Sunday musical offering
March 12, 2023
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Today’s cultural moment
September 29, 2022
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Sunday musical offering
July 31, 2022
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Happy birthday, Ola
May 5, 2022A little planetary music from Norwegian-born composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo on his 44th birthday.
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Musical offering for the eleventh day of Christmas
January 4, 2022
So bright the star!
Timeless child,
Born of my body,
Reconciling God to man,
So bright the star
That shines tonight in the heavens!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Glad tidings the angels proclaim!
So bright the star!
What is this news the angels bring?
Who is this child who is Savior and King?
Let us run to greet the Savior!
So great our joy!
So bright the star!
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Sunday musical offering
September 19, 2021
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Happy birthday, William
June 13, 2021William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) wrote “The Lake Isle of Inisfree” in 1888. Here it is in a choral setting by Ola Gjeilo.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
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Happy birthday, Ola
May 5, 2021Norwegian-born composer and pianist Ola Gjeilo plays a song for spring.
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Happy birthday, Emily
July 30, 2020In honor of the birthday of English novelist and poet Emily Brontë (1818-1848), here is a choral setting by Ola Gjeilo of one of her poems.
Few hearts to mortals given
On earth so wildly pine;
Yet none would ask a heaven
More like this earth than thine.
Then let my winds caress thee;
Thy comrade let me be—
Since nought beside can bless thee,
Return and dwell with me.
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Sunday musical offering
July 19, 2020
Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor.
Exultemus, et in ipso iucundemur.
Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum.
Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.
Where charity and love are, God is there.
Love of Christ has gathered us into one.
Let us rejoice in Him and be glad.
Let us fear and let us love the living God.
And from a sincere heart let us love one another.
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