Music: Sun Feb 5

 

Welcome to February! This morning’s musical selections include a seasonal greeting from Tchaikovsky’s cycle of monthly pieces and a tribute to the work of composers of the African Diaspora in honor of Black History Month. Read on for programming details, and stay tuned for spoken introductions.

 

Gathering Music: Adam Kent, piano

From Cinnamon Grove,

IV. Allegretto “Oh, the Winter’ll soon be over, children, Yes, my Lord!”

R. Nathaniel Dett

February, Op. 37, No. 2

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

 

Opening Music:
Take Nabandji

Traditional South East African, arr. by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

 

Meditation:

“Sunrise, Sunset” from Fiddler on the Roof

                        Jerry Bock

 

Offertory:
The Easy Winners

                        Scott Joplin

 

Interlude:
“We’ll Make Our Garden Grow”* from Candide

Leonard Bernstein

 

* CANDIDE
You've been a fool
And so have I,
But come and be my wife.
And let us try,
Before we die,
To make some sense of life.
We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow...
And make our garden grow.

CUNEGONDE
I thought the world
Was sugar cake
For so our master said.
But, now I'll teach
My hands to bake
Our loaf of daily bread.

CANDIDE AND CUNEGONDE
We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow...
And make our garden grow.

(ensemble enters in gardening gear and a cow walks on)

CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, MAXIMILLIAN, PAQUETTE, OLD LADY, DR. PANGLOSS
Let dreamers dream
What worlds they please
Those Edens can't be found.
The sweetest flowers,
The fairest trees
Are grown in solid ground.

ENSEMBLE (a cappella)
We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow.
And make our garden grow!

Postlude:

“Juba Dance” from In the Bottoms

                        R. Nathaniel Dett