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
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