Choir Schedule
Choir rehearses on Sunday at 9 AM in the sanctuary and sings at the 10 AM worship service. No ongoing commitment required - sing when it works for you!
April 27
"Get in Line, Brother" by Flatt & Scruggs
Folk
Easy-intermediate: Fair music-reading skills would help you learn this in our single rehearsal, especially if you've looked at the music (voice parts only) and listened to this recording (voice parts only) and this recording by Flatt & Scruggs (which is in a different key than our version).
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Local bluegrass band The Rounder Circle will join us again to accompany the anthem and sing and play the introit, offertory and musical amen.
May 4
"Loving Savior, Hear My Prayer" by Gabriel Faure arr John Bertalot
Classical
Easy: Beginning music-reading skills would help you learn this in our single rehearsal, especially if you've looked at the music and listened to this recording (voice parts only) and watched this video of the piece as written by Faure: Pie Jesu in his Requiem
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Guest musician Vic Spain will play cello arrangements of 3 mid-20th century popular songs: Crazy, At Last, and I Can't Stop Loving You.
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Cellist Vic Spain is an avid chamber musician and a champion of hidden gems in the repertoire for string quartet or piano trio. Vic also loves playing in the pit orchestra for operas and musicals, having played with Berkeley Opera (now West Edge Opera) and Concert Operetta Theater of Philadelphia. Vic is retired (for now?) from his career as a veterinarian, farm-animal-welfare researcher, public health epidemiologist, and certified scientific muckraker. When he's not playing music, you may find Vic hiking or backpacking in the Sierra Nevada wilderness.
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May 18
"We Are One in the Spirit" by Peter Scholtes, arr. Fred Cummins
Folk
Easy: Beginning music-reading skills would help you learn this in our single rehearsal, especially if you've looked at the music and listened to this recording (voice parts only).
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Guitarist Doug Young is our guest musician.
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​Doug is an instrumental fingerstyle guitarist from Mountain View, who enjoys composing and arranging music for the guitar. He performs and teaches mostly around the Bay Area, and also focuses on recording himself and others in his home recording studio. All of the solo guitar pieces he'll play during the service were arranged by Doug and are published in books so other guitarists can perform the music as well.
May 25
"I Have Longed For Thy Saving Health" by William Byrd, arr. Alfred Whitehead
Classical
Easy-Intermediate: Fair music-reading skills would help you learn this in our single rehearsal, especially if you've looked at the music and listened to this recording ahead of time.
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Celtic Moon will provide the introit, offertory and musical amen.
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Celtic Moon is a duo band playing Celtic-inspired music from many genres, including traditional folk, rock, and movie soundtracks. https://celticmoonduo.com/ Celtic Moon is Lynda MacNeil and Verlene Schermer. Lynda is a lifelong full-time musician, teaching piano, voice, and music theory to students of all ages since she was 20. She has a BA in Music from University of Maryland. She plays guitar, harp, and piano. Verlene plays piano, violin, guitar, Celtic harp, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, concertina, Swedish Nyckelharpa, Swedish Cittra, Norwegian hardinfele, harp-guitar, and viola da gamba. In addition to her public performances with many groups, since 2003 she has been a hospital musician at Stanford Hopsital and Cancer Center playing soothing music at patients' bedsides.
