Music: Sun Sep 28

Selections for Sun Sep 28, from Adam Kent, piano

Prelude: “S.D.G.”
“I call on Thee, o Lord Jesus Christ”
J.S. Bach, arr. by Ferruccio Busoni

Partita No. 1 in Bb Major, BWV Bach
   Gigue

Concerto in the Italian Style
   I. No Tempo Indication

Offertory: "Jesu, Joy of Our Desiring"
Bach, arr. by Harold Bauer

Choir selections
CUC Choir directed by Lisa N. Meyer and accompanied by Georgianna Pappas

Durmé, durmé*
Sephardic Folk Song, arr. by Audrey Snyder
*Translation: Sleep, sleep mother’s little boy
Free from worry and pain
Listen (with) joy to your mother’s words
The words of Sh’ma Yisrael
Sleep, sleep mother’s little boy
With beauty of the (words of) Sh’ma Yisrael

Closer to the Flame
David Lantz III and Susan Bentall Boersma

Special Music
"How Could Anyone"
Solo sung by Lisa Meyer

NOTE
S.D.G. Soli Deo Gloria. To the Glory of God Alone. One of the five solae of the Protestant Reformation, the anagram appears on the manuscripts of all of J.S. Bach’s religious music and on many of his secular compositions as well. For Bach, artistic creation was an expression of absolute faith in a divine creator. The keyboard works performed at this morning’s worship service include arrangements for piano of choral and organ works by J. S. Bach as well as several of his original keyboard pieces. CUC’s Choir also presents music of faith, including a lullaby from the Sephardic tradition in which a mother’s recitation of the Sh’ma lull a baby to sleep.