[Magdalen] Anastasia Baptist

[Grace Cangialosi]

Wow! What an interesting project!

> On Feb 9, 2015, at 10:14 AM, "Charles Wohlers" <charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Ooops! Yes, Sonatas. It was a project he's had for the past ~25 years, to play Beethoven's piano sonatas when he was as old as Beethoven was when he wrote them. Michael is now 51 and this was the eighth (& last) in the series.
> 
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Grace Cangialosi
> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2015 11:12 PM
> To: Magdalen
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Anastasia Baptist
> 
> Concertos or Sonatas, Charles?
> 
> On February 8, 2015, at 10:43 PM, Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> And we went to a special choral evensong at Christ Church, Montpelier. A bit
> different than your experience, I expect (and a bit different than a normal
> service at Christ Church). The choir from the Cathedral in Burlington was
> supposed to join us, but they cancelled due to snow.
> 
> Afterwards attended a concert of the final three Beethoven piano concertos
> by Michael Arnowitt, a very well-liked (and very good) local classical &
> jazz pianist. He did them all from memory - no sheet music, as he's
> practically blind due to macular degeneration.
> 
> 
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: ME Michaud
> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2015 3:19 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: [Magdalen] Anastasia Baptist
> 
> A good time was had by all.
> 
> Very quiet, fairly subdued service. We sang Amazing Grace, also a hymn
> I haven't heard since church camp (I have decided ... to follow Jesus).
> Two guitars, a piano (which I never heard, and given the quality of the
> sound system, I think it may have been intentional) and a cajon, played
> or struck by a glum young man with no stage presence whatsoever. There
> was a small group over on the side who signed the hymns, and an ASL
> translator on the dais. Florida School for the Blind and Deaf is about
> three miles to the north.
> 
> Church seats around 600 and was 3/4 full. This was the Traditional
> service (missed the Contemporary service because I thought it was
> at 9:00, not 9:30).
> 
> First address given by a young woman who said she was twenty. She
> did a fine job, actually. Second address by a young man with a scraggly
> red beard, who began with "heyyyy?"
> and then went on to describe a childish tantrum (panic attack) on first
> visiting the Jurassic ride at Universal in Orlando, then devolved into a
> thorough scolding of his friends who worship Tom Brady instead of Jesus.
> Charming.
> 
> During the collection the singing group sang something that sounded
> very much like the creed rewritten in plain language (the BVM expunged
> for the occasion, but it sure was trinitarian).
> 
> Met several lovely women (from Pittsburgh and Atlanta).
> 
> I was in the car and waiting for the police to direct us out at 11:57, a
> new
> record for me.
> -M