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Summer Choir
If you are around this summer and want to sing in the choir, please join us on June 22, July 13 and August 3. All are invited to sing in the choir on these three short-commitment Sundays at the 10 AM service with a 9:00 AM rehearsal in the choir loft. All you have to do is just show up or call Rip Jackson at 775-4301 for more information.
CHILDREN OF EDEN By Stephen Schwartz
Paramount Theatre
July 24, 25, 26 7:30 PM
July 26 2:00 PM
Grace Church proudly presents Stephen Schwartz’ musical, Children of Eden at the Paramount Theatre. This exciting show brings to life on stage the stories from the book of Genesis of Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel and Noah and his family. Stephen Schwartz, composer of the music for Godspell , Pippin , Disney’s Enchanted and Wicked , wrote the music. It is based on a book by John Caird. Stage and musical direction is by Rip Jackson, with choreography by Maris Wolff of Johnson State College. Tickets ($10-$20) are available through the Paramount Theatre Box Office at 775-0903 or www.paramountlive.org . Reduced ticket prices are available. For more information please call the Church Office, 775-4301.
Kevin Ginter, Tenor, Recital
Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Kevin Ginter, an opera and music theater tenor and 2008 graduate of Castleton State College in Music Education, will be giving a Recital at Grace Congregational Church on Sunday, August 3 at 4:00 PM. The Recital will consist of songs and aria's in Italian, French, German, and English. Mr. Ginter originally began with a focus on performance in the genre of Musical Theatre. This fall he will attend the Masters of Music Performance Program at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, to pursue a career in opera. Admission to the concert is free and open to the public. For more information call the Church Office at 775-4301.
German Baroque Concert Sunday, November 4, 2007 7:00 PM Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Rip Jackson and guest musicians perform music of the Baroque era
Community Thanksgiving Service at IHM Sunday, November 18, 2007 7:00 PM Festival Choir
Handel's Messiah Sunday, December 2, 2007 3:30 and 7:00 PM Rutland Area Chorus and Orchestra with soloists
Lessons and Carols Sunday, December 9, 2007 10:00 AM Grace Church Festival Choir
Contradance January 26, 2008 5:30 Potluck supper 6:30-9:00 Dancing
A Broadway Cabaret Sunday, March 2, 2008 7:00 PM Rehearsals 1:00-4:00 PM Sundays January 13-February 24
Holy Week March 16-23, 2008 Good Friday service (March 21) Festival Choir Rehearsals 7:00-8:00 PM Wednesdays January 30-March 19
Paul Winter's Missa Gaia
Rutland Area Chorus and Orchestra Saturday, May31, 2008 7:30 PM Rehearsals 2:00-4:00 PM Sundays April 6 -May 18 and Tuesday, May 27
Children of Eden Stephen Schwartz July 24-26, 2008 Paramount Theatre
Four Shillings Short: a Celtic/World Music Duo
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Grace Church, 8 Court Street, Rutland, VT
Grace Church will present a unique and inspiring concert on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 7:30. Rooted in Celtic and American Folk and inspired by Indian Raga and Ethnic idioms, Four Shillings Short is a travelling duo with a carload of instruments. Going out on a musical limb is common for the group. With an ever-increasing array of instruments (over 20 at last count), including hammered dulcimer, a Sitar from India; a Renaissance Crumhorn, mandola & mandolin, tinwhistle & woodwinds, sitar, banjo, percussion and vocals, their music is always varied and captivating. In a single night, Four Shillings Short perform Traditional Irish tunes and airs, Indian Ragas, Folk Ballads, Old-Time songs, Medieval & Renaissance instrumentals and acappella numbers as well as contemporary folk and original compositions. Their sound has been described as "wondrously diverse", "truly refreshing" and "alternative neo-Celtic folk of the first order". Free will offering
Paul Winter's Missa Gaia
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Grace Church Sanctuary
Pre-concert music at 7:10 by Gary Meitrott’s Drum Journeys of Earth
Earth Fair and reception in Fellowship Hall after the performance
Grace Church will present a powerful performance of Paul Winter’s Missa Gaia on Saturday, May 31. This deep work, under the direction of Rip Jackson, will be a collaboration between the Rutland Area Chorus and Maris Wolff’s VT Dance Collective. Integrating world music with songs from the wild to celebrate the whole earth as a sacred space, the Missa Gaia was commissioned by the Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine as a contemporary ecumenical Mass. Paul Winter has "achieved a distinguished triumph in combining divergent music styles and imaginatively wedding voices, instrumentation and recorded sounds of a tundra wolf, canyon and musical wrens, harp seals, a flight of loons and singing humpback whales." The Eco-mission group will be running an Earth Fair in Fellowship Hall after the performance. Both local and national Earth Stewardship related groups will have displays up to inform the public about important eco-related issues. Tickets will be on sale through the office at Grace Church beginning April 28.Tickets are $15.00 for adults, $10.00 for students and senior citizens.Reduced ticket prices are available.For more information, please call the church office, 775-4301.Office hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM.
Sarah Lenfest’s Senior Organ and Piano Recital Grace Church Sanctuary Sunday, June 15 at 6:00 PM
Sarah Lenfest, a high school member of Grace Church, will perform her senior recital on Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 6:00 PM at Grace Church. The program will include Beethoven and Liszt on piano, and Bach, Messien, Franck, and Vierne on organ. Sarah has studied piano since she was five, taking lessons with Jennifer Cohen for the past twelve years. She started organ lessons with Rip Jackson three years ago. Next year she is headed to Williams College in Massachusetts, where she will study music and international relations. There is no admission charge. For more information, call 775-4301.
Sanctuary Choir (14-adult) rehearses Wednesday evenings from 7:00-9:00 PM
Tintinnabula -- Bell Choir (14-adult) rehearses Monday evenings from 7:00-8:45 PM
Children's Choirs (grades K-6) rehearse Wednesday afternoons from 4-5 PM
Soli Deo Gloria: The Life and Music of Johann Sebastian Bach Sunday, November 18, 2007
Rip Jackson, Minister of Music at Grace Church in Rutland, VT will perform a concert of harpsichord and organ music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The concert will take place at 7:30 PM on Saturday, November 18th at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church (IHM), located across West Street from Grace Church. Jackson will portray Bach in period costume with a narrator and other musicians. IHM is a beautiful stone church with the most wonderful reverberant acoustics. The concert will feature the turbulent “Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue,” the famous “D Minor Toccata and Fugue” and other magnificent keyboard works for organ and harpsichord. Mr. Jackson, a specialist in baroque music, will explore some of the most well-known of Bach’s keyboard works fusing passionate musical conviction with 18th century performance technique. Interspersed between pieces will be a narrative drama revealing some of Bach’s inner joy and turmoil, read by Burnham Holmes. Meredith Ellis Whitman will perform solo works for soprano by Bach, with David Baasch playing Baroque cello. The concert is free and open to the public.
Handel’s Messiah
Lessons and Carols
Martin Luther King Celebration Sunday, January 14, 2007
A Concert of Spirituals Sunday, March 4, 2007
Grace Church Teen and Children’s Choirs Showcase of Talent Saturday, May 5, 2007
Vocal Recital – Jean Mee & Brian Narkewicz Sunday, May 6, 2007
Montpelier Area Gospel Choir Concert in Rutland May 13, 2007
Charpentier’s Missa “Assumpta Est Maria” Sunday, May 20, 2007
Sophia Chamberlain Vocal Recital June 23. 2007
Village Harmony Concert July 23, 2007
8 Court Street, Rutland, Vermont 05701
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