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<aside> 🎹 Tonight’s concert features Westmoreland Festival Chorus, directed by Alec Davis, guest soloists, organist Barbara Verdile, and cellist Dorotea Racz
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I Love You / What a Wonderful World Arr. Craig Hella Johnson Words and Music by Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill (I Love You) Words and Music by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele (What a Wonderful World)
<aside> 🎹 Alec Davis, piano and solo
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We can be together now and forever; I love, I love you. And when I’m prayin’, I hear him sayin’ “I love you, I love you.” People all over the world, they’re opening up, they’re comin’ around And they’re sayin’ I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love, I love you…
I see skies of blue And clouds of white The bright blessed day The dark sacred night And I think to myself What a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow So pretty in the sky Are also on the faces Of people going by I see friends shaking hands Saying how do you do They're really saying I love you
I hear babies cry I watch them grow They'll learn much more Than I'll ever know And I think to myself What a wonderful world Yes, I think to myself What a wonderful world
Simple Gifts Shaker Tune, Arr. Alec Davis
<aside> 🎹 Alyssa Stanton, Ketti Muschler, Beverly Westergren, Patricia Portillo - soloists
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'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, 'Twill be in the valley of love and delight. When true simplicity is gain'd, To bow and to bend we will not be asham'd, To turn, turn will be our delight, Till by turning, turning we come round right.
Oliver Introit #1: Hope By Alec Davis Text: Mary Oliver
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clear blue sky, are heading home again.
Homeward Bound by Simon & Garfunkel