From Markus Grae-Hauck, Music Director You may have heard the rumors, and they are true: our Assistant Music Director, Stearns Matthews, has accepted an offer from the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship (MUUF) to serve as their Interim Music Director, starting April 2, 2018. He will still be around UU Montclair for such occasions as the Installation...
Author: Markus Hauck (Markus Hauck)
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On That Note – January 2018
From Markus Grae-Hauck, Music Director A woman was not sure that the turn signals in the rear of her car were working. So she asked her six-year-old son to stand behind the vehicle and watch the tail lights. Here is what he reported: “Yes, it’s working!… Wait, no, it’s not… yes, it is!… no, it’s...
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On That Note… – November 2017
From Markus Grae-Hauck, Music Director Did you miss it? I almost did. If you attended the Sunday morning service on September 24th, you were there when Rev. Anya Sammler-Michael (Senior Co-Minister), Sue Raufer (Board President), and Jennie Wengrovius (Chair of the Music Committee) took a few minutes to acknowledge the fact that I completed the UUA’s Music Leadership...
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On That Note… – October 2017
From Markus Grae-Hauck, Music Director At a recent staff meeting, Rev. Anya asked us how we have been coping with the stress of transition – first through the interim period, then with two new senior ministers and another new staff member (in a position that had not previously existed in our congregation). We acknowledged that...
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On That Note – May 2017
The miracle of spring never ceases to amaze me. No matter how many times I have seen it before, watching seemingly barren earth and dead trees come back to life fills me with wonder and hope. Trying to turn this into a metaphor for the state of our congregation would be a pretty strained exercise....
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On That Note – March 2017
During the last several weeks, we have sung the hymn “Woyaya” in each of our Sunday services. For those of you who missed it, here are the lyrics: We are going Heaven knows where we are going But we know within And we will get there Heaven knows how we will get there But we...