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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 10, 2019, at 5:57 PM, Lani Seifert via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" class="">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Thanks Dick, your kind words go a long way! I am also happy to see everyone’s name! It’s been about a year now and I still didn’t know some last, or even first, names until now.<div class="">And...you are the best!</div><div class="">Lani</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 2:48 PM Richard Riley via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" class="">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">"I Believe" had a very significant impact on listeners this morning - or so I believe. My back, of course, is to the congregation, but at the end of every piece you sing I DO listen for a murmur, or the sound of arms being raised, or (of course) for the occasional applause in our more extroverted pieces. I could tell that you touched them this morning, and for that I am glad for you, and for them.</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">I was so glad that Joan was able to amplify on the text - that they were <font class="">w<span style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif" class="">ords scratched on the walls of a cellar in Cologne, Germany by a Jew hiding from Nazi persecution - as that was not indicated anywhere in the edition that we were using.</span></font><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Now, here's a different, rather oblique reflection on a different moment in today's service, and a request:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I was a choirboy back in the mid-to-late 60s, I sang in an Episcopal cathedral in Baltimore. Over time, as I became a student of the organist/choirmaster, he began to tell me stories about what he had experienced while making music in the cathedral. One story that I've never forgotten was about what happened one time while he was playing the postlude. He was playing a piece by Bach, who as I'm sure many of you know, wrote some absolutely great music for the organ. But in this cathedral, it was not at all uncommon for the parishioners to start talking the minute the postlude began. And if it was a big, loud piece, everyone talked more loudly. As the organist played this great (loud) piece by Bach, the noise level of the congregants got so loud that he became frustrated that no one was listening. So in the middle of the Bach, without pause, he began playing "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen", and, you guessed it, no one noticed! Not a great moment in church music.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I pass along this observation and request from a fellow who in the congregation this morning. One of the ways that UCM is special is that we sit and listen to the postlude, and indeed Eliza has "taken" us to some wonderful musical places at this point in the service because we are listening. This morning this gentleman's focus on the music was distracted by the popping sound of 3-ring binders while Eliza was playing. You were doing this to be ready for my eager collection of your music at the end of the service, but lets make sure that both you and I go into "post-service" mode only when we are truly done with the service.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Finally, also at the end of today's service, I had a request from Tom Schersten, one of our newest members of the choir, for the names of all who are currently singing. Tom is a bass. Some of you who live in the far-off lands of soprano and tenor are harder for him to know. And I can imagine that there are others of you who feel similarly about those exotic people who sing outside your section. Here's a list of those who have been singing in recent weeks: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><u class="">Sopranos</u></div><div class="">Brenda Bean<br class=""></div><div class="">Beth Damon</div><div class="">Kairn Kelley</div><div class="">Fran Krushenick<br class=""></div><div class="">MaryJean McKelvy<br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Charlotte Root<br class=""></div><div class="">Ginny Sassaman</div><div class="">Lani Seifert</div><div class="">Cecile Sherburn</div><div class="">Joan Stepenske</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><u class="">Altos</u></div><div class="">Bettie Barnes<br class=""></div><div class="">Liz Benjamin</div><div class="">Bronwyn Fryer<br class=""></div><div class="">Erin Kelley</div><div class="">Catherine Lowther<br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Mhairi Paget<br class=""></div><div class="">Nan Prince</div></div><div class=""><div class="">Susan Bull Riley</div><div class="">Sue Stukey<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><u class="">Tenors</u></div><div class=""><div class="">Sarah Hooker</div><div class="">Ed Hutchinson</div><div class="">Phil Morse</div><div class="">Donia Prince</div><div class="">Lindsay Wade<br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><u class="">Basses</u></div><div class="">Bill Paine</div><div class="">Christen Lynn</div><div class="">Bob Riggen<br class=""></div><div class="">Tom Schersten</div><div class="">Harris Webster<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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