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Even at a difficult time,
there is a good way to choose something special:

If choosing specific titles seems overwhelming, one of the most valuable things you can do is to simply let your musicians know the overall situation.  When family and friends of the deceased choose the primary mood and focus of the service, our musicians can recommend appropriate music based on that mood.  This often produces the very best results, as the family knows best which themes to emphasize, while the musicians have a thorough knowledge of a great deal of repertoire.  Possible themes include:
  • a celebration of a long, full life
  • thanksgiving to God
  • a sense of relief after a long illness
  • a need for comfort in great loss
  • a celebration of the faithfulness of the departed
  • a prayer for peace
  • joy and thanks for God’s gifts & blessings
  • prayers for the soul of the departed
  • a simple expression of real sorrow
  • a need for reassurance of God’s continued presence
With one or two of these general moods in mind, your musicians can guide you to the right repertoire.
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Some Recommended Titles:

Instrumental Preludes & Meditations:
  • J.S. Bach - solo partitas for violin
  • J.S. Bach - solo suites for cello
  • J. Clarke - selections from Suite in D, for solo trumpet & organ
  • G.P. Telemann - selections from Heroic Music, for solo trumpet & organ
  • Massenet - Meditation from "Thais" - for solo violin (adaptable for flute or trumpet)
  • Donaudy - "Aria" for 1 or 2 solo instruments with organ
  • MANY other possibilities...
Classical Vocal Solos:
  • Ave Maria, by Schubert
  • I Know that My Redeemer Liveth - from Messiah, by Handel
  • Panis Angelicus, by Franck
  • Pie Jesu - from Requiem, by Faure

Favorites for Choir:
  • "God So Loved the World" by Stainer
  • "Hallelujah" Chorus, from Messiah, by Handel
Classic, Traditional Hymns:
  • All Creatures of Our God and King
  • All Is Well with My Soul ("It Is Well")
  • Amazing Grace
  • At the Lamb’s High Feast
  • At the Name of Jesus
  • Be Still My Soul (Finlandia)
  • Crown Him with Many Crowns
  • Day Is Done
  • For All the Saints
  • Holy, Holy, Holy
  • How Great Thou Art
  • I Heard the Voice of Jesus
  • I Know That My Redeemer Lives
  • Lift High the Cross
  • Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
  • O God, Our Help In Ages Past
  • Sing with All the Saints in Glory (Ode to Joy)
  • The Strife is O'er
Modern Favorites:
  • Be Not Afraid
  • Bless the Lord
  • Blest Are They
  • Come to Me
  • Eye Has Not Seen
  • Gift of Finest Wheat
  • Glory & Praise to Our God
  • Go In Peace
  • Here I Am, Lord
  • I Am the Bread of Life
  • I Know that My Redeemer Lives
  • In the Breaking of the Bread
  • On Eagle’s Wings
  • Only This I Want
  • Psalm 42: As the Deer Longs
  • Shepherd Me, O God
  • Table of Plenty
  • Unless a Grain of Wheat
  • We Remember
  • Whatsoever You Do
  • Where My Father Lives
  • You Are Mine
  • You Are Near
American Spirituals:
  • Precious Lord, Take My Hand
  • Softly & Tenderly
Songs from the Catholic Church:
  • Grant Them Eternal Rest
  • Hail Mary, Gentle Woman
  • Holy God We Praise Thy Name
  • In Paradisum
  • Prayer of St Francis
Protestant Church Favorites:
  • Abide with Me
  • A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
  • Beneath the Cross of Jesus
  • Beautiful Savior
  • Blessed Assurance
  • Blest Be the Tie that Binds
  • Fairest Lord Jesus
  • He Leadeth Me
  • My Faith Looks Up to Thee
  • Nearer My God, to Thee
  • Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
  • What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Psalms
  • 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd
  • 27: The Lord Is My Light
  • 27: The Goodness of the Lord
  • 63: My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord
  • 91: Be With Me, Lord
Irish Songs:
  • O Loving God (tune of "Danny Boy")
  • Lady of Knock
  • The King of Love My Shepherd Is
  • The Lord Is My Light
Italian Songs:
  • Aurora ("Bella tu sei cual sole")
  • Ecco il tuo posto
  • Guarda questa offerta
  • Io credo: Risorgero
  • Mira il tuo popolo
  • Quando bussero
  • Resta con noi, Signore, la sera
  • Signore, fa di me

James Lake Music Services provides exquisite live music for Funerals and Memorials.  Featuring trumpet soloists, vocalists, violinist, flute, cello, string quartet, brass quintet, pianist, organist, and professional choir.
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