Give Me Beauty

The WBUUC Adult Choir
Thaxter Cunio, conductor
Carol Caouette, pianist

1. Come Into This Place Of Peace by Thaxter Cunio with David Heath and Jake Kurth, trumpets
   
2. Minimalist Responses with Mystical Texts by Thaxter Cunio
   Be Here Now
   Why Are We Here? (Kabir)
   Be A Light Unto Yourself (Buddha)
   Carried By The Wind (Ojibway)
   Remember (Pawnee)
   Tree (Australian Aboriginal) with David Heath, Digireedoo
   Present Moment, Wonderful Moment (Thich Nhat Hanh)
   Let Nothing Upset You (Teresa of Ávila)
   Shalom
   This Is It (James Broughton)
   
3. Covenant by Carol Caouette
   
4. Share Your Truth by David Heath
   
5. If There Is To Be Peace by David Heath with Russell Dedrick, flute
   
6. The Path You Walk Upon by Cathy Dalton with Margaret Humphrey, violin
   
7. Give Me Beauty (Prayer of Socrates) by Richard Paul Berry
   
8. Songs Eternity poem by John Clare; music by David L. Brunner
   
9. Let Me Walk In Beauty (In Memory of Betty Jo Perlich) by Thaxter Cunio
   
10. Remember (In Memory of Mike Poole) music by Dale Grotenhuis; words by Christina Rossetti
    
11. Take Care Of This House by Leonard Bernstein
    
12. Ubi Caritas by Maurice Durufle
    
13. Gate Gate by Brian Tate
    
14. In Remembrance by Eleanor Daley
    
15. Dedication by Andy Beck
    

16. Haba Na Haba by Jerry Estes with the Northern Lights Children¹s Choir, Russell Packard and Cathy Dalton, directors and Mitch Leppicello, drum
    
17. Where Is The Light? by Peter Mayer (choral arrangement by Thaxter Cunio)
    

The choir's 2003 CD Who Will Give Me Wings is also on sale now at the church for $15. All proceeds from the sale of the CD go to WBUUC. Pick up your copy today.  Listen to a sample above.  

Who Will Give Me Wings

"You sing your song in your own key, in your own beautiful voice, and the cosmos listens, reverently." From Walking Toward Morning by Victoria Safford

1. My Lord, What a Mornin'
2. Yonder, Come Day
3. Shenandoah
4. Movin'
5. Every Night When the Sun Goes In
6. I'm Gonna Sing!
7. Mi Yitneni Of (Who Will Give Me Wings)
8. New River Train
9. All My Trials
10. I've Got My Ticket!
11. Deep River
12. Arirang
13. Wade In the Water
14. Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
15. Oh, Sinner Man
16. Kwa Heri

MUSIC NOTES

"Let us at all costs preserve this magic peculiar to music, since of all the arts it is most susceptible to magic." Claude Debussy

A truly magical year of music making!

Thank you to guest musicians Justin Roth, Bryan Wood, Ann Reed, Michael Antonello and Peter Arnstein.  

Thank you to featured musicians Peter Mayer*, Elliot Wilcox, Margaret Humphrey, Christopher Williams, Joe & Roxy Cruz, David Heath, Carol Caouette, Russell Dedrick, Charlie Hammond, Dan Zeddies, Lisa Wersal, Mark Kotz, Mary Duncan, Nanc MacLeslie, Nita Gilbert, Dick Rogers, Russell Dedrick, Gloria Ferguson, Robin Partch, Will Swanson, Solveig Sem, John Paquette & Barb Flo, and the Northern Lights Children¹s Choir under the direction of Russell Packard.

* Also thanks to Peter Mayer for his dedication song "Church of the Earth" for our new sanctuary.

Thank you to all Music Sunday participants and major kudos to our Master of Ceremonies Steve "Pastor Wilbur Mercer" Goranson.

A very special thanks to our wonderful staff pianists, Carol Caouette and Mary Duncan, for keeping us together on hymns for all Sundays and providing great musical collaborations with our wonderful in-house talent.

And finally, a big thanks to our Adult Choir for supplying great choral works for 38 services plus a Hymn Sing and two Chanting Sundays.

First choir rehearsal for Fall - Wednesday, September 3rd - 6:00 to 7:15 p.m.

I wish you all a happy and musical summer.

Yours in Music,

thaxter

Music for June

Come into this place which we make holy by our presence.  Come in with all of your vulnerabilities and strengths, fears and anxieties, loves and hopes.  For here you need not hide, not pretend, nor be anything other than who you are and who you are called to be.

Come into this place where we can touch and be touched, heal and be healed, forgive and be forgiven. Come into this place where the ordinary is sanctified, the human is celebrated, the compassionate is expected.Come into this place, together we make it a holy place.
-Rebecca Edmiston-Lange