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From the Rector's Desk

NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR TO BEGIN JANUARY 1, 2009

I am delighted to announce that Andrew Shenton will become our Music Director at the beginning of the new year.

Andrew Shenton was born in England. His first professional training was at The Royal College of Music in London, where he read for a B.Mus. degree at London University and was an organ scholar at St. Paul's Cathedral. In 1991, he moved to the U.S. to study at the institute for Sacred Music at Yale University and then for a Ph.D. in musicology at Harvard University. Andrew has a Master's degree in organ performance from Yale, and holds the Fellowship Diploma of the Royal College of Organists. He has toured extensively in Europe and the U.S. as a conductor, recitalist and clinician, and his two solo organ recordings have received international acclaim.

Andrew has been the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards including a Harvard Merit Fellowship, and Harvard's Certificate of Distinction in Teacher. A former Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church in Princeton, NJ, Andrew has wide and varied experience as a church musician. He has worked for the Royal School of Church Music and the American Guild of Organists at the local and national levels and has commissioned and premiered more than forty pieces including anthems by Joe Utterback and John Tavener.
He is currently a member of the faculty at Boston University where he directs the Master of Sacred Music program and the Messiaen Project. He is editor of the online journal and website www.oliviermessiaen.net and his first book Olivier Messiaen's System of Signs was published by Ashgate in the spring of 2008.

I know you will want to join me in offering him a warm welcome as he becomes part of our parish staff at the beginning of the year.

CHRISTMAS MUSIC

I am pleased to announce that our interim Music Director, Beverly Scheibert, will be with us through the end of December, playing the Christmas Eve services and the Service of Lessons and Carols on Sunday, December 28th. It is a joy to have Beverly with us during the interim period, and I know you join me in thanking her for her musical leadership and for helping us in the transition process.

Stephen

Announcements

Adult Bible Study meets each Sunday at 9:00 a.m. in the Bidwell Room. On November 2nd., the Rector will lead a conversation on Matthew 25:1-13.

Outreach Meeting Sunday, November 2 at 11:30 a.m. in the Bidwell Room - all are welcome to attend and become part of this important ministry!

Confirmation Class is now forming to prepare 8th graders for confirmation in the spring of 2009. If you have not already done so, please let the Rector know if a member of your household will be preparing for confirmation this year.

ATTENTION ALL 6th - 8th GRADERS ! COME ONE COME ALL to a retreat at the Barbara C. Harris Camp November 21-November 23! This retreat designed especially for Massachusetts Diocese Junior Highschoolers will be a blast. Kit Lonergan - the amazing Director of Youth Ministries at the diocese - is organizing and leading this activity with the Diocesan Youth Council, and it's not to be missed. Check out www.diomassyouth.org and look at the calendar, email me (hkirkham@stpetersweston.org), or just give me a high sign that you want to come or need more information! Any parents able to consider chaperoning with me are welcome to contact me too!!

Land's Sake Harvest Festival; October 25th

What: Harvest Festival
Where: Land's Sake Farm, 90 Wellesley St. Weston, MA
When: Saturday, October 25th. 10:00am-2:00pm
Details: On October 25th, from 10am to 2pm, come to Land's Sake Farm for our annual Harvest Festival. The festival will include locally grown festival foods, pumpkins, hot cider, harvest olympic games, hayrides, educational activities, a live bluegrass band (The Pretty Pennies), and much more! It will be fun day and a great opportunity to learn more about the farm, celebrate the end of the growing season with fellow members of the community, and compete in some olympic events, harvest style!

For more information, or to volunteer, contact Dave Quinn (dave@landssake.org), Ned Rossiter, Sarah Strong, or John Marchiony.

Outreach Meets Sunday, November 2 ~

The NEXT OUTREACH MEETING is next Sunday, November 2, following the 10:00am service. Anyone with an interest in Outreach is invited and encouraged to attend; grab a coffee and come to the Bidwell Room!

Ron Corley

Thanksgiving Baskets and OxFam Fast and fundraiser Thursday, November 20: This year we will again be preparing Thanksgiving Baskets for needy families in Waltham. A number of you have already indicated interest in participating, and we invite more of you to participate. Please let us know if you are interested, and/or if you or a group of you would like to prepare breads, pies, etc. to go into the baskets. Please contact Judy Campos (judy.campos@comcast.net) or any other member of your Outreach committee for more information. And, thanks to those who have already volunteered to participate!

Please also join us in celebrating a fast in support of OxFam (www.oxfamamerica.org). As we enter the Thanksgiving season, it is important that we remember those less fortunate. The task is simple: skip a meal or two (or a favorite part of a meal) to remember the more than 850 million people who are hungry. Then come to St. Peter's for a simple meal to break the fast, and contribute the money you saved to OxFam. After the meal we will prepare the baskets.

More information will follow.

Music This Week

The music for Sunday, October 26th includes:

Prelude: Classique d'aujourd'hui, Op. 87 by Charles-Marie Widor (1845-1937), composer in various genres and organist of St. Sulpice, Paris for many years.

Hymn 585: "Morning glory, starlit sky" (1978) by Canon W. H. Vanstome of Chester, England expresses the true nature of Christian love and was set to music by Dorothy Howell Sheets for inclusion in our hymnal.

Offertory: "Awake my heart and render" by Jane M. Marshall, the prize anthem of the American Guild of Organists, 1957.

Communion: "Let us break bread together on our knees," Afro-American spiritual sung by the choir and soprano Zhanna Alkazona, and accompanied by seventh-grader John McDaniel, saxophone.

Postlude: "Toccata" by the French composer Eug�ne Gigout (1844-1925), who taught at the Paris Conservatoire.

Meet our tenor section leader, Evan Biela, who holds a B. Mus. degree from the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, teaches in the Waltham public schools, and has sung in the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. He also plays trumpet and is a member of the Harvard Big Band and the Waltham Symphony.

Beverly Scheibert
Interim Music Director
bscheibert@stpetersweston.org

Who Does What At St. Peter's Church
320 Boston Post Road, Weston, MA 02493 | www.stpetersweston.org | 781-891-3200

(Click on any name that is underlined to send an email.)
Parish Secretary: Mercer Riis, (891-3200)
Acolytes: Stephen Voysey (891-3200)
Church School: Peggy Batchelder, (781-736-0280); Beth Graham (891-3200)
Choirs: Adult Choir: Beverly Scheibert, (891-3200); Junior Choir: Kristen Dirmeier
Coffee Hour: Lynn Maruskin (899- 6290)
Communications: Jim McDaniel
Finance Chris Phaneuf (891-3200)
Flowers: Carolyn Ellis (899-5880)
Keys Newsletter: John Marchiony, Meg Pierce & Keith Ward
Lay Liturgical Ministries: Bill Symonds
Men's Group: John Bulbrook, John Marchiony Rob Rodgers
Music: Beverly Scheibert, (891-3200)
Newcomers: Michelle King, Suzie Reeves
Outreach: Ron Corley; Rosanne Iacono (891-3236)
Lay Pastoral Care: Flora Booth (899 -2006) and Mary Pughe (894-5961)
Property: Carolyn Ellis (899-5880)
Stewardship: Marty Rodgers
Ushers:Ushers: Ed Vydra (894-7131)
Web Site: John Bulbrook
Youth: Hall Kirkham

Members of the Vestry:
Janice Corley (891-3236), Senior Warden; Marshall Bartlett, Junior Warden; Chris Phaneuf, Treasurer; Richard Batchelder, Clerk; Members: Carolyn Ellis, John Jacobs, Tom Keery, Marty Rodgers, Anne Ruggles, Maggie Tyler-Rubenstein, Keith Ward