Saturday, November 21, 2009

Annual BSC Carol Service Dec. 4 and 6

The annual BSC Carol Service is about to happen...an exciting program this year, balancing traditional carols in beautiful arrangements with anthems and motets for the season. The choirs are all working hard and I'm looking forward to the magic moment when the processional sounds and we start down the aisle of the church.

It all crystallizes in that moment: the hours of hard work, the learning, the rehearsal epiphanies and the reason why we do it at all--reflected in the smiles and look of expectation in the audience, the beautifully-decorated sanctuary, the story that is about to be told yet again, so meaningful to so many, for so long...

My illustrious predecessor of blessed memory, Hugh Thomas, once said that "nobody does Christmas" like we do at BSC...and every year, at that moment, I know exactly what he meant.