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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Amazing list!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Here's one that I suggested but don't see: the French song about the rose??? Bronwyn surely remembers that title. I think we sang it in spring last year, maybe even for the flower service.</div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 11:36:49 AM EST, Donia Prince via Choir <choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpf84a3fa5yiv8992031203"><div dir="ltr">Hello everyone!<div><br></div><div>There is no required information in this email--read on if you are interested but feel free to ignore!</div><div><br></div><div>As I mentioned at our last rehearsal, attached here is the list Lani put together of all of the music in our music library. <b>IF</b> you are interested, take a look and see if anything stands out to you as something you would love to sing again as part of a Music Sunday program on Beauty. I know many of you have already offered suggestions, so we have a lot to choose from, but just in case there is any gem not yet considered, please feel free to pass on any additional ideas.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone who might be interested in helping to hone our options and help craft a program is invited to meet after the service on Feb 2nd. After that we will finalize the selections and begin rehearsing them sometime in February. </div><div><br></div><div>Below are some of my considerations and thoughts about how to frame the program (put down in no particular order...a bit stream of consciousness) as well as a list of suggestions people have offered. </div><div><br></div><div>Include a broad range of styles, that might serve to illustrate some of these thoughts.</div><div>What is beauty, what makes something beautiful? is it melody, harmony, texture, atmosphere, words. Is it beautiful because of how it makes us feel? Pain/tension and release, harmony.</div><div>Differing and evolving perceptions of beauty, cultural and otherwise--what we present, what we say is therefore limited. In western music, there has been an expansion of what we experience as beautiful and harmonious--eg in earliest western music major thirds were considered dissonant and ugly, now we can experience close tonal clusters as exquisitely beautiful. A corollary of how in general we can expand our perception of what/who is beautiful.</div><div>Creating and experiencing beauty is essential now, an act of resistance--talk about links between beauty and happiness, well-being. </div><div>What guest artists, other instruments, smaller ensembles, etc might we include? Eliza will of course do something on piano.</div><div>What pieces could fit into our program that would also be able to fit into a service in the next couple of months (with themes of Embrace (<i>mostly set</i>) Purpose and Imagination)?</div><div><br></div><div>I have a thought of opening the program with a unison medieval chant, then going directly into One Voice ("this is the sound of one voice..."). Then some words and we're off... Possibly Include Bach's 1st prelude in C (piano) as a perfect expression of what creates beauty</div><div><br></div><div>Partial list of possible music (forgive me if I've inadvertently left something off): </div><div>We will of course have to settle on just 5 or 6 pieces for the choir, and will make final decisions based on balance, contrast etc within the program.</div><div><br></div><div>Dirait-on, Lauridsen</div><div>For the Beauty of the Earth, Rutter</div><div>other Lauridsen and Rutter</div><div>There will be rest, Ticheli</div><div>Sleeping Golden Cloud, Tchaikowsy</div><div>Precious Lord, Dorsey, arr Sevier</div><div>Other spirituals?</div><div>Shenandoah</div><div>Bridge over troubled water</div><div>Hallelujah, Cohen</div><div>Laudate Dominum or other Mozart</div><div>Ave Maria</div><div>You'll Never Walk Alone</div><div>Something from West Side Story?--Somewhere or One Hand, One Heart</div><div>Something from Les Miserables? On Your Own, I Dreamed a Dream</div><div>One Voice, Wailin Jennys</div><div><br></div><div>I would also like to include something new to us, recently composed. Here is one possibility--To See the Sky by Jocelyn Hagen. gorgeous Sara Teasdale poem, a fairly new composer who has been making a good name for herself: <a href="https://graphitepublishing.com/product/see-sky/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://graphitepublishing.com/product/see-sky/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Donia</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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