(Continued)
ORCHESTRA
Good Friday Music
PARSIFAL has returned, victorious over temptations. With him is a veteran knight, Gurnemanz. These two gaze upon the loveliness of Nature aglow in the spring sunshine, and muse on the redemption of all creation.
HERBERT HEYNER and Orchestra
Amfortas' Prayer (from Act III)
AMFORTAS, wounded by Klingsor with the A Sacred Spear, will not unveil the Grail, for he deems himself the most unworthy of men.' He cries out in anguish, for no relief comes to him, either for body or soul. He calls upon his dead father, ' most pure one,' to beg Heaven for some relief for his pain.
ORCHESTRA
Interlude and Closing Scene
IN the last scene of the drama Parsifal returns to the home of the Grail, and touches Amfortas' wound with the Sacred Spear. It is at once healed and Amfortas is whole again. Parsifal uncovers the Grail, which glows with holy light.
The Knights and choirs of the Temple join in praise. The White Dove of the Grail. emblem of the Holy Spirit, descends and hovers over it, and the great Sacred Festival Drama is over.