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Singing Cross?
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Yes, that's the highlight of this year's Easter celebration
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I know that my Redeemer liveth... thus go the strains of the air (aria) for the soprano from Handel's "Messiah". Just like Christmas, Easter and Passion Week have some of the most wonderful of Western music written on.
Sound and light shows, tableaux and plays enacting the Passion of Christ during the Holy Week are not new. But a Singing Cross, well, that's new. On the lines of the human Christmas tree presentation a few years ago in the city, the Ecumenical Fellowship in Madras has come up this year with the idea of an Easter celebration.
K. V. Mathew, secretary of the Fellowship, says a choir of 75 members will stand on a Cross, specially erected for the occasion, and sing traditional Easter hymns and choruses. And Can It Be, Up From The Grave He Arose, Crown Him With Many Crowns and Thine Is The Glory are some of the songs to be rendered by the choir. Jerry Amaldev wields the baton, Randall Giles accompanies on the keyboard, assisted by violinists June Hedlund, convenor of the programme, and Arvind Santwan.
As many as thousand students from Stella Maris College, Women's Christian College, Hindustan Group of Colleges, Presentation Convent, St. Ursula's, CSI Jessie Moses, Montford School, St. Raphael's, Children's Garden, St. Thomas Matriculation, Annai Velankanni, Bharat Higher Secondary School and Christ Matric School will come in a rally with an Easter lily in hand and offer it at the foot of the Cross when the audience and the choir will sing the Wesley hymn "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today" in English, Tamil and Malayalam.
Dr. George Chandy, Director, CMC, Vellore, will present the Easter message. Since it is an ecumenical programme, bishops from different denominations will take part. The open-air music programme, for which admission is free, will take place on Easter Sunday, March 27, at the Church Park School grounds.
SELINE AUGUSTINE
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