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Many thanks to the Puget Sound Trio for attending Sunday service on August 23rd and providing prelude and postlude performance for the congregation of First Lutheran.  They performed “I was way down yonder and My Lord delivered Daniel” from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio, Op. 59, No. 1 for ser […]

Pianist Fabio Menchetti plays the opening of the A Minor English Suite by J.S. Bach on August 19, 2026 Listen Live at Lunch!
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An audience of almost 100 gathered on Wednesday, August 5th to hear Ben Roidl-Ward (bassoon) and Keith Ward (piano) in concert.  Terrific and thank you!
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On July 29th, the audience at First Lutheran was treated to a spiritual journey indeed as Kim Davenport (pianist) and Paul Twedt (narrator) presented “Enoch Arden”, a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, set to music by Richard Strauss (Opus 38).  Kim also performed a piano solo, “Land o’ the Leal” arranged by Hel […]

Much appreciation for a fabulous performance by vocalist Rose Beattie, French hornist Evan Minsk, and pianist Jinshil Yi at the July 22nd Listen Live at Lunch.
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After service on Sunday, July 19 the congregation of First Lutheran assembled to commemorate and celebrate the 100th anniversary of our church.

The Lord God has blessed us with 100 years of mission and ministry at First Lutheran Church [at present location].  We are a remembering people, and it is good that we remember that God has chos […]

Thank you to The Two Lilies for performing on Wednesday, July 15th in the second event of this season’s Listen Live at Lunch series.  First Lutheran’s stained-glass presentation of the nativity scene made a perfect back drop for “Ave Maria.”
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First Lutheran Church of Tacoma is proud to announce its 27th season of Listen Live at Lunch
CONCERT SERIES 2026 (PDF)
Wednesdays at Noon in the First Lutheran Sanctuary
JUL 8 — Bradley Hawkins, cello & Calder Failla, piano
JUL 15 — The Two Lilies, flute & piano
JUL 22 — Jinshil Yi, piano
JUL 29 — Kim Davenport, piano &am […]

First Lutheran Church of Tacoma is proud to announce its 25th season of “Listen Live at Lunch.”
CONCERT SERIES 2024
Wednesday at Noon in the First Lutheran Sanctuary
JUL 3: Elliot Sander & Alex Swanson, organists July 10: Reid Wolch, pianist, Dan Wolch, trombonist, Benjamin Sawrey, pianist
JUL 17: Wyatt Smith, organist
JUL […]