By jean Lotus
FOREST PARK, IL –Forest Park Lutherans have a deep tradition of choral singing. The Harlem Maenner und DamenChor – still active today – goes back to the 1890s, when Forest Park was still called “Harlem.”
For St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, that history of song manifests itself today in the Choristers, a child and teen choir affiliated with the church – and Walther Lutheran Academy School, located at St. John, but not limited to members of either.
“This is an outreach,” said Choristers director Paul Lindblad. “This church and town have 100-plus years of choral music history. We want to offer this to children not associated with the church or school.” Lindblad is music teacher at the school, director of Liturgics at St. John’s and also directs the Oak Park Concert Chorale. The church itself is acoustically built for singing, says Lindblad. “There are [acoustic] sound shells at each end of the sanctuary.”
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