Sharing music by queer composers of other times in this Sunday’s Gathering Music and Offertory. Read on for programming details. Gathering Music: Adam Kent, pianoSuite Française ~ Francis PoulencI. Bransle de Bourgogne II. Pavane III. Petite Marche Militaire IV. Complainte V. Bransle de Champagne VI. Sicilienne VII. Carillon Offertory:November, Op. 37, No. 11 “In the …
Take a deep breath before we’re swept up by the waves of change… Read on for programming details. Gathering Music: Adam Kent, piano“Waves” from Poems of the Sea ~ Ernst BlochPrelude in Db Major, Op. 28, No. 15 “Raindrop” ~ Frederic Chopin Offertory:Luminosidad de aguas ~ Adolfo Mejía Meditation Music: CUUC ChoirI’ll Walk You Through …
Diverse music this morning to join in our denomination-wide Climate Justice Revival celebration! A few Gospel numbers and a nature-inspired piano work by Unitarian composer Edvard Grieg set the tone in Sunday’s Gathering Music. The CUUC Choir is on hand with Joshua Long and Nicole Rumeau’s “We Are Earth,” and feel free to sing along …
Transformations of various sorts are on tap for Sunday morning’s solo piano selections. From Beethoven is a set of evolving transformations of a tenderly simple theme from his Piano Sonata No. 12. The musical Hair celebrated a culture of change and turmoil in the late 1960s, and the Beatles took a wry look at personal …
Trying something new this Sunday morning! Come on down to the piano to try out some hymns as we gather! This is a chance to get to know some treasures from our hymnals we don’t trot out very often… Gathering Music: Adam Kent, piano Hymns:#52, In Sweet Fields of Autumn#10, Immortal Love#11, O God of …
Gathering Music: Adam Kent, pianoPolonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61 ~ Frederic Chopin Choral Introit: CUUC Choir directed by Lisa N. Meyer and accompanied by Georgianna Pappas, Pamela Sklar, fluteFlying Free ~ Don Besig Offertory:Largo e dolce from Sonata for Flute and Keyboard in B Minor ~ J. S. Bach Meditation:Fly Away Home ~ Pinkzebra – Choir Music …
Creative chaos in music this morning at CUUC! In the Gathering Music one of Beethoven’s wildly experimental Bagatelles, a piece which swings and groves like Ragtime before Ragtime, followed by Margaret Bonds’ version of the Spiritual “Wade in the Water.” In this morning’s Offertory, French composer Darius Milhaud recalls his stay in Brazil by overthrowing …
¿Where in the world is Adam going this summer….? Read on for programming details and stay tuned for answers…. Gathering Music: Adam Kent, pianoCórdoba from Cantos de EspañaTriana from Iberia, Book II ~ Isaac Albéniz Choral Introit: CUUC ChoirTurn the World Around ~ Harry Belafonte, arr. Mark HayesKathy Williams and Janet Bear, soloistsThe CUUC Choir …
LGBTQ+ Pride Month gets off to a musical start at CUUC with works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Francis Poulenc, and Samuel Barber, composers from historical periods where social opprobrium, professional censure, familial rejection, and religious alienation often impacted gay and lesbian people. This Sunday’s Offertory serves up a classic bossa nova tune, which invites us …
Music from Spain and South America this Sunday, for a congregation poised for its next tango. Read on for programming details. Gathering Music: Adam Kent, piano“Preludio” from Hispania, Op. 4 ~ Pedro BlancoRondeña from Iberia, Book II ~ Isaac Albéniz Meditation:Tangamerican ~ Margaret Bonds Offertory:Tango in D ~ Isaac Albéniz Postlude:“One Note Samba” ~ Carlos …