<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ll be there. <div class="">Thanks to everyone for taking good care of our community</div><div class="">love</div><div class="">Bronwyn<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 13, 2020, at 3:15 PM, Richard Riley 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="">Good afternoon, all!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for your time and energy last night! Music is a balm in many ways, and I felt it last night.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You may already have read Joan's special email to all, but if not, please know that there will be just one service, at 10:00 am, on Sunday - NOT two services at 9 and 11. UCM is adopting recommendations from the Unitarian Universalist Association that all <span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><strong style="font-size:14px;font-style:italic" class="">church gatherings of more than 25 people be immediately suspended</strong>, so on Sunday there will be no congregation. But there <u class="">will</u> be a kind of worship service that'll be transmitted (somehow!), and imagine this: there is "room" for the choir!</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">The service is still being created, so I can't be very specific about what your role would be, or exactly what will be in the service, but for sure we could sing Donia's piece "Rising," and perhaps a hymn or two. It would likely be just Joan, Eliza, possibly one or two other helpers for recording purposes, you all, and me!</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Please let me know if you are willing to attend and sing. To recap: you would come at 9:15 to rehearse. The service would begin at 10:00, and probably NOT last as long as an hour. <u class="">There will not be other people coming to the service.</u></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><u class="">Please "reply all"</u> so that we can assess whether the choir will have a role in this Sunday's service. What happens AFTER this Sunday is not known at this time.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Oh, I guess unfortunately I <b class="">do</b> know something of what's not going to happen after this Sunday: we will <b class="">not</b> be able to hold Music Sunday on April 5.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">These are uniquely tough times. Let's stay together as best we can.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Dick</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div>
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