The Vermont Italian Opera Intensive, in its second season is holding a concert in our sanctuary on Sunday, July 29 at 4pm.
The concert is the culmination of a two week intensive for professional (and semi-professional) musicians who are interested in singing Italian opera and is organized by Mary Jane Austin and Erik Kroncke. It is modeled after a program in Italy, which both Mary Jane and Erik have attended. Erik and Mary Jane have over twenty years of experience in Italian opera and have worked with some of the greatest conductors, singers, and directors of the Italian opera tradition.
The concert features snippets of opera are the music is set up with the highly entertaining stories of the original opera. It’s a fun and beautiful afternoon, and you won’t want to miss it. And, you’ll recognize many in the program as regularly vocalists here on Sunday morning.
Here’s a link to the Rutland Herald‘s article about the concert.
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Arts Festival Church Open House
This Saturday, in conjunction with the Stowe Street Arts Festival, our church sanctuary will be open and staffed by members of the community arts show committee. We have, as many of you know, a great show of local artists’ works and we are hoping that some of the crowds from Stowe Street will see their way around the corner to visit us.
Stop by anytime between 10 – 4 pm!
Summer Worship Services
FYI:
July 1 — Worship at the Wesley United Methodist Church — 10:30 am
July 15 — Laity Sunday, Wynne Plagge speaking about her trip to Rwanda this past spring. Julia Loewer will be providing special music.
July 22 — Special music by Steve Lotspeich
July 29 — Our last Sunday before August recess. Bill Beard will be singing Anton Dvorak’s “God is My Shepherd.”
September 2 — Worship starts up again at 10 am.
September 9 — Welcome back Sunday.
Church Construction
Construction on the various projects we approved at our annual meeting back in January will begin straight away in August.
First up will be the removal of the Underground Storage Tanks. The tanks are located between the church and the driveway on the west side of the building. Ross Environmental, from Stowe will be doing the work starting Wednesday, August 1. They will be working with Bourne’s energy to remove the propane tank (also buried). Bourne’s will replace with a larger underground propane tank. This work should be finished by Friday.
Next up is work on the rotting corner spires. 
The spires are rotting because of improper water drainage from the roof. We have contracted with Steve James to fix the rotten bits, and to correct the drainage so that the problem does not happen again. We have contracted with Steve several times over the past few years to build the deck on the front of the church and to rebuild the choir and organ loft. Steve hopes to begin work on the 13th of August.
As of today, the work for removing the old heating system and installing the new gas furnaces has not been scheduled. We’ll keep you posted.
Brush Removal
After our spring clean up earlier this month, we’ve got some brush and leaf debris leftover. This is material that the garbage service will not pick up, so if you can help us by taking some or all of it to your brush pile, we would appreciate it!
There is a pile of brush and two garbage cans of twigs and sticks near the driveway before the drive-thru and there are 3 or 4 black plastic bags of leaf debris under the drive thru next to the regular garbage barrels.
Thank you!