Volume 31, Issue 5
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Pine Street Life Inside This Issue Session Notes . . . . . . . . . . 3 Operating Budget . . . . . . 3 Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 DDB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 May Calendar. . . . . . . . . 7 May Scripture. . . . . . . . . 8
May Dates at a Glance May 1 ���������� Bagels & Belief
(p. 2)
May 2 ������� Interfaith Service
(p. 6)
May 8 ���� Pine StreetWalkers
(p.4)
May 11 �������� Congregational
Meeting (p. 3)
May 14 ��������Men’s Breakfast
(p. 6)
May 15 ������ Web Site Forum
(p. 2)
May 27 �����������Picnic On the
Patio (p. 6)
PSL deadline
Articles, photos and items of interest for the June issue of Pine Street Life are due by May 15, 2011. Please e-mail to Sue Black at BL3COL@aol.com
May 1, 2011
Music At Pine Street to Feature Honegger’s King David by Tom Clark-Jones
On June 5 at the 11:00 a.m. worship hour, the Choir of Pine Street Church, assisted by our soloists, Courtney Gray, soprano; Beverly Hudson, mezzo-soprano and Jonathan Hudson, tenor, will present Arthur Honegger’s dramatic oratorio, King David. The work was written in 1921 by the distinguished French composer as incidental music to a drama by René Morax. The commission gave him only two months to complete and rehearse the work … a nearly impossible task. To complicate matters, it was to be presented in the south of France where there were not the vast musical resources available to performances in Paris. Thus, Honegger hesitated in accepting the commission and turned to his friend, Igor Stravinsky for advice. When Stravinsky heard of
the strange assortment of instruments available for the performance, his comment was typical of his approach to music … “Write it as if you meant to write it for that particular instrumentation.” It may seem simple, but it was a profound observation and resulted in a brilliant score from Honegger. It met with both critical and audience approval. The strange instrumentation mentioned included several flutes and oboe, a pair of clarinets, bassoon, string bass and cello, a quartet of brass players and keyboard and percussion. This orchestration is the original from 1921 and is most effective. It is made possible through the generous gift of the estate of the late David B. Disney. (See Maps on page 2)
Worship Matters: Caring for a Treasure by Ron Poorman
Celebration of the Lord’s Supper is central to our life at Pine Street. Central to that celebration are two sets of communion ware, one set used at each service. Each set includes a Communion Ewer (pitcher), a Chalice, and Communion Plates. One set is engraved with our official name, “The Presbyterian Church of Harrisburg.” The second set is engraved, “Westminster Presbyterian Church,” with which Pine Street merged in the 1970s. Recently some of Pine Street’s communion ware was taken to a silversmith in Philadelphia for an assessment and estimates to repair and restore the ewer and plates. The
(SeeTreasure on page 2)