Curtis Metzger - member since January 2006

With only two new members joining this semester, Curtis closes out our new profiles for the year. Curtis is a welcome addition to our first tenor section. He is 48 and single. Curtis lives in Concord, which has been his home for the last three years (the man has been around, as you'll find out soon).

Curtis has one of the lengthier occupational titles of the group. He works as the Hospital Bioterrorism Preparedness Coordinator for the New Hampshire Bureau of Emergency Management. Curtis is also an Episcopal priest (first ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada), but has made his living mostly in Executive Director positions in community-based nonprofit organizations: a hospice service in Vancouver, Ronald McDonald House Charities in Hawaii, and a Red Cross chapter in Maine. He continues to serve in his church occasionally taking services for priests on vacation, etc.

When asked why he joined the chorus, he answered that he missed singing in a gay men's chorus. He indicated that he used to sing with both the Vancouver Men's Chorus and Honolulu Men's Chorus.

Curtis listed his favorite movie as The Last of the Mohicans. I will presume he meant the 1992 version starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Russell Means. This is a must-see movie for all!

In Curtis' car stereo at the time of this questionnaire was the Vancouver Men's Chorus Christmas CD (that's devotion, baby)!

Finally, Curtis' favorite quote comes from Dame Julian of Norwich. Who, you say? After some online research, I found out she lived in the 14th century. At 30 years old, she became gravely ill and was expected to die. Then, on the seventh day, the medical crisis passed, and she had a series of fifteen visions or "showings" contemplating the Passion of Christ. She spent the rest of her life in prayer and trying to figure out her visions. In her book, she wrote about the fate of those, who through no fault of their own, had never heard of the Gospel. She said that whatever God does is done in love and therefore, "that all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well." Definitely one of our older quotes. Welcome, Curtis!