First
Unitarian New Choir Member Guide - Service Particulars
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| Item |
Where |
What/When |
Comments |
Thursday
Choir Rehearsals
Wall portraits
of previous ministers look on to make sure our diction is correct
|
Bancroft
Room
|
Most
Thursday nights
7:30 - 9pm |
|
| Sunday
Choir Warm-up |
Meet:
Choir
loft, sanctuary
|
Sundays
prior to service
9-10:00am |
Choir
sings typically 3 out of 4 Sundays each month; Easiest to get your robe
ahead |
Prelude/Announcements/
Musical Interlude
|
Collect
in the front narthex (be there by 10:30ish after having coffee break and socializing)
|
prepare
for introit |
|
Choral
Introit
In narthex, a cappella |
Front
hallway
|
After
candlelighter speaks, pitch pipe will sound the tonic of the key, someone
will direct "from above" |
typically
no organ accpt involvement |
Doxology
Lining Up in Narthex, enter for Dox.
Doxology
from the back of sanctuary |
During
covenant, file in to the back of the sanctuary
|
Sing
Doxology with congregation, including Amen |
|
Processional
Hymn
In Center Aisle during introduction
2nd verse, split left & right
Continuing in balcony |
During organ
introduction, file out into the center aisle, 2 at a time, spacing yourselves
approximately 2 pews apart.
|
Begin
processing as prescribed by the organist's prior instructions. During the
introduction, process in pairs up to the front row (down the center aisle)
and stop, typically sing the first verse stopped in the aisle. At the beginning
of the second verse, resume processing (right foot leads) and split to turn
right right or left and proceed up the spiral stairs. Once in the balcony,
head along the side to the choir loft and find your seat, remain standing
until after the hymn. |
Help keep
the tempos brisk.
Sometimes
the tenors and sopranos will have a descant to sing on the last verse
(and/or an altered last few notes of the last verse).
We generally
sing A-mens if they're printed in the score.
Sing unison
on the first and last verses, and 4 parts on the inner verses. |
| LP
Amen |
"forever
and ever Amen" remain seated |
Chord
from the organ and begin singing 2 beats after the notes are given (there'll
be no pause in the organ's chord, it'll fade away once you start singing) |
|
| Ushers
traveling music |
"will
the ushers come forward"
Choir stands
at the direction of the organist |
|
Hopefully
organist remembers to give you the cue to stand while the ushers are
coming forward |
| Offertory
Anthem |
Choir
is standing |
Anthem
begins immediately after the minister's sentences |
|
| Anthem
|
Choir
is standing |
|
|
| Choral
benediction ("outtroit") |
|
chord
from organ to give notes |
|
| Postlude |
Choir
is dismissed but can linger if interested |
Please
return robes to hangers and pass in music to the top of the organ console |
|
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Typical
Order of Service
(choir
involvement in red)
Please ask the usher about hearing amplifiers
For those whose young children are unable to be quiet during worship:
- The service is broadcast in the Bancroft Room
and on to the hearing amplifiers in the Narthex.
- Child care is available in the Nursery downstairs
SUNDAY May 00, 1900 10:30 A.M.
"Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." YODA
PRE-PRELUDE "Prelude
and Fugue in b minor" J.S.
Bach
CONGREGATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS DAVID RYNICK
ORGAN PRELUDE Air,
from Orchestral Suite in D J.S. Bach
CANDLELIGHTER
CHORAL INTROIT [choir
is in narthex]
CALL TO WORSHIP
*COVENANT
In the love of truth and in the spirit of Jesus
We unite for the worship of God and the service of all.
*DOXOLOGY
*RESPONSIVE READING 530 (gray)
*HYMN
203 (gray) "All Creatures of the Earth and Sky" WILLIAMS
BELOVED COMMUNITY REV. BARBARA MERRITT
(Children in the 4th grade and younger,
and their teachers, may go to their classes)
COMMON PRAYER (insert) ROBERT
MERRITT
SILENT MEDITATION
THE LORD'S PRAYER
CHORAL AMEN
OFFERTORY ANTHEM
BIBLE READING Proberbs 4:7-16, 18-21,
26-27
ANTHEM
READING
*HYMN 295 (gray) "Sing
Out Praises for the Journey" WESTMINSTER ABBEY
SERMON
*HYMN 302 (gray) "Children
of the Human Race" SERVETUS
*BENEDICTION TOM OLLILA
CHORAL BENEDICTION
ORGAN POSTLUDE Toccata LOUIS
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Reverend Thomas Schade, Associate Minister
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Mirick, Religious Education Director
Will
Sherwood, AAGO, ChM, Director of Music & Organist
Justine
Beaudoin,
Moderator
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T. Gurney, Jerry Bellows, Music Committee Co-Chairs
