Sunday Playlist - 2/28/21

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzrVlXh4mc1MChFqGsvCdfyIB0moSMdWi
We begin this week with a recitation of a Langston Hughes poem and the gospel number, "I Don't Feel Noways Tired." We've heard that one before by a different artist (from James Cleveland several months ago). Back then (my, we've been a long time in this pandemic...), we also heard a different rendering of "You Know My Name," the second song on the list. Both speak address healing--the energy of the first song, the assurances of the second.

We move then into a meditative space. "Haru no umi" is a piece for shakuhachi and koto by Michio Miyagi. The title means "The Sea In Spring." With the sun finally breaking through in the northeast, maybe we can begin to envision such landscapes.

Finally, we have an instrumental and an antiphonal version of the French hymn, "Oui, je me lèverai et j'irai vers mon père," (Yes, I will arise and go to my Father.") The refrain is from the story of the prodigal son, and the text is drawn in part from Psalm 51, a song of penitence traditional for Lent.