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Feb. 8th, 2009 07:32 pmI don't think I should be as tired as I am right now, but it has been kind of a packed day.
We had an early call, 9:15, for UChoir this morning. Unfortunately our bus was delayed and apparently Marsh Chapel's choir had arrived by the time we were able to leave for BU. Their service was interestingly different -- apparently because of the NPR station they consider their audience to be as much the radio as the live congregation, which is not the case at MemChurch. So the service had to fit in a 1-hour timeslot, and given the amount of random service music compared to Harvard's service, the pace of the whole thing felt a lot faster. There was also a marked effort to avoid silence -- it seemed like at every point in the service either someone was talking or at the least there was soft organ music. However, the Dean of the chapel preached a comparatively short and very focused sermon, which I must admit I prefer to the often somewhat long-winded ones Rev. Prof. Gomes often gives. Today was no exception; we actually arrived back at Harvard just as the MemChurch service was ending.
A few minutes and then we were back on a bus to Wellesley, where a former seminarian at MemChurch and Harvard Div School graduate was being ordained to the ministry in the United Church of Christ. Because we had gotten a later start than intended, we had to hurriedly rehearse a couple of pieces with Wellesley Congregational's choir and then hastily read through some more music we were going to do ourselves. It wasn't a bad service -- it was the first time I'd ever been to a Protestant ordination service, and the first time I'd attended a congregational (as opposed to top-down) church.
Dishwashing, practicing, and some research to follow.
We had an early call, 9:15, for UChoir this morning. Unfortunately our bus was delayed and apparently Marsh Chapel's choir had arrived by the time we were able to leave for BU. Their service was interestingly different -- apparently because of the NPR station they consider their audience to be as much the radio as the live congregation, which is not the case at MemChurch. So the service had to fit in a 1-hour timeslot, and given the amount of random service music compared to Harvard's service, the pace of the whole thing felt a lot faster. There was also a marked effort to avoid silence -- it seemed like at every point in the service either someone was talking or at the least there was soft organ music. However, the Dean of the chapel preached a comparatively short and very focused sermon, which I must admit I prefer to the often somewhat long-winded ones Rev. Prof. Gomes often gives. Today was no exception; we actually arrived back at Harvard just as the MemChurch service was ending.
A few minutes and then we were back on a bus to Wellesley, where a former seminarian at MemChurch and Harvard Div School graduate was being ordained to the ministry in the United Church of Christ. Because we had gotten a later start than intended, we had to hurriedly rehearse a couple of pieces with Wellesley Congregational's choir and then hastily read through some more music we were going to do ourselves. It wasn't a bad service -- it was the first time I'd ever been to a Protestant ordination service, and the first time I'd attended a congregational (as opposed to top-down) church.
Dishwashing, practicing, and some research to follow.
