ABENDMUSIK:LINCOLN is a performing arts organization, based at First Plymouth Church, UCC, Lincoln, Nebraska, entering its 40th year with the mission: "Gathering to experience excellence in the performing arts." In addition to hosting a wide range of musical arts, Abendmusik and the Abendmusik Chorus present an annual Christmas program accompanied by the Plymouth Brass. Conducted by Tom Trenney with organist Jeremy Bankson, this selection is from the 2011 concert.
"WELCOME ALL WONDERS" - Richard Wayne Dirksen (Text: Richard Crashaw)
Kendall Reimer, soprano
Welcome all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.
Summer in winter, day in night, heaven in earth, and God in man,
That He, the old Eternal Word, should be a Child and weep.
Each of us his lamb will bring, each his pair of silver doves,
Till burnt at last in fire of thy fair eyes, ourselves become our own best sacrifice.
Welcome all wonders in one sight!