June 2013 - Event Calendar Highlights

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With special guest speaker Rev. Kari Lipke of Pastor of the Garden in downtown Seattle. Special performance by Diverse Harmony.

Free parking.

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Seattle Jazz Vespers is a monthly professional concert featuring the best jazz and blues performers in Seattle in one of the most acoustically resonant venues in the metro area. The performers play and sing their best music, their favorite numbers. They have the treat of performing to an appreciative, diverse audience where they are not competing with food and conversation. In this great concert setting, audiences truly get to know the performers and enjoy their artistry “up close.” After the concert, join us for light refreshments and a chance to meet the performers.

Seattle Jazz Vespers is sponsored by the historic Seattle First Baptist Church. An free-will offering will be taken to support the musicians.

There are no tickets, no entry costs, no reservations necessary. It’s just 100 minutes of Seattle's best jazz and blues with an inspirational interlude. Now, in its eleventh season, SJV is held the first Sunday of the month October through June. There is lighted adjacent parking at the church.

The Seattle Jazz Vespers is designed for the general public, family friendly and persons of all faiths.

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Join the revelry and the reverence on June 9th at 11:00 a.m. when Seattle First Baptist celebrates Music Sunday, featuring Vivaldi's Beatus Vir, a classical work based on Psalm 112 for two choirs, two string quartets and two oboes.

Psalm 112 begins, "Blessed are they who revere the Lord, who revel in God's commands!" Music-making is a joyous discipline. Music has "commands": rules and techniques which help create beautiful inspiring art out of unordered sound. These "commands" are a blessing; they give our musical lives order and meaning, just as following God's commands give human life integrity and greater purpose. Psalm 112 is a justice-filled psalm. In the hands of master composer Antonio Vivaldi, this psalm practically dances off the page. Doing justice, Vivaldi-style, is a joyous activity.

The musical blessing continues with gospel music, old-time hymns, offerings by the bells, Children and Youth, organ, and the congregation, which joins in on Handel's Hallelujah chorus at the end of the service.

Come be a part of celebration of blessings! - Vicky Thomas, Director of Choral Music, Seattle First Baptist.
 

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