LWCP – The Beginning The 1989-1990 season was marked by a number of profound changes in Living Water’s ministry. We had just completed our first summer season, and I’d already decided to have us continue year round. It also was the first year that I personally felt a reasonable level of “ownership” as our director …
Tag: Larry Sue
Larry Sue is the owner, composer/arranger, and publisher at Choraegus. He and his wife Carla are West Michigan's Smallest Handbell Ensemble.
TTBB
I sang in the (erstwhile) Valley Church Men’s Quartet, aka “The Brethren” / “Alpha Tau Pi” from 1987 to around 1999 (it turned out that I was the only original member to go the whole distance…). We had some great ministry opportunities during those years, and God blessed us wonderfully. I also had the privilege …
SSA
In the past, Valley Church had an excellent Ladies’ Trio which sang not only for Sunday services but a number of other church functions/groups, in addition to ministering in other places. The three ladies also have a long history of serving the Lord individually as well; they take their singing seriously, and use it to …
SATB
My SATB writing isn’t confined to songs for Living Water. A few other pieces have come into being for various (and now-forgotten) reasons. However, they have the same sort of approach to composing that the others do. Enjoy!
LWCP
The Living Water Composition Project Living Water is the choir which I directed, first at Valley Church (Cupertino, California), and later First Presbyterian Church (Mountain View, California). When we used big words, we called ourselves a “multigenerational, non-audition, creative arts outreach ministry”. In real-people words, that means anyone can join us, that they don’t need …
Play
I’ve been writing instrumental music since the 1970s. It all started with the occasional “can you put together a part for flute/clarinet/violin… for this hymn?” things, and moved into small ensembles. I even had the privilege of creating an orchestration for a song I wrote, once. And since I started writing for handbells, it’s been …
Sing
Choraegus was a choral music company before our first handbell piece became part of our catalog. We have about 100 scores for SATB choir, SSA women’s ensemble, and TTBB men’s ensemble. The great majority of our vocal compositions were written for Living Water, the choir I directed from 1987-2010. Those songs are the Living Water …
Larry Sue
Larry Sue has been a church musician since 1974, when he became the accompanist for his church’s new youth choir. That led to opportunities with guitar, voice (natural-range baritone, but usually tenor, and occasionally bass and alto), keyboards, electric bass, choral conducting, and choral composing. He began playing to handbells in 1987 at a choral …
About
I started Choraegus ShareMusic as a way to share my music with the public. My initial impression was that I was arriving a bit late in the game. What I didn’t know, being a newbie, was that 1995 actually was still in the beginning stages of the Internet. There were only about 25,000 Web sites …
Eternal Life
The Gift of Eternal Life God loves you and wants you to be with Him forever. Everyone wants to think that God is a God of love, and that He loves us, and that He wants us to enjoy eternity with Him in heaven. I have good news – this is exactly how God is! …
