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Music
Brookside's Music ministry plays an active, vital role in worship
each week, and provides an opportunity for participants to "serve
the Lord with gladness" through their love of music and their
faith.
There are many ways to get involved:
• Chancel Choir
• Junior Choir
• Cherub Choir
• Carillonneurs
(bell ringers)
• Music
Committee
About the Brookside Sanctuary
Organ
Rob's Resignation
On May 10, 2009, our beloved Music Director Rob St. Cyr
submitted his resignation to begin a Masters program in
Choral Direction with Louisiana State University in Baton
Rouge. As much as we will miss him, we also recognize
that this is an opportunity for professional advancement
and wish Rob all the best. It has certainly been a joy
working with Rob these past six months. Rob possesses
a special combination of musical talent and deep faith
that not every church musician has. He is also willing
to try something new and respond in the moment when the
flaky pastor changes her mind or gets some new thought!
Rob's flexibility is such a gift. Rob's last Sunday with
us is July 26.
During August we will have guest musicians, and in September
and October, Peter Labombarde will direct our Chancel
Choir and be the organist. Ads have gone out, and we hope
to have a Director of Music in place by November, but
if it takes longer, we will manage. My thanks to Elaine
Giguere for serving as the contact person for applicants
and leading us through the search process.
~Pastor Dawn Berry
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Position Available: Music Director/Organist
- Organist and Choir director for adult
and children's choirs
- Sunday morning service at 10 AM
- 15 - 20 hours a week
- Salary - $21,000 - 24,000
- Vacation - 2-4 weeks
- Organ - 1902 Austin organ, 3 manuals,
& 50 ranks
- Position available - November 2009
- Contact - Elaine
E. Giguere
23 Clearview Drive
Bow, NH 03304
Phone:
603-224-5507
E-mail:
egiguere@comcast.net
Saying Goodbye with Music
All are invited
as Rob St. Cyr and Natalie Shaw present a farewell
recital on Thursday, July 23
at 6:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary. They will perform a variety
of concert literature from Baroque to musical theatre.
Several guest artists will be featured as part of the
recital. Freewill donation at the door.
Rob's last Sunday
as organist/music director at Brookside Church will be
July 26.
 Brookside
Concert Kicks Off "Pipe Organ Encounter" Week
Organists Michael
W. Smith and Peter Krasinski will present a concert on
Sunday, July 19 at 7:30
p.m. in Brookside's Sanctuary. The program promises to
be fun and varied, including transcriptions, show tunes,
medleys, and even a few classic selections for organ duet,
organ and piano, and organ solo. In the artists' words,
it is "not your grandmother's organ recital!"
This concert kicks off a week-long program for teenagers
entitled "Pipe Organ Encounter," or POE. Sponsored
by the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Guild of
Organists, the POE is an exciting opportunity for teenage
pianists to experience the organ through daily lessons
with prestigious teachers, workshops, recitals and concerts,
as well as a day trip to Boston. Both of Brookside's organs
will be used during the week for lessons and master classes.
This year's POE has attracted 32 students from all over
New England, and as far away as Texas, California, Washington
and Ontario.
The July 19 concert is free and open to the public. For
more information, contact Kathy Metivier at
669-1891.
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Chancel
Choir
 Rehearsals:
Twice weekly
Weds. 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Music
Room and
Sun. 9 a.m. in the Sanctuary
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.
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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.
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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.
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The Brookside Sanctuary
Organ
 The
organ was built in 1933 by the Austin Organ Company, Inc. of Hartford,
Connecticut, using a significant amount of pipework from the church's
existing 1902 Hutchings-Votey Opus 1505 organ. When the congregation
relocated from the downtown to the current site in 1959, the organ
was moved. While the move involved dismantling the organ, it was
essentially unchanged except for a row of previously visible pipes
that was placed out of sight in the new location. Austin Organ
Company moved the 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.
 In
1993, with the assistance of Robert Leslie of New England Organ
Service, Brookside developed a three-phase plan for rebuilding
the sanctuary organ, which would first address the tonal limitations
of the instrument, while planning for the eventual replacement
of the 1933 console and the need to re-leather the entire mechanism.
Phase 1 had as its purpose to enlarge the tonal pallet of the
organ by enhancing the bass and treble areas of the sound. Phase
2 would complete the tonal enhancement begun in Phase 1 and replace
the console. Phase 3 would re-leather the mechanism.
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. Bengtson
of Laconia, New Hampshire.
 The
new drawknob console, which was made possible by a generous donation
from the family of Mary Schow, was designed and built by Dudley
Terrill of the Terrill Organ Company of Bow, New Hampshire. The
three keyboard manuals have bone naturals and rosewood sharps.
The pedal board has maple naturals and rosewood sharps. The keydesk
and trim are walnut. The stop action contains Harris drawknobs
and tilting tablet couplers. The combination action/stop processor
is a solid state Peterson system with 99 levels of memory. The
white woodwork is matched to the other colonial architectural
features in the sanctuary.
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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