We are again collecting snacks for the students of Fairmount Elementary. About 80% of the children get help with lunch, but their families can't buy snacks to help them through the afternoon slump. That's where we come in. We are now collecting boxes of Teddy Grahams. Please bring your donations to the Little Red House in the Fellowship Hallway to help our young friends at Fairmount pay attention in class on fall afternoons. Thank you!

	Antonio Vivaldi

Sunday's music: This week the choir anthem is "Sing to the Lord," composed by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 -1741) and arranged by Hal Hopson. One of the most popular and enduring Italian composers of the Baroque era, Vivaldi was a virtuosic violinist who was instrumental in the development of the concerto. His set of four, The Four Seasons, is his most famous work today. His most popular choral composition is the cantata Gloria, which the FPC choir performed last year. For much of his life, Vivaldi was employed by a girls' orphanage in Venice. In that time, boys' orphanages trained boys for skilled trades, and girls' houses trained girls for musical performance. This job provided Vivaldi motivation and resources to compose many works that showcased the talents of the girls at the orphanage, including many choral and staged works for treble voices. He was also a prolific composer of opera and gained success in that genre for a time, although his operatic works were never regarded as highly as that of his contemporary Alessandro Scarlatti. Towards the end of his life, Vivaldi fell somewhat out of favor in Italy and moved to Vienna upon gaining the attention of Emperor Charles VI. Shortly after he moved, the emperor died, and Vivaldi died not long after. As was so common with the great classical composers, Vivaldi struggled in his final years with little to no fortune and was buried in a common grave.

Organist's footnotes: With Hurricane Dorian in the news, I half-joked with a friend of mine in Florida that I was planning to play music written in Dorian mode. Dorian mode is what you get if you play a scale using the white keys on the piano, beginning and ending on D. My search for Dorian organ music turned up several intriguing possibilities. I decided to focus on one work, a setting of four pieces based on the ancient Latin chant "Ave Maris Stella" ("Hail, Star of the Sea") and composed by the French Baroque organist Nicolas de Grigny (1672 -1703). I will play the first two pieces for the prelude, the third piece for the offertory, and the fourth piece for the postlude.

Grigny was born in Reims to a musical family. He studied organ with the renowned Nicolas Lebègue, organist to the king, and in 1693 was appointed organist at the abbey church of St. Denis, just north of Paris. In 1695 he married Marie-Magdeleine de France, daughter of a prosperous merchant. Despite his success in Paris, he and his family soon returned to Reims. His only publication, the Premier livre d'orgue (1699), so impressed J.S. Bach that he transcribed it for his own use. He died at the age of 31, leaving his wife and seven children.

	Charles Fisk in 1980.

I had the good fortune to be introduced to Grigny's music by my organ teacher, J. Melvin Butler, who at the time was Organist/Music Director at Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York. DUPC had just received the last organ personally tonal-finished by Charles Fisk, the famous organ builder, before his death. Fisk had been an engineer on the Manhattan Project during WWII. Wanting to devote the rest of his life to technology that could never be used for hostile purposes, he chose the organ-building business. His Opus 83 in Rochester is a gem of an instrument, full of exactly the right kind of specialized stops that Grigny's score calls for, making his music come alive and a joy to play.

Sunday, September 8

9:00 a.m.       Worship, Fellowship Hall

10:10 a.m.     Sunday School

10:30 a.m.     Sanctuary Choir, Room 202

11:00 a.m.     Worship, Sanctuary

6:00 p.m.       Student Fellowship

Monday, September 9

7:00 p.m.       Building & Grounds Comm., Room 117

7:00 p.m.       Worship Comm., Room 123

Tuesday, September 10

10:00 a.m.     Staff Meeting, Room 117

10:00 a.m.     Morning Prayer Group, Conf. Room

6:00 p.m.       Venture Crew 3, Room 165

7:00 p.m.       Boy Scout Troop 3, Scout Wing

Wednesday, September 11

4:00 p.m.       Finance Comm., Room 117

5:15 p.m.       Baby & Toddler Care, Rooms 34 - 37

5:30 p.m.       Fellowship Dinner, Fellowship Hall

6:00 p.m.       Wednesday Night Kids

6:00 p.m.       Middle School Gathering

6:00 p.m.       High School Small Groups

6:15 p.m.       Adult Enrichment

6:15 p.m.       Handbell Practice, Room 212

7:15 p.m.       Sanctuary Choir, Room 202

7:15 p.m.       Worship Team, Fellowship Hall

Thursday, September 12

7:00 a.m.       Men's Bible Study, Parlor

8:30 a.m.       Meals on Wheels, Fellowship Hall

12:00 p.m.     Noon Bible Study, Room 117

4:30 p.m.       Human Resources Comm., Room 117

6:30 p.m.       Scout Order of the Arrow, Scout Hall

Church Officers
Class of 2019	Class of 2020	Class of 2021
ELDERS
Anna Booher	Nancy Allerton	Ann Abel
Lee Galliher	Rebecca Beck	Randy Cook
Pete Holler	David Hyde	John Graham
Han Ong	Jordan Pennington	Katie McInnis
Pete Stigers	Jerry Poteat	John Vann
DEACONS
Sujean Bradley	Blake Bassett	Fred Harkleroad
George Linke	Rhonda Comer	Matt Kingsley
Greg Roberts	Ron Fox	Lisa McClain
Nate Sproles	Brenda Lawson	Drew Rice
Bill Whisnant	Barbara Thompson	Joyce Samuel
TRUSTEES
Nancy Cook	Peggy Hill	Jack Butterworth