THE MUSIC BOX
November 21, 2021 THANKSGIVING
Taelen Thomas, poetical showman
Melinda Coffey Armstead, piano & organ
Prelude: A Meditation on Gratitude
Poetry by: Taelen Thomas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rainier Maria Rilke, Robert Armstead, Jack London, Rumi, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Charles Anker, Manitongquat, Gregory Petrov, Nezahualcoyotl, T. Thomas, R. L. Stevenson
Music by: Johann Crüger/Felix Mendelssohn, Anna Page/Thomas Tallis, Ennio Morricone, Robert Schumann, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Enya, Yiruma, Conrad Kocher, Larry Shackley, Robert Owens, A Page/T. Tallis
Offertory: text – based on Ecclesiastes 3
music – “To Everything There Is A Season” . . . Pete Seeger
Postlude: “Over the River” and Fugue in C . . . Dietrich Buxtehude
PLENTY
Which of all your blessings set your course,
And show you what to do and whom seek out,
And place upon you even half the force
Of those small things you have to do without?
If you can smile and say: “Look at each list:
Here’s what I want, here’s what I have. They’re one!”
Grace will descend on you soft as mist
Falls on your fields, your face warmed by the sun.
RLA
