York Symphony Concert this Saturday at 8PM with guest soloist Zuill Bailey. Selections will include:
Wagner – Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Tchaikovsky – Rococo Variations
Massenet: Meditation from Thais
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Rossini: William Tell Overture
I’ll be the guy in the back holding a triangle. 🙂
t’s a bird! No, it’s a plane! No, it’s our very own home-made UFO!!
That’s … Unidentified FLOATING Object!
If you couldn’t make it to our last boat launch mark your calendars for this Sunday, September 18 starting at 2:00Â 1:00 PM. We will be launching the Alicia Marie for a second time out on the lake at the Pinchot Park Conewago Day Use Area. There will be cookies!
The story…
The Alicia Marie is a very special boat, which we completed and sail in memory of Alicia Daugherty whose idea it was to build the boat. It started with collecting plastic bottles. Any kind would do: milk bottles, juice bottles, soda bottles. Her and her best friend, Abby Householder collected the bottles and built the two pontoons out of 2x4s and chicken wire. They were able to successfully test one of the pontoons, however Alicia never got to see it completed.
Friends and family got together to finish the boat which led to a very successful boat launch August 21st at Pinchot Park. At least 60 people came out to see her boat sail, and it was an enormous success. We gave boat rides and had a wonderful picnic. We are planning another boat launch for those who couldn’t make it the last time, and you sure won’t want to miss it!
Read the York Daily Record Article:Â http://www.ydr.com/local/c
Update: The time has been changed to 1:00 PM.Â
This quote is from an article in the January/February 2011 edition of Worship Leader Magazine. It provides an interesting insight into the background of Chris Tomlin (who as of writing is mentioned no less than 7 times on CCLI’s latest Top 25 List). He wouldn’t be where he is, and the Church would be without some really wonderful music had it not been for that encouragement he received as an aspiring musician. Granted, he is the exception, but we must provide an environment for young musicians to grow in musical ability and faith despite however much we/they might stumble along the way. As Harold Best writes in “Music Through the Eyes of Faith“, excellence is a “process, not an event” (p 114). And more on that in a future post.
I direct the chancel choir at Salem UCC in Dover, and I’m always looking for new music for them to sing. I found this video of the senior adult choir at Fort Smith’s First Baptist Church in Fort Smith, AR showing some very innovative choir anthems that should appeal to today’s generation!
Ok ok, before I get nasty phone calls please know this is a joke! The church put this video together to show at a youth event about talent, and it was meant to bridge generational divide and inject a little humor.
Just a week after we officially launched The Alicia Marie in memory of my sister at Gifford Pinchot State Park, it turns out there was going to be a Boat Parade in York as part of the annual arts festival! We went to check it out, but the event was cancelled due to inclement weather. However, a reporter from the York Daily Record stopped by to get the story of this extra special boat.
We’re planning on entering the boat next year along with perhaps a few other events so stay tuned!