Music Minute – August 2024

Happy August to all! In recapping the season, our Spring/Summer series of concerts were extremely successful. Thanks to the artists who shared their talents, and a special thank you to Jean-Ellen Ouellette-Kenney and Vicki Johnson for the  elegant receptions that followed/preceded each event.

While summer is a time to reflect and relax, it is also a time to prepare for the next year. In addition to our Cornerstone Concert Series which will host international artists David Briggs, Your Favorite Brass Quintet, and soprano Jill Noddin. We will inaugurate the Annual Mehaffey Memorial Recital Series on September 22, 2024. We are thrilled that Peter Sykes, a former student of Hope’s, will be our guest artist for this first concert. It is our goal to have an annual organ recital in honor and memory of Hope Mehaffey, who served this parish for over fifty years.

Our choir will resume in September, and we look forward to their participation and enhancement of our liturgies.

Mark your calendars with the following concert dates:

• 9/22 – 3 p.m. Peter Sykes in recital
• 10/6 – 3 p.m. David Briggs will rededicate our Steinway piano
• 11/3 – 3 p.m. Your Favorite Brass Quintet will present a  concert of music for Brass and Organ
• 12/8 – 3 p.m. Jill Noddin, soprano, a Brockton native, will share songs of the Advent season
• 12/19 – 7 p.m. Brockton High School Concert Choir, Matt Cunningham, director, will return for their third annual performance.
• 12/6, 12/13, 12/20 Advent Soup for the Soul, Fridays at Noon.. A light luncheon will follow.

Exciting things are happening musically at First Lutheran. Come and bring a friend!!

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