Wondrous Music In The Face of Wrongs

Wondrous Music In The Face of Wrongs

Dr. Buehrens, homilist
Dr. Mark Sumner directing the UUSF Choir and Soloists
and the Jubilate Instrumental Ensemble
and Reiko Oda Lane at the organ keyboard.
Jonathan Silk, OOS, Sound, Worship Archives/Podcast

Bring your music loving friends! Our “Big Music Sunday” this year features works by J.S. Bach, centered on Cantata 79, his “Reformation Cantata” --a fitting prelude to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, 1517 to 2017. The cantata includes a chorale, “Nun danket alle Gott,” praising, in the face of enduring ills, the “wondrous things” already done to rectify many ancient wrongs. On the day after International Human Rights Day, we both celebrate and recommit ourselves – with the Human Rights Working Group bringing forth our UUSF “Black Lives Matter” banner.

As part of the service at First Unitarian Universalist Church in SF, many members of the UC Alumni Chorus will join the Unitarian Universalist Choir.

Directed by Mark Sumner
Includes Jubilate/Magnificat Orchestra, David Wilson, conductor.
Soloists:
Kate Offer
Alex Jerinic
Asher Davidson
Gilead Wurman
Jiun-Chyi Yew

Features an all Johann Sebastian Bach programme: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066 Ouverture; Heute noch lieber Vater from The Coffee Cantata, BWV 211; Gott der Herr und Sonn und Schild, Cantata No. 79 and Immortal Bach arranged by Knut Nystedt