Musical offering for Memorial Day
May 29, 2023
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Sunday musical offering
May 28, 2023
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Today’s cultural moment
May 25, 2023
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Sunday musical offering
May 21, 2023
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Today’s cultural moment
May 18, 2023
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Happy birthday, Erik
May 17, 2023It’s the birthday of French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925), who is best remembered for his Trois Gymnopédies for piano. Here are two of them in an orchestral arrangement by Claude Debussy.
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Sunday musical offering
May 14, 2023
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Sunday musical offering
May 7, 2023
Sweet rivers of redeeming love
Lie just before my eyes;
Had I the pinions of a dove,
I’d to those rivers fly.
I’d rise superior to my pain,
With joy outstrip the wind;
I’d cross cold Jordan’s stormy waves,
And leave the world behind.
A few more days or years at most
My troubles will be o’er;
I hope to join the heavenly host
On Canaan’s happy shore.
My raptured soul shall drink and feast
In love’s unbounded sea,
The glorious hope of endless rest
Is ravishing to me.
O come, my Savior, come away,
And bear me through the sky;
Nor let Thy chariot wheels delay,
But quickly draw Thou nigh.
Then I shall join the angel throng
And circle round Thy throne;
I’ll sing through all the ages long,
And joy to be Thine own.
Sweet rivers of redeeming love
Lie just before my eyes;
Had I the pinions of a dove,
I’d to those rivers fly.
I’d rise superior to my pain,
With joy outstrip the wind;
I’d cross cold Jordan’s stormy waves,
And leave the world behind.
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Sunday musical offering
April 30, 2023
Te lucis ante terminum,
Rerum creator poscimus,
Ut solita clementia,
Sis praesul ad custodiam.
Before the ending of the day,
Creator of the world, we pray,
That with Thy wonted favour Thou
Would be our guard and keeper now.
Keep me as the apple of Thine eye;
Hide me under the shadow of Thy wings;
Keep me as the apple of Thine eye;
Hide me, hide me, hide me.
The heaven soars with voices above,
The skies resound the power of Your love;
The stars shine out their glorious light,
Shine through our gloom and take us on high.
Keep me as the apple of Thine eye;
Hide me under the shadow of Thy wings;
Keep me as the apple of Thine eye;
Hide me, hide me, hide me.
Te lucis ante terminum,
Rerum creator poscimus,
Te lucis ante terminum,
Rerum creator poscimus,
Sancto spiritu.
Te lucis ante terminum.
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Today’s cultural moment
April 27, 2023
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