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!
February 8
Joyful Noise Handbell Choir will play. No singing choir today.
February 15
"Climb Every Mountain" by Rogers & Hammerstein
Broadway | 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 recording.
Emily Jiang returns as our guest vocalist. 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.
February 22
"Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley" (traditional)
Folk | 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 recording.
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Music note
Sopranos and altos are both on the top line starting page 3; when parts split, sopranos take the top, altos the bottom, basses the bottom
Cellist Vic Spain returns to Foothills' sanctuary on Feb. 22. Vic is an avid chamber musician and a champion of hidden gems in the repertoire for string quartet or piano trio. Vic also loves playing in the pit orchestra for operas and musicals, having played with Berkeley Opera (now West Edge Opera) and Concert Operetta Theater of Philadelphia. Vic is retired (for now?) from his career as a veterinarian, farm-animal-welfare researcher, public health epidemiologist, and certified scientific muckraker. When he's not playing music, you may find Vic hiking or backpacking in the Sierra Nevada wilderness.
March 1
"O Bless the Lord, My Soul" by Bizet, arr. Hopson
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 recording.
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Music notes
This piece is based on "Au Fond du Temple Saint' from Bizet's 'The Pearl Fishers'.
Women sing part 1 (down an octave if too high), men sing part 2 (no one sings parts 3).
The audio recording starts in measure 3 and doesn't include the repeat in measures 17-28 which we'll sing.
We welcome back Albert Sammons, Jr. as our guest vocalist. Albert has been singing for over 60 years. He is a bass-baritone with a love for singing Negro/Black spirituals. Albert says, “I’m honored to be asked to sing at Foothills. I’m a chorister at heart. Singing is my joy.”
March 8
Joyful Noise Handbell Choir will play. No singing choir today.