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Music Program
UPC offers a variety
of music opportunities. The
congregation can participate in Chancel Choir, Children’s Choir, or Orff
Consort. Opportunities are
available for solo or small group vocal or instrumental music of many
varied styles.
Adult Choir
| The Adult Choir is made up of adults and
high school aged singers of varying ability who love to share their
gift of song. Rehearsals are Sunday mornings, 9:15am - 10:15am and
11:45am-12:30pm September through May. Singing in choir offers members
many opportunities to explore different styles of music for worship...
contemporary, classical, multi-cultural, and spiritual. |
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Our choir director, Corine Salon, is a graduate from Carnegie-Melon
University with a BFA and an MFA. She has also done graduate work
towards a second MFA in Opera at CMU. She has taught locally at
Union College, Siena College and The College of St. Rose. She is
a very versatile musician and music educator trained in vocal music
with background studies of violin, choral conducting, dance and
many other instruments. Corine has performed extensively in the
US and abroad in recitals, operas and music theater. Locally, she
is a founding member and special events director for the Opera Excelsior.
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Children's Choir
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Children's choir is available to all children
K-6th grade. Under Jean Foster's leadership, children gather on Sunday
mornings at 9:15am to sing. Monthly children's choir prepares and
sings their special music for worship service, and there are opportunities
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Organ
Our church organist is Avery Tunningley.
He has been playing church organ since 1979 and has been organist
at UPC since 1990. Avery
accompanies all the choirs as well as the congregation on both organ and
piano. He also offers outstanding
solo work as a part of worship.
Our organ is a 3 manual 34 rank Wick pipe organ installed in 1969 and rebuilt
in the early 1990s. Recently, Avery has added a Roland XP-40 Workstation
to supplement the organ. Most often the keyboard is played in tandem with
the organ to supplement options not available with an acoustic organ.
Orff Consort
| Orff Consort, under the direction of Lillian Roe, is a musical
ensemble of instruments played by an intergenerational group. UPC
has the largest instrumentation in the capital district. Generous
donors gave these instruments to the church. Instruments which make
up the consort include soprano, alto, and bass xylophones, bass metalophones,
soprano and alto glockenspiels, two large tympani, 8 large bass bars,
and many other hand-held percussion instruments.
The Orff Consort adds rich wonderful
sounds to music in our worship services.
Introits, benedictions, responses, anthems, scripture and psalm
stories are just some of the many ways the Orff instruments are used
to enhance worship at UPC. |
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