Prelude

Overture from Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066

Johann Sebastian Bach (composed between 1724-45)

Gathering Music

Love is the Spirit of This Church

Paul Ayres (2011)

Music I

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 by J. S. Bach (composed between 1723-35)

1 Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott Chorale fantasia

2 Alles, was von Gott geboren Aria for Bass and Soprano

(Asher Davison, Kealie Pretzlav)

3 Erwäge doch, Kind Gottes Recitative for Bass

(Gilead Wurman)

4 Komm in mein Herzenshaus Aria for Soprano

(Kate Offer)

5 Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär Chorale

6 So stehe denn bei Christi blutgefärbten Fahne Recitative for Tenor

(Ed Betts)

7 Wie selig sind doch die, die Gott im Munde tragen Aria Duetto for Alto and Tenor

(Leandra Ramm, Ed Betts)

8 Das Wort sie sollen lassen stahn Chorale

Music II

This life is not righteousness by Paul Ayres

Commissioned by the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco in honor of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation (2017)

Offertory Music

Immortal Bach

Knut Nystedt (3 September 1915 – 8 December 2014)

Postlude

'Epilogue' from Overture from Orchestral, Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066

J. S. Bach

Order of Service

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Complete Worship Service

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Great Moments and Complicated Heros and Heroines by Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern