Everyone is welcome to join our next First Sunday Choir on Sunday, November 2. No auditions required – just the desire to experience the joy of singing. Music for November’s First Sunday includes the gentle beautiful “Sanctus” from Fauré’s Requiem and the African American spiritual “Stealing Away”. The First Sunday Choir sprouted up a couple of years ago with the sole aim of bringing together as many singers as possible at one time. With a designated day (First Sunday), singers budgeted their time and invested a small window of their time and energy into the joy of singing. The “one day, one rehearsal, one Mass” mantra came about. The thought was to keep commitment as snug as possible. This approach worked fairly well except that some singers wished to have more rehearsal time, devote more time to learning music resulting in boosted confidence. To that end we have added the Thursday evening rehearsal—the Thursday before the first Sunday. Below is the schedule of the Thursday Rehearsals and the First Sundays.
(7:30 – 9:00pm)
October 30
December 4
January 1 (tentative)
January 29
February 26
April 2 (Holy Thursday, TBA)
April 30
June 4
(10:00am-12:00pm)
November 2
December 7
January 4
February 1
March 1
April 5 (Easter)
May 3
June 7
Sunday June 8 is Pentecost and our own Parish Appreciation Weekend. Any and all interested singers are invited to join us on this special day. It will be our final appearance for this season. We are preparing Thomas Goodall’s “The Lord is My Shepherd” (theme from the BBC series “The Vicar of Dibley”) and a song entitled “Alleluia” by Erik Gustafson, composed in honor of Boston Strong and premiered last month at the Boston Marathon Bombing Anniversary service in Boston. Please join our rehearsals at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 1 and June 8.
Registration closes this Sunday, March 23 for the St. John’s Easter Youth Choir. Children in grades 1-8 are invited to participate in this choir that will sing at the 9:00 AM Family Mass on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014. High School Assistants are welcome. There are 5 rehearsals: March 16, March 23, March 30, April 4, and April 13. All rehearsals are from 10:50-11:50am in the Chapel.
