in a Christmas mosaic that combines fragments of the familiar with Pepper Choplin’s always-unique perspective in word and music. The cantata combines original pieces with familiar Christmas carols to share the eternal story of God’s love for us as shown through His Son, Jesus. |
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Cantoria Choir performs at Lakeside |
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August 7, 2011
Our Cantoria Choir has been asked to perform at Lakeside United Methodist Church.
Lakeside is located on the Marblehead Peninsula, halfway between Toledo and Cleveland on Lake Erie's south shore. It's easily accessible from the east or west via Interstate 90, Route 2 and Route 163. Lakeside is situated in the heart of the Lake Erie Shores & Islands region. |
April 17th, 2011
 We began Holy week with our Easter cantata. Our Cantoria Choir performed "the Rose of Calvary", by Joseph M. Martin. This cantata carried the same theme, but continued beyond the cantata performed by the Choir in December, "The Winter Rose". In "the Rose of Calvary", the narrative portrays the life, ministry, passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Rose of Sharon.
The image of a sacred flower, a divine rose, from heaven's own garden blooming in the shadows of our world is a portrait of hope and comfort. When translated into music, it becomes a song that speaks to our deepest needs for restoration and redemption. It sings to us of gardens lost to sin and despair. It reveals to us a lonely garden where ancient olive trees stand silent witness to the suffering of the savior. It sings of a garden meant for death suddenly springing to life in a shower of joyful alleluias. It is God's tender love song reminding us all that we are children of the garden. Finally, at its heart, it is the music of one truly perfect Rose, who, choosing grace, died for his beloved thorns.
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December 19th Traditional Service |
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 Christmas Cantata, by the Cantoria Choir
"The Winter Rose"
Sunday, December 19 - 8:15 am and 10:45 am
The rose has been a symbol of divine love from the earliest Christian times. Our adult choir's performance reminded us that even in the deepest winter, we are people of joy and life. |
 March 28, 2010
8:15 am & 10:45 am traditional services
The Cantoria Choir, led by Linda Prusha (Director) and accompanied by Pamela White (Organist) presented The Living Last Words©, a dramatic musical experience for Holy Week. This cantata was composed by Ruth Elaine Schram.
“Truly this Man was the Son of God!”
With these powerful words, the centurion responded to the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. He had witnessed both the humanity and the divinity of Christ’s suffering, and he was transformed by Christ’s final utterances from the cross.
Inspired by the Seven Last Words of Christ, Ruth Elaine Schram imagines the responses of other witnesses at Calvary. She has created short, dramatic monologues for each: the contemptuous soldier; the crucified thief’s sympathetic sibling; the scornful priest; the anguished shepherd; the grieving mother of Christ; and the heartbroken disciple, searching for answers. |
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