September
5, 2003
Musical
Service of Remembrance to be Held September 11
The MHC community
will gather on September 11 for “A Service of Remembrance
in Music,” beginning at 12:15 pm in Abbey Memorial Chapel.
Students, faculty, and staff will perform musical selections during
the service, and all members of the Mount Holyoke and greater
South Hadley communities are invited. “This is for anybody
who wants to mark the day, be in meditation, be with others, and
pray for peace and hope,” said Andrea Ayvazian, the College’s
dean of religious and spiritual life. “I think it’s
going to be very lovely and varied.”
The event, organized by Ayvazian and Larry Schipull, associate
professor of music and College organist, includes members of each
of the campus’s constituencies. “The program shows
the depth and breadth of talent and the desire for involvement
on our campus,” Ayvazian said.
Last year, the College marked the first anniversary of the attacks
in a program of prayer, meditations, and blessings in many languages
and from many cultures. A program of music was chosen this year,
Schipull said, because music invites individual responses, each
of them valid. “What to one person comes as a statement
of quiet resignation, to another might seem melancholy, and to
a third might even be triumphant,” he said. “It allows
people to have their own personal reaction—and often that
reaction would be one that would be difficult to verbalize. But
that’s the whole point to having it be musical.”
Remarks by President
Joanne V. Creighton will follow a prelude by Mark Gionfriddo,
director of the Mount Holyoke jazz ensembles and director of music
for the Roman Catholic community. Schipull, on organ, and violinist
Linda Laderach, professor of music and chair of the music department,
will perform the Canzona (from Suite for Violin and Organ, op.
150), by Josef G. Rheinberger. The Mount Holyoke vocal jazz ensemble,
directed by Gionfriddo, will perform “I’ll Be Seeing
You” by Sammy Fain, and the ten-member facilities management
chorus, formed for the event, will perform “You’ll
Never Walk Alone” from Carousel by Richard Rogers and Oscar
Hammerstein.
Flutist Jackilynn Wood ’05; violinist Krystal Bordoni-Cowley,
a Williston Northampton School junior and daughter of MHC carpenter
Peter Cowley; and Schipull, on organ, will perform a meditation
on “Amazing Grace.” Schipull, on piano, will accompany
soprano Melinda Spratlan, professor of music, in “Envoy”
by Paul Hindemith and Francis Thompson. “We Will Remember
You,” written by Ayvazian for the one-year anniversary of
the September 11 terrorist attacks, will be sung by Ayvazian,
accompanied by Gionfriddo on piano.
Rabbi Lisa Freitag-Keshet, the College’s Jewish chaplain,
and Sister Shamshad Sheikh, the College’s Muslim chaplain,
will deliver a benediction, closing the service. The postlude
will be performed by Schipull.
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