Metropolitan United Church

Music in worship helps us all learn, pray, rejoice, mourn. In hymns and responses, the congregation joins as the body of Christ in the liturgy - the peoples' work.

When listening to an anthem or to a piece of instrumental music, the words and music and the music itself often lead us closer to God. We all love familiar hymns and anthems. We are challenged by the new - both in ideas and in sounds.

At Metropolitan, we are blessed with a variety of opportunities to explore the spiritual significance of music. Besides gathering to learn music for the worship services, our musical groups offer times of fellowship and support.

We have a several groups for adults: the Metropolitan Choir, the Metropolitan Festival Choir, the Metropolitan Handbells, and the Metropolitan Silver Band which are described in the links above.

For children and youth, we have the Metropolitan Sparklers (ages 4-6), the Metropolitan Choristers (ages 7-11), and the CIC Youth Ensemble (ages 12 up).

The various groups have produced recordings which are described in detail elsewhere on this site.

We also have a variety of special musical events, and Metropolitan is honoured to house two of the most historic musical instruments in Canada - our pipe organ and carillon.

Please join us on a Sunday or at one of our events.