<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you, Dick, for your oft-expressed appreciation for us as people & as singers. This is a hard time for us, but your caring</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">is one of the few things we can depend upon. Gratefully, MaryJean<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:47 AM Beth Damon 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:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Today I awoke with Donia's song in my head and have been singing it all day to say focused on positive thinking.</div>
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I read on the New York Times site today that the number of cases in China is on the decline, while it is rising in all other countries. <span style="color:rgb(208,92,18);font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">This I hope gives us a little
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We had a wonderful Zoom meeting of the Stewardship Team yesterday.</div>
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Dick, I was wondering if we can do a Zoom Choir time?</div>
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We could listen to beautiful music together (through the screen sharing feature) and learn more about their history, perhaps focusing on Unitarian music but also maybe on some of your own personal musical knowledge. </div>
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It might be a sort of music classroom now. We could even listen to some voice instruction and diction practice. The options are numerous. </div>
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It's just an idea so we might all have something to look forward to each week for now. I am not sure singing along with each other in Zoom would work <span id="gmail-m_-6356758518254613799🙃">🙃There might be techy problems for some, but it works well with IPhones, and some of us know
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<div id="gmail-m_-6356758518254613799divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Choir <<a href="mailto:choir-bounces@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank">choir-bounces@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> on behalf of Lani Seifert via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 16, 2020 11:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Richard Riley <<a href="mailto:rcrileymusic@gmail.com" target="_blank">rcrileymusic@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Choir UCM <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Choir] past, present, and future</font>
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<div>I will miss everyone and especially our singing.</div>
<div>I hope this will soon pass!</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:26 AM Richard Riley via Choir <<a href="mailto:choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" target="_blank">choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>It was a very special experience to make music with you yesterday. The vibrancy of your singing communicated something important to listeners both near and far. (My cousin Tissy listened from Connecticut!)</div>
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<div>As I think most of you now know, the service yesterday will be our last time together for a while. Future services have not yet been planned. Sadly, we will not be meeting on Thursdays to rehearse. Music Sunday will not happen on April 5.</div>
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<div>I thank you for your voices - both for your beautiful singing voices and for those voices that express love and care for others.</div>
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<div>'Til we meet again,</div>
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