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If you’ve never been in the Music Attic before, you should either go up the stairs in the stairwell next to the kitchen or get on the elevator in the children’s wing and turn right when the doors open. This was the second location of the choir room. The first location was about where the Gathering Room piano sits. It’s a spacious room with a wooden floor that has attic access in two places, a fire escape to the outside, two bathrooms, built-in cabinets for music storage, two rooms - one was the music office, but now houses the Hands and Heart Ministry, and the other is the Music Library. The library contains over 500 sets of octavos (anthems), collections, oratorios, orchestral scores and parts, solo music for instruments and voice, both men’s and women’s quartet and trio music, organ music, piano music, perusal music, children’s and youth octavos and musicals, recordings, hymnals from all denominations, percussion instruments, and supplies to keep up with it all. Judy Stipp has been organizing and cataloging the whole collection. We have a wealth of music up there and it keeps on growing. The Music Attic is about to get a facelift and it is an exciting prospect. The members of the buildings and grounds committee and sub-contractors with Walter Lynn facilitating are going to start work at the ceiling and improve the whole space. I am excited about what the result will be. Your faithfulness as a congregation helps us keep a fresh appearance in our church.
The next two Sundays will bring soloists – one vocal and the other instrumental. Marcia Dobbin is the mother of Kelly Hunter, who is a nursery worker. Marcia moved to the area back in the 80’s and sang with the choir under the direction of Roger Born, Grant Brown, and Glenn Pride. She moved to Florida for a while, but now she has been back in the choir for a couple of years. She will be singing one of the choir’s favorite anthems by Tom Fettke, The Majesty and Glory of Your Name that has been arranged for solo by Sandi Patty on July 16th. On the 23rd, Stacy Quiros, clarinetist, will be playing. She visits each summer and offers her talents to the church. If you remember, she brought the Whitefield Academy Jazz Band on tour to our church in 2018.
Upcoming – we will be having an old-time hymn sing this fall – Email me or write me a note and put it in my mailbox or under my office door. I’m taking requests!
Love & Gratitude,
Rhonda
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