| Art music, pop/rock music, folk and global styles, multi-media presentations, "seekers," long-term disciples, intellectual challenge, emotional immediacy--will the many worship issues and options in today's diverse consumer culture serve to unite or divide our congregations? Believing that the most holistic experience of worship is found in a combination of styles rather than in one alone, this workshop offers practical helps for melding eclectic worship elements into a cohesive whole.
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Gregory Norton
Gregory Norton is Minister of Music at Westwood United Methodist Church in Los Angeles where he leads a comprehensive program of choirs. He is also Music Director of The Claremont Chorale, a community chorus based in Claremont, California. He is active as a conductor, organist, singer and liturgist, and has served congregations in Colorado and California, including fifteen years at Pasadena Presbyterian Church. Choirs under his direction have been heard nationally on public radio and on tour in Germany, Austria and Mexico. He is frequently invited to speak and teach on musical topics and is a published composer. Greg's choirs have been heard at regional and national AGO conventions and he has served the Guild in various capacities in the Pasadena and Los Angeles chapters. He was the Guild's national Chaplain from 2004-2008.
A native of Redlands, California, Greg holds degrees in conducting from Chapman College and the University of Southern California and the Colleague certificate from the AGO. He attended the Iliff School of Theology in Denver and is an ordained minister in The United Methodist Church.
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