Trinity Lutheran Church

Visit our website https://trinityoflincoln.org/church to read about some of the special music that will be performed at our Easter Worship service at 9:30AM on Easter Sunday (scroll down to "Holy Week Music")!

Here is a small section of what Lyle wrote to describe the pieces:

The two Easter violin/piano duet music selections, the first during preservice and the second at postservice, combine to draw our attention to the viral dissemination of the news surrounding the resurrection of Jesus. Starting with the first news early on Easter morning, there was a juxtaposition of disbelief and hope. Just as the snippets of unbelievable and incredible information were communicated contagiously early on, as the day progressed, there was a resulting atmosphere of cacophony, breathlessness, and emotional ups and downs. In the intensive, almost explosive, passage of events during Easter day and evening, the thoughts and emotions morphed into feelings of breathtaking, heart-pounding euphoria mixed
with incredibility.

The preservice piece is the opening movement (Sinfonia) of J.S. Bach’s Cantata “Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal” (“We have to go through a lot of hardship”). Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the Third Sunday after Easter, called Jubilate, in which he contrasted sorrow and joy.

The post-service piece, entitled Beethoven Virus is a remix of the third and last movement of Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata and is reworked in a variety of different instrumental arrangements including violin plus piano... The
repetitive base notes of the piano are like a fast, excited heartbeat, and when combined with the violin’s ‘Jewish celebratory dance’ soprano theme, we are using the music to reflect the eucatastrophe joy of the resurrection.