Monthly Theme: Evil
Sermon Topic: Good, Bad, and Indifferent
Choir: Chamber Choir

 

“Timor et Tremor” from Quatre Motets pour un Temps du Pénitence
Music: Francis Poulenc
Text: Traditional

Timor et tremor venerunt super me et caligo cecidit super me.
Miserere mei, Domine, miserere; quoniam in te confidit anima
mea. Exaudi, Deus, deprecationem meam, quia refugium meum
es tu et adiutor fortis. Domine, invocavi te, non confundar.

TRANSLATION

Fear and trembling have come upon me and darkness has fallen
upon me. Have pity on me, Lord, have pity; because in thee my
soul trusts. Hear, O God, my prayer, because thou art my refuge
and my strong helper. Lord, I have called on thee, I will not
be confounded.

 

To Inez Millholland
Music: Ryan Humphrey
Text: Edna St, Vincent Millay

Upon this marble bust that is not I
Lay the round, formal wreath that is not fame;
But in the forum of my silenced cry
Root ye the living tree whose sap is flame.

The stone will perish; I shall be twice dust.
Only my standard on a taken hill
Can cheat the mildew and the red-brown rust
And make immortal my adventurous will.
Even now the silk is tugging at the staff:
Take up the song; forget the epitaph.