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• The 2009 Messiah Sing

  We had a nice crowd this year, just over 100 people singing. We had the usual line-up of soloists, Suzanne Anderson, Dario Coletta, Steve Curylo. Cynthia Sanner, the usual mezzo, could not come this year, so we had Lisa Woods in that spot this time. As usual, Joy Mullen was on the organ, and Greg Hayes again ably conducted the Cummington Philharmonia.
  Click on the photo below to see this performance on Youtube.
  
  
  
• Christmas Pageant at the Village Church, 2009
  
     
  Angel Gabriel and Joseph       We had 2 kings, anyway  The Holy Family   Three Angels       
  
• Christmas is more fun when you go caroling
  
     
  
• Summer of 2009
  We were again blessed with the visit of Greenwood Music Camp musical campers.
  
  The full chorus of campers singing at the Village Congregational Church
  
     
    Performing at the Greenwood Camp Music Barn
• The 2008 Messiah Sing
  
  It was held on December 28th this year. A smaller crowd than usual, about 60, but very
  enthusiastic. Once again our soloists were Suzanne Anderson soprano; Cynthia Sanner, mezzo; Dario Coletta, tenor;
  Steve Curylo, baritone. Joy Mullen played organ and Greg Hayes conducted, as he has for seven years now, our ad hoc
  chorus and orchestra, the Cummington Philharmonia.
    
  
    
  
  
  
• Greenwood Music Camp, Summer of 2008
  
  We were blessed again in the summer of 2008, by the visit of the Greenwood Music Camp campers. For five Sundays they gift us with their music, a string quartet, and their voices in anthems and hymns. Then, on their fifth and last Sunday we hear and see them performing a choral work with the instructors and
  counselors of the camp as orchestra. It is a rich and beautiful time for the church.
  
    
  On Sunday mornings the Greenwood campers start church services at the Village Congregational Church
  when camp is in session
  
  
    
  The Greenwood Chorus performing Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren
  Johann Sebastian Bach (Chorale cantata, BWV 137), accompanied by the "Cummington Philharmonia."
  
  
  Having a stretch before performing
  
          
  Campers performing at the barn
  
  
  Gregory Hayes conducts the Greenwood Campers in a choral presentation
  
  
  Oliver Hagen conducts the orchestra in the overture to "Die Fledermaus"
  
  
  Julian Kuerti conducts the orchestra in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
  
• 43rd Annual Messiah Sing
  
  The 2007 Messiah Sing was a big success again. Over a hundred people came to sing and listen, and a dozen and a half musicians to play. The soloists were Suzanne Anderson, soprano; Cynthia Sanner, mezzo; Dario Coletta, tenor; Steve Curylo, bass with Joy Mullen playing the organ. The event was conducted by the gifted musician and teacher, Gregory Hayes.
  
      
  
      
  

• Greenwood Music Campers—Summer of 2007

  Greenwood Camp put on their big choral performance at the Village Church on August 8, 2007.
  This year they sang selections from Bach's Mass in B Minor.
  
    
  
    
  
  
  
  Singing “Siyahamb’ ekukhanyen’ kwenkhos”  a favorite hymn from the New Century Hymnal (No. 526) July 29,
  2007 with the Greenwood Music Camp campers.
  

• Installation of Liza Neal On May 20th, 2007
  We had the installation ceremony for our minister, Reverend Liza Neal.
  Ministers from the Hampshire Association came to our church to join in the ceremony.
  
    
  Liza Neal & Kelly GallegherCurt Preston reading the sermon.
  
    
  
  Reverend Marilyn HolcombPeter and Liza
  
  
  
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