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Notices and News from the Chaplain – Palm Sunday
Looking at the week ahead, including the invitation to this week’s Palm Sunday service on Zoom:
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Junior Church on 5th Sunday of Lent
Notices and News from the Chaplain – Invitation to Online Sunday Service
Our new chaplain, Revd Jules A. Barnes, is going to share weekly notices and news with us starting from this week.
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#lent2021: Jochim Trede plays Bach
Today I’d like to share with you Jochim Trede at our organ playing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Chorale Prelude “O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde groß”. Bach’s “Choralbearbeitung” takes the tune of the Lutheran hymn “O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde groß” (“O human, bewail your great sin”) and stretches it into long ornamented arcs. It is the virtue of music that the music does exactly what the words prompts us to do: The hymn says “bewail your sin – cry!” and the music bewails and cries.
Junior Church on 4th Sunday of Lent
Junior Church on 3rd Sunday of Lent
#lent2021: A new three part round “How shall I sing”
A three part round with verses taken from Psalm 137: “How shall I sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? As for our lyres we hung them up on the willows that grow in that land.” – Music composed by our Director of Music, Yotin Tiewtrakul, to welcome our new chaplain Revd Jules Barnes. We hope that Hamburg will turn from a “strange land” into a new home for her!
Junior Church on 2nd Sunday of Lent
#lent2021: Our organist Jochim Trede playing Passacaglia in D Minor
In this week we’d like to share with you Dietrich Buxtehude’s “Passacaglia in D Minor” played by our organist Jochim Trede at one of the concerts celebrating our 400th anniversary in 2012.
A “passacaglia” is a musical form in which a short bass line is repeated over and over again while on top of that variations flourish.
Is there something meaningful in your life to which you keep returning to? For some it’s a book they can never get tired to read again and again. For others it’s a special place they like to visit. Maybe you discover that there’s a constant meaningful theme in your life and a lot of variations on that? You can take your time to reflect on that while listening to Buxtehude’s Passacaglia: