<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you, Donia!<div class="">I would like to join you!</div><div class="">Catherine<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 16, 2023, at 7:12 PM, Donia Prince 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="">Hello dear friends,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've been thinking about you and hoping you all have fared ok this past week. We didn't have any damage at our place and our roads are fine, so we are lucky.</div><div class="">But the ruin that is currently Montpelier is heartbreaking.</div><div class="">And it makes me want to get together and create something beautiful and harmonious amid the mud and wreckage.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I propose is to get together and learn and sing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-BkziZpLKQ" class="">this beautiful piece, Requiem,</a> by Eliza Gilkyson. It was written following the Asian tsunami and has since been sung in response to other water-related disasters.</div><div class="">I would also ask people from other choirs in town to join us. There is no definite plan for performing it beyond our rehearsal, but it might possibly be used at a vespers service Rev Joan might lead in another week or so, or maybe after all the debris is picked up in town we could sing it in front of City Hall, maybe along with one or 2 other songs like Hope Lingers On. But the main thing is just to get together to sing. I would plan to send out the piece beforehand as a pdf as soon as I know this is a go.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm thinking of <b class="">this</b> Thursday evening from 6-8, with the small wrinkle of us not having a place to meet! While the sanctuary is fine the air quality in the church is iffy. (Maryann and I actually just spent a few hours at the church this afternoon spraying vinegar on the walls, ceiling and joists in the basement, where mold is already spreading.) There are some possibilities I am looking into--Beth Jacob, Old Meeting House. But I didn't want to wait longer before getting in touch with you all to see if there are enough people around and interested to make a go of it. Let me know!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">with love,</div><div class="">Donia</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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