Music

Eliot Philharmonic

If you play an instrument, we invite you to join the Eliot Philharmonic, which includes folks of all ages and playing levels. The Phil performs several times in the year at special music-filled worship services. Let’s make beautiful music together!

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Eliot Chancel Choir is
Welcoming New Singers

Weekly rehearsals on Thursday evenings include voice and breath work, four-part hymn singing, and choral anthems. The choral ensemble is a supportive and open community embracing new singers. This year, a fifteen minute vocal warm-up and meditation/prayer is being added at 7:00 pm before the start of rehearsal. 

Contact Monique Weiss Byrnes, Director of Music Ministry, at  for Chancel Choir and Eliot's Music Ministry.The Eliot Chancel Choir extends the opportunity to youth and adult singers for an engaging choral experience. The Choir sings a variety of music from the choral tradition encompassing the Renaissance through Contemporary Era as well as music from the Folk and Gospel traditions. In addition, the Chancel Choir is the home of the Eliot Quartet, four talented professional singers who are section leaders for the ensemble. The Choir is a marvelous way to serve through singing for weekly service on Sunday mornings, Christmas Eve, Holy Week, and Easter; it’s also an opportunity to learn and expand musically and spiritually as a singer. The Sanctuary at Eliot is a magnificent acoustic space for choral singing and the fabulous Bozeman organ is an additional attraction for accompanying sacred singing.

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Eliot Church Pipe Organ

Built and Installed by
George Bozeman, Jr. and Company
Opus 40 (1987)

Pipe Organ Specifications

Eliot Hymnals

The New Century Hymnal
Published in 1995 by the Pilgrim Press (United Church of Christ), this hymnal provides traditional and new hymns, an extensive Psalter, and several Orders of Worship for use by the church. This hymnal is distinctive in its updating of archaic language, and its use of language that would speak "...for all God's people, equally." Therefore, any language that could be diminishing to people based on race, ethnicity, sociocultural background, physical ability, gender, or sexual orientation was eliminated and replaced. Furthermore, language was sought that would speak of a God not bound by gender.

The Chalice Hymnal
Published in 1995 by the Chalice Press (General Assembly of the Christian Church [Disciples of Christ]). This hymnal provides a solid foundation of readings, traditional and new hymns, and a three-year cycle of daily devotion that includes scripture readings and hymns. The Chalice Hymnal also includes no less than forty communion hymns, making the Lord's Supper a focus of the hymnal. Finally, some hymn texts are amended to "eliminate or reduce archaic language, generic masculine references for humanity, and the negative use of metaphors about darkness or physical disabilities."