Before mass last week, Jonathan and I met to plan rehearsal, discuss Choir affairs, and look over the songs selected for the next three weeks. Specifically, we reviewed several pieces for two weeks out, 'God Has Chosen Me' and 'Proclaim to All the Nations'. We also discussed taking 'Go Light Your World' up a half-step to make it easier to sing.UPDATE (10/7): several pieces that we started work on/discussed last week (namely, 'God Has Chosen Me', 'Go Light Your World', 'Bring Forth the Kingdom', and 'City of God') were nixed per Father's request. I'll try to reprogram these for a later date.
Mass seemed to go pretty smoothly considering we only had a handful of people. Nice job, all!
We ended up making some changes to the arrangement of 'Pan de Vida' after accidentally hitting on the idea of slowing down the extended intro considerably and then speeding the tempo back up before the voices come in. In light of this and how long Communion has taken the past few weeks, we will likely not need to go into 'Lord, When You Came' as a second Communion song.
After mass, Ginny, Lisa K., and I relocated to the Chapel to practice, as the choir section was being used for a different rehearsal. We worked on the harmonies for 'God Has Chosen Me' and also reviewed 'Proclaim to All the Nations'
The music for the remainder of October has been sent to the Office
Joe & Barry are out this week.
There will be rehearsal after mass from 6:30-8:00 PM.
Here are the songs for Saturday:
Gathering:
SS 163 - Table of Plenty (vs 1-2)
Glory to God:
Mass of Creation
Response (Jaclyn):
SS 59 - Shepherd Me, O God (Psalm 23)
Gospel Acclamation:
Mass of Creation
Offertory:
GC 638 - Eye Has Not Seen
Holy, Holy, Holy:
Mass of Creation
Eucharistic Acclamation:
Mass of Creation
Eucharistic Doxology:
Mass of Creation
Lamb of God:
Mass of Creation
Communion:
GC 848 - Pan de Vida
GC 696 - Lord, When You Came
Sending:
SS 163 - Table of Plenty (vs 3-4)
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