Word: resurrexit
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...Choir climbed to the belfry of Lehigh University's Packer Memorial Chapel, announced the beginning of another Bach Festival. Bach enthusiasts had come from Vermont, Georgia, New York, Minneapolis. Again 240 Bethlehem natives reverently intoned the Mass's pleading Kyrie, the deeply moving Crucifixus, the climactic Et Resurrexit...
...intellectual scepticism and the emotional sterility of Cambridge, nevertheless, the Vagabond has found a way to bridge the centuries. Three times a week he makes pilgrimage to Sever's roman halls where he can satisfy himself gloriously in singing Bach's B Minor Mass. In the Gloria and Et Resurrexit he can feel again the might of the church militant, triumphant and jubilant in its spirited movement. In the Crucifixus is the humbleness and the mystery which explain the church's power to bind the simple peasant. Here, with one of the livest men in the University to lead...
...world," and ends "Grant us thy Peace." Choruses, solos, duets ? Bach wrote with a prodigal hand. Deeply pleading is his opening Kyrie, but for many there is in all music no passage more moving than the Crucifixes in the Credo, no climax more splendid than the Et Resurrexit which follows...