<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yes, a big thank you to Eliza who kept the momentum going.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And, I am grateful for our director’s embrace of our humanity.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Namaste,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tom</div><div class="">________________________________<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 22, 2019, at 2:34 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 class=""><div dir="auto" class="">I think we owe a big thank you to Eliza who soldiered on and got us back on track!</div></div><div dir="auto" class="">Lani</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 12:40 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Our version of "Softly" this morning (which received appreciative comments from both Joan and Roger!) brought me back to an experience I had when I sang in the Church of the Advent choir in Boston. We were doing a really difficult new piece, and there was a pregnant pause in the middle of the piece, with some very tricky notes to follow. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The choir all paused, quaking in their boots, and waited for the conductor to cue us in again. The cue came and no one sang - except for me - and I sang the wrong note! But the good news was that the music was impossible for the congregation to follow easily, and I'm sure that no one knew that it wasn't really supposed to be a Riley solo. Everyone eventually snuck back in and the music went on.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So we rewrote "Softly" a little bit and the congregation loved it!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See you at 5:45 on Tuesday, dressed in red up top, dark blue or black below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dick</div></div>
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