Music: Sun Apr 17

 

Our celebration of Passover, Easter, and Ramadan finds expression in this morning’s solo piano works. The Christian themes of resurrection and pastoral sacrifice reside in the Spiritual “Didn’t He Raise a Poor Lazarus” and in J. S. Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze”; the Islamic Caliphate of Al-Andalus is celebrated in Enrique Granados’s “Oriental”; and the happy “covivencia” of Christians, Jews, and Arabs in Medieval Spain is embodied in Isaac Albeniz’s “Cordoba”, the site of the largest mosque outside of Damascus (disfigured by a Catholic cathedral erected in its interior by Charles V) and the birthplace of the Jewish philosopher Maimonides. Read on for programming details, and stay tuned for spoken introductions.   

 

Gathering Music: Adam Kent, piano

Didn’t He Raise a Poor Lazarus

                        Traditional Spiritual arr. by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Cordoba

                        Isaac Albeniz

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

Laudate Domino

                        W. A. Mozart arr. by Earlene Rentz

 

Meditation:
Oriental, Op. 37, No. 2

                                    Enrique Granados

 

Interlude:
Sheep May Safely Graze

                                    J. S. Bach, arr. by Egon Petri

 

Postlude:
Awake, the Voice Commands

                                    J. S. Bach, arr. by Ferruccio Busoni