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Chancel
Choir This dedicated group of people includes teenagers to senior citizens. The season begins Wednesday, August 29th, with a dinner in the Manning House, followed at 7:30 by the first rehearsal in the Music Room. Other dates of note are Music Sunday and a year-end party in June. The Chancel Choir participates in Sunday services through through late May/early June. Watch future Chronicles for further information. Junior Choir  Rehearsals:
Weekly from Sept-June(except during school vacations) Sun., 11:20 in the Music Room An open invitation to all children ages 8-13. Have fun singing
in a group! Junior Choir offers learning about the Christian faith
through music. The group will sing at least one time each month.
Hope you can join us this year! Cherub Choir  Rehearsals:
3 weeks prior to each singing date (see
below)Sun., 11:15 - 11:45 a.m. Cherubs sing periodically throughout the year, during Sunday services. All children 4-7 years old are encouraged to participate. Watch future Chronicles for further information. Carillonneurs - Ring a Bell? (All ages) Before church on Sunday mornings, volunteers provide about 10 minutes of bell music for arriving worshipers. Our nine bell Smyth Chime is a musical instrument that is relatively easy to use; but you do need to read music and be able to climb the rather long flight of stairs to the bell tower. If you'd like to know more, please contact us. The Brookside Sanctuary Organ The organ as it existed in the early 1990's functioned very reliably, due to the dependable mechanisms for which Austin organs are known. However, tonally it lacked much. Many organs built in the 1920's and 30's had a voicing style that was characterized by a dull, opaque sound. The 1933 Brookside Sanctuary organ had those characteristics. In addition, when the instrument was relocated in 1959, in spite of the fact that organs are custom designed for the room in which they are housed, no effort was made to regulate the instrument to the new room. Most organs built in the 1930's have ceased to exist, because necessary tonal renovations have resulted in entirely new instruments. Since much of the Brookside Sanctuary organ's pipework and all of the mechanisms is of very high quality, to discard everything would not have been responsible stewardship of our resources.
Phase 1 was completed in 1995 and included extensive regulation of 31 ranks of the sanctuary organ and the addition of eight new ranks. Robert Leslie did all the regulation, while the new pipes were supplied by Austin Organ Company. Phase 2 was initiated in 1998. Six stops, containing 402 pipes, were transported to Austin Organ Company in Hartford, Connecticut and revoiced. In addition, 183 new pipes made by AR Schopp's Sons, Inc. were added. The pipe transportation, final regulation, and construction of two new windchests were spearheaded by K. R. Bengston of Laconia, New Hampshire.
Brookside is excited to announce the beginning of the third and final phase of the organ restoration project: releathering the entire sanctuary organ. Currently, Brookside has raised about $30,000 to fund Phase 3 of the project. A generous donation of $19,000 was given by Dr. and Mrs. Robert Lord in honor of the Rev. William Donoghue, recently retired Pastor of Brookside Church. We hope to initiate this project during the summer of 2007.
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Rehearsals:
Twice weekly
