Our very own Kiyo Watanabe and his wife Chiemi have been honored by being invited to participate in public radio event at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas.  The event known as Pipedreams Live! will take place on Monday, September 13, 2010 at 7:00pm (doors will open at 6:15pm).

Kiyo and Chiemi will play a duet of Handel’s “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba,” and as another great honor, Kiyo will get to play one of his own pieces, “2 Hymn Preludes in Jazz Style.”

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
6:30pm

Tickets (go on sale August 22):

• $12 / Adult
• $6 / Child 12 and under

Come, get in the mood for Autumn, apple pie, and football with the South’s true comfort food and some  music with a different twist.

• Want to help with the food?  Contact Sue Babb at suebabb@att.net or 767-1079.
• Want to provide some of the entertainment?  Contact Kristen Gossett at kkgossett@aol.com or 766-4231, x225.

“Next time you gaze at . . . the Last Supper painted by Leonardo da Vinci, note the ripple effect: Christ in the
center and the ebb and flow of movement as it ripples out from Christ past the disciples – all grouped in threes, their posture and positions accentuating that ripple effect.”

-Lois Gagne

Although our Music Ministry at FUMC is not a Da Vince masterpiece, God uses it to create a similar ripple effect in many lives. Your music produces vibrations and resonations far beyond one’s imaginations.

Thank you for your “waves.”and to all who participate in the Music Ministry of our church, especially during Holy
Week. Thank you for your ripple effect of action, passion, and Divine Blessing!

If you ever doubted the beneficial results from participation in music, here is once again, scientific fact that it does. These quotes are from a recent neurological conference in San Diego.

“Music making is a multisensory experience activating links to several parts of the brain.”

– Gottfriend Schlaug
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

“New studies show that musical training enhances the brain’s ability to do other things. The trained brain gets better at detecting patterns in sounds, so that musicians are better at picking out the voice of a friend in a noisy restaurant. Musical experience improves abilities important in daily life. Singing and playing an instrument helps youngsters better process speech in noisy classrooms and more accurately interpret the nuances of language that are conveyed by subtle changes in the human voice. When people first learn to talk and when they talk to babies they often use musical patterns in their speech. Music training is not only beneficial for processing music stimuli. We’ve found that years of music training may also improve how sounds are processed for language and emotion.  The very responses that are enhanced in musicians are deficient in clinical populations such as children with developmental dyslexia and autism.”

– Nina Kraus
Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory Director, Northwestern University

“New studies show that music doesn’t involve just hot spots in the brain, but large swaths on both sides of the brain.

– Aniruddh D. Patel
The Neurosciences Institute in San Diego

Beautiful music of love was heard on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at The Gables (at Rolling Meadows) and House of Hope as members of our very own Chancel Choir sang for the shut-ins there.  Many thanks to those who went to put a smile on the face of loved ones of our church and community.

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Join us for this annual FREE organ concert featuring our very own Dr. Kiyo Watanabe.  The anticipated set list is as follows:

• Tu es petra (Henri Mulet)
• Sleepers, Wake! (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Now Thank We All Our God (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Prelude and Fugue in G Minor (Marcel Dupre)
• Prelude and Fugue on the Name of ALAIN (Maurice Durufle)
• Londonderry Air (Traditional Irish)
• Choral No. 3 in A Minor (Cesar Franck)

Childcare will be provided!

For more information, contact Dr. Kiyo Watanabe (kwatanabe@fumcwf.org or 940-766-4231, x231).