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Music for Memorial Day

Paul Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (A Requiem for Those We Love)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata BWV 172, is a church cantata written for Pentecost Sunday.

English Translation: http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/faculty/bach/BWV172.html

Happy Mother’s Day!

Here’s sacred music by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (Female composer of the Baroque period)

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani - O Dulcis Jesu

English Translation:

O sweet Jesus, You are the source of devotion, You are the source of goodness, and the source of love, and in You is the source of life, O sweet Jesus. 

So let my soul drink only from You, let it seek refuge only in You, let it cry to You day and night; for in You alone is true rest, true sweetness, and true peace and life. 

Most beloved Jesus, grant me your sweetest light; lovingly infuse, most pleasant Lord, infuse the ray of Your light into my soul, so that, thus illuminated and radiant, it may be worthy to see You, to love You, to enjoy You in love, to possess You in enjoyment with your saints forever. O sweet Jesus.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Sicut Cervus (Psalm 42)

English Translation:

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”