Music: Sun Apr 28

Instrumental music in the form of Joseph Achron’s “Hebrew Melody” and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s arrangement of the Spiritual “Wade in the Water” are included as part of our Sunday morning Passover celebration. The former needs no explanation; the latter alludes to the Exodus from Egypt, and the parting of the Red Sea, as the Israelites fled their former captors. Elsewhere, a wealth of Jewish and Passover-themed congregational singing comprises a large part of worship, and CUUC’s Choir is on hand with a Psalm setting from Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and an arrangement of the traditional Hine Matov as a round. Read on for programming details.

Centering Music: Lyra Harada, violin; Adam Kent, piano

“Hebrew Melody”

                                    Joseph Achron

Anthem: CUUC Choir directed by Lisa N. Meyer and accompanied by Georgianna Pappas

Chichester Psalms, Movement III*

                                                 Leaonard Bernstein.

*Ps. 131:  Lord, Lord

               My heart is not haughty,

             Nor my eyes lofty,

                Neither do I exercise myself

                In great matter or in things

                Too wonderful for me.

                Surely, I have calmed

                And quieted myself,

                As a child that is weaned of his mother,

                My soul is even as a weaned child.

             Let Israel hope in the Lord,

                From henceforth and forever.

Ps. 133, vs. 1:  Behold, how good,

                          And how pleasant it is,

                          For brethren to dwell

                          Together in unity.

Offertory:
“Wade in the Water”

                                    Traditional Spiritual arr. by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Anthem:
Hine matov uma nayim         

                                    Traditional Hebrew Round