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Unitarian Universalist Church, Arlington, Massachusetts
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2004-2005
Director of Music: Laura Prichard
Organist & Children's Choir Director: Wendy Covell
Sunday, Sept. 12
Ingathering and Water Communion with Barbara Whittaker-Johns and
Carlton E. Smith
- Prelude: Rigaudon
by Andre Campra
- Offertory:
Pastorale by Louis Vierne
- Chalice Singers Anthem:
Mayim, mayim, Jewish folk song
Translation - Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the
wells of salvation.
- Anthem: Down in the
River to Pray from the Coen Brothers' film Oh Brother,
Where art Thou?
- Choral Benediction:
Love is Little, a Shaker song from Enfield, Connecticut,
arranged by Kevin Siegfried
- Postlude: De
Colores, Mexican folksong arranged for organ by Wendy
Covell
- Hymns & Readings:
92, 305, 729
Sunday, September 19
"Thou Art with Me" Barbara Whittaker-Johns
- Prelude: Berceuse
Populaire Française/Montagnarde d'Auvergne by Paul
Bazelaire
Deborah Thompson, guest cellist
- Introduction & Candle
Music: Kol nidre by Max Bruch for cello and
piano
- Offertory: Prayer
by Ernest Bloch
- Musical Interlude:
Song of the Birds by Pablo Casals
- Postlude: Chanson de
Bresse by Paul Bazelaire
- Hymns & Readings:
215, 217, 453, 634
Sunday, September 26
"Failures of Imagination" Carlton E. Smith
- Prelude:
Passacaglia by Dietrich Buxtehude
- Candle Music: The
Road not Taken by Randall Thompson
- Offertory: Veni
Creator by Maurice Duruflé for organ
- Anthem: Imagine
by John Lennon, performed by Meg Candilore, voice and
piano
- Choral Benediction:
Love is Little, Shaker Humility Song, arranged by Kevin
Siegfried
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- Postlude: Oh, the
Beatiful Treasures (Shaker song) arranged for organ by Wilbur
Held
- Hymns & Readings:
298, 413, 434, 658
Sunday, October 3
Carlton E. Smith "The Wisdom of Listening as a Pathway to Peace"
with readings from the philosopher Raimon Panikkar
- Prelude: Andante
quasi adagio by Eduardo Torres
- Chalice Flames Call to
Worship: Be Ye Lamps Unto Yourselves (sung from the
Tovey Lounge)
- Candle Music: The
Lord is My Shepherd, Psalm 23 from the Requiem of John
Rutter
with Wendy Covell, organ, and Carl Schlaijker, oboe
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- Offertory:
Adonai roi, Psalm 23 by Leonard Berstein from
Chichester Psalms
Jennifer Kobayashi, soprano solo
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- Choral Benediction:
Dona nobis pacem #388
- Postlude: Rorate
coeli by Jeanne Demessieux
- Hymns & Readings:
136, 335, 413, 470, 540
Sunday, October 10
Carlton E. Smith "Wal-Mart and Other Persons: the 2nd UU
Principle: justice, equity, and compassion"
- Second Sunday Meditational
Music (9:45-9:55am in the Sanctuary)
First movement from Francis Poulenc's Sonata for Oboe by
Carl Schlaikjer with Laura Prichard, piano
- Prelude: Andante con
moto by Eduardo Torres
- Offertory:
Vocalise by Sergei Rachmaninoff
played by the First Parish Chamber Winds: Mies Boet-Whitaker,
flute; Carl Schlaikjer, oboe;
Wendy Page, clarinet; Andrew Kobayashi, clarinet; Jean Renard
Ward, bassoon
- Anthem: Ubi
Caritas by Maurice Duruflé
- Choral Benediction:
Siyahamba (South African freedom song)
- Postlude: Built on a
Rock by Christina Harmon
- Hymns & Readings:
125, 209, 413, 457, 464
Sunday, October 17 Ferry Beach
Weekend
Rev. Carlton E. Smith "Take Back Your Time"
- Prelude: Adagio in A
minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Offering:
Morgengesang by Arthur Foote
Phyllis Spence, violin
- Postlude: Minuet
by Luigi Boccherini
- Hymns & Readings:
16, 331, 413, 466
Sunday, October 24
Rev. Robin L. Zucker "Two Copper Coins"
- Prelude: Andante K.
616 by Wolfgang A. Mozart
- Offertory: Prelude in
B-flat by Clara Schumann
- Anthem: My eyes for
beauty pine by Herbert Howells
- Choral Benediction:
Love is Little, Shaker Humility Song, arranged by Kevin
Siegfried
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- Postlude:
Allegretto by D. Zipoli
- Hymns & Readings:
21, 288, 413, 656, 714, "Who Is a Rich Man?" by Rabbi L. Kushner,
Luke 21: 1-4
Sunday, October 31
Intergenerational Hallowe'en Service
Barbara Whittaker-Johns and Carlton E. Smith "Anything
Possible"
- Prelude: Quick
March by Lefebure Wely
- Processional: Night
on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky played by First Parish
Symphonic Band
- Parade of Costumes:
Rosin Eating Zombies from Outer Space played by the
First Parish Strings
- Call to Worship: It's
Impossible by Rodgers and Hammerstein
Chalice Flames, Meg Candilore, piano; Drew Pereli, electric
bass
- Song: Laughing,
Singing Come to Goblins by C. Bresgan
Chalice Sparks
- Offertory:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 by J. S. Bach played by the
First Parish Strings and Chamber Winds
- Anthem: Anything
Possible by Fred Small (First Parish Littleton, MA) sung by
Diane Shriver, guitarist
- Recessional: Walk in
the Light
- Readings: The Old
Howling Wind adapted from Bill Martin Jr.; The Paperbag
Princess
Sunday, November 7
Rev. Barbara Whittaker-Johns "Reflection: The Sacred Meaning of
True Friendship"
Alex Mercedes "An Improvisation on Friendship"
- Organ Prelude: Lobe
den Herrn by Timothy Albrecht
- Offering: Over the
Rainbow by Harold Arlen, played by Luberta Elliott Smith,
piano
- Anthem: Rejoice in
God, all ye lands from Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the
Lamb
- Musical Interlude:
Cherry Blossom Pink and Apple White, played by Luberta
Elliott Smith, piano
- Choral Benediction:
Alleluia from Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in
the Lamb
- Organ Postlude:
Trompette Jubilante by Craig Penfield
- Hymns & Readings:
390, 413, 645, 685
Sunday, November 7 at 3pm
Installation of the Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith as our permanent
Assistant Minister
- Organ Prelude:
Toccata in F by J. S. Bach
- Processional: Rank by
Rank Again We Stand by H. Walford Davies
- Opening Hymn: Gather
the Spirit by J. Scott
- Speakers: Rev. Caitlyn
O'Brien (Project Place, Boston), Annette Sawyer, John L. Worden
III (Arlington Town Moderator), Rev. Linda Privitera (Church of
Our Saviour, Arlington), Rev. James Ismael Ford (President, Mass
Bay Chapter UU Minister's Association), Rev. David Pettee
((Director of Ministerial Credentialing, UUA), Rev. John Weston
(Settlement Director, UUA), Deborah Botos, John Laurenson, Rev.
Barbara Whittaker-Johns, Rev. Ellen Rowse Spero (First Parish
Chelmsford), and Millie Seaborn (President, Mass Bay District
UUA)
- Offertory: For the
Instruments Are by their Rhymes and Alleluia
from Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb
- Special Music: The
Lord's Prayer by A. H. Malotte, played by Luberta Elliott
Smith, piano
- Recessional:
Siyahamba (African freedom song)
- Postlude: Joyful,
Joyful by Ludwig van Beethoven with English text by Henry van
Dyke, arr. in gospel style for the film Sister Act
II
Sunday, November 14
Carlton E. Smith "Beyond Convenience"
- Second Sunday Meditational
Music (9:45-9:55am in the Sanctuary)
David Whitford, violin and Ann Goodwin , guitar
- Prelude: Variation
sur un theme by Jehan Alain
- Candle Music: Sicut
cervus by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Anthem: Osanna
from the Missa Papae Marcelli by Giovanni Pierluigi da
Palestrina
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- Offertory: Chant de
paix by Jean Langlais
- Postlude:
Cantabile by Robin Milford
- Hymns & Readings:
163, 404, 413, 594
Sunday, November 21
Barbara Whittaker-Johns "Doggedly Blundering Toward
Heaven"
- Prelude: In
Paradisum by Theodore Dubois
- Offertory: Prince of
Denmark March by Jeremiah Clarke
Isaac Toppa, trumpet
- Musical Interlude:
Bist du bei mir by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Postlude: Trumpet
Tune by Henry Purcell
Isaac Toppa, trumpet
- Hymns & Readings:
21, 67, 95, 413, 490, 512
Sunday, November 28
"Blessings Gathered from Having Cancer" Susan Morse, with Barbara
Whittaker-Johns, worship leader
- Prelude: Adagio
by Wolfgang A. Mozart
- Intergenerational Sharing:
This Pretty Planet by Tom Chapin and John Forster
Led by Frank Toppa
- Anthem: An die Musik,
op. 88, no. 4, D. 547 (1817) by Franz Peter Schubert
(1797-1828)
Cheri Minton, alto
Du holde Kunst, in wieviel grauen Stunden, Oh sacred art, how oft
in hours blighted,
Wo mich des Lebens wilder Kreis umstrickt, While into life's
untamed cycle hurled,
Hast du mein Herz zu warmer Lieb entzunden, Hast thou my heart to
warm love reignited
Hast mich in eine beßre Welt entrückt! To transport me
into a better world!
Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner
Harf' entflossen, So often has a sigh from thy harp
drifted,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir, A chord from
thee, holy and full of bliss,
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen, A glimpse
of better times from heaven lifted.
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür! Thou sacred art,
my thanks to thee for this.
by Franz von Schober (1798-1882)
- Hymns & Readings:
123, 360, 413, 435
Thursday, December 2
-
7:30pm
CONCERT in the Sanctuary
- Guest artists: University of
Pretoria TUKS Camerata, Pretoria, South Africa
- Hosting Chorus: Sharing a New
Song Chorus (preparing for their 2005 South African
Tour)
- Concert Hosts: First Parish
Choir, Arlington
Finale from Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb
Joyful, Joyful by Ludwig van Beethoven with English text by
Henry van Dyke, arr. in gospel style for the film Sister Act
II
Sunday, December 5
Rev. Barbara Whittaker-Johns "What Gift Will You
Bring?"
- Prelude: Trumpet Tune
in E Major by David N. Johnson
- Candles Music:
Itinerunt hodie by Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
Melody later published in Pie Cantiones, 1582 and adapted
in the UU Hymnal
Links
relating to Hildegard von Bingen
- Offertory: Noel
by Theodore Dubois
- Anthem: O magnum
mysterium by Tomas Luis da Victoria
- Postlude: Sortie
by Cesar Franck
- Hymns & Readings:
221, 225, 413, 493, 629
Monday, December 6 Alliance
Christmas Program
Chalice Singers and Chalice
Flames
- I Saw Three
Ships
- Here in My House by A.
Shader
- Solstice Song by A.
Iselin - Kate Potter and Betty Jean Rueters-Ward,
soloists
First Parish Flute Ensemble, Mies
Boet-Whitaker, Director
Deana Furman, Erica Fingerle, Talia Kazarian, Jean Hodges, Gabriella
Hakim
Group Song - Turkeys
United
Song Leaders: Annie Whitford, Anna Marquis
Andrew Friedman, George Pereli, Drew Pereli
Clara Friedman, and Alana Thurston
First Parish Klezmer Band
Deana Furman, Alyson Schultz, Stephonia Franzosa, Mies Boet-Whitaker,
flutes
Timothy Rovinelli, oboe; Wendy Page, clarinet; Laura Prichard, tenor
saxophone
Chris Botos, trombone; Meg Candilore, piano; Eric Candilore,
drums
- Hava Nagila
- Eight Candles (Ocho
Kandelikas) arranged by M. Reynolds
Chalice Singers and Chalice
Flames
- Medieval Gloria arranged
by V. Singh
- Jingle Bell Rock by Beal
& Boothe
Sunday, December 12 Choir
Sunday
"The Worship of Ages" Barbara Whittaker-Johns
"Life Larger Than Ourselves" Carlton E. Smith
"Music in Time of War" Laura Prichard
- Prelude: Veni
Emmanuel by Richard Purvis
- Affirmation: Solstice
Litany by John Hodges
- Choral selections from the
Gloria of Antonio Vivaldi
Gloria in excelsis, Et in terra pax, Domine Fili unigenite,
Quoniam tu solus, Cum sancto spiritu, Amen
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- Solo/duet selections from
the Gloria of Antonio Vivaldi
Domine Deus (Jennifer Kobayashi, soprano)
Laudamus Te (Carolyn Hodges and Alisa Conner,
sopranos)
- Offertory:
Pastoraleby Domenico Zipoli
- Hymns & Readings:
36, 159, 226, 413, 562, 583, 654, Solstice Litany by John
Hodges
- 3pm Concert Arlington
Philharmonic
Sunday, December 19
Intergenerational Holiday Pageant
"Old Befana and the Holy Child" produced and directed by Anne Goodwin
and Tom Hogan
- Prelude: Gloria
by G. Pergolesi
- Offertory: Largo
from Lute Sonata by Antonio Vivaldi
- Traditional Italian
Christmas Carol: Dormi, dormi, O bel bambin
- African/Euro-American
Singing Game: Punchinello
- Traditional Italian
Dance: Tarantella played by Wendy Covell
- Choral Song:
Gaudete - Medieval song published in Piae Cantiones,
1582
- Choral Song: We
Are by Ysaye Barnwell
- Postlude: Allegro
from Lute Sonata by Antonio Vivaldi
- Hymns & Readings:
236, 616
Friday, December 24 Christmas
Eve Service, 5pm
- Classical Trio Music
4:30-5pm
Mies Boet-Whitaker, flute, Carl Schlaikjer, oboe, Wendy
Covell, organ
- Prelude: Go, Tell It
on the Mountain for organ by D. Lasky and Emma Lou
Diemer
- Opening Carol: #253,
O Come, All Ye Fatihful
- Anthem: O magnum
mysterium by Tomas Luis da Victoria
- Vocal Solo: Merry
Christmas with Love by Billy Smiley and Greg Davis
Krista Ernewein, soprano
- Hymn: #47, Now
On Land and Sea Descending
- First Reading: Luke
2: 1-7
- Carol: #246, O Little
Town of Bethlehem
- Second Reading: Luke
2: 8-16
- Carol: #237, The
First Nowell
- Carol: #231, Angels
We Have Heard on High
- Offertory: Trio of
the Ismaelites from Hector Berlioz's L'Enfance du
Christ
Mies Boet-Whitaker, flute, Carl Schlaikjer, oboe, Wendy
Covell, organ
- Third Reading:
Matthew 2: 1-12
- Carol: #244, It Came
Upon a Midnight Clear
- Fourth Reading:
Matthew 2: 13-23
- Anthem: Sure on this
Shining Night by Samuel Barber
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- Carol: #245, Joy to
the World
Jennifer Kobayashi, shawm, Matthew Kobayashi,
trumpet
- Carol: #251, Silent
Night
- Recessional: #251,
Here We Come A-Wassailing
- Postlude: On
Christmas Night by R. Milford
Wendy Covell, organ
Sunday, December 26
"Good Will Toward All" Rev. Dr. Dorothy May Emerson, guest
speaker from Medford, MA and founder of the UU Women's Heritage
Society and edited of the anthology Standing Before Us: UU Women
and Social Reform, 1776-1936
- Prelude:
Larghetto and Allegro from Sonata in F
Major by G. F. Handel
Barbara Tilson, piano, and Mies Boet-Whitaker, flute
- Offertory: Second and
fourth movements from Fourteen Pieces for Flute and Piano
by Charles H. Koechlin
- Musical Interlude:
Nocturne by Kenneth Seitz
- Postlude: Allegro
from Sonata in F Major by G. F. Handel
- Hymns & Readings:
121, 240, 413, 436, The Work of Christmas by Howard
Thurman, selections from the United Nations Earth
Charter
Sunday, January 2
Rev. Carlton E. Smith with Ron Hersom [Tolling of the Bells
based on the Oakland, CA UU Church's service]
- Prelude: I.
Allegro from Partita for English Horn and Organ by Jan
Koetsier
Carl Schlaikjer, English horn; Wendy Covell, organ
- Offertory: How
Brightly Shines the Morning Star from Partita for English
Horn and Organ by Jan Koetsier
- Anthem: Indian
Prayer by Roger Emerson
- Candles Music: We
Remember Them by Ben Steinberg
- Postlude: V.
Allegro from Partita for English Horn and Organ by Jan
Koetsier
- Hymns & Readings:
18, 96, 271, 413
Sunday, January 9
Rev. Carlton E. Smith with Ron Hersom: "The Search for Truth and
Meaning" [sermon topic on 9th UU Principle]
- Prelude: Fantasy in A
Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Candles Music: Velvet
Shoes by Randall Thompson (women only)
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- Offertory: In the
Isles of the Sea by Daniel Pinkham
- Anthem: The Road Not
Taken by Randall Thompson
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- Hymns & Readings: 6,
300, 403, 413, 645, Fatima the Spinner and the
Tent
Sunday, January 16
Rev. Carlton E. Smith with Donna Sharff, Nassir Ghaemi, and Marie
Raduazzo "Credo Service I: Dr. King and I"
- Prelude: Let Us Break
Bread Together arranged by Charles Callahan
- Offertory: The
Chrysanthemum by Scott Joplin, played by Wendy Covell,
organ
- Credo I: A Passion to
Teach by Marie Raduazzo
- Musical Interlude:
Oh, Freedom from Lift Every Voice and Sing II: An
African American Hymnal
- Credo II: Appalachia:
1969 by Heather Hewitt
- Credo III: My First
Prison Visit by Donna Scharff
- Anthem: We Shall
Overcome from Lift Every Voice and Sing II: An African
American Hymnal
- Credo IV: Reflection
on Racism by Nassir Ghaemi
- Postlude: Didn't My
Lord Deliver Daniel arranged by Carleton Inniss
- Hymns & Readings:
95, 153, 413, 577, 584
Sunday, January 23
SERVICE CANCELED DUE TO BLIZZARD (19 inches of snow in
Arlington)
Rev. Carlton E. Smith with Martha Comfort, Charlotte Sanford, and
Beth Miller
"Credo Service II: Creating Meaning in Our Lives"
Sunday, January 30
Rev. Barbara Whittaker-Johns with speakers from the Institute on
Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS)
"The Varieties of Spiritual Transformation: Scientific and Religious
Perspectives"
- Prelude: Toccata in d
minor by J. J. Frohberger
- Offertory:
Bagpipe by Bela Bartok
- Reflection: Dr. Ursula
Goodenough, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
- Anthem: In a Garden
Shady (first movement) from Benjamin Britten's Hymn to St.
Cecilia
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to practice
- Reflection: Dr. Karl
Peters, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
- Postlude:
Allegretto by L. N. Clerambault
- Hymns & Readings:
10, 55, 126, 413, 505, 530
Saturday, February 5
Biennial First Parish Auction - Mardi
Gras Theme
Sunday, February 6
Barbara Whittaker-Johns "The Treasure of
Consciousness"
- Prelude: March
for organ by Gabriel Pierne
- Ingenerational Anthem
(Chalice Singers and Flames): A Quiet Place (I Was Standing
in a Garden)
by Leonard Bernstein, Wendy Covell, conductor; Barbara Tilson,
piano
- Offertory: Priere
for organ by Denis Bedard
- Anthem: The Gifts of
Life by Kenneth Seitz
Poem by the Rev. Dr. Barbara Whittaker-Johns
The gifts of life are in need of someone:
Did we think that autumn turns its colors,
that winter abres its branches
All alone?
A season unappreciated is a season missed.
The gifts of life are in need of someone:
Did we think that love is earned?
Love not graciously received does not survive.
The gifts of life are in need of someone:
Did we think our daily blessings
befall by chance?
Abundance waits only for an open heart in order to be born.
The gifts of life are in need of you and me:
to appreciate creation,
to accept that we are loved,
to know that we are blessed.
The gifts of life are in need of someone
to give thanks.
- Postlude: Presto
from Concerto in F for organ by George F.
Handel
- Hymns & Readings:
57, 205, 413, 657, adaptation of Robinson Jeffers' The
Treasure
Monday, February 7 First
Parish Alliance Music Program
- 7pm Dessert and Social
Hour
- 7:30pm Olav Chris Henriksen
gave a lecture-recital entitled "The Lute in the Age of
Humanism"
describing the story of the lute's rise in popularity throughout
the Renaissance,
and its consequent development into the Baroque lute and
theorbo.
Musical works by Francesco da Milano, Galilei, Dowland, and
Kapsperger.
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for a biography of Mr. Henriksen
Sunday, February 13
Barbara Whittaker-Johns "Falling in Love as Spiritual and Social
Transformation"
Jazz for Valentine's Day throughout the service
- Prelude: Stranger in
Paradise from Kismet
Music based on a melody of Aleksandr Borodin from Prince
Igor
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for notes on the history of the song
Chris Botos, trombone; Wendy Covell, organ
- Candle Music: My
Funny Valentine by Richard Rodgers
First Parish Jazz Orchestra - Alex Zimmer, Barbara Tilson,
rhythm
Chris Cirker, Mies Boet-Whitaker, Carl Schlaikjer, Andy Kobayashi,
Jean Renard Ward, reeds
Chris Botos, Jennifer Kobayashi, Mark Seibring, brass
- Anthem: Sing, Sing,
Sing by Louis Prima (FPA Choir)
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to read about Louis Prima
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to see the words for and hear a MIDI version the Benny Goodman
arrangement of Sing, Sing, Sing
- Offertory: Apres un
Reve by Gabriel Fauré
- Postlude:
Andantino by Charles M. Widor
- Hymns & Readings:
89, 199, 368, 413, 431, 610, 638, text of My Funny
Valentine by Lorenz Hart
Sunday, February 20
Barbara Whittaker-Johns with Anti-Racism and Partakers "Journey
Toward Wholeness"
"Facing the Music" - sermon by Summer Finnell
- Prelude: Wer nur den
lieben Gottt lässt walten by J. S. Bach
- Offertory: Andante
cantabile by Charles M. Widor
- Anthem: Call
to Remembrance by Richard Farrant (c1525-1580)
- Postlude: If You but
Trust in God to Guide You by Georg Boehm
- Hymns & Readings:
123, 151, 413, 584, and On Crime and Punishment by
Kahlil Gibran
Sunday, February 27
Rev. Carlton E. Smith "Bringing Consciousness to Life"
with Chris Jones "Giving the Most of Your Consciuosness"
- Prelude: Andantino
from Concerto in G Major by Antonio Soler
- Offertory: Veni
Crator by Jeanne Demessieux
- Postlude:
Allegretto by Maurice Duruflé
- Hymns & Readings:
15, 22, 300, 413, 566, and excerpts from A Return to
Love
Sunday, March 6
Rev. Carlton E. Smith "Thirty Years After the Fire: Remembering
the Church That Was"
A Service of Remembrance incorporating many elements from the Order
of Service on March 7, 1975
- Prelude: A Mighty
Fortress by Michael Preatorius
- Anthem: Steal
Away spiritual arranged by Hall Johnson 1935) conducted by
Chris Jones
One of the great African-American musicians of the twentieth
century, Johnson achieved national renown through his adaptation
of spirituals for the play (later a movie) Green Pastures,
many of them included in this anthology, and the tours he
conducted with the renowned ensemble he founded, the Hall Johnson
Choir.
- Stewardship Theme:
Keep On Moving Forward by Pat Humphries, led by Diane
Taraz
- Offertory: A Mighty
Fortress by Peter Pindar Stearns
- Postlude: A Mighty
Fortress by Christina Harmon
- Art Opening of displays and
visuals commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Great Fire that
destroyed the Fourth Meetinghouse of First Parish on March 7,
1975.
- Hymns & Readings:
114, 358, 413, 569, Doxology from the Order of Service
on March 7, 1975
Sunday, March 6 First Parish
Musicale, 3pm
Chris Jones, Producer
Margaret Braxton, piano
- Aufschwung (Soaring) by
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
- Jesu, Joy of Man's
Desiring by Johann S. Bach (1685-1750), arr. by Harold Bauer
Nancy McDowell, soprano; Carl
Schlaikjer, oboe; Ken Seitz, piano
- Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The
Shepherd on the Rock), op. 129 by Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)
First Parish Flute Loops - Mies
Boet-Whitaker, Director
Stephanie Franzosa, Deana Furman, Gabriella Hakim, Laura Prichard,
Erica Fingerle, Jean Hodges, flutes
- Canon in D by Johann
Pachelbel (1653-1706), arranged by Ricky Lombardo
Alex Zimmer, drums; Jim Ptacek,
piano
- Never Again by Jim
Ptacek
Lynn Rosenbaum, piano and
voice
- Where Is My Faith Today?
by Lynn Rosenbaum
Lydia Thayer and Carolyn Hodges,
voice
Ken Seitz, piano
First Parish Jazz Orchestra - Laura
Prichard, Director
Chris Cirker, alto saxophone; Carl Schlaikjer, English horn; Wendy
Page, clarinet
Andrew Kobayashi, tenor saxophone; Jean Renard Ward, bassoon
Jennifer Kobayashi, recorder; Chris Botos, trombone; Mark Seibring,
tuba
Seth Botos, djembe; Alex Zimmer, drums; Barbara Tilson,
piano
- My Funny Valentine
(1937) by Richard Rodgers
Frist Parish Glee Club - Chirs
Jones, Director
Michael Prichard, Jennifer Kobayashi, Chris Jones, Carl Schlaikjer,
tenors
Alan Schweitzer, Jean Renard Ward, Andy Kobayashi, John Hodges,
basses
- Steal Away by
traditional spiritual arranged by Hall Johnson
(1888-1970)
Jacques Duranceau, guitar and
voice
- The River by Bruce
Springsteen
Diane Taraz, guitar and
voice
- A Chat with your Mother
by Lou and Peter Berryman
- Fan by Daine
Taraz
- Your State's Name Here
by Lou and Peter Berryman, with Andy Kobayashi, voice
Alyse Wheelock, violin; Kate
Roberts, cello; Barbara Tilson, piano
- Saltarello by Frank
Bridge
Cynthia Mork, soprano; Barabra
Tilson, piano
- Songs to the Moon, Part
One by Jake Heggie and Vachel Lindsay
First Parish Jazz Band
Chris Cirker, alto saxophone; Rachel stark, vocals; Chris Botos,
trombone
Jim Austin, piano; Scott Samenfeld, bass; Seth Botos, drums,
piano
- All of Me by Simone and
Marks
- Softly As A Morning
Sunshine by Hammerstein and Romberg
Sunday, March 13
Rev. Barbara Whitaker-Johns "You Are the Salt of the Earth"
- Prelude: Reverie
by Louis Vierne
- Intergenerational Anthem
(Chalice Singers) : The Books - New Testament
Rap
- Candle Music: If Ye
Love Me by Thomas Tallis
- Offertory: Mi
Shebeirach by Debbie Friedman
- Anthem: Blest Are
They (based on the Beatitudes) by David Haas
Kate McNeill-Harman, Andrew Leonard, Laura Prichard, and Michael
Prichard, vocal quartet
- Postlued: Londonderry
Air for organ, Wendy Covell
- Hymns & Readings:
40, 115, 413, 498, 640, Keep on Moving Forward by Pat
Humphries
Sunday, March 20
Spring Music Service with the Rev. Barbara Whittaker-Johns
"Gratitude for Our Choir Over the Years" by Cheri Minton
- Organ Prelude:
Fanfares by Jean-Joseph Mouret - Wendy Covell
- Bicentennial Commemoration
of First Parish Choir
On March 20, 1805, the new church building [the second
meeting house] was dedicated, and William Cutter was chosen to
lead parish singing. Two seats in the front gallery were set apart
for singers.
During the 1804-05 church year, the Northwest Parish in
Cambridge Singing Society was established to correct, as its
preamble stated, "the spirit of music in public devotion
[which] has become somewhat languid and its genius seems
about to withdraw." New rules included: Every choir member should
sit in singing seats when at meeting. During singing of hymn, the
congregation turned to face the choir, who followed the baton of
the leader by beating out time with their hands or fingers. The
leader read a line of the hymn, then led the singing of the choir
in that line (usually accompanied by the
congregation).
- Opening Anthem: I Was
Glad When They Said Unto Me by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings
Parry
Carolyn Hodges, Meg Candilore, Chris Jones, Jean Reanrd Ward -
solo quartet
Composed for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902, and it has been
sung at every subsequent British coronation.
- Candle Music: Veris
leta facies (The merry face of spring) from Carl Orff's
Carmina burana for choir and piano
- Offertory:
Pastorale by Lefébure-Wély - Wendy Covell,
organ
- Two Anthems: Opening
sections from Carl Orff's Carmina burana for choir,
strings, and symphonic band
O Fortuna, velut luna (Fortune, empress of the world)
Fortune plango vulnere (I am vulnerable to
Fortune)
- Two Anthems: Spring
sections from Carl Orff's Carmina burana for choir,
strings, and symphonic band
Omnia sol temperat (The sun warms everything)
Soloists - Andrew Leonard, John Hodges, Michael Prichard, Alan
Schweitzer, and Jean Renard Ward
Ecce gratum (Behold, the pleasant spring) Tenor solo -
Chris Jones
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for a webpage with the texts and translations
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for a webpage with historical details about the text and
music
- Postlude: Agincourt
Hymn by John Dunstable - Wendy Covell, organ
- Hymns & Readings:
36, 203, 413, 416, 532
Sunday, March 27
Intergenerational Easter Service featuring the children's choirs
Reflections by the Rev. Dr. Barbara Whittaker-Johns
- Prelude: Easter
Morning in Holland by Roberta Bitgood - Wendy Covell,
organ
- Offertory: Allegro ma
non troppo from Sonata in G major by W. F. Bach
Duo Atlantice: Mies Boet-Whitaker and Willhemien Insinger,
flutes
- Chalice Sparks Anthem:
Now the Green Blade Riseth
- Chalice Singers &
Chalice Flames Anthem: Cantata #68, My Heart Ever
Faithful by J. S. Bach
William Henriksen, violin; Carl Schlaikjer, oboe; Jean Renard
Ward, bassoon
Chris Henriksen, theorbo; Meg Candilore, keyboard
- Anthem:
Alleluia from Ben Hur by Miklos
Rozsa
- Postlude: An Easter
Alleluia by M. Enrico Bossi - Wendy Covell, organ
- Hymns & Readings:
61, 220, 270, 534, 726, 727
Sunday, April 3
Rev. Barbara Whittaker-Johns "Say I Am You" [sermon topic on
Islam, Sufism, and the writings of Rumi]
- Special Chamber Music
Today: Wendy Covell with Debbie Thompson and Rebecca
Thornblad, cellos
- Prelude: Allegro
from Concerto in G Minor by Antonio Vivaldi
- Candles Music:
Adagio from Concerto in G Minor by Anotnio
Vivaldi
- Offertory: Lento,
rubato from Suite for Two Cellos and Piano by Gian
Carlo Menotti
- Vocal Anthem: To
Allah (1887) by George Chadwick
Wendy Page, Jennifer Kobayashi, and Laurie Francis-Wright,
soloists
Notes:
This poem, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is based on a German
text by Siegfried August Mahlmann. The composer, Geroge Chadwick,
was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1854 and died in Boston in
1931. He was a prolific composer of operas, oratorios, chamber
music and song, and was a pillar of the 'Boston Classicists'
composers at the turn of the century. Chadwick's 1887 setting of
Longfellow's poem offers the soul an alternative to
Khayyám's oblivion &endash; the hope of joining Allah's
light.
Text for the song:
Allah gives light in darkness,
Allah gives rest in pain,
Cheeks that are white with weeping
Allah paints red again.
The flowers and the blossoms
wither,
Years vanish with flying fleet;
But my heart will live on forever,
That here in sadness beat.
Gladly to Allah's dwelling
Yonder would I take flight;
There will the darkness vanish,
There will my eyes have sight.
- Choral Anthem: El
Allah Hu (Sufi song in Arabic from The Dances of Universal
Peace) arranged by Lynne White
- Postlude: Allegro
from Trio Sonata No. 16 by George F. Handel
- Hymns & Readings: 3,
159, 188, 413, 607, 610, "Birdsong from Inside the Egg" by the
13th-century poet Rumi
Sunday, April 10
Rev. Caitlyn O'Brien "When We Choose Change" [a sermon on her
work as a community minister at "project Place" in Boston which
provides paid employment and training to homeless individuals who are
ready to choose change]
- Prelude: Awake, Thou
Wintry Earth by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Candles Music:
Finches from Hymnody of Earth by Malcolm
Dalglish
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to practice this selection
Text by Kentucky Poet Wendell Berry:
The ears stung with cold
sun and frost of dawn
in early April, comes
the song of winter finches,
their crimson bright, then
dark as they move into
and then against the light.
May the year warm them
soon. May they soon go
north with their singing
and the seasons follow.
May the bare sticks soon
live, and our minds go free
of the ground
into the shining of trees.
- Offertory:
Amazing Grace by Jean Langlais
- Anthem: Thrush
Song from Hymnody of Earth by Malcolm Dalglish
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Carolyn Hodges, soprano solo
Carolyn Hodges, Diane Shriver, Jennifer Kobayashi, Meg Candilore,
quartet
- Postlude: Allegro
vivace by Marcel Dupre
- Hymns & Readings:
61, 413, 510, Since I Laid My Burdens Down
Sunday, April 17
Speaker: Dr. Sondra Crosby, a UU physician who works at Boston
University Medical Center/Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human
Rights. Her essay on the suffering of farm animals, "Lessons from My
Pig Winnie," was published in the March 19 Boston Globe.
Worship Leaders: Ellen Duranceau and Helene Martel
Song Leader & Guitarist: Diane Taraz
- Prelude:
Siciliana by M. E. Bossi
- Intergenerational
Sharing: All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir
Diane Taraz, voice and guitar
- Offertory: Bless the
Beasts and the Children by DeVorzon and Botkin
- Anthem: Shoes That
Fit Like Sand by Diane Taraz
- Postlude: For the
Beauty of the Earth by G. Krapf
- Hymns & Readings:
175, 203, 413, 550, 554, 595
Sunday, April 24
The Alliance with the Rev. Barbara Whittaker-Johns
"Change and Growth in a Lay-Led U. U. Society" - Ann Nozawa,
long-time member of First Parish, and now active with the Treasure
Coast U. U. Fellowship in Stuart, FL, will reflect on her experiences
with her new congregation.
- Prelude: Adagio in A
Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Offertory: Andante
semplice by Frederick Jacobi
- Anthem: Peace by
Gudrun Howe
Cheri Minton, Laurie Francis-Wright, and Jean Renard Ward, vocal
trio
- Postlude: Adagio
by Franz Liszt
- Hymns & Readings:
145, 359, 413, 441, 720
Sunday, May 1
Barbara Whittaker-Johns "The Questions Faith Asks"
- Prelude: God Bless
the Child by Arthur Herzog, Jr. and Billie Holiday, arranged
by Allen Horney
First Parish Jazz Orchestra, featuring Chris Botos,
trombone
- Intergenerational Anthem:
The Younger Generation by Aaron Copland
First Parish Choir & Younger Singers
- Candle Music: Mood
Indigo by Duke Ellington
First Parish Jazz Orchestra, featuring Andy Kobayashi, tenor
saxophone
- Offertory: In a
Sentimental Mood by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, and Manny
Kurtz
Chris Cirker, alto saxophone solo
- Postlude: Episode
by Aaron Copland
- Hymns & Readings:
12, 123, 162, 413, 545
Sunday, May 8
"Beyond the 11th": Shinn Conference with guest speakers Susan
Retik and Patti Quigley
Topic: Two women who are widows as a result of the September 11, 2001
attacks have started an organization in support of widowed women and
their children in Afghanistan. Click here
for a link to their website.
Click here
for a link to the history of Mother's Day
- Prelude: When in the
Hour of Utmost Need by Johann S. Bach
- Candle Music: If Ye
Love Me by Thomas Tallis
500th Anniversay of the birth of the composer
(1505-1585)
- Anthem: You Are the
New Day by John David, arr. by Peter Knight for The King's
Singers
- Offertory:
Berceuse by Jeanne Demessieux
- Postlude: Andante con
tenerezza by F. Jacobi
- Hymns & Readings:
127, 159, 413, 573
Sunday, May 15
- Prelude: The
Awakening by Francois Couperin
- Candle Music Anthem:
God is Seen by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
- Recognition of graduating
seniors with special music: Spirit of Life led by Krista
Ernewein
- Student Duet: I Know
Exactly What Love Is
Maggie and Ruth Orme-Johnson
- Hymns & Readings:
38, 188, 413, 419, 649, and The Desiderate by Max
Ehrmann
- Memorial Service and Art
Display in memory of Gudrun Howe at 2pm
Sunday, May 22
Barbara Whittaker-Johns "On Being Carried" & Annual Report
(those experiences where we find a sense of meaning in our
lives/grace found/receiving more than you expect)
- Prelude: Werde munter
by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Chalice Sparks Anthem:
I Love You A Bushel and a Peck from Guys and Dolls
Meg Candilore, piano; Wendy Covell, conductor
- Chalice Singers & Flames
Anthem: I Come Like a Beggar by Sydney Carter
Drew Pereli, cello
- Offertory: Allegretto
by Theodore Dubois
- Anthem: De
lustelijcke Mey by Jacobus Clemens non Papa
First published in the Antwerp Songbook (1544) in old Flemish
poem
1. Den lustelijcken Mey
is nu inden tijt
Met sinen groenen bladen.
Int lievelijc aenscouwen, ghi die Venus' dienaers
zijt,
Men mach u niet versaden.
Want bi des meys virtuyt
So menich cleyn voghelken ruyt,
Sijnen sanck is soet om hooren.
Dies willen wi vruecht orbooren.
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2. Bedrijft solaes,
genoechte ende vruecht,
Die blomkens staen ontploken.
Coemt met u lieveken buiten
in des veldekens juecht,
Die cruyden staen seer soet van roken.
Si staen net ende reyn
In dat soete lustelijcke pleyn.
Daer siet mense juechdelijck bloeyen
Door den soeten meyschen dau bespoeyen.
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3.
Die nachtegael singhet nacht ende dach
Met menich dierken cleyne.
Want ghi, die Venus doet gewach,
Wendt u ten veldekens reyne
ende wilt ons comen bi
Met u weerste lieveken, ic ende ghi.
en acht geen nijders bespringen
ende helpt ons den mey in bringhen.
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We
perform verse one only.
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- Postlude: Hymn by
Gudrun Howe
- Hymns & Readings:
162, 347, 413, 420, 587
Sunday,
May 29 Memorial Day weekend
Carlton E. Smith"In the Footprints of History:" a reflection on
the inherent worth and dignity of every person, encouraging the power
of memory in the young, and a reflection his recent trip to Europe
with AHS students studying Literature of the Holocaust.
- Prelude:
String Quartet in a minor, op. 13 by Felix
Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Adagio - Allegro vivace
The Mitchell Quartet
- Candles
Music: Adagio non lento from String Quartet in a
minor, op. 13 by Mendelssohn
- Anthem:
We Are by Ysaye Barnwell
- Offertory:
Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto from String Quartet in a
minor, op. 13 by Mendelssohn
- Postlude:
Presto from String Quartet in a minor, op. 13 by
Mendelssohn
- Hymns
& Readings: 202, 413, 626, We Shall Overcome, and
a excerpt from the 1993 Nobel Lecture by Toni Morrison
Sunday,
May 29 Chamber Music CONCERT, 4pm
The Mitchell Quartet (New York, NY)
Aaron Packard and Sarah Kim, violins; Adam Meyer viola; Katie
Schlaikjer, cello
- Suite
IV in E-flat for unaccompanied cello, BWV 1010 by J.S. Bach
(1685-1750)
Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bouree I-II,
Gigue
- Fantasias
for Strings 5 and 6 by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
- Scherzo:
"Holding Your Own" by Charles Ives (1874-1954)
- String
Quartet in a minor, op. 13 by Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-1847)
Adagio - Allegro vivace, Adagio non lento, Intermezzo:
Allegretto con moto, Presto
Sunday, June 5 Founder's Day
Barbara Whittaker-Johns & Carlton E. Smith "Questions for the
Ministers "
- Prelude:
Interlude in F by Jaques Ibert
Mies Boet-Whitaker, flute, Carl Schlaikjer, oboe
- Children Parade:
Larghetto from Trio Sonata in C by Johann
Quantz
- Offertory:
Ich folge dir gleich falls by Johann Sebastian
Bach
- Postlude:
Interlude in E by Jaques Ibert
- Hymns
& Readings: 12, 124, 591
Sunday, June 12 Coming of Age
Ceremony & Flower Communion
- Prelude:
Fugue in E Minor by Johann Sebastian
Bach
- Offertory:
Allegro Cantabile by Charles Maris
Widor
- Flower Communion
Procession: The Succession of the Four Sweet
Months (from Five Flower Songs) by Benjamin
Britten
- Duet: May It Be
from The Lord of the Rings
Becky Rowe and Nell Scribner, vocalists, Wendy Covell,
piano
- Anthem: Daffodils
by Kenneth Seitz
Kenneth Seitz, piano
- Ministers' Blessing &
Vocal Solo: For the Flowers Are Great Blessings
(from Rejoice in the Lamb) by Benjamin Britten
Chris Jones, tenor and Wendy Covell, piano
- Postlude:
The King of the Golden Hall by Howard
Shore
- Hymns
& Readings: 301, 724, Congregational Prayer (We give
thanks for this spiritual community)
- AHS Graduationat at 1pm -
congratulations to choir member Matthew K. and good luck at UT
Dallas!
Sunday, June 29
"Webcast of the Service of the Living Tradition" led by Jack
Duranceau
Live webcast from General Assembly at the Fleet Cneter, Boston, this
annual service brings together thousands of Unitarian Universalists
in celebration of the music sung in our congregations and the
fellowship of our ministers.
Sunday, July 6
"Sing New Songs!" led by Lynn Rosenbaum and Sue Streeter, with
members of the Mystic Chorale
In this interactive service, we diversify our UU musical repertoire
to include African-American, Jewish, Pagan, and Arabic
songs.
Sunday, July 20
"Singing the Living Tradition" led by Cheri Minton with Barbara
Tilson, piano
A musical exploration of our hymnal, celebrating its fine tunes,
poetry, and the diversity of its offerings. Jacqui James, ex officio
member of the Hymnbook Resources Commission, joins us in music making
and conversation.
Sunday, August 3
"Meditations on the Night" led by Diane Shriver
Poetry, music, and musings about the nature of the night, sleep,
darkness, and dreams. Sleep is often a metaphor for death, and
darkness can represent a failure of faith, but evening's gentle fall
may also bring peace to body and spirit.
Sunday, August 24
"Music for Worship and Play" led by Krista Ernewein
Interactively exploring old and new hymns, creating new music, and
encouraging inner development through impormptu
compositions.
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