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"System.InvalidOperationException (.NET Framework 4)
The exception that is thrown when a method call is invalid for the object's current state. InvalidOperationException is used in cases when the failure to invoke a method is caused by reasons other than invalid arguments. For example, InvalidOperationException is thrown by
IEnumerator.MoveNext if objects of a collection are modified after the enumerator is created, or ResourceSet.GetString if the resource set is closed before the method call is made. If the method invocation failure is due to invalid arguments, then ArgumentException or one of its derived classes, ArgumentNullException or ArgumentOutOfRangeException, should be thrown instead.
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Comparing MythTV and XBMC
Both systems support the VDPAU extensions for NVIDIA, which provides high-quality playback. Because both support OpenGL, they also provide video controls, such as brightness, contrast and color controls (Figure 14). The actual features available under MythTV depend on various configuration options for both video and TV features. XBMC always has the same options available from any video playback, be it video files or live TV. These controls were available for an NVIDIA-based display. Other video hardware may present different options.
MythTV uses upfront configuration of window sizes and doesn't allow scaling the display while you watch. This isn't a problem once you're set up to display on a real TV, but if you watch on a desktop while you work, it's more of an issue. XBMC can display full screen, as does MythTV, but it also allows playing in a window that can be scaled while video is playing.
Neither system will stream Internet video, so you can't get to Hulu or Veoh from them. There are hacks for doing this, but they mostly just launch the Hulu player as an external application.
Both systems are fairly stable. XBMC crashed a few times during my research, and I experienced a few lockups, although the latter may have been due to some interaction with the MythTV back end. MythTV crashes are very seldom. During my research, it crashed once while experimenting with the use of subtitles while playing a DVD ISO file.
The XBMC experience with its polished skins is very entertaining. But, without a TV source, you still need a MythTV back end to watch TV. If you watch TV while you work, using XBMC as a TV front end to a MythTV back end is ideal, because you can scale the XBMC window interactively. MythTV may be your only choice if you need to watch, schedule and record multiple sources at once.
Both tools do an admirable job with video file collections. MythTV provides more flexibility in setting metadata on a per-movie basis, while XBMC has attractive browsing options and supports more metadata sources. But, don't expect to play Blu-ray disks any time soon with either tool. For one thing, they produce huge files (50GB typically), if you can rip them at all.
This is far from a comprehensive review of MythTV and XBMC. Both offer far more features and capabilities than can be given justice in a single article, especially if your goal is to hook them up to a real TV and use them as home-theater systems. If you enjoy using your Linux system for media playback, you owe it to yourself to investigate both of these excellent applications.
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Dunno where you got the idea that XBMC doesn't support Internet video streaming, it's been supported for ages. Of course, the support for RTMP in the new XBMC 10.x is far better than the old 9.x code. But either way, stating it's not supported is flat wrong.
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A 22-year-old man from Yonkers visiting Ocean County drowned Saturday afternoon during a swim with friends, according to the office of County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato.
A 22-year-old man from Yonkers visiting Ocean County drowned Saturday afternoon during a swim with friends, according to the office of County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato.
A state Department of Environmental Protection program that involves installing metal sheet piles along a stretch of the beach in Mantoloking and Brick is nearing completion in time for the winter season.
Construction of a four-mile long steel wall that runs from Mantoloking to Brick is expected to begin in July. Springfield-based EIC Associates was awarded the contract to build the 45-foot tall storm protection storm-protection barrier at a cost of $23...
The gloves came off Tuesday night in three parts of a storm-weary Jersey shore.
Two of the Jersey shore towns hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy in October will soon be protected by a steel sea wall.
Verizon's plan to discontinue land-based phone service in Mantoloking and other areas that took the worst of Superstorm Sandy's damage finds no favor at the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.
Mantoloking was one of the hardest hit areas when Sandy slammed the Jersey Shore. Plans for restoration are in the works and nearly ready to begin, but five residents are holding up progress for the entire town.
Governor Chris Christie and President Barack Obama have each told residents and consumers across the country that the Jersey shore is open for business this summer, but that's not true everywhere along the coast.
During Prince Harry's trip to Seaside Heights and Mantoloking, security is expected to be far beyond the norm according to several Seaside Heights councilmen.
Prince Harry will be in New Jersey on Tuesday. He wants to see the part of the Jersey Shore that Superstorm Sandy hit the hardest. He'll be accompanied by Governor Christie when he tours "ground zero" of the storm, Mantoloking. He'll also be stopping by Seaside Heights to see the progress of Restore The Shore. We figured since Harry will be at the Shore, he might as well get the full experience. That's why we asked you on Facebook to name a landmark or hot spot in Monmouth & Ocean counties that is a must for the Prince to see.
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Today is Claude Debussy's Birthday!
In honor of today being Claude Debussy's birthday we would like to remember all of the wonderful music that he has made. Claude Debussy was a French composer who was well known for his impressionist music. He was one of the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was the father of the modern era in classical music. Author Harvey Lee Snyder has written a book on Debussy titled, Afternoon of a Faun: How Debussy Created a New Music For the Modern World, that tells about his life and also his music. Below is an excerpt from chapter 1 about Debussy's early life and background.
Some historians tried to link Claude Debussy to the Burgundian aristocracy, but no—Claude's father, Manuel de Bussy, was less nobly descended from peasant stock, men and women who in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were laborers and farmers, locksmiths, tradesmen, and carpenters. Claude's maternal family too was of humble origin.
Manuel de Bussy enlisted at eighteen in the Second Infantry Regiment of Marines and served his seven-year term. He married Victorine Manoury in 1861, when both were twenty-five years old. The newlyweds moved into an old three-story house in Saint-Germaine-en-Laye, just west of Paris. Manuel ran the china shop on the ground floor, and upstairs, on August 22, 1862, their first child, Achille-Claude de Bussy, was born. Before his first birthday he had a baby sister, Adèle. Emmanuel was born in 1867, and Alfred followed three years later. Another son died in childhood.
The china shop failed after two years of Manuel's management, and the de Bussys moved to Clichy to live with Victorine's mother. In 1868, Manuel found work at a printing shop and moved his family to Paris. For most of his life Manuel struggled and repeatedly failed to earn enough to support his family in comfort and stability. He never held a job for very long, and Victorine sometimes worked as a seamstress to help make ends meet.
The eldest boy was called Achille (pronounced "ah-sheel"), but he was Chilo to his family. At his baptism his godparents were Manuel's sister Clémentine and her lover, a rich financier named Achille Arosa. As a young adult, Chilo preferred to be called Claude, signed his name Claude-Achille, and modernized the family name to Debussy.
He was a quiet boy—"dreamy" was a word often used—who found refuge in solitude. Unlike his three siblings, he never went to school. His mother, who had little education herself, kept him at home and taught him to read and write. But Victorine had no enthusiasm for motherhood. More than once she sent Adèle to Cannes to be raised by Clémentine. Alfred was in Clémentine's care until her death in 1882.
Clearly, the de Bussy clan was not an auspicious incubator of genius. Nothing in the historical record suggests that music was a significant part of the family life, or that the children were exposed to the ripe artistic and cultural climate of Paris. Manuel confidently believed Achille would follow in his footsteps: He'd be a sailor when he grew up. (Later in life, the composer of La Mer [The Sea] found this amusing.)
Tanglewood: A Group Memoir by Peggy Daniel
This summer, just like every summer since the mid-1930s, musicians and music lovers have come together at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts. In her book, Tanglewood: A Group Memoir, Peggy Daniel recounts the Tanglewood story as told in first-person accounts by such Tanglewood luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Serge Koussevitzky, Aaron Copland, Erich Leinsdorf, Phyllis Curtin, Seiji Ozawa, Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, John Harbison, James Levine, and many of the leading musicians, critics, and music professionals who consider Tanglewood a second home.
To mark the start of this year's festival, the Boston Globe compiled its list of "Seven Books About the Tanglewood Music Festival," and it begins is list with Tanglewood: A Group Memoir.
I love a good headline as much as anyone, and here's a peach from the Associated Press: "Dowagers Thumb Ride to Symphonic Concert." It seems these dowagers were among 3,000 hardy music lovers who, one night in 1942, hitchhiked, walked, or biked to Tanglewood, where Serge Koussevitzky conducted Haydn's Symphony no. 88 and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony under the August stars. This was during the war. So many events got canceled that year, due to fuel rationing, but not this one. When Koussevitzky took the stage, the Berkshire Eagle reports, he got a "greeting in which vociferousness surpassed record and remembrance."
Peggy Daniel has loaded all sorts of goodies like this into "Tanglewood: A Group Memoir" (Amadeus, 2008). It's full of dowagers with pluck, led by Gertrude Robinson Smith, a socially prominent New Yorker who strong-armed all her connections to launch the music festival during the Depression, fanning out ticket subscription teams to recruit at Rotary and Kiwanis meetings, granges and garden clubs. The recruiters touted the joy of music, plus the joy of jobs: The festival would hire local unemployed electricians, carpenters, and others to build the stages and work the events.
This dowager-meets-laborer quality has set the tone of Tanglewood from the onset. It's a place of low-price-ticket rehearsals plus high-society picnics, James Taylor plus Anton Dvorak, classical music chestnuts plus avant-garde offerings. The book trumpets Tanglewood's bolder moments, in fact, like how the festival championed new American composers early on, and how in the 1940s and '50s, it was the "foremost laboratory for operatic experimentation" according to the conductor/impresario Boris Goldovsky.
There's also some choice gossip here. The early years contained many catfights with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, it appears, and tales of the vagaries of performing outside. To wit, real thunder and lightning heightened Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries," and when "Peter Grimes" was staged on a broiling day in 1946, stagehands hosed down a tar paper rock just before the tenor "died" slowly upon it, not willing to burn himself for art.
Read the rest of Katharine Whittemore's list here.
Listen: Carol Montparker on A Tempo!
Carol Montparker, author of The Composer's Landscape: The Pianist as Explorer — Interpreting the Scores of Eight Masters, chats with Rachel Katz of A Tempo WWFM about her book!
Derived from a popular series of lecture-recitals presented by Carol Montparker over the past several years, The Composer's Landscape features eight insightful essays on the piano repertoire. Each chapter focuses on a single composer: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. Montparker uses landscape as a metaphor for the score, whether it be a well-tended garden of Mozart or the thorny thickets on a Schumann page: the topographical peaks and valleys, the circuitous melodic lines, the thoroughfares where all the voices convene, and so on. The discussions include thoughtful suggestions for navigating these "landscapes," which differ so greatly from one composer to the next, taking note of the essential technical and interpretive elements, as well as the challenges for the "explorer pianist."
As an actively performing pianist, lecturer, teacher, music journalist, and author of six other books on music, Montparker has the experience and understanding to guide readers through these issues while elucidating the finer points. Woven into her text are excerpts from her interviews with world-renowned pianists, from Alfred Brendel to André Watts, conducted during her many years as senior editor of Clavier magazine. The book also includes images from original autograph manuscripts and a CD of Montparker performing selections by composers featured in the book.
Fantastic Review of In Character!
Opera News' Matthew Sigman recently posted this fantastic review of In Character: Opera Portraiture!
Picture books get no respect, derided, often rightfully, as decorative objects unworthy of literary consideration. In the opera world, such contempt can be justifiable: frequently assembled for notable company anniversaries, such memory books often offer dry prose, static production tableaux and glam portraits of divas in celebrated roles. John F. Martin's In Character defies such stereotypes. With its prose confined to the opening pages — Amy Tan's spare foreword is elegant, Martin's explanation of process is essential, the rest is noise — and captions smartly placed as a thumbnail index at the end, the result is a rare alchemy of the performing arts, the fine arts and the graphic arts.
Martin began his association with San Francisco Opera as a supernumerary and managed to set up a closest studio in the War Memorial Opera House just off the canteen. He coaxed performers from the wings to sit for a moment in full regalia and character, their emotions engaged. you can smell the sweat of jealousy on Dmitri Hvorstovsky's chest as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore. You avert your eyes from Natalie Dessay's Lucia, so upsetting is her frail glance of madness. Qian Yi, as Precious Auntie in The Bonesetter's Daughter, floats as if to heaven.
But it's not only stars that shine bright in In Character. Yes, we see boldface heroes, villains and ingenues, but we also see clergy and townspeople and servants and social outcasts and a "fantasia" of freaks. We see wordless gaiety and fortitude, reflections of sorrow and pride, a child bereft of soul, captured as if by Diane Arbus. We also see the masterful skills of today's leading costume designers in impeccable detail: Constance Hoffman's terrifying harlequins for Rigoletto, François Barbeau's bawdy dancers for The Rake's Progress, Laurent Pelly's snooty aristocratic ladies forLa Fille du Régiment.
Read the rest of the review here!
Now available in time for the operas' premieres in the Met's Live in HD series!
The Metropolitan Opera Presents:
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Opera's most enduring tragic double bill of verismo masterpieces, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci share many common features, most noticeably their direct language, plot simplicity, common-folk characters, and themes of adultery, betrayal, revenge, and murder. Written within two years of each other, and both set in villages in southern Italy, they feature dramatic confrontations, turbulent emotions, and gritty realism.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci (April 2015, $18.99) is the latest in the Metropolitan Opera Presents Libretto Library Series by Amadeus Press. In this groundbreaking series, classic and well-known operas are presented in a fresh new package. Each book features the complete libretto; color image inserts from Met Opera productions, a Met Opera libretto "In Focus" feature; and official Met Opera program notes. All titles include introductions and forewords by renowned opera experts.
Cavalleria Rusticana takes place on Easter in a Sicilian village, where Turiddu, after returning from the army to find his beloved Lola married to the carter Alfio, found solace with the peasant girl Santuzza but ultimately betrayed her and ruined her reputation. When Turiddu goes back to Lola, Santuzza seeks revenge, with tragic results.
In Pagliacci, a troupe of traveling commedia dell'arte players is torn apart when its leader, Canio, discovers that his wife, Nedda, has taken a lover. In the ensuing "play within a play," the actors struggle to go on with their performance as the line between theater and reality collapses, leading to an explosive climax.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci is the sixth title in Amadeus Press's Metropolitan Opera Presents Libretto Series, following Puccini's Tosca, Puccini's La Boheme, and Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, and Bizet's Carmen.
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Toscanini: A Conductor Stands Up For Justice
Date & Time: Tuesday, January 27th at 1:15pm
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Using rare film footage and archival orchestral recordings, Cesare Civetta (director of the Beethoven Festival Orchestra and author of The Real Toscanini: Musicians Reveal the Maestro), will explore the life, music, and extraordinary impact of the man whose fiery passion and astonishing talent made him one of the most acclaimed musicians of the 20th century.
Special note will be given to Toscanini's defiance of Hitler and Mussolini "Jewish policies," eventually leading him to establishing the orchestra now known as Israel Philharmonic in 1936, in solidarity with Jewish musicians escaping Nazi persecution. The presentation will feature audio interviews with artists who performed under Toscanini as well as rare video footage of Toscanini rehearsing and conducting. The presentation will be followed by a Question & Answer period.
CESARE CIVETTA is an internationally acclaimed conductor who has led more than 60 orchestras in 28 countries, including performances at Lincoln Center and Madison Square Garden. He is the author of The Real Toscanini: Musicians Reveal the Maestro, and his concerts have been broadcast live over National Public Radio, Swedish Radio and the South African Broadcasting Company, and featured on CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC.
IN CHINA, he was the first foreign-born conductor to conduct at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music. He has also given master classes, lectures and conducted the orchestras of the Beijing, Shanghai and Shenyang conservatories, where he found an outpouring of enthusiasm for Western music that was shared by orchestras, students and audiences alike.
IN RUSSIA, Mr. Civetta had the unique distinction of being the first American to conduct a transcontinental tour of the former Soviet Union. He gave the first performance of Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever at the Communist Party Headquarters in Yaroslavl, where Civetta turned the statue of Lenin to face the wall. Coverage of Civetta's historic tour of Poland, Romania and Russia during the dismantling of the Soviet Union was broadcast over Voice of America, and a video documentary about it was produced in nine languages.
To view a video of Maestro Civetta's orchestral tour of Russia, click here.
For information about Maestro Civetta's recently published book, The Real Toscanini, click here.
Listen: Curtain Call with John Martin
Curtain Call host Charles Sepos chats with John Martin about his new book In Character: Opera Portraiture.
In Character: Opera Portraiture memorably captures operatic performers away from the audience but fully inhabiting their roles. It showcases the work of John F. Martin, who for years set up a portable studio in the basement of the San Francisco Opera and photographed the players – in costume and full makeup – right before or after they took the stage. The subjects range from nonsinging supernumeraries through chorus members and comprimarii to opera's greatest stars, such as Anna Netrebko, Natalie Dessay, Deborah Voigt, Juan Diego Flórez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Their roles run the gamut of opera personalities: heroes and heroines, villains and outcasts, royalty and common folk, Biblical figures and creatures of myth. Facing Martin's camera, each artist projects the essence of his or her character, however great or small the part.
The book also features a foreword by author Amy Tan; a preface by David Gockley, general director of the San Francisco Opera; essays on opera behind the scenes, the vital role of costumes, and the transformation of singers into characters; and an interview with world-renowned soprano Danielle de Niese. A collection unlike any other, In Character will have broad appeal-to opera and theater buffs, costume and fashion aficionados, and anyone who appreciates fine art photography.
Landscapes in Piano Repertoire
The Composer's Landscape features eight insightful essays on the piano repertoire, each chapter focusing on a single composer: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. In this book, Carol Montparker uses landscape as a metaphor for the score, whether it be a well-tended garden of Mozart or the thorny thickets on a Schumann page. In her introduction, Montparker beautifully explains the reasoning behind her "landscape" metaphor.
A few words and metaphors will explain why I gave the series the name "the Composer's landscape." music is a language, and that language has a very broad spectrum. often referred to as "the universal language," still it encompasses many styles, genres, and dialects. not only does each composer write in a unique language, but performing artists have to learn to "speak" and "sing" in these various tongues. Very often pianists find that they are fluent and conversant in many composers' languages—but not all. Very few pianists play every composer equally convincingly. even if we are lucky enough to be born with talent, it usually has a territorial boundary, as my great teacher Leopold Mittman put it.
To my eyes, a page from any score is a landscape, with its own contours and terrain, that is directly related to the language of that composer—a kind of visual depiction of the language. When a musician beholds a page from a Schumann score, it has an altogether different look from a page of Mozart; it can be as different as a jungle is from a well-tended garden, and an experienced musician can glance at a page and discern which composer wrote it, just from the appearance of the writing style.
Yes, there is the same system of notation: notes, clefs, phrase marks, dynamics, lines and spaces, and so on. But what gets much more com- plex is the "topography": the shapes—the peaks and depths, the patches of bramble or thickets to plow through, the open plains to traverse, the circuitous routes of the melodic lines, the clotted harmonies, the busy thoroughfares where all the voices converge, the layers of their impor- tance, and the depth of meanings, stacked like the geological strata of a canyon, through which we must dig in order to get to the core of truth. We must, in essence, be explorers and, for me, the metaphor of landscape works so well that I could find endless parallels between the manuscript and any kind of geographical terrain.
Most concerts are eclectic and varied. This series proved to be a rare opportunity to present and examine one composer at a time and take note of the extraordinary and essential elements that distinguish one composer's landscape from the next, and what the unique challenges are for the explorer-pianist.
A Very Verdi Fall
This Autumn, Amadeus Press will release Verdi: The Operas and Choral Works as part of the Unlocking the Masters Series. Read this glowing, exclusive excerpt from the introduction of the book below.
Verdi and the Culmination of Italian Opera
Sooner or later we learn that in this world popularity and quality do not go hand in hand—far from it, in fact. But in the case of Verdi, they do. Giuseppe Verdi, probably the most popular operatic composer of all, brought Italian opera to its peak, single-handedly saving and reanimating this beloved musical genre for the better part of a century. Italian opera of the 1840s, when Verdi came on the scene, was a hodge- podge of formulas spun out by mostly forgotten composers who were at the mercy of fickle audiences, self-promoting singers, and impresarios whose chief personal quality was greed. A few fine composers—Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti—had by their individuality and hard work carved out niches for themselves, achieving popularity that spread beyond Italy, over Europe, and across the Atlantic. But with the arrival of ambitious new ideas about musical drama, chiefly those of Wagner, German opera had become the avant-garde, what the cool kids, even in Italy, wanted to see. While even the finest works by Italians still sounded beautiful, they were rarely daring. With his musical and dramatic genius and force of character, Verdi gave Italian opera's tired conventions new life, while continually raising its standards, ultimately adding sixteen indestructible operas (of the twenty-eight he composed) to the repertory.
Verdi's music combines lyricism with power, helping it reach its vast and well-deserved popularity. His operas grab you by the throat, demanding your attention and making submission to their beauty and force your only course. They're not always subtle, but that's not generally a quality associated with Italian opera. Verdi refined his style continually, though, and his final opera, Falstaff, is nothing if not subtle. Opera, the Italian variety in particular, may be unsubtle, but it is the best musical formfor the direct expression of emotions, at which it is unsurpassed. By any analysis, it's one of the most important limbs of the Western musical tree; you can perhaps think of it as standing opposite to German-Austrian instrumental music, which runs to the abstract and intellectual. German opera, the fruit of the romantic era, is moody, grandiose, often mystical. But the goals of Italian opera are the expression of emotions, often in showy ways, and sheer entertainment.
To say that opera in Italy fills a much wider position in the national culture than it does in the United States seems a truism; it's also safe to say that nothing in American culture, where the boundaries between "high" and "low" are written in stone, is analogous to opera in Italy, where it's accepted by millions as an essential element of their upbringing and national heritage. While Americans and others seem irritated or amused up to a point, or bored by opera; others feel intimidated, and many seem to be put off by its artificiality. But of course, placed in the proper light, any art—and any sport—can appear unnatural. There's more than a bit of blood sport in being an opera fan in Italy, where fine performances are cheered, and bad ones booed enthusiastically; and where the ability of tenors and sopranos to execute fast passagework and hit high notes with ease and power—or their failure to do so—are applauded or condemned vigorously during performances. Verdi's popularity in Italy arises, as we'll see, not only from his role as perhaps Italy's greatest composer, but also as a symbol of the national spirit during the unification struggles of the mid-nineteenth century.
Opera's noble purpose is to say in music what everyone feels—no more, no less. The big solo numbers, or arias, typically express an emo- tion that the character is experiencing. In a duet, each character's emotion should be clarified and heightened by the music. Termed affects, these are the feelings we've all known from early in our own lives: happiness, grief, anger, fear, and all the others. (It seems curious that opera should not gain a wider response in an age and a society in which open emotional expression is accorded high value.) By Verdi's time, emphasis had begun to shift toward the expression of more complex psychological and dramatic truth, an art Verdi excelled at and brought to transcendent levels of mimesis.
The voice dominates Italian opera, and it is the dominant element of Verdi's style. His works are written for singers, who at best inhabit their roles and hope to become known as great Lady Macbeths, Rigolettos, or Aidas. Verdi's mastery of the orchestra was immense, as well, and three of the operatic overtures (Luisa Miller, I vespri siciliani, and La forza del destino) are played in the concert hall. With the exception of a few piano fantasies on Verdian themes by Franz Liszt, there are no suites of material lifted from the operas and played by the orchestra without a singer: the idea itself is preposterous. The opposite holds true for Verdi's contempo- rary and fellow operatic titan Richard Wagner, whose music has always been excerpted and transcribed for orchestra without voice, and Wagner's music generally stands up well to the treatment. Verdi came to maturity in an era in which the bel canto style dominated; the phrase means "beautiful singing," and it's characterized by elaborate and difficult vocal parts, with lots of high notes for the high voices and decoration of all vocal parts. The voice is what's on display in bel canto operas, and much of what singers are asked to do requires not only vocal power, but also agility and subtlety. The popularity of singers in Italy, entirely comparable to that of professional athletes, typically rewards those who have mastered this difficult style of singing. As we'll see, some of Verdi's operas display bel canto characteristics, though he came into his prime as the style was losing its hold on the public. But even if he had been born a few years earlier, his development as a composer of musical drama would have strained the inherent limitations of the style.
But there is more for all of you Verdi fans! This October, Amadeus Press will also release Verdi's Operas, which studies in detail each of Verdi's 26 operas, from Oberto to Falstaff. Visit the website for more information about this publication.


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Peace Tree UMC in Collierville, Tenn., is the recipient of a New Church Start Grant from the RETHINK CHURCH initiative of United Methodist Communications. The church received the news from RETHINK CHURCH in early September. "The Metro-McKendree District applauds the work, commitment, prayer and dedication that went into the successful completion of this grant application," Metro McKendree District Superintendent Dr. Cynthia Davis said. "We are grateful to the RETHINK CHURCH Grants Team for ...
100 years after first mailed, Jackson First UMC receives postcards as 'redistribution of happiness'
published 10/1/2015
Jackson First UMC In Jackson, Tenn., recently received mail — from a century ago. Bobbie Mays, the church's director of communications, says Lowell Joerg of Stockton, Calif., sent the church two postcards this summer that he discovered in an antique store. The cards featured photographs of the church and dated back to 1915. "They are old-time classics for sure," Joerg wrote in a letter that accompanied the cards. "I thought to myself, 'By golly, I think I'll send them home where they can be...
Jackson First UMC celebrates Advent in August
published 10/1/2015
Members of Jackson First UMC in downtown Jackson, Tenn., celebrated Advent in August by packing 175 shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas Child is a program of Samaritan's Purse, an international relief and humanitarian aid organization. People in the U.S. pack shoe boxes full of toys, hygiene supplies, school supplies, crafts and more for boys and girls in need. They send the packages to Samaritan's Purse, which distributes the gifts around the world. After Jackson ...
Bulletin inserts about suicide prevention are available from Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare
published 9/30/2015
Bulletin inserts on suicide prevention are available from Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare in Memphis, Tenn. To receive printable PDFs, contact Chaplain John A. Wilcher, director of Clergy and Conference Ministries, at (901) 516-0864 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Churches encouraged to practice fire safety and prevention by making use of two helpful resources
published 9/30/2015
Fire prevention and safety are ongoing concerns for all churches in the Memphis Conference of The United Methodist Church. Below are links to two documents (compliments of Church Mutual Insurance Company) that Memphis Conference churches might find helpful. Fire Safety at Your Worship Center Self Inspection Safety Checklist for worship centers and related facilities
Faith Health Center of Jackson receives $3,500 from Northside UMC barbecue event
published 9/30/2015
Faith Health Center (FHC) of Jackson, Tenn., is the beneficiary of $3,500 from an Aug. 29 barbecue event at Northside UMC in Jackson, Tenn., according to Bob Sharp, a member of Northside UMC's Men's Ministry Leadership Team. Sharp said the men barbecued 700 pounds of pork and chicken to help raise the funds. Baked goods were sold by the women of the church and donations were received. FHC was founded by Northside UMC member Dr. Dave Larsen and his wife, Sara. It is a non-profit 501c3 medical ...
Peace Tree and St. Mark's UMCs partner for Oct. 3 'Blessing of the Animals'
published 9/30/2015
By Lisa Junkins, Peace Tree UMC St. Mark's UMC (Memphis, Tenn.) is partnering with Peace Tree UMC (Collierville, Tenn.) to have a Blessing of the Animals event on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to noon at St. Mark's UMC. The public may drop in any time with their pets. If your pet doesn't do well in crowds or with strangers, bring a picture of your pet to be acknowledged with prayer. Peace Tree UMC is a new church that is intentionally without a building in order to go out and meet people ...
Reelfoot Rural Ministries now seeking toys and volunteers for its 2015 Christmas Toy Store
published 9/30/2015
Reelfoot Rural Ministries (RRM) in Obion, Tenn., is getting ready for its 2015 Christmas Toy Store and is looking for donations of toys, money and volunteer time. A ministry of the Memphis Conference of the United Methodist Church, RRM serves people in need within four counties: Lake, Obion and Dyer counties in Tennessee and Fulton County in Kentucky. RRM's Christmas Toy Store allows parents of low-income families to shop for inexpensive Christmas presents for their children. The 2015 RRM ...
UMVIM is hosting mission volunteer training Oct. 21-24 in Columbia, Mo.
published 9/30/2015
Want to serve mankind and spread the Gospel? United Methodist Volunteers in Mission is holding a training Oct. 21-24 in Columbia, Mo., to help willing United Methodists become mission volunteers. Sponsored by Global Ministries, the mission Volunteer Program offers service opportunities from two months to two years in a variety of ministries, according to a press release. These opportunities include: Honduras - Ministries need volunteers to serve as youth leaders, to coordinate team ...
Emmanuel UMC in Memphis announces numerous pumpkin-themed activities in October
published 9/29/2015
Emmanuel UMC in Memphis, Tenn., has numerous pumpkin-themed events planned for October. The church is located at 2404 Kirby Road (corner of Kirby and Messick Roads) Pumpkin Patch: Oct. 1 - 31 Open Daily Sunday - Friday: 11am-Dark Saturday: 9am-Dark Proceeds benefit CrossNotes: the church's youth choir Click here for more information. Movie in the Pumpkin Patch: Saturday, Oct. 3 7pm Family event Click here for more information. Picnic in the Patch: Sunday, Oct. 18 Noon - 2pm Come for ...
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published 9/29/2015
Check back often for new deadlines. Click HERE to submit deadline information. <>-<>-<> SEPTEMBER Sept. 30: Deadline to register for Nov. 6-8 Exploration event in Orlando, Fla. (for young adults, age 18-26, exploring a call to ordained ministry). | MORE INFO Sept. 30: Deadline to be a sponsor of/exhibitor at 2016 General Conference, The United Methodist Church's top legislative assembly (May 10-20 in Portland, Ore.) | MORE INFO Sept. 30: Deadline to register for Oct. 15-17 "Do No Harm ...
Nashville Area endorses Rev. Sky McCracken as episcopal nominee
published 9/29/2015
The Nashville Episcopal Area of The United Methodist Church has endorsed Rev. Sky McCracken as a candidate for the office of bishop in The United Methodist Church. The Area is comprised of the Memphis and Tennessee Conferences. McCracken, a native of the Memphis Conference, offered his candidacy at the 2015 Session of The Memphis Annual Conference in June, receiving unanimous approval. In a rare move, The Tennessee Conference also endorsed McCracken when it adopted a resolution at its 2015 ...
'Project Transformation' has 'Advance Special Fund'
published 9/28/2015
The Memphis Conference Council on Finance and Administration (CF&A) has designated Project Transformation Memphis as an Advance Special fund, according to CF&A Chair Bethany Huffman. Project Transformation is an organization offering eight-week enrichment experiences for children, grades 1-9, who come from low-income families. Additionally, young people may serve as interns in the program and learn leadership skills. Lynn McAlilly, wife of Bishop Bill McAlilly, introduced Project ...
Airport parking company partners with GCFA to offer discounts for United Methodists
published 9/25/2015
United Methodists are now eligible for discounts from Park N' Fly. According to a press release, the United Methodist General Council on Finance and Administration (GCFA) Shared Services has partnered with Park N' Fly, an off-site airport parking company, to offer UMC members front-door parking at lower rates. The deal includes: At least a 25 percent discount at many of Park N' Fly's locations throughout the country. Parking rates as low as $5 per day in some locations. The company is ...
Feb. 27 is competition date for Ben Alford scholarships to Martin Methodist College
published 9/25/2015
The Cal Turner, Jr.Center for Church Leadership at Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, Tenn., awards two Ben Alford Scholarships each year to students showing exceptional promise in the area of church leadership. These are full four-year scholarships which include the costs of tuition and basic room and board. Feb. 27, 2016 is the competition date. Click here to read about who may apply and how to apply.
Carolyn Lawhorn to receive Andrus Award Oct. 28
published 9/24/2015
Carolyn Lawhorn, a member of Wesley Chapel UMC in Jackson, Tenn., has been selected for the Andrus Award for Community Service from AARP, a nonprofit membership organization for people age 50 and over. Nelvia M. Brady-Hampton, Ph.D., volunteer director for the AARP West Tennessee Grand Division, says this is a big honor. "The Andrus Award is AARP's most prestigious volunteer tribute recognizing outstanding individuals who are sharing their experience, talents and skills to enrich the lives ...
Carroll County United Methodist students receive R.C. and Annie Austin Scholarships
published 9/24/2015
Students from five Carroll County, Tenn., churches have received the R.C. and Annie Austin Scholarship for the 2015-2016 school year. According to the Sept. 11 issue of Tennessee River District eNews, the college scholarship was established around 1981, after the Austins created an endowment benefiting United Methodist students in Carroll County. The couple had been longtime members of Carroll County's Huntingdon First UMC in Huntingdon, Tenn. This year, the scholarship committee awarded ...
Children at Troy UMC in Troy, TN, collected almost 1,500 pounds of food for Reelfoot Rural Ministries
published 9/24/2015
Children from Troy UMC in Troy, Tenn., helped people in their community this summer when they collected more than 800 food items for the Reelfoot Rural Ministries (RRM) food bank. RRM is a mission agency of the Memphis Conference of The United Methodist Church in Obion, Tenn., that provides various services for those in need, including childcare, dentistry and food distribution. According to RRM Executive Director Rev. Robert Craig, the Troy UMC kids collected items as a part of a Vacation ...
John Wesley makes personal appearances at McKenzie First UMC in McKenzie, TN
published 9/24/2015
Who knew John Wesley makes personal appearances? It seems the founder of Methodism has been visiting McKenzie First UMC in McKenzie, Tenn. He shows up as a cardboard cutout. Rev. Jason W. Jones, McKenzie First UMC's pastor, made the cutout in 2014 for a youth football event and has pulled out the prop a few other times, including to introduce a recent Wesleyan stewardship study. What party couldn't use a little more Wesley?
Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center offers ski packages this winter
published 9/24/2015
Anyone who enjoys hitting the slopes can do so this winter with a program called "Ski Lake Junaluska" in lake Junaluska, N.C. Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center is a ministry of the Southeastern Jurisdiction (SEJ) of the United Methodist Church. The Memphis Conference is a part of the SEJ. From December 2015 to March 2016, according to a press release, the retreat center is partnering with nearby Cataloochee and Wolf Ridge ski areas. Packages include lodging, breakfast, lift ...
Malawi Project makes use of old pill bottles collected by Calvary UMC in Mayfield, Ky.
published 9/24/2015
Calvary UMC in Mayfield, Ky., is offering its members a new way to recycle old pill bottles. The church is collecting prescription pill containers for The Malawi Project. According to a promotional flier, medical facilities in Malawi, a landlocked country in southeast Africa, have little access to proper containers. Doctors and pharmacists there must wrap medicine in scraps of paper. Steve and Vicki Conner, members of Calvary UMC, are currently collecting old prescription pill bottles for ...
Help identify young adults to serve as summer 2016 'Project Transformation' interns in Memphis
published 9/22/2015
By Rev. Grace Phelps, Memphis Conference Project Transformation Launch Team Chair As you heard from Lynn McAlilly, wife of Bishop Bill McAlilly, at our 2015 Memphis Annual Conference in June, Project Transformation will be coming to Memphis, Tenn., in the summer of 2016. BACKGROUND Project Transformation is an eight-week summer enrichment experience for children in grades 1-9 which is hosted by a United Methodist Church in an economically-disadvantaged area. The children served come from the...
KIPP students earned volunteer service hours by working to clean Centenary UMC in Memphis
published 9/22/2015
~By Kathryn Crawford, Centenary UMC, Memphis, TN "I Must Work the Work of Him Who Sent Me While it is Day…" Centenary United Methodist Church Outreach Ministry partnered with Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) "to continue to strive and develop healthy, relevant youth programs that will model and offer the love of Christ as a vital and viable option to gangs and/or youth violence." KIPP is dedicated to preparing students in under-served communities for success in life and college. A group ...
Martin goes from red-headed to bald as Paris First UMC saves lives by 'imagining no malaria'
published 9/22/2015
Even though the Memphis Conference-wide campaign to raise $1 million for Imagine No Malaria (INM) in partnership with the Tennessee Conference ended in June, Paris First UMC in Paris, Tenn., is still working to raise money for the initiative that seeks to eradicate the disease through education, communication and treatment. Read more about IMN at www.imaginenomalaria.com. Throughout August, the church worked to raise $1,000 ($10 per life) and have 80 percent percent of the congregation in ...
Free financial literacy class begins Oct. 6 in Dyersburg, Tenn.; class is sponsored by Hughlett, Lighthouse and Ross UMCs
published 9/21/2015
"Facing Financial Struggle" is the name of a free financial literacy class to be offered on five Tuesdays, beginning Oct. 6, at 6:30 p.m. in the Cornerstone Center at Ross UMC, located at 101 Calcutt Ave. in Dyersburg, Tenn. Sponsoring churches, in addition to Ross, are Hughlett UMC in Tigrett, Tenn., and Lighthouse UMC in Alamo, Tenn. Class Dates and Themes: Oct. 6 – You are not alone Oct. 13 – Planning Better Oct. 20 – Living with Discipline Oct. 27 – Living as a Steward Nov. 3 – Celebrate ...
Oct. 7-9: Learn about new 'Journey to the Table' Emmaus-like program for 18- to 24-years olds
published 9/21/2015
Martin Methodist College (MMC)in Pulaski, Tenn., announced in August a new partnership with The Upper Room, a global ministry dedicated to supporting the spiritual formation of Christians seeking to know and experience God more fully. Throughout the remainder of 2015, The Upper Room is teaming up with sites across the U.S. to test a new program for 18- to 24-year olds called Journey to the Table, according to Rev. Dr. Ed Trimmer, executive director of the Cal Turner Jr. Center for Church ...
Memphis Conference office in Jackson announces new hours for public, beginning week of Sept. 28
published 9/11/2015
Beginning the week of Monday, Sept. 28, the Memphis Conference administrative office in Jackson, Tenn., will have new office hours, including half-day hours on Friday. This change is to bring the building's public business hours in alignment with the hours and schedules of the episcopal and district offices, according to Larry Davis, Memphis Conference treasurer, and Rev. Dr. Joe Geary, Memphis Conference director of Connectional Ministries. The Memphis Conference office of the United ...
Team members sought for Memphis Conference mission trip to Mexico, December 28-January 3
published 9/11/2015
Spots are open for a 12-member Memphis Conference United Methodist "Volunteers in Mission" (VIM) team working in Allende, Coahuila, Mexico, from Dec. 28, 2015, to Jan. 3, 2016. Rev. Dr. Joe Geary, Memphis Conference director of Connectional Ministries, and Elyse Bell, Tennessee River District lay resource leader, will lead the trip. During the week, volunteers will: help construct a local church, Iglesia Metodista Jesus La Luz Verdadera (Jesus the True Light of Life Methodist Church) ...
'Race relations' & 'racial reconciliation' were subjects of conversation on Aug. 30 at Alex Haley Museum in Henning, Tenn.; repeat event is planned for Sept. 27
published 9/8/2015
CLICK HERE to view more photos from Aug. 30 event. Article and Photos By Lane Gardner Camp, Director of Communications "We can't change the past, but we can start today to change the future." That was one of many thoughts shared by eight small discussion groups on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 30, at the Alex Haley Museum & Interpretive Center in Henning, Tenn. The museum is partnering with the Memphis Conference of the United Methodist Church to offer two private showings of the museum's ...
Cookbook sales will help Trinity UMC in Paris, Tenn., rebuild after April fire
published 9/4/2015
Trinity UMC in Paris, Tenn., is offering cookbooks for sale as a fundraiser to help the church rebuild after its April 2015 fire. Click here to read about the fire. Heavenly Delights is the name of the three-ring binder cookbook with more than 500 recipes. Cost is $20 per book ($26 per book with shipping). To pick up or order, or for more information, email email@example.com OR call (731) 642-3427.
Malesus UMC is getting ready for sesquicentennial (150 years) celebration on Sunday, Sept. 13
published 9/1/2015
By Rev. Dan Weathersbee, Malesus UMC, Jackson, TN Can you imagine how different the world was when a group of Methodists formed a church at the Black Jack School in 1865, called themselves Ebenezer, built a church house and began a cemetery? The challenges and opportunities those people faced, as they couldn't have imagined those our generation faces today, were formidable! In 2015, 150 years later, we remember how the church at the cemetery, now was dismantled, moved and rebuilt in Malesus, ...
Receive United Methodist 'Interpreter' magazine
published 9/1/2015
Churches in the Memphis Conference may receive up to five FREE print editions of Interpreter magazine and unlimited FREE digital editions. Interpreter magazine – in digital and print formats – serves United Methodists living their faith. It is a ministry of United Methodist Communications that provides topical, timely inspiration and information. Make sure your church is enrolled. Subscriptions expire every December. CLICK HERE FOR CHURCH ENROLLMENT. For individual subscriptions (digital and ...
Trinity UMC in Memphis plans 'Centennial Celebration Weekend' for Sept. 19-20
published 9/1/2015
By Lois Young, Trinity UMC In honor of its 100th anniversary, Trinity United Methodist Church (UMC) at 1738 Galloway Ave. in Midtown Memphis will host a Centennial Celebration Weekend Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 19-20. Members, former members, friends, neighbors and all invited to join us in marking this exciting milestone in the life of Trinity UMC. On Saturday, Sept. 19, activities will begin at 10 a.m. with an indoor "camp meeting" in the Fellowship Hall of the Trinity Education Building....
Memphis Conference office in Jackson, Tenn., will be closed Monday, Sept. 7, for Labor Day
published 8/27/2015
The Memphis Conference Office of the United Methodist Church in Jackson, Tenn., will be CLOSED Monday, Sept. 7, in observation of Labor Day. The office that serves United Methodist churches in West Tennessee and Western Kentucky is located at 24 Corporate Blvd. in Jackson, Tenn. Treasurer's Office: 731-664-5540 Connectional Ministries Office: 731-664-8480
Tenn. River District organizes by 'mission sectors'
published 8/27/2015
The Tennessee River District recently announced a reorganization that supports a mission focus in line with the Memphis Conference's stated purpose. The conference's mission statement is to "discover, equip, connect and send lay and clergy leaders who shape congregations that offer Jesus Christ to a hurting world, one neighborhood at a time." Tennessee River District Superintendent Rev. Dr. Richard Clark says his district is supporting the conference mission by dividing its counties into "...
Dixon-Rabb Hall for UMCOR's Sager Brown Depot is almost complete
published 8/26/2015
Dixon-Rabb Hall for UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) Sager Brown Depot volunteers is almost complete. It was announced in today's UMCOR HOTLINE eNews that workers poured new concrete for the parking lot this week. When the dorm opens in Baldwin, La., "around Christmastime," said the eNews, "it will be fully integrated into the existing campus at Sager Brown, where UMCOR runs a relief-supply depot and houses thousands of volunteers each year to help pack and ship relief supplies." ...
Poplar Grove UMC's steeple came down . . . . . . . . but only for a short time
published 8/25/2015
Poplar Grove United Methodist Church UMC) in Drummonds, Tenn., removed its steeple this summer (see photo at right) —but just temporarily. Karen Cole, chair of the church's trustees, said the roof under the steeple had been leaking for some time, causing the roof decking to rot. The church made several attempts to fix it, but realized the only way to permanently correct the problem was to remove the steeple structure, repair the rotten wood and replace the roofing under and around the steeple...
Atoka UMC encouraged fellowship among generations at Aug. 9 pool outing
published 8/24/2015
Approximately 60 people attended a "pool outing" organized by Atoka UMC in Atoka, Tenn., on Aug. 9 at Thornton's Pool in Covington, Tenn. "The goal was to have fellowship within the church between the elders and youth. All were encouraged to bring a friend or family member," said Angela Hardy, lay speaker for the church. Hamburgers and hotdogs were served.
'Mission camp' at Germantown UMC teaches fourth and fifth graders to serve others
published 8/21/2015
By Casey Northcutt Watson In June, 14 children picked up hammers and paint brushes for the first-ever fourth and fifth grade summer mission camp at Germantown UMC (GUMC) in Germantown, Tenn. Over the span of five days, campers played games and performed volunteer work around town. They built two picnic tables for and spread mulch in GUMC's columbarium, and they made comfort pillows for patients at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Campers also moved and sorted 1,464 books for...
'Vacation Bible School' at Jackson First UMC learns about adoption and raises money for Hannah's Hope
published 8/21/2015
Jackson First UMC in Jackson, Tenn., made an area impact during its Vacation Bible School (VBS) event in June by partnering with Hannah's Hope. An agency of the Memphis Conference of the United Methodist Church, Hannah's Hope provides support, counseling and adoption services to expectant and adoptive parents in west Tennessee. During the VBS event, Hannah's Hope Executive Director Rev. Trina Morrison spoke to students, ages 3 through fifth grade, about her agency and about ways to share ...
Germantown UMC's 'Vacation Bible School' students give money and books to school's literacy center
published 8/21/2015
By Casey Northcutt Watson Vacation Bible School (VBS) students from Germantown UMC (GUMC) in Germantown, Tenn., donated 1,464 books and $940 in June to the Love for Literacy Center at Caldwell-Guthrie Elementary School in Memphis, Tenn. Lisa Pierce, GUMC director of children's ministry, said the church has an ongoing cooperative relationship with the school and regularly provides reading tutors for some of its second graders. Months ago, Pierce asked Caldwell-Guthrie's principal how VBS ...
Kinler receives second annual 'Lauren Wright Hobbs Nursing Scholarship' from Germantown UMC
published 8/21/2015
Kendall Kinler, a member of Germantown UMC (GUMC) in Germantown, Tenn., has received the church's second annual Lauren Wright Hobbs Scholarship. The scholarship benefits members enrolled in nursing school. The church established it in memory of Lauren Wright Hobbs, who passed away from cervical cancer in 2013 at the age of 29. According to a recent GUMC newsletter, Lauren loved serving others through her work as a nurse. "She left a wealth of family and friends who will always remember ...
Members of Colonial Park UMC in Memphis offer thoughts on prayer in new book
published 8/21/2015
By Casey Northcutt Watson Fourteen members of Colonial Park UMC in Memphis, Tenn., have joined other Christians and recorded their thoughts and feelings about prayer in a new book. Grandmother Earth and Life Press, both owned and operated by Colonial Park member Frances Brinkley Cowden, will release "Person to Person to God: A Prayer Journey" on Sept. 1. Roughly 18 years in the making, the book is a collection of poetry and essays about the nature of prayer. Cowden wrote multiple pieces and...
Memphis Conference youth find encouragement to 'Go On' at 'Youth 2015' conference in June in Florida
published 8/21/2015
Roughly 75 youth and adults from the Memphis Conference attended Youth 2015, a quadrennial event held this year on June 20-14 at the Orlando World Center Marriott in Orlando, Fla. Rev. Dr. Joe Geary, director of Connectional Ministries, said the participants came from about 10 congregations in west Tennessee and western Kentucky. In Florida, they attended a mixture of workshops, small groups and missions activities based on the theme, "Go On." The event encouraged students to cultivate piety ...
More than 40 students participated in 2015 'Youth Annual Conference' in Jackson, Tenn.
published 8/21/2015
More than 40 youth from more than 12 Memphis Conference churches attended the Youth Annual Conference (YAC) this year from May 29-31 in Jackson, Tenn. The event took place just before the 2015 Memphis Annual Conference. Using the theme, "IGNITE," the YAC focused on outreach as well as spiritual concepts. Rev. Kristofer Roof, Pastor of Peace Tree UMC in Collierville, Tenn., said students learned to use social media evangelism, wrote letters to veterans and active-duty soldiers and reflected ...
Multiple monikers: Explore most popular church names in Memphis Conference
published 8/21/2015
By Casey Northcutt Watson Do you go to Trinity UMC? Is that the Trinity UMC in Mayfield, Ky.? Paducah, Ky.? Brownsville, Tenn.? Henderson, Tenn.? Memphis, Tenn.? Paris, Tenn.? Or East Trinity UMC in Jackson, Tenn.? Congregations often lean toward the same words, imagery and even saints when picking monikers for their churches. The Memphis Conference is no different. It has no less than seven Lebanon UMCs and the same amount of Trinity UMCs, if you count East Trinity—and we do. The ...
Resurrected 'Vacation Bible School' (VBS) at Palestine UMC in Holladay, Tenn., triples attendance
published 8/21/2015
Attendance for Palestine UMC's Vacation Bible School (VBS) in Holladay, Tenn., more than tripled in 2015, a year after the church resurrected the event. According to members Reba Patton and Yvonne Woodin, Palestine hosted its first VBS in a several years last summer. Five children attended. In June 2015, that number increased to 16, while 21 adults helped run the classes and activities. Using the theme, "God's Love is Real," the VBS included games, Bible stories and crafts for students ...
Now available: Aug 2015 issue of 'The Clarion' from Memphis Conference 'United Methodist Women'
published 8/20/2015
The August 2015 issue of The Clarion is now posted on the Memphis Conference website at www.memphis-umc.net/unitedmethodistwomen. The Clarion is the official newsletter of Memphis Conference "United Methodist Women" (UMW). Or click here for direct access to the August 2015 issue. Also of interest: Click below to read Dec. 1, 2014 news story: Help introduce younger generations to mission and ministry of 'United Methodist Men' (UMM) and 'United Methodist Women' (UMW)
'Kids Thrive' is new preschool at Trinity UMC in Paducah
published 8/19/2015
"Kids Thrive" is the name of a new preschool that opened this month at Trinity UMC in Paducah, Ky. The church's Aug. 19 eNews reported, "Nine precious new faces (see photo at right) have been enjoying our preschool. It has been so much fun to watch them arrive, and to listen to (teachers) teach them to walk in a line, sit for a story, recognize their names and start to learn their letters. "This ministry is already reaching families in our community, and seeds are being planted," the story ...
'New Generation Ministries Empowerment Center' is new 'church plant' in Southwest Memphis
published 8/19/2015
By Rev. Dr. Russell M. Morrow, email@example.com Working in concert with the Memphis Conference, Metro McKendree District, Methodist Healthcare's Congregational Health Network and people of faith near and far, we are planting a new faith community in the Southwest Memphis, Tenn., area called the New Generation Ministries Empowerment Center (NGMEC). OUR PURPOSE Our purpose is to plant this community of faith and church for people who desire new hope, meaning, transformation, purpose and ...