What a perfect evening you created, filling the room with beauty, and uniting in renewed commitment to the ministry we share. What an absolute blessing to be a part of your choir. I encourage you to keep coming-- when the room is filled with people, the room is more full of beauty and possibility and grace and hope and love. There is no limit to the extent of what we can experience side by side and hand in hand. Thank you for taking part in the adventure.
Remember that one of the ways we can have a richer experience this weekend and beyond is to begin our annotating of the Vaughan Williams DONA NOBIS PACEM. Please copy all the markings from movement 6 in your scores. Here is a link to our choir blog where you will find the scores posted. If you need help with accessing this, please contact our awesome, amazing master blog-ateer Becky at rebecca@firstplymouth.org or call her in the music office.
http://firstplymouthchoir.
Remember that the idea is that if we make these markings at home, we do not have to spend our valuable time together to share in making music giving instructions about breaths and cutoffs, and we can spend that quality time on creating ensemble, building our vocal technique, and enhancing our ability to collectively and unanimously communicate text and to eventually bring meaning to each syllable we sing. We care about these picky details because we believe in our ministry and want to offer God our first fruits, our finest gifts, our fattest calf, our most beautiful music. We have so much talent gathered that it would be a shame to do anything but our best to reach the amazing, God-given potential we have to love and serve.
I look so forward to our retreat time on Saturday, and with the whole season ahead... Not a day goes by that I am not thankful that God has brought us together. You are a treasure in my life, and I am so thankful for each and all of you. Thank you for offering me the opportunity to be a part of your life. That is a rich blessing.
Grace and peace,
TT
