MUSIC BOX
Melinda Coffey Armstead, piano
Prelude to Worship
The Great Gate of Kiev . . . Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
from Pictures at an Exhibition
Musical Interlude
Eternal Father, Strong to Save . . . John. B. Dykes (1823-1876), arr. by Don Chilcote
Postlude
Chorale: Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr . . . J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Fugue XV in G Major, Well Tempered Clavier Book I . . . J. S. Bach
THE NEW SONG BY W. S. MERWIN
For some time I thought there was time
and that there would always be time
for what I had a mind to do
and what I could imagine
going back to and finding it
as I had found it the first time
but by this time I do not know
what I thought when I thought back then
there is no time yet it grows less
there is the sound of rain at night
arriving unknown in the leaves
once without before or after
then I hear the thrush waking
at daybreak singing the new song
