Easter Music, Choir, and a Few Easter Eggs 🐣 (En)

This Easter, I had the joy of singing with our church choir and orchestra.

From Haydn to Handel, it was a beautiful time of music, worship, and quiet blessings.

 

At our Easter thanksgiving service the other day, we had the opportunity to perform "Die Himmel erählen die Ehre Gottes" from Haydn's The Creation together with our church orchestra for the first time. Although the entire work lasts about 1 hour and 45 minutes, this piece itself is about four minutes long. It is also the original melody of hymn No.116, "みそらはみかみの."

The solo parts of Gabriel, Uriel, and Raphael are sung by soprano, tenor, and bass. In the actual performance, Y-chan sang the soprano solo, but I had been practicing as her substitute. The melody stays mostly around E-flat and D, which is rather low for sopranos and therefore difficult to sing.

The text is based on Psalm 19:1–4:

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. (Psalms 19:1-4 NIV)

In contrast to Haydn’s work, we also sang from Handel’s Messiah, focusing on the theme of the Passion: “Behold the Lamb of God” and “Surely, He hath borne our griefs.”

We then sang the well-known “Hallelujah Chorus,” joined by the children’s choir and accompanied by the orchestra. This piece is sung not only at Easter, but also at Christmas and Pentecost.

Finally, we sang “はかのなかに,” and from the middle of the piece, the entire congregation joined us, ending the service in a powerful chorus of praise.

One of our choir members, who had moved away after Christmas, was able to come back to church for the first time in a while. I prayed that she will once again be able to attend regularly and sing with us as before.　

As for my growing collection of Easter eggs, I now have six. Our church uses hollow eggs, not boiled ones, so they can be kept. This year, I added a simple pink egg—and even used two of them for my Easter wreath. I’m sure I’ll use them again next year as well. 😊

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