“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying What I do is me: for that I came.
I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is — Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men’s faces.
― Gerard Manley Hopkins
1 CORINTHIANS 15:49-55
49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. 50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven: Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those that trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.
ART APPRECIATION
In this Impressionist work, you can see bright colors and choppy brushstrokes. You see a scene from everyday life. Cassatt loved to capture mothers and their children in everyday life. When her family moved to Paris, she would often paint them drinking tea or relaxing in the garden.1
Mary Cassatt (1845 – 1926) was born into a wealthy family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a child, she visited Paris’s great art museums, and she wanted to become an artist. Her family at first disapproved of this idea, because women in that day were usually not permitted to study art and to sell paintings. However, Cassatt attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and then moved to Paris to further her art studies. Cassatt’s paintings were accepted into the Salon, an important exhibit in Paris. She traveled around Europe as a successful artist, and later became friends with Edgar Degas, another famous Impressionist artist.2
MUSIC APPRECIATION
Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052: I. “Allegro” by Johann Sebastian Bach
The music of J.S. Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052, has an interesting, hybrid genealogy: it contains repurposed material from two of his cantatas and may have originally been written as a violin concerto. The three-movement concerto begins with a driving, menacing opening theme and virtuosic passages, followed by a slow a mysterious middle movement in G minor. By contrast, the intricate counterpoint and brisk tempo of the third movement are characteristic of Bach’s finales with an extravagant keyboard cadenza that guides the music toward a major key before a final, enthralling return to D minor.3
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was born in what is now Germany. He came from a family of musicians and was taught to play the organ by his eldest brother. Soon after this, in his teenage years, he began to focus on composing and performing keyboard and sacred music. Hundreds of his compositions, such as his church cantatas, were created for a religious context; he also composed an enormous amount of secular music, much of it purely instrumental.4
- Lange, Krista, and Leigh Lowe. First Grade Enrichment: Classical Core Curriculum. Teacher Guide. Memoria Press, 2017. ↩︎
- Ibid. ↩︎
- “Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 • Orchestra of St. Luke’s.” Orchestra of St. Luke’s, 9 July 2020, oslmusic.org/bach_posts/harpsichord-concerto-no-1/. ↩︎
- “Who Was Johann Sebastian Bach? A Brief Introduction.” Who Was Johann Sebastian Bach? A Brief Introduction – Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, 4 Dec. 2023, http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/news/who-was-johann-sebastian-bach-a-brief-introduction/. ↩︎
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