by Music Director David Brown
It’s time for musicians (and aspiring musicians) of all ages and experience levels to join together in one of MLUC’s most beloved traditions. If you would like to sing in the Multigenerational Choir or play in the Community Orchestra, please join us for our rehearsal this Sunday Nov. 9 at 11:30 a.m., after the service in the Main Meeting Room. We will be preparing for our Thanksgiving Bread Communion Service on Sunday, Nov. 23. There will be another rehearsal next Sunday, Nov. 16 at the same time, and a warmup at 9 a.m. before the service on Nov. 23.
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.
Introducing a month of gratitude, this week, we reflect on collaborative gratitude, wherein Jodie and I will have a musical conversation from the piano and violin. The four movements of Luigi Dallapiccola’s “Tartiniana Seconda” (1956)—his second fantasy in the style of Baroque composer Giuseppe Tartini—are written so that the violin and piano are always playing exactly the same notes, but never the same way. Sometimes the violin plays the melody, then the piano accompanies by playing that same melody backwards. One of us is rightside-up . . . while concurrently, the other plays the same part inverted (upside-down). On the surface, what we say sounds different; but listen closely, and you’ll find that we’re always saying the same thing. And in collaboration, beautiful music is always the result.
Together, we will sing hymns #346: “Come Sing a Song with Me” and “Hajnalcsillag” (“Morning Star”), my original song about partnership, dedicated to our partner congregation in Várfalva.