<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you everybody for offers to bring Carol Books! <div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 8, 2017, at 11:12 AM, Eliza Thomas <<a href="mailto:EThomas@sover.net" class="">EThomas@sover.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Dick,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for this information.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And here is a call out for Hark the Herald Angels Sing and Good King Wenceslas! Anyone have a book of carols I could use?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eliza<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 8, 2017, at 9:24 AM, Richard Riley <<a href="mailto:rcrileymusic@gmail.com" class="">rcrileymusic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello Lynnette, Arthur, and Nora,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm looking forward to seeing you all, and your singers, at the Community Carol Sing on Sunday.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here are what I think are the last little bits of information for you (and what I need <b class="">from you</b>) regarding Sunday.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) Please ask your choir members to put their coats on the racks downstairs in the Vestry. This will create more seating space in the Sanctuary. Valuables should not be left downstairs, however.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) If any of your choir members are bringing cookies, have them leave the cookies in the Vestry before they rehearse in the Sanctuary.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3) When to come on Sunday? This is a question relating to rehearsal time for organists and choirs. I plan to open the church by 5:30. I'm thinking that the best rehearsal sequence will be that those who are playing the organ come by 5:40 to have a few moments to sit down and (re)aquaint yourself with the instrument. Then I'm thinking there should be 10 minutes or so available to each choir to rehearse. The UCM choir will not need to rehearse, so I suggest that the Methodist choir plan to rehearse at 5:50, the Episcopal choir at 6:00, and the Bethany choir (and quintet) at 6:10. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">4) <b class="">Please send me the size of your choir</b> that will be participating so that I can figure out how to assign seating in the pews.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">5) When we sing hymns during services at UCM the choir comes to the front of the sanctuary and sings facing the congregation. I encourage those in your choir who will sitting close to the front of the church to do that if they wish. For sure, that will involve a lot of up and down since there are seven carols plus the Hallelujah Chorus, but it creates a nice participatory vibe. At the end of the program those who are in the front for the Hallelujah Chorus can stay there while Rev. Joan delivers the Benediction. We'll then sing the Dona Nobis Pacem round (which I will lead, having been up for the Hallelujah Chorus. (Lynnette please give us an F to start, rather than the G that will be in the program. That's a friendlier key for all!) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IMPORTANT NOTE FOR ELIZA: Hark the Herald Angels Sing and Good King Wenceslas ARE NOT in the Unitarian hymnal, so make sure you bring your own music for those.</div></div>
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