Don St. Pierre is an opera and voice coach on the Curtis faculty, the rehearsal accompanist and composer-in-residence for the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and a member of my church who has composed several pieces for our church choir and accompanies us frequently.
Don heard me singing with the choir back in September, and decided to write a piece for my voice. I got the music last Thursday and I’ll be singing it at church this Sunday. The piece, called “Breathing,” is a setting of four verses of a poem by “Zen Jedi Master” Thich Nhat Hanh.
I’m super excited to premier this piece, and honored that Don wrote it for me in the first place, so if you’re in the area on Sunday, you should come listen!
Sunday 11/8
11:00am
First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia
2125 Chestnut St
The service is titled “Standing on the Side of Love & Compassion,” which is a reference to Standing on the Side of Love, the UU pro-marriage equality (etc.) campaign. So, like most UU worship services, it will be friendly, welcoming, and non-scary to everyone except haters… and there will be food afterwards.
