Dixieland Jazz
Listener Submission: Most Meaningful Wedding Music Story

More Meaningful Wedding Music Stories Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Allegretto in Tandem Water Music Child No More Because Old Love Fools Rush In Moonlight Sonata The Lord's Prayer A Traditional Jewish Marriage Song Llef Susurro Rhosemedrye All Bach The Best Song in the World Perhaps Love A Mother's Blessing Memories Simple Gifts I Will Morning Song In Spite of Ourselves Salvation Army Singers Cats May Safely Sleep Give Yourself To Love How Can I Keep From Singing? Overture from Candide The Servant Song A Hebrew Blessing These Are For You The Lover's Waltz La Rejouissance Erev Shel Shoshanim Toccata You Are the New Day Dixieland Jazz Because Beauty and the Beast Beautiful The Lord's Prayer Somewhere Over the Rainbow How Can I Keep From Singing Devoted to You Promenade Days Together Stand By Me List of All Stories Odes to Joy home

My husband and I met at St. Olaf College in the orchestra, so it should come as no surprise that our unofficial wedding slogan was "More music, less talk." We boasted a St. Olaf Choir baritone, a professional violinist, Luther Seminary's own organist, plus most of the principal wind players in the St. Olaf Orchestra or Band, all of whom agreed to sing for their supper.

With all this talent, what to choose? We wanted joyful music, pure and simple. Our classical pre-service music ranged from Handel (Organ Concerto #2) to Schuetz ("Whither Thou Goest"); we interrupted the service as often as was reasonably decent with hymns or instrumental interludes. But what made the day our own was the postlude: six rollicking Oles kicking into some truly joyful Dixieland jazz that raised the roof and set the congregation to strutting, sashaying, and boogying out the church doors. What a send-off!

Martha Narveson Ingram
Minneapolis, MN