This special Music Sunday features the premiere of the Freedom and Democracy Suite by Music Director John Kramer. This five-movement cantata for choir, small ensemble, and soloists explores multiple aspects of our democratic experiment, how it has worked to expand rights for its citizenry, and how those rights are being threatened today. The work includes … Continue reading Music Sunday
Join us for our annual Summer Hymn Sing! Come ready to lift your voice in community and sing out your favorite hymns from our UU hymnals. Click here for: Sunday Worship Livestream Click here for: Order Of Service for 6/22/2025
Sunday Worship Live StreamOrder Of ServiceNew online visitors sign-up Join us for our annual summer Hymn Sing. Come ready to lift your voice together and sing out your favorite hymns from our UU hymnals.
Order Of Service for Sunday Worship: 7/24/2022 OOS Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSlivestream New online visitors can fill out the virtual visitor card here: https://tinyurl.com/WUSVirVisCard Zoom post-service discussion with in person attendance in the Parlor, and interactive meeting virtually at: www.tinyurl.com/wusworship
Hymn Sing Order of Service: OOS 7.10.22
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSlivestream Order of Service for Sunday Worship: 12.12.2021 OOS Music and Poetry are both essential parts of our soul’s expression. This Sunday features unique pairings of poetry with musical companion pieces. Walt Whitman and Frédéric Chopin; Mary Oliver and Antonín Dvořák; Billy Collins and Bill Evans; Timothy Steele and Pytor Tchaikovsky; and … Continue reading A Service of Poetry and Music
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship There are many different cultural and religious traditions that feed into our hymnals. To name just a few, they include German Lutheran hymns of the reformation, Jewish hymns, Shaker and Quaker hymns of the 19th century, and contemporary hymns both composed by living Unitarian Universalists and borrowed from the popular music … Continue reading Music Sunday – The Hymns We Sing
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship When you log on to worship, you will now see an icon reading “LIVE Otter ai.” This is a transcription application that provides text for any Zoom meeting, a good tool for those with impaired hearing or anyone seeking clarity about what is being broadcast.You can see a tutorial here: https://tinyurl.com/OtterDemo … Continue reading Witnessing African-American Music, a Music Sunday
It is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludvig van Beethoven. Our choral celebration featuring the Adult, Children’s and Youth choirs, along with guest musicians, is on hold at present, but Music Director John Kramer will present some of Beethoven’s piano sonatas along with thoughts on his music and life. Beethoven overcame deafness and … Continue reading Overcoming Adversity: Lessons from Beethoven
On this Music Sunday we will hear The Ballad of the Brown King, a cantata written by Margaret Bonds with a libretto by Langston Hughes. This piece looks at the Christian nativity story from the perspective of Balthazar, the “brown king”, who came from Arabia or Ethiopia. It is a really rich piece musically, rewarding … Continue reading Music Sunday: The Ballad of the Brown King
