Musical offerings: spreading love in a time of quarantine
Catherine suggests that we listen to Bobby McFerrin and the Ku’umba Singers: “Hold on!“
Cathy Martin, “I Will Testify to Love“
Eben Dodd: “Those Three Days“
Betsy and Laura Williams with Beth Spicer: “By the Mark“ (Gillian Welch)
Eben Dodd: “The Holy Ghost Will Show You“
Eric Robinson, “Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley/Were You There?“
Eben Dodd: “The Prodigal Son“
Fred Gray: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot“
Eben Dodd, with the “Coronavirus Blues“
Betsy and Laura Williams with Beth Spicer: “When I Hear That Trumpet Sound“
Cathy Martin: “I Will Have Faith in You“
Susie recommends:
Early Easter morning, a service from the Iona Community
The Easter gospel sung by Will Burhans and Naomi Burhans
“Christ the Lord is Risen Today” (Laura Benning playing Ricky Lombardo’s arrangement)
“The Strife is O’er” (the Episcopal Church Virtual Choir and Orchestra)
For Easter Eve: Kelly Joe Phelps, “Roll Away the Stone“
Rev. Dan Smith: “Just Keep Goin’ On“
Taizé: “Mon âme se repose“
For music from a variety of online quarantine choirs, click here
For a variety of poems offered during the lockdown, click here
Other suggestions:
Charlotte suggests Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (with Krista Tippett here)
Karen suggests Compassion of Animals: True Stories of Animal Courage and Kindness by Kristin von Kreisler, Rustle of Angels by Webber and Webber, and Alabama’s “Angels Among Us“
Alice asks you that you consider this story of a state bank’s ability to help in a crisis
Charlotte offers this Pentecost reflection from the Abbey of Hope
The BBC podcast “Heart and Soul” offers personal approaches to spirituality from around the world
The Shades of Yale sing “We Shall Overcome“
For absolutely no reason at all, almost two hours of Chopin nocturnes (Stefan Askenase, 1954)
And here, for not much more reason, are another six hours of Chopin (Giovanni Umberto Battel and Noah Johnson)
Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Sepulto Domino (Collegium 1704 , Luks–singers and orchestra all in masks)
Bach’s Easter oratorio, “Kommt, eilet und laufet,” BWV 249 (Netherlands Bach Society, van Veldhoven)
Jan Dismas Zelenka’s “Missa Omnium Sanctorum,” ZWV 21 (Ensemble Inégal, Prague Baroque Soloists, Adam Viktora)
Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Missa Votiva in E minor (Collegium 1704, Luks)
Gary Stroutsos plays the Hopi flute
“Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lean on Me,” “A Lovely Day” and a live concert or two
in honor of Bill Withers’ joining the choir celestial at 81
A live lockdown concert by Fred’s favorite young Dutch organist, Gert van Hoef
The Golden Gate Quartet: “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen“