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Reporting in from Boston

This is a quick post to let people who have been calling and emailing from near and far know that we’re OK. We were driving back from Boston when the bombing happened. The Cambridge EMS, Fire, and Hazmat were screaming past in the other direction and I casually wondered if there’d been a bomb threat. Oops.

We’ve heard from one friend who ran today and he finished and cleared the area before the bombs went off.

I’m sure there will be more information and more to post about later. Stay safe, everyone.

Kelly & Geoff

For live reports from Boston.com as the situation develops, go here: http://live.boston.com/Event/Live_blog_Explosion_in_Copley_Square

This is considered an “ongoing event.” AKA: the city is under attack as I write this. The most recent bombing was a half hour ago.

ETA: This photo. Wow.

The running of the 117th Boston Marathon was dedicated to the town of Newton, CT.

ETA: From the Globe. Sometimes you don’t need words.

More info on the Seraphim Singers April Concerts

I wish I’d received this information before I sent out my email blast and did my prior post. But, I didn’t . I got it today. So I’m posting it now so you can all see the details I didn’t have before. Enjoy. And please come, this will be a really good concert.

~Kelly

The Seraphim Singers

The Seraphim Singers invites you to the final concert of our 16^th season:

Persecution, Transformation, and Triumph

Music that Transcends and Redeems

A celebration of the resilience of the human spirit through the centuries, in music by Messiaen, Shostakovich, Poulenc, Penderecki, Tippett, and more.

Sunday, April 21, 3pm

Mission Church
1545 Tremont St.
Mission Hill, Boston
With Eliko Akahori (piano), Lilit Hartunian (violin), Rafael Popper-Keizer (cello), Amy Avocat (clarinet)

Tickets: $20 general admission / $15 for students and seniors available at the door)

Sunday, April 28, 3pm
First Parish (UU)
75 The Great Road, Bedford
With Lilut Hartunian (violin), Elizabeth Connors (clarinet), Bradford Conner (piano)

Suggested donation: $20 / $15 students & seniors (a portion of proceeds will benefit UUSC-UUA Haiti Relief Fund)

Music composed in times of oppression and persecution often possesses a singular resilience that inspires and gives witness to the courageous dimension of the human spirit. In this concert The Seraphim Singers presents choral and instrumental works composed under conditions of religious persecution in Renaissance England, slavery in 18th and 19th century America, the Holocaust during World War II, and totalitarianism in the Soviet era.

Visit our website: www.seraphimsingers.org

Live in MA? Want to vote for our new Senator?

Then you’d better make sure you’re registered to vote. The last day to do that is TODAY for the April 30th primary.

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Seraphim Singers- final concert of the season

Please come see us, I’m a soloist this time!

~Kelly

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Join us for our inspirational final concert of the season.

Persecution, Transformation, and Triumph

Jennifer Lester, conductor

Sunday, April 21, 2013 3:00pm

Mission Church

1545 Tremont St.

Mission Hill, Boston

Sunday, April 28, 2013 3:00pm

First Parish (Unitarian Universalist)

75 Great Road

Bedford, MA

Tickets (available at the door): $20 general admission /$15 for students & seniors

Music composed in times of oppression and persecution often possesses a singular resilience that inspires and gives witness to the courageous dimension of the human spirit. In this concert The Seraphim Singers present choral and instrumental works composed under conditions of religious persecution in Renaissance England, slavery in 18th and 19th century America, the Holocaust during World War II, and totalitarianism in the Soviet era. Featuring:

Poulenc: Un soir de neige

Tippett: Selections from A Child of Our TIme

Messiaen: Selections from Quatuor pour la fin du temps and choral works by Shostakovich, Penderecki, Stanhope, Zuckerman, Goudimel, Sweelinck, and Tallis

Visit www.seraphimsingers.org for more information.

Seraphim Singers

What I’ve been reading lately

While both Geoff and I have spent a ton of time at work lately (this is my first day off in 11 days I think) I’m in the middle of a fascinating book and I’ve been emailed some really fascinating blog links. Now it’s my turn to share them with you.

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Because commuting in Boston isn’t fun enough…

Tonight it took two hours, a bus, and a taxi to get me from my front door to Mission church where I was singing a Holy Thursday Service (that’s Maundy Thursday to you non-Catholics out there). Normally it’s a 45 minute trip at most. Now things are about to get worse.

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Bulletins from the animal kingdom

Easter is almost upon us and that means a couple of things: spring is coming (no, really, it is, promise!), Geoff and I will be *really* busy this weekend, people will be doing stupid and ill advised things like getting their kids bunnies, chicks, and ducklings for their baskets on Sunday morning, and the annual seal skin kill is going on in Canada.

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