<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}</style></head><body><div>Every year I sing with a Calais community choir at the Old West Church in Calais. That service starts at 5pm and ends about an hour later. Then I go to the Old Meetinghouse Church in E. Montpelier Center to sing in their choir. If the UCM service is 6:30 or later, I might say no to the Old Meetinghouse this year.<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Eric<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Richard Riley via Choir <choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org><br>To: Choir UCM <choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org><br>Sent: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 09:50:14 -0500 (EST)<br>Subject: [Choir] like the early Christmas lights in town...<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">... I'm thinking about Christmas music!<div><br></div><div>How many of you are able to sing on the Christmas Eve service at church? The number and part distribution will affect the music I choose.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to MaryJean McKelvey I will pick pieces from a collection of Christmas-time songs that her father had a role in producing called "Elizabethan Madrigal Dinners." There are lots of good pieces in the collection but I need to know who will be singing in order to pick the ones that will fit best with those of you who will be singing.</div><div><br></div><div>Please know that I am greedy! I would love to see as many of you on Christmas Eve as possible, but I know that some of you will be away.</div><div><br></div><div>Though it's obvious, please know that there's no rehearsal on Thanksgiving Day! On Sunday we will sing the round that we've been rehearsing, ideally from four corners of the Sanctuary.</div><div><br></div><div>Happy Thanksgiving!</div><div><br></div><div>Dick </div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>