Celebrate The Resurrection Story

SKU: CF.CM8431A

ISBN 9780825809750. UPC: 798408009755. 6.75 X 10.5 inches. Key: Bb major. Text: Patrick M. Liebergen. Patrick M. Liebergen.

SKU: LO.30-2091L

UPC: 000308106459.

This majestic setting of Timothy Dudley-Smith's brilliant text is an exhilarating celebration of Christ's victory over death! Both text and music underscore the joy of the resurrection story in this powerful Easter anthem.

SKU: PR.111402890

ISBN 9781491134672. UPC: 680160685264.

Whatâ??s in a name? While the title is French for â??Eight Flower Songs,â? the texts are all in English. The poemsâ?? flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrowth. Perhaps the texture and beauty of Gordonâ??s music are themselves French. The 20-minute song cycle draws on poems from Wordsworth to Dorothy Parker, as well as from contemporary poets including the composer himself.
When So-Chung Shinn came to me with the idea of commissioning a song cycle with her spectacular husband Tony Lee, she had in mind something having to do with flowers. Tony had asked her what she wanted for her birthday, and she said she wanted to be behind the creating of a new work. Lucky me, I was the recipient of the commission. So-Chung sent me a little description of all the flowers she loves, but I had to take the idea and create a narrative in my head.It is always a matter of pleasing the commissioner, yet coming up with something you can get behind and hear music for as well. I already knew I wanted to use my â??Tulipsâ? poem which is really about the arc of a relationship as represented through the life span of the Tulips, and, in many ways, disappointment; and Dorothy Parkerâ??s â??One Perfect Rose,â? which is wry, bitter, cynical, and funny, in a way only Dorothy Parker can so pithily express.I thought of Jane Kenyonâ??s exquisite â??Peonies at Dusk,â? because knowing she died so young (46) of leukemia, the poem has such a particular resonance, almost humanizing the Peonies, casting the moon as a sentient being, illustrating so beautifully how connected everything is, alive here, and revolving around these exquisite blossoms. Then, I remembered her husband Donald Hallâ??s poem â??Her Garden,â? which he wrote after Jane died, his grief intermingled with his inability to care for what she had created, to keep alive what so represented her aliveness, broken as he was, and I felt I already had a story.I found the Wordsworth, because it felt like pure joy to me, but also, if each of the songs has a color in my head, â??The Daffodilsâ? is pure yellow and a good place to start. My partner Kevin and I live on a lake, and every year, the first Daffodils, the shock of yellows, the oranges, the blinding whites, after the long snowy winters, sing of the newness that is about to enfold us in its green miraculousness.At first, the cycle ended with the Langston Hughes poem â??Cycle,â? or â??New Flowers,â? because it was lovely, and about rebirth, which is obviously optimistic, and apt, but then, my friend Telmo Dos Santos, a wonderful Canadian poet whom I met at Banff, sent me his poem â??Afterlife With Lilacs,â? having no idea what I was working on. I felt I had to add it because it is so dazzling, and it immediately felt like the missing link. Finally, there were unfortunately rights issues, namely, we could not, no how, get in touch with the Langston Hughes Estate, after so many happy collaborations.After almost a yearâ??s frustration, I wrote my own text, â??Play, Orpheus,â? which ended up being fortuitous, because the first time I met So-Chung, she entered the room and the most exquisite scent of Lillies of the Valley, Muguet de Bois, filled the room. I went right over to her and rudely put my nose to her neck, for the intoxication of the scent. So â??Play, Orpheusâ? is for So-Chung, to remind us of the precious treasures of this world flowers remind us of. Everything and everyone lives and dies, lives and dies. Death and resurrection.And of course, this is music, this is song, so the inclusion of the God of music, Orpheus, seems apt. Huit Chansons de Fleurs is really about what flowers represent, their radiance, their flickering impermanence, the way they are used to celebrate, as well as to mourn...... and of course, their fragrance. Their fragrance.Ricky Ian GordonJuly 28, 2021.

SKU: HP.8278

UPC: 763628182786. Words by John Parker.

Lent & Easter Musical with words by John Parker
This Joel Raney cantata, with text by John Parker, centers on the events of Holy Week - beginning with Jesus' triumphant ride into Jerusalem with one thousand hosannas filling the air, to the events of Good Friday and the true passion of the one sacrifice, and finally concluding with the joyous celebration of the risen one. The original music is both uplifting and intensely stirring, as the story unfolds in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Options are given for concluding with the Good Friday events or with the resurrection. An accessible orchestral accompaniment is available. Performance time: 25-30 minutes.

SKU: WD.080689562174

UPC: 080689562174.

“It’s Easter and Jesus has risen! All that the cross was supposed to accomplish has been completed, and we can rejoice as children of the resurrection; as believers who have been given purpose and power in knowing the living, risen Christ!”

Joel Lindsey’s new song, “Let All the World Sing”, opens the curtain on this triumphant new musical for Easter, THE TOMB IS EMPTY NOW. Crafted by the unparalleled creative team of multiple Dove-Award winning songwriter Joel Lindsey and celebrated arranger Cliff Duren, THE TOMB IS EMPTY NOW portrays the Passion of the Christ through a stunning array of celebratory and thought-provoking songs, songs of deeply-felt pain and sorrow, and songs of great rejoicing.

The love Jesus displayed on the cross and the death He died there isn’t the end of the story! Somewhere in the night the LAMB of the cross became the LORD of an EMPTY TOMB! And now, centuries later, we live because He lives! Every prodigal child has a home, every disease-ridden saint has the hope of healing, every lonely outcast can find redemption… because Jesus died and was laid in a tomb, and that tomb… is EMPTY NOW!