<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="">Forwarding on Joan’s response to the first recording. She loves it! and has some suggestions we can look into.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Vic and I will meet sometime soon, we’re not quite sure yet, and then we’ll send out one or two hymns for anyone to try. Joan also mentioned to me that she’d love us to do “Love Will Guide Us,” so that will be one of the hymns. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Again I want to emphasize, this is still in experimental/learning mode. Please, no pressure to join in the next round if it feels frustrating or overly complicated at this point. We’ll figure it out together. </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eliza<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Rev. Joan Javier-Duval" <<a href="mailto:ucm.revjoan@gmail.com" class="">ucm.revjoan@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: Virtual choir - trial run</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">August 4, 2020 at 12:24:06 PM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Victor Guadagno <<a href="mailto:victorgeemail@gmail.com" class="">victorgeemail@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Eliza Thomas <<a href="mailto:eliza.thomas2138@gmail.com" class="">eliza.thomas2138@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Thanks for sharing this, Vic. Eliza had passed it on as well. I LOVE it. Everyone's voices sound great, and Eliza's playing really shines through. I forget if it was you or Eliza that had mentioned to me some concerns about tempo. That does seem to be just a tad inconsistent across the singers and could be something to work on for future recordings. The pacing for this particular song also seems a little slower than how we typically sing it together.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I haven't done a virtual choir thing myself, but I almost participated in one as a singer. In reviewing the instructions for that particular piece, the organizers put together voice recordings of each of the parts that included an embedded tempo. There were some other tricks they used to make sure each individual singer would be on the right tempo.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I know that Sue Stukey participated in the GA Virtual Choir, and she might be able to share the instructions that were given to all the choir members to give us a better sense of how to match up the instrumentation and voices.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks so much for taking this on. It means a lot to see familiar faces!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Joan<div class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><font color="#0b5394" class=""><b class="">Rev. Joan Javier-Duval</b></font><font class=""> |<b class=""> </b></font></font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><b class=""><font color="#0b5394" class="">Minister</font></b></span><div class=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">Pronouns: she/her/hers</font></div><div class=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">Unitarian Church of Montpelier</font></div><div class=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><a href="mailto:ucm.revjoan@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">ucm.revjoan@gmail.com</a> | <span style="font-size:small" class="">802-223-7861 x1 | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/joaniemj" target="_blank" class="">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/RevJoanUU" target="_blank" class="">Twitter</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" style="font-size:small" class=""><i class=""><font face="georgia, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></i></font></div><div class=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#444444" class=""><font size="2" style="font-size:small" class=""><i class="">"We are each other's harvest; </i></font><i style="font-size:small" class=""><font size="2" class="">we are each other's business; </font><font size="2" class="">we are each other's magnitude and bond."</font><font size="2" class=""> --Gwendolyn Brooks</font></i></font><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 9:47 AM Victor Guadagno <<a href="mailto:victorgeemail@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">victorgeemail@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Joan,<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We wanted to share with you this version of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLC9UXjZTCw&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" class="">Spirit of Life</a>. This is our first attempt at virtual recording. We had good participation, and everyone did great recording at home! Eliza and I will be trying a few new songs over the next week or so. Let us know if you have any thoughts/suggestions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Have a great week!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Vic</div></div>
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