Sparks Performance Schedule
2025
Choir Sings:
September Theme: “Building Belonging – Recommitting to Community & Each Other”
September 7, River in Judea
September 28, “Chant of Love and Strength” by STM – Sparks Choir
October Theme: “Cultivating Compassion”
October 5 – Rev Angeline’s Installation Service; First Light
Lean on Me #1021 (choir sings the first two verses; congregation joins in with verse 3)
October 26 – Blessing of the Animals Service
All Things Bright and Beautiful; Music by John Rutter
Practice tracks:
All Voices:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoxvEpMpN9s
Soprano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6wLYQ82iOI
Note: All sops and altos sing the beginning section.
Alto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q5uRxf_2RM
Note: All sops and altos sing the beginning section.
Tenor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cs3TX4Lyts
Bass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftu0Ar1anZU
November 9 – Here Together by David Glasgow
All Voices:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5t8qtiun5g
November 23 – Let the Life I’ve Lived Speak for Me by Gwyneth Walker
All Voices:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3cqyz1mvHI
SI:
Practice with the All Voices recording (above) where it’s reasonably straightforward to hear the top line.
SII:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdjHRW-8yWA
Alto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKKDDJTvEF0
Tenor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG45n93u7e8
Note: Starting at M41, when TB splits into three parts, tenors take the middle note, except for the last notes of M46 and the last note of M47, take the top note.
Correction: at 3:10, it’s from the top of p. 8, not 6;
In M66 – missed going up to the C
Bass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rCvT84UMOg
Ignore the instructions starting at 3:06.