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Sunday Worship: Keep the Memory Alive

25/01/2015

Keep the Memory Alive

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday Worship, Keep the Memory Alive

Live from Coventry Cathedral, marking Holocaust Memorial Day.

In the week of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the choir and pupils of Blue Coat School, Coventry, mark this and other genocides.

This week sees the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The choir and pupils of Blue Coat Church of England School & Music College in Coventry, help 'keep the memory alive' as they mark this and other genocides. Given political tensions and outright warfare in various parts of the globe, can we find hope for the future in remembering the past?
Preacher: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Director of Reconciliation Canon David Porter; Leader: The Revd Canon Dr David Stone; Music Director: Philip Formstone; Accompanists: Kerry Beaumont and Paul Leddington-Wright.
The God of Abraham Praise (Leoni); God, as with silent hearts we bring to mind (The Supreme Sacrifice); The Servant Song (Gillard); Adonai Ro'i Lo Echsar (Cohen); I asked the Lord (arr. Formstone); Go down, Moses (Trad arr. L'Estrange); Si njay njay njay (Zulu trad arr. L'Estrange).

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