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Fall 2007 Music Program Highlights

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination, and life to everything."  - Plato

Oct. 14      Anthems accompanied by Madeline Browning, flute, Bob Gordon, timpani, Jerry Bellows, bass
 
Oct. 21      Soprano Duets
                  Time for Community & Prelude:
                  Matthew Vera, Marlies Kehler, sopranos

                  Service Music: Noel Cary, clarinet

Oct. 28     (Delayed from original schedule) Order CDs here

      CD Release Sunday Volume 3 (2007) Missa Gaia
      Service music: excerpts both live and tracks from the CD; live music including:
        Adoro Te / For the Beauty of the Earth
        Blue Green Hills
        Let Us Depart in Peace



Nov. 4  
     All Souls Music Sunday with Faure Requiem (Rutter edition)
Vocalists: Matthew Vera, boy soprano; Scott Taylor, bass; Alesia Tringale, soprano;
      Brad Benschneider, tenor; Stanley Wilson, tenor, Katharine Vriesema-Magnuson, alto
Chamber Orchestra: strings, French Horns, harp, flute, timpani, organ

Fauré speaking about his Requiem, “Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.”

Additional music:
Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
Elgar: Ave Verum
Mallotte: Lord's Prayer  
Albinoni: Adagio for Strings

 


Nov. 11     Festival Music for Trumpet and Organ
                  Bruce Hopkins, trumpet

Nov. 18   Concert in Sanctuary at noon with Peter Sulski, viola; Donald Meineke, harpsichord
Peter is a member of our church. He has appeared as a soloist and recitalist throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the United States.  He is on faculty at College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, and UMASS Lowell and Artistic Director of the Worcester Chamber Music Society.

Nov. 25     Festival Anthems for Thanksgiving with Madeline browning, flute; Bob Gordon, timpani; Jerry Bellows, bass

Dec 24 5:15 PM (Prelude)
Festival Candlelight Service: Lessons and Carols