Concerto The Peacemakers

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I Civici Cori della Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado
Coro di voci bianche della Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado

Giada Citton, soprano  
Fabio Zambon, pianoforte  

Francesco Girardi, direttore

In collaborazione con Fondazione Milano

The Peacemakers di Karl Jenkins è un'opera sulla tematica della pace con testi provenienti dalla tradizione cristiana, da altre religioni, dalla letteratura e da scuole filosofiche. Si inizia con le Beatitudini di Gesù nel Vangelo di Matteo: beati gli operatori di pace, perché saranno chiamati figli di Dio, seguono testi dei Salmi, di Santa Teresa di Calcutta, Gandhi, San Francesco d'Assisi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Anna Frank... Un grande canto per la pace.

PROGRAMMA
1) Vangelo di Matteo 5,9

Blessed are the Peacemakers for they will be called the children of God.

2) Fanfara

Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -
He hath awakened from the dream of life -
'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep

With phantoms an unprofitable strife.

4) Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

I offer you peace. I offer you love, I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that
Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love … an eye for an eye leaves the hole world blind.

5) Dalai Lama (b 1935)

We can never have peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace. Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace we
can be at peace with those around us.

6) Preghiera cristiana di origine celtica

Deep peace of the running wave to you,
Deep peace of the flowing air to you,
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you,
Deep peace of the shining stars to you,
Deep peace of the gentle night to you,
Moon and stars pour their healing light on you,
Deep peace of Christ, the light of the world to you,
Deep peace of Christ to you.
Amen.

7) Terry Waite (b 1939)

Peace is the fragile meeting of two souls in harmony.
Peace is an embrace that protects and heals.
Peace is a reconciling of opposites.
Peace is rooted in love, it lies in the heart waiting to be nourished,
Blossom and flourish until it embraces the world.
May we know the harmony of peace.

May we sing the harmony of peace until in the last of days we rest in peace.

8) Preghiera cristiana della sera di un Anonimo

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
Bless this bed that I lie on.
Before I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Four corners to my bed,
Four angels there are spread;
Two at the foot, two at the head:
Four to carry me when I'm dead.
I go by sea, I go by land:
The Lord made me with his right hand.
Should any danger come to me,
Sweet Jesus Christ deliver me.
He's my branch and I'm the flower,
Pray God send me a happy hour;
And should I die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.

10) Salmo 122,7-8

Fiat pax in virtute tua et abundantia in turribus tuis.
Propter fratres meos et proximos meos loquebar pacem de te.

Santa Teresa di Calcutta (1910 - 1997)

Peace begins with a smile. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to
each other.

Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

The important thing in life is the traces of love that we leave behind when we have to leave unasked and say farewell.

dal Corano

And the true servants of the All-Merciful walk the earth with humility, and when the ignorant address them they say, 'Peace'.

11) Karl Jenkins Elegia per Martin Luther King

He had a dream that all mankind could live together in peace and harmony.
He had a dream that people of different colours and creeds could live together.
He had a dream that ...

… every valley shall be exalted, every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

12) Carol Barrett The Dove per Astrid May

Dove of peace fly here to find us,
Feathers softly stroking the earth.
Dove of peace so soft, so silent,
Please protect each innocent birth.
Dove of peace we reach to touch you,
Pure and white, please comfort our fears.
Spread contentment gently near us,
Spread your wings and dry all our tears.
Dove of peace fly here to find us,
Feathers caught in circles of light.
Dove of peace so soft, so silent,
Turn each day to sweet sleep each night.

13) San Francesco d'Assisi

O Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace,
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is discord, harmony;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, Iight;
where there is sorrow. joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Let there be justice for all

15) Nelson Mandela

After climbing a great hill one finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.
But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfil themselves.

16) Santa Messa Dona nobis pacem

Bahà’u’llàh (1817 - 1892)

The world is but one country, and mankind its citizens. We are all fruits of one tree and leaves of one branch.

17) Carol Barratt Anthem: Peace, triumphant peace

Peace, triumphant peace shall reign on Earth some day.
Pray for peace and make your words echo round the world for peace one day, on Earth one day, that wondrous day when the world has peace, glorious peace, such peace.
When will such lasting peace arrive on that wondrous day on this our Earth?
May all our paths meet up and lead to one holy place where peace shall reign in our hearts, one wondrous day when the world has peace, glorious peace, such peace.
Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)

How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the World.

St Seraphim von Sarov (1759 - 1833)
Embrace the spirit of peace and thousands of souls around you will be saved.
 
I Civici Cori della Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado
Soprani
Giuseppina Airaghi, Luciana Anastasia, Maria Pia Boellis, Marina Bonfanti, Chiara Brocancelli
Alicia Campo Bauzà, Paola Catenaccio, Ilaria Caterini, Anna Iannone, Lia Italia Iollo, Elisabetta Magagni,  Moira Maggi, Marta Moreschi,
Paola Murari, Ornella Pavone, Piera Angela Saccenti, Silvana Soldano, Cristina Tapparo, Elisa Tosi, Giada Ulivi, Kateryna Zhylyuk

Contralti
Michela Allais, Annalisa Burbo, Simona Cuneo, Daniela Del Favero, Laura Fortunati, Maria Antonietta Grasso, Maria Luisa Lodi, Cristina Lombardo, Kaori Matsuura
Cinzia Miulli, Paola Ottino, Maria Pietra, Cristina Scagliotti, Lucia Stanziano, Laura Uliana

Tenori
Enzo Bensi, Fabrizio Fassone, Marzio Ferranti, Sandro Levi, Roberto Mariani, Eugenio Porcino, Giuseppe Saldaneri, Marco Sprega, Tommaso Lazzarini

Bassi
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