Music
As a welcoming multicultural congregation with constituents of Anglo-European, African-American, Caribbean, Indian, Asian, Latino and African descent, we enjoy singing and understand praise to be the most important role of music in worship.
Our choirs sing a broad spectrum of music with concentration in uplifting traditional and contemporary music drawn from The Hymnal 1982, Lift Every Voice and Sing II, Wonder, Love and Praise and Voices Found. Worship music is enhanced by a state of the art Model MDS Allen Organ, a three-octave set of English handbells, a grand piano, parish and community instrumentalists, a Chancel Choir (ages 16 – 99; formal voice training not required), and a Handbell Choir (ages 11 through 99; all who can count are eligible).
On Sunday, March 31, 2019 Trinity dedicated our new Grand Piano during the 10:30 am worship service. We had two guest musicians join Trinity's choir and music director Patrick Kabanda.
Peter Moll is a theologian, an economist and an (amateur) musician. A South African, he was called up for military service in 1979 but refused on the grounds that apartheid was immoral. He was imprisoned for 12 months of which 139 days were spent in solitary confinement.
He studied actuarial science, and later theology, at the University of Cape Town. His doctoral thesis was on land reform in South Africa. He worked as an academic at UCT. After he and his wife moved to the USA in 1990, he worked at Northwestern, in the area of labor markets and education, publishing two books about poverty and inequality in South Africa, and many papers in journals. He joined an aid agency where he did project work and studies on agriculture and on labor markets in several African countries, subsequently shifting to macroeconomic and general economic issues.
He took up the piano in 2001. He volunteers by doing concerts at retirement villages, and by hosting music examinations of Trinity College London and the Royal Schools of Music.
Željko Bogeti? is an amateur violinist, international economist, and a happy husband and father of two great adult children. In his youth, he completed elementary music education and attended music high school in the then Titograd (current Podgorica), capital of Montenegro, Yugoslavia. He won awards at competitions for young violinists in his native Montenegro in 1974 (Golden Lyre) and in 1976 (Bronze Lyre). As assistant concert master of the music high school orchestra, he also won a competition of young string orchestras of Yugoslavia.
In 1977. his graduate studies in economics took him to New England where there was no time for violin, nor in his subsequent career as a development economist in an international organization. Several years ago, after a break of about thirty years, he took up violin again with the invaluable encouragement and support of his teachers, Willem van Eeghen, Vili Ferdinandi, and the Yugoslav virtuoso Jovan Kolundžija.
For two seasons, he played as a member of the string section of the Symphony of the Potomac in Montgomery county under the baton of Joel Lazar. Together with his fellow pianist Peter Moll, he performs as part of the ‘Arlington Duo’ in the Washington D.C. area, including Churches, nursing homes, and private and community venues. He is an active member of St. Luke, Eastern Orthodox Church in McLean, Virginia.
Piano Dedication with Opening Selection, I. Preludio, and Special Music Tribute, Etude, Op. 36
Opening Music Selection I. Preludio Arcangelo Corelli
from Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 5 No. 8
(Arr. Gustav Jensen); Željko Bogeti?, violin, and Peter Moll, piano
Special Musical Tribute Etude, Op. 36 Felix Blumenfeld
for the left hand alone (Abbreviated version); Peter Moll, piano
