Music is integral to our worship at Ascension though some services are intentionally quiet. You are always welcome to participate in our choir as a means of sharing your musical gifts. We also host various celebrations and musical events throughout the year, and invite you to join us.
The Church of the Ascension has a mixed-voices choir that welcomes all willing volunteers, trained or untrained. We seek joyful voices. Along with members of the parish, the choir sings primarily during the 10:30 worship service on Sundays, guiding the congregation in processional and recessional hymns, as well as the service and communion anthems. From time to time, the choir also performs for the community on its own or as part of a larger musical performance.
On special occasions, the choir is joined by solo vocal performers and instrumentalists from Frankfort and the larger community. Choir practice is held on Wednesday evenings, and Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m.
The choir is led jointly by Edwin Langford and John Martin who are trained in choral direction and serve as organists for Ascension. Anyone who wishes to participate in the music of Ascension is encouraged to contact either Edwin or John. New voices and instrumentalists are welcome.
Ascension’s organ will reach its half century mark in 2010. The three-manual, thirty three-rank instrument was installed in the church by the Austin organ company in 1960. Melvin Dickinson, University of Louisville professor of music and musical director of the Louisville Bach Society, oversaw the voicing of the instrument and played the dedicatory recital on All Saints Sunday of that year. The Austin instrument replaced a Simmons mechanical action organ which had served the parish for the previous 100 years.
Ascension also owns a grand piano, in part a gift from a Frankfort musician and retired music professor. Used in the main church as well as the Parish Hall, this beautiful instrument often provides joyful and lively accompaniment to church and community events held there.