LOONEY TUNES JANUARY 2012

Choir Notes

After a rather hectic Christmas season, we can breathe easy for a week or two as we ease into the pre-lent part of the year.  We hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday filled with joy of family and good health. 

Please keep Jean Reynolds and her family in your thoughts and prayers as they deal with the illness of her mother, Mary Ann Buerkle.

Continue to pray for George Webb and his family.  George, we hope that you will be able to return to choir as soon as you feel ready. 

Thank you, Walter Cuttino, Sara Beardsley, and Janet Roberts for all the extra effort, time, and talent that they gave during the Advent and Christmas services.  We owe whatever success we have to these talented musicians. 

Additional thanks to Billy Watkins, Robby Milam, Doug and Bunny Williams, and Laura Hawkinson for their talent and their willingness to let it shine for our choir.

Last, thank you all regular choir members who found their way to rehearsals and services, often when it was not convenient due to other responsibilities.

A special invitation to all Bell Choir Members/spouses:  The Choirs After Christmas Party includes you as a part of the choir family.  We hope that you will come on Jan. 7. 

Choir Calendar

Wednesday rehearsal, 7:30 PM.                                Sunday rehearsal 9 AM.                                                            Bell Choir rehearsal, 6:30 PM, Wednesday, Jan. 11.                                         Children’s Choir rehearsal Sunday, 8:25 AM.

January 7               LMPC Choirs After Christmas Christmas Party, Westmoreland’s    7 PM.  (See invitation page 2)

January 8               Baptism rededication service

February 5 & 6      Spiritual Enrichment services

Community Events in January

January 13-28, Workshop Theatre presents a musical, John and Jen.  803-799-6551 or  www.workshoptheatre.com.

January 22, USC School of Music Recital Hall, Chamber Innovista presents a world premier of a work for flute, bassoon, and piano by Dick Goodwin, also  Marina Lomazov on piano, and a quintet for Clarinet and Strings. Information:  803-777-4280.

Trinity Cathedral Artist Series presents:                                                       January 8-Lessons & Carols for Epiphany 4p.m; Christopher Jacobson presents Something Old, Something New: The Organ Works of Bach, 5 p.m.                                               January 15-Nigel Potts (NYC,) organ, Sarah Rose Taylor, soprano. 5 p.m.                                                                            January 22-Christopher Jacobson, organ, Instrumental Musings: The Organ Works of Bach, 5 p.m.                                   January 29-Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, Cathedral Choir,4 p.m,  ticketed.   www.trinitysc.org/music

Janurary shows at Newberry Opera House: Travis Tritt, Doc Watson and David Hold, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Rigoletto, Jake Shimabukuro.  803-276 6264 for information.

January Birthdays

January 3               Cheryl Bates

January 31             Judy Askins

Choir Housekeeping

Please turn in your copy of the anthem after services each Sunday.

If you have any music in your folder from the Lessons and Carols, Advent and/or Christmas, please turn it in NOW.  Check the board in the choir room for numbers that are missing.

Start the new year with a “house cleaning” of your music bin in the choir room. 

Re-hang your choir robe and stoles to preserve their life expectancy!  If you find a robe or stole on the floor, please pick it up and re- hang it on a hanger.

Take care to put your folder in your choir bin after use.  We are finding them carelessly left on chairs in the choir room. 

January Music

January 8               Do Not Be Afraid (offertory)            Come to the Water (baptism renewal)  Doug & Bunny Williams, guitars (?)

January 15             Wise Souls Still Seek Him

January 22             Brightness of Eternal Glory

January 29             God of Grace and God of Laughter

LMPC Chancel and Bell Choirs After-Christmas Party

Saturday, January 7

7 PM

The Westmoreland’s        135 Red Fox Trail            Chapin

Bring:                                                                                 Spouse or significant other, finger foods to share,                                      Wrapped white elephant gift to exchange (per person,) and canned goods to help fill the Wee Care Baskets at LMPC.

BYOB

Info:  Diane 803-345-0372 or ddwestmoreland@sc.rr.com

Diane Westmoreland, Chancel Choir                                                                       Lake Murray Presbyterian Church                                                 Chapin, SC                                                              ddwestmoreland@sc.rr.com