Author: Markus Hauck (Markus Hauck)

Several years before the beginning of my illustrious career as a UU musician, I had a job in a small health food store. I started as a part-time clerk and over the course of several years gradually assumed more authority. As general manager, I still had many of the same tasks as before (restocking organic...

As I am writing this, the internet connection at the U has just recently come back after we were offline for several hours. I had a brief chat about it with our RE Coordinator, Judith Stein-Farrall, who told me that our IT consultant was called in and simply reset the routers. Judith and I both...

Several years ago I was hired by a fairly large UU congregation in the Metro NY district as the music director for their summer services. I very much enjoyed working there and met a lot of terrific people. They invited me back the following summer, and when the regular music director returned in the fall...

Last month I conducted a concert production of the musical “Sunday in the Park with George,” one of my very favorite shows. It revolves around the painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat. Even if you were not familiar with the title, you would probably recognize the picture...

After I led the services at UUCM on January 26th, several people expressed their surprise to me. Most of you knew me as the music director, but not as someone who could stand in the pulpit and deliver a sermon. We all tend to categorize the people around us, because it makes life easier. This person is someone with...

The music program at UUCM has been very active in the past three months. Here is a brief update: In September we held a two-day choir retreat at the Rinearson/Lewis house in the Catskills. We enjoyed a good balance of rehearsals and social time, which included sharing meals, singing around the campfire and hot-tubbing. We...