St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Ayer, Massachusetts

Faith, Community, and Love

Music at St. Andrew's

Welcome from Kyle Bertulli, Minister of Music

The St. Andrew's Choir is a hard-working and friendly group of Christians that enjoys making music, and does their very best to share that enjoyment in performing it for the rest of the congregation on Sunday mornings and other special occasions. We are currently a group of approximately sixteen singers ranging from high school and college students to folks fifty and above. We love to have fun in making music, but are also dedicated to hard work to do our very best to add quality music to the various church services over the course of the year.

Repertoire includes a wide variety of music ranging from The Renaissance to more contemporary music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We perform mostly four-part music and occasionally three-part music. The anthems are mostly accompanied by organ, and occasionally by piano, but we also perform music a cappella.

The choir is open to all who can carry a tune. Reading music is not a requirement although it is more than welcome.

Kyle Bertulli
Minister of Music

Adult Choir

The Choir is an integral part of the worship life of St. Andrew's Church. It is the responsibility of the choir to lead the congregation in song at worship services every week from September through May and to offer choral music on behalf of the congregation during the Offertory and Communion. Choir rehearsals are held on Thursday evening (7:00-8:30 p.m.) and on Sunday morning (9:00-9:45 a.m.). Additional rehearsals are held before special services. New choir members are always welcome.

Recent Choir Anthems

Audio recordings of anthems sung by St. Andrew's Choir are now available on this web site.

Click on each anthem below to listen in an Mp3 format. You must have Apple Quick Time or similar software enabled on your computer, as well as your speakers turned on. It will take about 15 seconds for the anthem to begin to play.

St. Andrew's Organ

The pipe organ installed at St. Andrew's was originally built in 1916 as Opus 1423 of the Estey Organ Company of Brattleboro, Vermont. Click on the links below to read about it and its predecessors.

The Hymnal 1982

This is what you might call Episcopal karaoke. We provide the music for some of the best-loved hymns in the book, as well as the lyrics; you can either listen or sing along.

Click on each hymn below; a new page will open with the words and a little bar that you can click to start the music. When you are finished, exit that page to return to this index.

If you use Internet Explorer, you will want to have Windows Media Player Extension enabled. If you use Firefox, you will want to have QuickTime software installed.