The Youth Choir Allstate Evensong at St. Paul’s Pawtucket was a great experience in fellowship, sharing our faith and joining our voices in prayer and praise with others from Rhode Island and with the visiting choristers from Washington, DC. We had the opportunity of working with guest conductor Ben Hutto, who conducts the Girls Choir at the National Cathedral. All who attended were inspired by the many voices. If you missed it, there is always next year! We are indeed part of a larger fabric, and it was fulfilling to “rejoice with those who rejoice.”

Thank you, Rozanne Fuller and Nancy Sherman, for sharing your dedicated talents, preparing our choristers to take part in that service. They will be also be singing for Pentecost Sunday (Mother’s Day) May 11, Youth Sunday May 18 and our finale concert May 29 at 4:15. Everyone is invited to attend our concert at St. Elizabeth Home May 29. Afterward we will have our annual ICE CREAM PARTY at the Hilltop Creamery. Thank you, parents, for supporting your children in their commitment and participation in this important ministry throughout the year!

The Parish Choir will be singing the florid “Magnificat” of Dietrich Buxtehude with strings and organ at the Old Narragansett Church May 18 at 7 pm. Buxtehude’s setting of this familiar text, with its stirring dance rhythms and flowing melismas, brings the listener into active meditation. One senses from this piece why Bach esteemed the elder master Buxtehude enough to make his famous 200-mile journey on foot to study with him.

We were blessed with a warm day on April 5 when I gave a historical “tour” and demonstration of the ”Purcell” organ at the Old Narragansett Church. Thank you to everyone who came out from the community and to Tim Cranston, Natalie Hamlin and Jane Rawlings for your informative talks.

Peace,