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The Passion, Eight Adagios, and an Earthquake

Haydn's Seven Last Words is a powerful guide for Good Friday meditation.

By David Neff | posted 3/01/2004 12:00AM

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The Seven Last Words

Jesus' sayings from the Cross

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. (Luke 23:24)
Today thou shalt be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:43)
Woman, behold your son. Behold your mother. (John 19:26-27)
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Matthew 27:45-46)
I thirst. (John 19:28-29)
It is finished. (John 19:30)
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. (Luke 23:46)

Related Elsewhere:

Additional helpful background on Franz Joseph Haydn's The Seven Last Words can be read in the liner notes of the Vermeer Quartet's two-CD recording and Eugene Drucker's notes for the Emerson Quartet's recording on the Deutsche Grammaphon website.

Click here for information about the Wednesday, April 7, performance by the Vermeer Quartet at Chicago's Rockefeller Chapel. The concert will be broadcast on Good Friday, April 9, at 8 p.m. Central Time by fine arts radio station WFMT.

Also posted today is a meditation on "I thirst," two of Christ's last words.

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