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bigmacbear) wrote2003-01-21 03:53 pm
bigmacbear) wrote2003-01-21 03:53 pm
Boston Mass
Just thought I'd write about this past weekend in Boston, where I sang for the Ordination and Consecration of Rev. (now Right Rev.) Gayle Harris, former rector of St. Luke & St. Simon Cyrene Episcopal Church (which is where Dignity-Integrity/Rochester meets) as Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts (what Catholics would call an "auxiliary bishop"). Her cousin is the Mayor of Rochester, William Johnson, and he also attended the ceremony. Here is an article about the service.
As it happens, we formed a very large choir between the diocesan choir of Massachusetts; the Rochester choir consisting of representatives of the choirs of St. Luke & St. Simon's, St. Luke's in Fairport (where Bishop Gayle's husband, Rev. Peter Peters, remains rector until his expected retirement in June), and D-I; and a choir of monks from the Society of St. Joseph (yes, the Episcopalians even have monks, a fact of which I wasn't previously aware).
The Boston Mass lasted about 3-1/2 hours, and we got to do a lot of singing, including "We Are the Body of Christ", a hymn commissioned for D-I's twentieth anniversary in 1995, and a setting of "Sing To the Lord a New Song" which was commissioned for the consecration of the current Diocesan Bishop of Massachusetts and which is a very challenging work to sing (imagine Basses on a high E flat above the bass staff).
The downside of the trip is that, rather than merely blowing out my voice with all that singing as I'd first suspected, instead I have aggravated a sinus infection I seem to have had since Thanksgiving. I am now on decongestants and antibiotics, and have been advised to stay home from work for at least 48 hours.
Ah well, these things happen.
As it happens, we formed a very large choir between the diocesan choir of Massachusetts; the Rochester choir consisting of representatives of the choirs of St. Luke & St. Simon's, St. Luke's in Fairport (where Bishop Gayle's husband, Rev. Peter Peters, remains rector until his expected retirement in June), and D-I; and a choir of monks from the Society of St. Joseph (yes, the Episcopalians even have monks, a fact of which I wasn't previously aware).
The Boston Mass lasted about 3-1/2 hours, and we got to do a lot of singing, including "We Are the Body of Christ", a hymn commissioned for D-I's twentieth anniversary in 1995, and a setting of "Sing To the Lord a New Song" which was commissioned for the consecration of the current Diocesan Bishop of Massachusetts and which is a very challenging work to sing (imagine Basses on a high E flat above the bass staff).
The downside of the trip is that, rather than merely blowing out my voice with all that singing as I'd first suspected, instead I have aggravated a sinus infection I seem to have had since Thanksgiving. I am now on decongestants and antibiotics, and have been advised to stay home from work for at least 48 hours.
Ah well, these things happen.