I leave tomorrow (oops) Thursday morning for New York City! I'll be with a group of 19 singers from Voices Music & Arts Studio in Scottsdale, AZ. We've been practicing for months and I think we're as ready as we can be. We'll join nearly 200 other singers on stage at Carnegie Hall to perform John Rutter's Requiem. It's mostly in Latin. Deeply somber, but hauntingly beautiful. Click HERE to listen to "Agnus Dei" (minimal amount of Latin).
We only have a couple of morning rehearsals. The rest of the time is "explore New York time!" Most of the people in our group have Broadway plays and musicals all lined up during our free time - I'm not sure what I'll do with my free time. I thought about trying to attend a service at Origins Church. The lead pastor, Jon Tyson, taught at the Re:Create conference I attended in February. He left us with this great quote: "we aren't called to change the world, we're called to create culture." I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. Trying to digest and dissect what it exactly means and how to make it a reality. I'm hoping that I'll understand this more deeply by experiencing the church firsthand. Their tag phrase is: "the way of Jesus. to serve the city. for the renewal of the world." I love that.
