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Music
Choir practice starts at 9 a.m. on Sunday mornings. All who like to sing are welcome to join. Contact Alden Gatt, our Music Director, at
music@rochesteruniversalist.org
The choir performed Renaissance music by Palestrina on Sunday, March 16, 2008 and the Ave Verum Corpus by Byrd on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008. Also on Easter Sunday, the choir was joined by members and friends in the congregation in singing the Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah by Handel.
Our annual Choir Sunday is in early December. For our 2007 Choir Sunday, the choir sang Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols.
Lunchtime concerts presented by the Eastman School of Music take place every Thursday during the school year at the First Universalist Church, beginning at 12:15 p.m. and ending at approximately 12:45 p.m. Brown bag lunches are welcome during the performances. Admission is free.
The 2007-08 concert series has concluded. The concert series will resume in the fall. The complete schedule and more can be found at the Eastman Community School website.
Alden Gatt, a pianist from Naples, Florida, is a sophomore at the Eastman School of Music studying with Barry Snyder. Alden has been with the First Universalist Church for just over a year, and is delighted to be able to work with such a warm and welcoming congregation.
Alden rehearses with the choir at 9 o'clock before every service, and performs on the piano and historic Hope Jones organ during the service.
Alden recently performed Prokofiev's first piano concerto with the Southwest Florida Symphony. He studied mandarin Chinese in Beijing for a year before graduating high school.
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