Save the date! Special music before and during our service next Sunday, October 29th.
Be sure to come to church early next Sunday to enjoy special music beginning at 10:00 a.m.! Guest musicians Ann Yu (violin), Kiarra Saito-Beckman (violin), Anna Kuo (cello), and Mikhail Grazhdanov (harpsichord) will be joined by UUCC Music Director Mike Carney and our Chancel Choir. Music of Georg Frideric Handel, Arcangelo Corelli, Arvo Part, Antonio Vivaldi, and Johann Sebastian Bach will be featured before and during the worship service. Don’t miss out on this wonderful musical treat!
Music Notes – Sunday, October 22nd:
This Sunday’s musician is UUCC Pianist Karin Tooley
Opening Hymn: #318 We Would Be One – Sibelius/Wright
This Sunday’s opening hymn will be #318 “We Would Be One”, one of two hymns in Singing the Living Tradition built around the Finlandia melody, borrowed from a 1900 tone poem of the same name by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). The words you’ll be singing this Sunday were written by Unitarian minister Samuel Anthony Wright (1919-2016) for Unitarian and Universalist youth at their Continental Convention of 1953-54. Matching the sentiment of the hymn, that convention resulted in the youth of our two parent faiths merging to become the Liberal Religious Youth of the United States and Canada, nearly 10 years before the official creation of the Unitarian Universalist Association in 1961.
Centering Music: Uninvited – Morisette
Alanis Morisette (b. 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose greatest success came with her 1995 album Jagged Little Pill, which has sold over 33 million units to date and won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. Morisette’s success continued in 1998 with “Uninvited”, which was first released as part of soundtrack to the film City of Angels. The song earned Morisette another two Grammy Awards (Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song) and received significant airplay in the U.S. and internationally. In 2020, a cover version of “Uninvited” by American indie musical artist Bellsaint was featured on the soundtrack of the Hulu drama miniseries Little Fires Everywhere.
Offertory music: Main title from Little Fires Everywhere – Isham & Summers
This Sunday’s offertory music is the main title from the soundtrack of the 2020 Hulu drama miniseries Little Fires Everywhere. The music was co-written by Mark Isham (b. 1951), an American composer and producer who is mainly known for his work on movie and television soundtracks, which include Of Mice and Men, A River Runs Through It, Blade, and October Sky. Isham’s partner on the Little Fires Everywhere soundtrack was Isabella “Machine” Summers (b. 1980), a British performer, composer, and producer who is most famously known as the co-founder of the indie rock band Florence and the Machine. In addition to composing and producing music for Florence and the Machine, Summers has also written songs for numerous other artists, including Katharine McPhee, LP, and Iggy Azalea.
Closing Hymn: #1017 Building a New Way – Sandefer
Martha Sandefer (b. 1952) is an American vocalist and composer who is currently involved with the Work o’ the Weavers project. She wrote “Building a New Way” in 1986 and her song was later arranged by Jim Scott (b. 1946) and included as #1017 in our Singing the Journey hymnbook.
Postlude: Build It Up – Michaelson
“Build It Up” is a song by American singer-songwriter and actress Ingrid Michaelson (b. 1979). Michaelson, who has recorded nine albums and a number of independent songs and collaborations, is best known for indie/folk-style songs such as “The Way I Am” (2007) and “Be OK” (2008), and is currently working on a musical theater adaptation of The Notebook. Composed and released in 2020, “Build It Up” was written for the closing credits of the Hulu dramatic miniseries Little Fires Everywhere. In an interview with awardsdaily.com, Michaelson said of her song: “Specifically, it deals with motherhood, what defines a mother, race relations, lack of communication, being a daughter and that mother/daughter tie. I had a lot of things to work with in my own life and in the show, and that’s how I wrote the song.”
-Mike Carney, UUCC Music Director