{"id":14414,"date":"2016-12-06T12:18:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=14414"},"modified":"2016-12-06T12:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:31:50","slug":"seattle-area-church-choir-sings-in-pepper-chopin-christmas-cantata-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/seattle-area-church-choir-sings-in-pepper-chopin-christmas-cantata-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle-area church choir sings in Pepper Chopin Christmas Cantata in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>By Rev. Kathleen Weber | Pastor, Trinity United Methodist Church &#8211; Ballard<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trinity-Choir2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14415\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trinity-Choir2-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"trinity-choir2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trinity-Choir2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trinity-Choir2.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trinity-Choir2.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trinity-Choir2.jpg?resize=630%2C420&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trinity-Choir2.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Early last spring, Trinity United Methodist Church&#8217;s choir was \u201cdiscovered\u201d on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCWKfRkZM4wRjCpcDJZnQJ2A\">YouTube page<\/a> by a production company in New York. The producers contacted the church\u00a0and invited the choir to come sing in the premier of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lincolncenter.org\/show\/dciny-presents-go-sing-it-on-the-mountain-a-christmas-cantata\">Pepper Choplin Christmas Cantata<\/a> at Lincoln Center this fall. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepperchoplin.com\/bio-1\/\">Pepper Choplin<\/a> is one of the choir\u2019s most prolific composers, so the opportunity to work with him directly and sing at Lincoln Center couldn\u2019t be missed!<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can view more photos from their performance on the choir&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/tumchoir\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=372880409715757\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sunday before Thanksgiving, Trinity UMC commissioned the choir and then the more than 30 singers and their families headed for a weekend residency with Mr. Choplin in New York City. Trinity&#8217;s choir performed &#8220;Go, Sing It on the Mountain&#8221; on Monday, November 28 along with an orchestra and 250 singers from choirs from across the United States, including several other United Methodist choirs.<\/p>\n<p>Trinity&#8217;s choir will perform a selection of the songs during their annual Christmas Cantata, <strong>The Festival of Light on Sunday, December 18th at 6:00pm<\/strong> at Trinity United Methodist Church in Seattle (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tumseattle.org\/index.cfm\">website<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> You can watch a performance\u00a0by the The Choir at Trinity UMC from last December of &#8220;Thanks be to\u00a0Thee&#8221; by\u00a0G.F. Handel, composer below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thanks be to Thee\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zpsEczg6qSg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rev. Kathleen Weber | Pastor, Trinity United Methodist Church &#8211; Ballard Early last spring, Trinity United Methodist Church&#8217;s choir was \u201cdiscovered\u201d on their YouTube page by a production company in New York. The producers contacted the church\u00a0and invited the choir to come sing in the premier of a new Pepper Choplin Christmas Cantata at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":14416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[384,394,32,435],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-districts","8":"category-local-church-2","9":"category-news","10":"category-seattle-districts"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trinity-Choir.jpg?fit=946%2C494&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-3Ku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14421,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions\/14421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}