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Welcome to Sunset Singers - a chapter of Threshold Choir International.

We are a chapter of the Threshold Choir. This is an international non-profit organization with over 150 chapters.

Singing for the terminally ill and those going through serious health challenges in small groups of 2 -3 singers offering calm and comfort that music can bring.

For those who have recently been placed on hospice, we sing songs that provide comfort to help get through the day.

We sing at Concord Hospice House, nursing facilities, and private homes. We will also sing for special occasions and at residential facilities. Please inquire.

 

LET THE LAST THING BE SONG by Hannah Fries i. Memory is safest in someone with amnesia. Behind locked doors glow the unmarred pieces— musical notes humming in a jumble, only waiting to be arranged. ii. What is left in one who does not remember? Love and music. Not a name but the fullness. Not the sequence of events but order of rhythm and pitch, a piece of time in which to exist.

Used with permission.

iii. A tone traveling through space has no referent, and yet we infer, and yet it finds its way between our cells and shakes us. Aren’t we all still quivering like tuning forks with the shock of being, the shock of being seen? iv. When I die, I want to be sung across the threshold. Don’t you? Doesn’t the universe, with its loosening warp and weft, still unspool its symphony? Sing to me — please — and I will sing for you as all unravels, as time continues past the final beat of the stutter inside your chest. Harmonize, at the edge of that horizon, with the black hole’s fathomless B-flat.

New singers welcome. We rehearse for 1 1/2 hours every Wednesday at the Concord Community Music School from 10:00-11:30am. Please see our JOIN page for more information.

Feel free to email sunsetsingersnh@thresholdchoir.org or call/text Kathy at 603-229-7035 with questions or a sing request.

PLEASE NOTE: We sing these songs with permission from the composers. Any recordings made while we visit is for YOUR USE ONLY! Please do NOT post on social media. We try very hard to respect the work of our very generous composers. Thank you so much for understanding.