Choir & Guest Musician Schedule
Choir rehearses on Sunday at 9 AM in the sanctuary and sings at the 10 AM worship service. No ongoing commitment required - sing when it works for you!
November 16
"Over In the Glory Land" by Dean & Acuff
Bluegrass | Easy: Beginning music-reading skills would help you learn this in our single rehearsal, especially if you've looked at the music, and listened to the recordings.
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Glory Land | Audio of our arrangement
Glory Land | YouTube video of Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys; similar but not the same as our arrangement
Glory Land | Audio of women's parts: all women sing all the time, in unison when just 1 part
Glory Land | Audio of men's parts: all men sing all the time, in unison when just 1 part
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Local bluegrass group The Rounder Circle (Hilary Nelson, Thomas Hatcher, Kyla Kent and Ilan Ladabaum) will be our guest musicians.
November 23
"Grant Us Thy Peace" by Mendelssohn
Classical | Easy: Beginning music-reading skills would help you learn this in our single rehearsal, especially if you've looked at the music, and listened to the recordings.
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Grant Us Thy Peace | Audio of a good high school choir; we'll sing it slightly faster, with less rubato
Grant Us Thy Peace | Audio of vocal parts (no accompaniment)
Grant Us Thy Peace | Audio of women's parts
Grant Us Thy Peace | Audio of men's parts
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We welcome back Jef Caers as our guest musician. Jef is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Stanford. He holds a PhD in applied statistics. He studied at the Performing Arts Academy in Belgium, his birth country. He has been playing and performing flute for 40 years and regularly performs in San Francisco. He especially enjoys Bach and the romantic repertoire.
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November 30
"Watchman, Tell Us of the Night" by Dean & Acuff
Classical | Easy: Beginning music-reading skills would help you learn this in our single rehearsal, especially if you've looked at the music, and listened to the recordings.
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Celtic Moon is Verlene Schermer and Barbary Grant; they play Celtic-inspired music from many genres, including traditional folk, rock, and movie soundtracks. Verlene plays harp, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, nyckelharpa, tenor banjo, and concertina. Barbary plays harp, melodica, piano, cello, button accordion, mountain dulcimer, and ukulele. Both are polished singers, blending their voices in stunning harmonies.
December 7
"O Day of Peace" by Parry
Classical | Intermediate: Fair music-reading skills would help you learn this in our single rehearsal, especially if you've looked at the music, and listened to the recordings.
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O Day of Peace | Audio all parts + accompaniment
​O Day of Peace | Audio women
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Emily is currently the Soprano 1 section leader of the Peninsula Women's Chorus and a Soprano 2 with The Stanford Early Music Singers. A classically trained pianist, she has also sung with the California Bach Society, Convivium Chamber Choir, and the Rice Philharmonics, the latter of which she is a co-founder. When not singing or composing music, she keeps busy writing poetry, lyrics, and stories for audiences of all ages and organizing events for children's book creators.