<div><div dir="auto">I’m sorry I haven’t been able to make it to rehearsals recently as I was recovering from being sick, but I am planning to be there Sunday and would love to sing with the choir! Will we have a rehearsal before the 10 am live streaming?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elaine </div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:18 PM Lani Seifert via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div><div dir="auto">Count me in too!</div></div><div dir="auto">Lani</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:17 PM Bronwyn Fryer via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">I’ll be there. <div>Thanks to everyone for taking good care of our community</div><div>love</div><div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div>Bronwyn<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 13, 2020, at 3:15 PM, Richard Riley via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Good afternoon, all!<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your time and energy last night! Music is a balm in many ways, and I felt it last night.</div><div><br></div><div>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"><strong style="font-size:14px;font-style:italic;font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">church gatherings of more than 25 people be immediately suspended</strong>, so on Sunday there will be no congregation. But there <u style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">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><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">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><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">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 style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">There will not be other people coming to the service.</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><u style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">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><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">Oh, I guess unfortunately I <b style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">do</b> know something of what's not going to happen after this Sunday: we will <b style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">not</b> be able to hold Music Sunday on April 5.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">These are uniquely tough times. Let's stay together as best we can.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">Dick</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div>
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