A Little Bit of Everything
If you would like to sing in the Multigenerational Choir or play in the Community Orchestra, please join us for our rehearsal this Sunday (April 13) after the service in the Main Meeting Room at 11:30 a.m. We will be preparing for our Easter Service on April, including one more rehearsal the day of the service at 9 a.m. Participants of all ages and experience levels are welcome, and the orchestra is open to all instruments. (Children and youth are especially encouraged to join!) Sheet music (including chords) for instrumentalists is available here. If your particular clef or transposition is not included, please let me know so that I can create a part for you. Non-music readers are equally welcome to sing or play by ear.
Rev. John said it best last week: "It's one of the things I love about this place: You can get Brahms one Sunday, and Tom Petty the second." Or in the case of this week, Mozart and Pharrell Williams . . . the same Sunday. True to form, we'll be all over the map as we manifest joy in music. Jodie and I begin with what I believe to be the most joyful piece of music ever written for the violin: the first movement of Mozart's Violin Concerto, No. 4 in D. Our Offertory is Charles Gabriel's gospel hit "I Sing Because I'm Happy," arranged by Philadelphia's own Rollo Dilworth, sung by the MLUC Choir. Reflecting on the complexity of Joy, the Choir sings Elizabeth Alexander's "As We Sing of Hope and Joy" for the Interlude. And however we're feeling about the world right now, Pharrell Williams' iconic "Happy" will infuse us with the authentic joy we need to persevere. Together we will sing hymn #29: "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" and Hoyt Axton's iconic "Joy to the World." From Beethoven to Three Dog Night!
See you Sunday!
David
Rev. John said it best last week: "It's one of the things I love about this place: You can get Brahms one Sunday, and Tom Petty the second." Or in the case of this week, Mozart and Pharrell Williams . . . the same Sunday. True to form, we'll be all over the map as we manifest joy in music. Jodie and I begin with what I believe to be the most joyful piece of music ever written for the violin: the first movement of Mozart's Violin Concerto, No. 4 in D. Our Offertory is Charles Gabriel's gospel hit "I Sing Because I'm Happy," arranged by Philadelphia's own Rollo Dilworth, sung by the MLUC Choir. Reflecting on the complexity of Joy, the Choir sings Elizabeth Alexander's "As We Sing of Hope and Joy" for the Interlude. And however we're feeling about the world right now, Pharrell Williams' iconic "Happy" will infuse us with the authentic joy we need to persevere. Together we will sing hymn #29: "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" and Hoyt Axton's iconic "Joy to the World." From Beethoven to Three Dog Night!
See you Sunday!
David
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