Bridges
Friday, 30. October 2009, 08:49:26
Bridges
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.)
In the Bible, it is Simeon... there is an history for me, that if you like I will share, just mail me. It's a cool story. Here is a sermon by Martin Luther that speaks of Simeon, http://homepage.mac.com/shanerosenthal/reformationink/mllk02d.htm
and some more links are:
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Nunc_dimittis
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.
from the website http://www.musicworcester.org/events-tickets/sergei-rachmaninoffs-vespers-all-night-vigil-opus-37
the Nunc is described:
"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.
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