Cecilia Duarte, mezzo-soprano | 
Randall Swanson, piano

TEXT
Sing God a simple song:
Lauda, Laudé
Make it up as you go along:
Lauda, Laudé
Sing like you like to sing.
God loves all simple things,
For God is the simplest of all,
For God is the simplest of all.

I will sing the Lord a new song
To praise Him, to bless Him, to bless the Lord.
I will sing His praises while I live
All of my days.

Blessed is the man who loves the Lord,
Blessed is the man who praises Him.
Lauda, Lauda, Laudé
And walks in His ways.

I will lift up my eyes
To the hills from whence comes my help.
I will lift up my voice to the Lord
Singing Lauda, Laudé.

For the Lord is my shade,
Is the shade upon my right hand,
And the sun shall not smite me by day
Nor the moon by night.

Blessed is the man who loves the Lord,
Lauda, Lauda, Laudé,
And walks in His ways.
Lauda, Lauda, Laudé,
Lauda, Lauda di da di day.
All of my days.

Music by Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) from MASS (1971)
Words by Stephen Schwartz (b. 1948)

Live recording • 31 January 2021
St. Philip Presbyterian Church • Houston, Texas
Steinway model D concert grand piano, 2002
Music © G. Schirmer, Inc. All rights reserved.

Leonard Bernstein — A Simple Song

Leonard Bernstein: A Simple Song

Cecilia Duarte, mezzo-soprano | 
Randall Swanson, piano

Ralph Vaughan Williams — The Call

David Hurd — He is the Way

Allan Robert Petker — Christ whose glory fills the skies

Stuart Townend — There is a hope

Carl Schalk — Now the silence | Then the glory

Bob Chilcott — The Lord's my Shepherd

Julia Fox, soprano |
Cecilia Duarte, mezzo-soprano |
Nicholas Rathgeb, baritone |
Randall Swanson, bass

Keith Duke — You, Lord, are in this place

Nicole Simental, organist

1. Toccata in F major • BuxWV 156 • Dieterich Buxtehude [0:00]
2. Variations on Est-ce mars • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck [8:50]
3. Sonata No. 4 in B-flat major • Op. 65 • Felix Mendelssohn [14:38]
— I. Allegro con brio • II. Andante religioso • III. Allegretto • IV. Allegro maestoso e vivace —
4. Lullaby from Suite No. 2 • Calvin Hampton [28:30]
5. Prelude and Fugue in E minor • BWV 548 • Johann Sebastian Bach [34:18]
6. Six Fugues on B-A-C-H • Op. 60 • Robert Schumann [48:34]
— V. Lebhaft • II. Lebhaft —
7. Etude No. 4 "Tierces" from Four Concert Etudes • David Briggs [58:14]

View concert program here:  https://bit.ly/2uI77mf 

Recorded live in concert 22 July 2018
St Philip Presbyterian Church • Houston, TX
Paul Fritts Organ, Op. 29 (2010) 3m/48s

Nicole Simental — Organ Concert — 22 July 2018

Music at St Philip Presbyterian Church — Houston

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