Recent things

So... I've had a chance to pick up some threads from the past. Tonight we'll go to Concert Choir rehearsal - we're working on the Verdi Requiem which we will perform January 10-11. Yesterday we saw a showing of a PBS documentary, Defiant Requiem, which portrays a performance of the Verdi Requiem in 1944 by Jewish inmates at Theresienstadt concentration camp. It was a powerful and very sobering film, and undoubtedly will shape our experience of singing it.

Tomorrow will be a wood stacking day - I hope we can get everything under cover before snow arrives on Wednesday. Thursday we're scheduled to have Thanksgiving with John and Cynthia, unless a storm makes that difficult for them. Tomorrow night is a River Singers rehearsal - that concert is coming up soon - December 6 and 7. And of course Dec, 6th is Guilford Church Christmas Bazaar, for which Ellen bakes hundreds of cookies to make cookie platters to sell. Busy season is on us!

Last weekend we had a Dummerston Choir Rehearsal Retreat at Hallelujah Farm in Chesterfield, NH. It was a lovely day, we had a great time singing together, and then singing at the service yesterday.  The choir will sing December 7 and 14 and also Christmas Eve. I'll try to remember to get a photo.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!