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Choir Schedule:
February 20: 6:15 pm, Brown Bag setup; 6:30 eat; 7:15 clean-up; 7:30 pm rehearsal
This week we will rehearse Choose Something Like a Star, and Steal Away by Paul Lewis​
February 27: 7:30 pm rehearsal
Choose Something Like a Star, Discovery, and Steal Away.
March 1: 9:00 am rehearsal, 10:00 am performance

Choose Something Like a Star by Randall Thompson


Brown Bag dinners: This is an informal way to get to know one another.  It is purely voluntary with no obligation to attend. As the term “Brown Bag” implies, everyone brings their own eats. A few, on occasion when the spirit moves, bring something to share, i.e. wine, nibbles, cookies, etc. but not required.

The remainder of the choir schedule follows the videos.


Here's a collection of amazing photos from Hubble by dgemini2 .
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I thought it was a perfect companion to this deeply moving setting of a Robert Frost poem. I always come back to this piece when I need a little perspective. Performed by the New York Choral Society with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Richard Auldon Clark, from the album "The Testament Of Freedom/Frostiana" on Koch International. *


CHOOSE SOMETHING LIKE A STAR by Robert Frost O Star (the fairest one in sight), We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of cloud- It will not do to say of night, Since dark is what brings out your light. Some mystery becomes the proud. But to be wholly taciturn In your reserve is not allowed. Say something to us we can learn By heart and when alone repeat. Say something! And it says 'I burn.' But say with what degree of heat. Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade. Use language we can comprehend. Tell us what elements you blend. It gives us strangely little aid, But does tell something in the end. And steadfast as Keats' Eremite, Not even stooping from its sphere, It asks a little of us here. It asks of us a certain height, So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

A comment by ahhoohphhtehh2  3 years ago My college choir had the honor of performing this in Dr. Thompson's presence in 1983. I was so choked up that I could barely get through it. At the conclusion, Dr. Thompson told a story about the premier in 1959 where Frost himself stood up and growled, "Play it again!" Then he turned to us with a big smile and said, "To quote Robert Frost... 'play it again!'"  Afterwards, I came to his seat to get his autograph - and HE thanked ME profusely for asking for it.  What a humble, gentle, good man he was.  Now, almost thirty five years later, hearing this performance and typing this comment, I'm welling up with tears all over again. Thank you, Dr. Thompson.dgemini2dgemini2

​Looks like we should take the cover off the piano and give Don a little help:

Choir Schedule:
Thursday evening: rehearsal
Every other Sunday: rehearsal and performances


Brown Bag dinners: This is an informal way to get to know one another.  It is purely voluntary with no obligation to attend. As the term “Brown Bag” implies, everyone brings their own eats. A few, on occasion when the spirit moves, bring something to share, i.e. wine, nibbles, cookies, etc. but not required.  

March   5: 6:15 pm, Brown Bag setup; 6:30 eat; 7:15 clean-up; 7:30 pm rehearsal
March 12: 7:30 pm rehearsal
March 15: 9:00 am rehearsal, 10:00 am performance

March 19: 6:15 pm, Brown Bag setup; 6:30 eat; 7:15 clean-up; 7:30 pm rehearsal
March 26: 7:30 pm rehearsal
March 29: 9:00 am rehearsal, 10:00 am performance

April   2:
6:15 pm, Brown Bag setup; 6:30 eat; 7:15 clean-up; 7:30 pm rehearsal
April   9: 7:30 pm rehearsal
April 12 (Easter Sunday): 9:00 am rehearsal, 10:00 am performance

April 16: 7:30 pm rehearsal

April 19 (Earth Day Service): 9:30 am rehearsal, 10:00 am performance
​      Blue Boat Home 

April 23: 7:30 pm rehearsal
April 26: 9:30 am rehearsal, 10:30 am performance

April 30: 7:30 pm rehearsal
May   7: 7:30 pm rehearsal
May 14: 7:30 pm rehearsal

May 17: 9:30 am rehearsal, 10:30 am performance

May 21: 7:30 pm rehearsal
May 28: 7:30 pm rehearsal

May 31: 9:30 am rehearsal, 10:30 am performance

June   4: 7:30 pm rehearsal
June 11: 7:30 pm rehearsal

June 14: 9:30 am rehearsal, 10:30 am performance

Summer break until September

​The rehearsal videos above have been placed for the benefit of the choir by fellow choir member Klaus Obermeit. In gratitude for his efforts, the choir created the following video:

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