Going round and round for life and pictures and pictures of life the sights and sounds don't change so much, as seasons bring new colours of grace, sometimes with reckless pace...
I don't know the path to take when heart weighs heavy, this weight of love and life, neglect and loss,... and gain...
and pain. Such deep and sorrowful pain.
World against me? Whispers of help... Lies of peace and threats of sword...
I just look to You, my Lord.
Yeah, looking for the path for tomorrow, living presently.
Today
I traverse the same space
but come upon a bridge again,
an altogether new bend, leads me to a wide and open place.
And I know it will be in this, the same: seasoned with Your grace.
Your love and peace I cannot escape, when in the secret place of Your will I seek refuge Not will of man, but Your heart I will seek.
My soul has been bought, and You, my One and Only bridge will, one day connect this crazy time
to Your heavenly place...
JMR October 30, 2009
Joe sang this beautiful solo the year I became good friends with him in college. He sang so beautifully.
Here at the beginning of this video, you will hear beautiful music, the Nunc Dimittis by Rachmaninov - Vespern op.37... this was the beautiful song that we sang in choir. The tenor is good, but I will always be partial to Joe's voice on this part, he has such a lovely tone. I would love to find a recording of it someday.
Listen for the wonderful bass line at the very end, and the amazing soprano line that means, "A light to lighten the Gentiles..." (after the tenor solo and after the chorus follows at the beginning.)
The Song of Simeon (Nunc dimittis) from Rachmaninoff Vespers All Night Vigil Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace according to Thy word: For mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, Which Thou hast prepared before the face of all peaple; To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of Thy people Israel. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.
"5 Perhaps the most famous and certainly the most extraordinary of the Vigil movements, this setting of the Song of Simeon (Luke 2: 29-32) is the high point of Vespers. The text is said by the priest whenever a child is received into the church. Rachmaninoff was particularly fond of this movement and wanted it at his funeral, but this wish was not granted because no place could be found for it in the funeral service. Against a gently rocking background, the tenor solo sings a Kiev chant. At the end of the movement the basses descend step by step to a low B flat in what is one of the most impressive passages in the whole work."
I hope you will enjoy the beautiful song. It is one of my absolute favourites and I would love to sing the chorus again! There is a beautiful cello rendition http://songza.fm/~sygqar by Sonia Wieder-Atherton. I recommend listening to another Nunc Dimittis by Gretchaninoff. If you enjoyed this one, you will undoubtedly be moved by the Gretchaninoff, too.
I love this man. His voice took the place of my father's when he died in 1979... the next male voice to come from my parents' bedroom, Chuck's on the radio. Mom said "Listen, this is good!" I said, yeah, yeah... but I was listening, & it was good.
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