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February 1, 2012 Dear Choir, A reminder that we will be starting rehearsal at 7:00 tomorrow, Feb. 2, instead of the usual 7:30. Please come as soon as you are able if the early start time is an inconvenience. We will be working almost entirely on Sunday's material, my "I Will Sing to the Lord" and Paul Knudson's "Seven-fold Amen". Park outside the parking lot ONLY if you are able, (though do so if you can!). Please leave the three parking spaces closest to Pleasant St. open for the Cold Weather Shelter personnel. If you need to be in the lot, and there is no space, please call me directly on my cell phone (910).257.6436 from the parking lot, and I will try to help! Tracks for Sunday's Anthem can still be found here: SOPRANO track for "Radical Hope, Extravagant Love" 175th Anniversary Anthem ALTO track for "Radical Hope, Extravagant Love" 175th Anniversary Anthem TENOR track for "Radical Hope, Extravagant Love" 175th Anniversary Anthem BASS track for "Radical Hope, Extravagant Love" 175th Anniversary Anthem If you are using Internet Explorer as your computer browser, you should be able to click directly on this link and have it play. If you are using either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, you may need to right-click on the link and save it to a place on your computer where you can find it. If you are using an Apple computer and are using Safari as your browser, I believe you should be able to just click on the link and hear it. It is also possible to click on these links from smartphone browsers. See you soon! Mark
Jan. 23, 2012 Dear Choir, Thank you for your good work this morning! I haven’t yet had a chance to hear the recording I made, but it felt good to me in the context of the morning. I hope it felt that way to you as well. Thursday night, Becky and Lois will be running an Alto and Soprano sectional, so we will have a chance to work hard on individual parts this week. I am trying hard to get the computerized version up and running for you this week. It definitely takes longer than it seems it should. Please check back soon. This coming Sunday, we shall sing "Evening and Morning" by Robert Farrell. As such, we will practice this anthem first on Thursday, but we will still spend the greatest part of rehearsal on the music for Feb. 5. Please make every effort to be present! Mark SOPRANO track for "Radical Hope, Extravagant Love" 175th Anniversary Anthem ALTO track for "Radical Hope, Extravagant Love" 175th Anniversary Anthem TENOR track for "Radical Hope, Extravagant Love" 175th Anniversary Anthem BASS track for "Radical Hope, Extravagant Love" 175th Anniversary Anthem If you are using Internet Explorer as your computer browser, you should be able to click directly on this link and have it play. If you are using either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, you may need to right-click on the link and save it to a place on your computer where you can find it. If you are using an Apple computer and are using Safari as your browser, I believe you should be able to just click on the link and hear it. It is also possible to click on these links from smartphone browsers.
January 16, 2012 Dear Choir, This week I will be focusing on preparing tracks for you to use to assist in learning the special music for February 5th. Please, please do take at least some time to make use of these tracks when once they are posted. It will go a long way in helping us all to feel good about our final result! Parable of the week: There once were two scientists who were working on perfecting tele-transportation. Both had wonderful ideas, and both were enthusiastic. One, though, often managed to make some simple things far more complicated than were actually needed. Though the other was working on a complex manner of sending physical material wirelessly like the transporters in "Star Trek", the other was working on a simpler model which would use physical wires as the means of transport. One day, he realized that he had mastered the art and science of wired tele-transportation, and prepared to present his amazing findings to the Science Academy. The big day of the presentation arrived, and he set up his demonstration to send a pencil from one end of the hall to the other via his wired system. With the pencil loaded, and in front of all of his students and colleagues, he pressed the button. Electrical computerized sounds could be heard, and then, "Poof!" at the other end of the room, a stick appeared. It was the pencil, but it wasn't complete - it was missing its writing end. With all his effort, he had not completely succeeded, for, you see, he wasn't able to get "the point" across . . . Some days I feel like the scientist, and some days I feel like the pencil . . . We'll see you all on Thursday! Mark
January 14, 2012 Dear Choir, Ah, the weather . . . Nothing like Mother Nature to remind us that all of our running around like headless fowl all the time is not necessarily what God would like us to do. This Sunday we will sing "Wade in the Water", and each verse will be divided amongst small groups and solos. v.1. - tenors, then basses v.2. - Altos, then sopranos v. 3. - Alan, then Helen v. 4. - men, then women I will have some tracks posted this week to assist in learning the special music for the 175th Celebration on Feb. 5. Peace, Mark |