A Service of Installation of Officers was held in the Klise Memorial Chapel of East Congregational United Church of Christ Participants were organists Marilyn Ossentjuk, William Voetberg and Larry Biser, soprano Diane Triplett Biser, the Reverend Brian C. Byrne of East Congregational Church and Dr. John D. Witvliet of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.

A visit to St. Nicholas. We visited the beautiful new facilities of the St.Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church. Father Daniel Daly gave an interesting and informative presentatin on the history, theology, liturgy and music of Eastern (Byzantine) worship, and Father Michael Carney, priest at St. Herman of Alaska Orthoxdox (Russian tradition) led an eight voice unaccompanied vocal ensemble which treated us to the music of the Eastern Church Tradition.

Central Reformed Church was our host for a Panel Discussion on planning Worship Services. A panel of three pastor-musician teams told how they work together as a team assembling the spoken and sung portions of the liturgy. After this, comments and questions from the audience were presented and discussed.

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Enhanced Musical Instruments for Spaces Other than the Main Worship Center was the theme of this session in the Fellowship Hall of Calvin Christian Reformed Church. Jeff Hall, of West Michigan Piano Company, demonstrated how the Kawai Digital Ensemble (piano) might be used in activities in the church other than worship.

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Mayflower Congregational Church was the setting for "Peace for Our Time", a hymn festival featuring Dr. Emily Brink, liturgist, Dennis Buteyn, pianist, Jonathan Tuuk, organist, the Mayflower Choir, Mark Webb, director, and other guest musicians.

We enjoyed an Organ Crawl in Holland visiting organs from England , The Netherlands and the United States: the Pels & van Leeuwen (Dutch) and the E. M. Skinner (United States) in Dimnent Chapel at Hope College, the Harrison & Harrison (English) at First United Methodist Church, the J. W. Walker (English) pictured here) in the organ studio at Hope College, and the Van Daalen (Dutch) in the Mulder Chapel of Western Theological Seminary.

Dr. Hans Davidsson, of the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, held a Master Class at Trinity Lutheran Church. Playing for the class were Susan DeKam and Heidi Dykema, both students at Hope College, Holland, Michigan.

Dr. Kent Hill and the Cheshire Brass Quintet presented an exciting program of Music for Brass and Organ at Second Congregational United Church of Christ. Included in the program was music of Gabrieli, Couperin, Strauss, and Karg-Elert.