From the Interim Choirmaster & Organist
Dear Friends,
I hope that this summer season has been restorative and fruitful after having endured the many challenges and hurdles of this past year. I hope, too, that music has been, or will be playing some role perhaps amidst your travels and/or amidst cherished time with family and friends in this warm and beautiful season. Over the past couple of months, it has, and continues to be my greatest hope that we will be permitted to resume a more normal choral season in the Fall. I envision this to consist of welcoming back after Labor Day, with a warm and long-awaited embrace, the Epiphany Adult Choir, formed of section leaders and volunteers, with optional use of face masks. It would consist also of providing an opportunity for some of our younger ones to participate once again in a choral setting, with rehearsals resuming some time in early October. News of the recent COVID-19 variants has been anything but reassuring to our plans. We will need to remain vigilant in monitoring the effects of these virus variants, and this may require flexibility not on our terms, but on those given us. Furthermore, this may urge us to make decisions that favor the health and safety of all parishioners. Even as you are reading this, we will have been experiencing such effects even now, as we will have returned to wearing masks on Sunday mornings. I know, however, that despite such setbacks, we will urge forward together, with hope, in producing and participating in music of the highest quality of which we are capable no matter the current circumstances or restrictions of those which fate allows. We made it through last year through God’s grace, and it was so affirming to witness the power that music had in uniting us in prayer, even if that meant through ways previously unimaginable, through singing to the internet waves over Zoom, and listening to other portions of the liturgy through the capacity of our computer or iPhone speakers. Over the next few weeks, things should hopefully become somewhat clearer for us, and plans for the choral season become more concrete. Until then, and as we wait, I encourage you, with me, to heed the confident words of the dearly well-known hymn, “Wondrous Love,” which affirm, “And when from death I’m free I’ll sing and joyful be, and through eternity I’ll sing on.”
Yours sincerely,
Jeremy Jelinek
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