Much wonderful music is on tap for the first Bach at Noon, this coming Tuesday, September, 13th, beginning at 12:10 at Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem.  Savvy attendees know to arrive very early to get a good seat – we frequently have near-capacity audiences.  We kick off the season of Bethlehem performances with a concert… Continue Reading »

I imagine that members of The Choir are slowly emerging from what I hope was a long night’s sleep – though I know at least one of us was singing at a Bar Mitzvah this morning.  Our participation in yesterday’s events is surely one of the high points of my participation in The Choir, thus… Continue Reading »

6:11 am: Sleepy singers have assembled for breakfast in advance of our first rehearsal at 7:30 am at Trinity. The coffee is flowing! 7:04 am: We’ve arrived at Trinity. Partly cloudy, but otherwise beautiful Manhattan morning. 10:21 am: We just finished a LONG, but very good, rehearsal. A lot of beautiful music on the program,… Continue Reading »

We had our final rehearsal before the NYC trip this evening.  We sang through several pieces and put a final coat of polish on our repertoire for the trip.  Tonight we rest, tomorrow we journey to the city, and we’ll begin Friday morning with a 7:30 am rehearsal at Trinity Wall Street.  The schedule for… Continue Reading »

The Choir had an excellent rehearsal on Wednesday evening; our second-to-last before our journey into Manhattan for Trinity Church Wall Street’s commemoration of the September 11th tragedy.  Trinity Church’s connection to 9/11 runs very deep, not only for its proximity to Ground Zero, but also in the evolving role it played after the tragedy.  There… Continue Reading »