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A dialogue between Mary and Christ

16-11-2020

On this webpage: https://www.aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2011/04/stond-wel-moder-under-rode.html I discovered a medieval English song: Stand well, Moder, under Rode. You can find this song in several manuscripts after 1250. It is modelled directly on the 11-stanza Latin sequence Stabat juxta Christi crucem.
The song invites, like the Stabat Mater, to sympathise with Mary and her Son, dying on the cross (rode). Meditation on their sorrows, as a way of entering into the experience of the Crucifixion, was an increasingly popular devotional theme in Middle Ages.
The situation is being represented even in a more poignant way while Mary and Christ talk to each other. Their tender speeches are intensely intimate, vivid and believable. Christ is trying to comfort her and explaining the necessity of his death: saving mankind. But his mother is unable to look beyond his immediate suffering. Christ is asking an impossible, paradoxical emotional response from her: to rejoice as she sees her son dying. Text and music are full of deep emotion, sorrow and love. Such a lively and credible dialogue you can’t find in the old Latin hymns.
In the Middle Ages it is believed that Mary suffered no pain in her pregnancy and childbirth. She felt the anguish of motherhood at last when her son died. Therefore, Stabat Mater and Stond well, Moder, both are meant to support all mothers who suffer because of the losss of their children. The last two stanzas are about the joyous outcome of the Passion, and the poem ends with the narrator petitioning for mercy. Two manuscripts preserve the song with musical notes.

For music, text,  translation, explanation and beautiful images of Mary at the foot of the cross, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the fourteenth century, please see: https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2011/04/stond-wel-moder-under-rode.html
For me, the most moving sung version, is that by Stephanie Prewitt and Daniel Johnson (also playing the psaltery), a sober and personal performance. I contacted Stephanie Prewitt and she was kind enough to share the video with me. Thanks!
(video will be added soon)

 

Stabat Mater on barrel organ

14-11-2020

Mr. and Mrs. Lee from Baltimore were kind enough to inform me about an extraordinary cd with a Stabat Mater:  plain song in alternation with organ, the famous restored barrel organ in the church of St. Chaffrey! In this Stabat Mater, the organ parts sound like a Mozart opera and the final parts, after stanza 18 is a note for note transcription of one of Cherubini’s aria’s from Le nozze di Figaro: Voi che sapete! A barrel organ in church? I think it is very unusual, and the Mozart style of the organ pieces alternating the Stabat Mater stanza’s, it is fascinating. The English text on the cover of the cd says:

The style of the pieces notated on the perforated rolls of parchment of the
church barrel organ of St-Chaffrey illustrates the ‘present state’ of liturgi-
cal music at the time, which some of the reforming Benedictine monks and
other nineteenth-century musicians unhesitatingly called decadent. They
were quite virulent in their denunciation of secular music, particularly
opera, in worship. They condemned singers who made a habit of accenting
each note of the plainchant melody, sometimes likening the result to the
cries of animals! The most flagrant example is the Stabat Mater, in which
the versets played alternately by the organ are really Mozartian operatic
paraphrases, and on one occasion (the twenty-seventh verset) a note for
note transcription of one of Cherubino’s arias!

I would like to have more detailed information about this Stabat. Anyone who can help me? Thanks!

Pergolesi’s dancing Stabat during lockdown

03-11-2020

A friend of mine who lives in Cape Town has always been interested in and supportive as for my Stabat Mater website. He told me about a special Pergolesi Stabat Mater performance with dance by Cape Town Opera, Cape Town City Ballet and Camerata Tinta Barocca. This project provides an emotional and artistic response to the COVID-19 pandemic, conceptualized specifically for filming and digital dissemination. I was delighted to buy a ticket and could not wait watching the video! It is fascinating: a baroque orchestra and two opera singers are joined by six dancers in a huge studio, the floor marked in squares to which each performer is confined to enable social distancing. Two dancers, Jan and Nicolas, co-habited during lockdown in South Africa and were therefore the only dancers to touch each other in the show. This wonderful work was choreographed, remotely via video call from London by Mthuthuzeli November (he just won the 2020 Olivier Award!). The performers only came together at the last minute.
I watched the video several times and I love it, it is moving and comforting right now when theaters and concert halls are closed for such a long time! And… I could not help thinking of another dance Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, a pre-covid one!

I got in touch with the artistic director of Cape Town Opera Mr. Matthew Wild and he was kind enough to arrange for Wyrd Films to share a part of the performance for my blog and site. In the video The concept Mr. Wild gives a brief introduction to the performance.The video is abridged to 23 minutes for potential television broadcast. Seven of twelve parts are performed:

I     Stabat Mater (soprano and mezzo-soprano)
IV  Quae moerebat et dolebat (mezzo-soprano)
V    Vidit suum dulcem natum (soprano)
VII Eja mater (soprano and mezzo-soprano)
IX   Sancta mater (soprano and mezzo-soprano)
XI   Inflammatus et accensus (soprano and mezzo-soprano)
XII  Quando corpus (soprano and mezzo-soprano)

You can still book tickets to watch the video till the end of November at: tickets.computicket.com

Stabat Mater by Nicola Burnett Smith and Phil Vernon

14-10-2020

It is truly fascinating that even today people are inspired to set the old, medieval Stabat Mater text to music. I always love to discover new composers, both from the past as in the present. That happened some time ago when I came in contact with Mr. Phil Vernon, who came across my site when he was writing a new version of Stabat Mater lyrics in English. In doing so he aimed to retain the deeply emotional personal and spiritual core. He was thrilled to find Nicola Burnett Smith willing to set his poem to music. She has been an actor, singer, composer and musician since 1986. Her composition is written for three female voices and double bass.

This Stabat Mater, music by Nicola Burnett Smith, words by Phil Vernon,  had its  first performance on Monday 15th
April 2019 as part of Holy Week Mass at St Paul’s Church (The Actors’ Church), Covent Garden in London, featuring vocalists Sarah Lambie, Anna Braithwaite and Nicola Burnett Smith with Dai Price on double bass. I am so delighted Phil and Nicola were so kind to share the video of the performance with me. I listened to it over and over, I love it, it is beautiful in its simplicity and the voices are moving. Thanks! Here is the poem by Phil Vernon:

She sank to her knees on the shaking ground
when she reached the place.
A thorn pierced her heart,
as she raised her eyes
from the foot of the cross,
to her dying son.
A mother’s pain.
And we weep too,
as though we were there.
We see her shudder
to share the deep-bone pain he bore for us.
He died alone.
Mother, let me too
kneel down with you,
bear all I can of all he bore,
share in his love
and in the path he pointed to.
I know he felt those wounds and died for me –
don’t push me away –
mother, I need to feel this too:
I need to know the meaning of this place.
He died for us.
Let me find my harbour in what happened in this place,
let me find my harbour in your arms,
and in his grace.

New: Stephen Paulus

20-09-2020

I just added the Stabat Mater from Stephen Paulus (1949 – 2014), an American composer. It was on the cd American Declarations from the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus conducted by Philip Barnes. This cd was (another) gift from Mr. Hubert Maillard from Switzerland. I was so surprised by the text from Philipp Barnes in the CD booklet where I read:

…Another mother’s grief is recounted in the celebrated 13th century hymn, the Stabat Mater. While doubt surrounds its authorship the power of its graphic imagery is undeniable. Little surprise, then, that so many composers across centuries and continents have been draw to it; one CD collector, Hans van der Velden had gathered 241 versions by the time of his death…

Thank you so much Mr. Maillard and Mr. Philip Barnes!

Desmond Fisher and Jacopone da Todi

03-09-2020

Desmond Fisher was an Irish journalist, who worked as a reporter, correspondent and newspaper editor in the United Kingdom, the United States and in his native Ireland. Desmond got in touch with me after he stumbled upon The Ultimate Stabat Mater Site during his research for his book Stabat Mater, the Mystery Hymn. Desmond Fisher was fascinated by the Latin poem and dedicated the final two years of his life to this book. He was interested in how true the familiar English translations are to the original Latin. What did the author really try to say? Why did he use a particular poetic style? And… who was the author anyway? His first objective was to determine which of the seven listed contenders was the most likely candidate as composer of the Stabat Mater poem. This list includes three Popes, three Saints and one layman, Jacopone da Todi. Desmond Fisher thought it most likely that Jacopone da Todi was the composer, despite having been imprisoned and excommunicated by a pope. In Chapter 8, titled Pros and Cons, Fisher presents ten(!)  arguments arguing for Jacopone da Todi’s authorship. However, he concludes by saying:

…Nevertheless, in spite of all those arguments in favour of Jacopone’s authorship of the poem, it has to be admitted that in style and content it is very different from the other poems that can be definitely credited to him…

Only after this solid, historical study to the origin and authorship of the Stabat Mater text, Desmond presents and explains the two translations he made himself; a literal translation from the latin text, and a more poetic interpretation in verse. He then compares, analyses, and discusses several other well-known English translations of the poem by Edward Caswall, Beatrice E. Bulman, D. F. MacCarthy and the Collegeville Hymnal.

I was delighted to read Chapter 23, A Dutch Contribution  which is dedicated to the initiator of the Ultimate Stabat Mater site, Hans van der Velden. Hans’ English translation is also presented in the book! The book was published in 2015. Desmond Fisher died on 30 December 2014; he was 94 years old. His son, John Fisher, was so kind to contact me and send me a copy of the book. Thank you so much!

 

 

Maltese translation (revised)

22-08-2020

In 2018 Tom Dawkes was so kind to send me an e-mail about the Irish Gaelic translation on my site. Tom must have a real talent for languages, as today I received a revised translation of the Maltese translation on my site! This is what he wrote to me:

…listening this morning to a programme about the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. One of the items played was a section of his Stabat mater, and this put me in mind of your website. I noticed that you have a Maltese version, and as I encountered Maltese through a school friend I have kept an interest in it — though I have never visited Malta and would not claim more than a smattering of the language. I do, though, know about the structure of the language, and how it is written, and I could see that many words were written in a simplified form. 

Maltese uses the Roman alphabet, but adds some extra letters : ċ as in English cheese; ż as in English zoo, whereas z is like German z as in Zeit; ġ as in English gem, whereas g is as in English get; and ħ, which is like hin English help, whereas Maltese h is silent as in English honour (the combination għ is silent, but lengthens the preceding vowel). 
I cannot claim that it is 100% accurate — I ran it through the Google Translate web-page, which is a useful help, despite some very odd results from time to time —  and a Maltese speaker would undoubtedly want to make some further corrections, but I am confident it is nearer to an authentic Maltese text. The translation matches the Latin fairly closely, and where you have given more than one Latin version I have retained the one that most closely matches the Maltese…
I added Toms revised version to the site. Thank you so much, Tom!

Six new additions!

05-08-2020

Robert and Kathy Lee from Baltimore, Maryland have been supportive to my site for a long time. In 2019 I received Jan Engels Stabat Mater as a present and last month (June 2020) he sent me list of six(!) Stabat Mater composers not yet in my collection:

  • Antonio de Cabezón (1510-1566), two Stabats: Stabat Mater con segunda parte and Stabat Mater con diferente glosa
  • Henri Carol (1910-1984 )
  • Cristóbal Galán (1630-1684)
  • Robert Hunt (early 16th century) F
  • Franciszek Kottritsch (about 1727 – 1987)

Robert and Kathy shared with me: I don’t remember exactly when I found Hans’ website but I used it extensively. I not only discovered the Stabat Maters he had but the record labels they were on, which were then sources of even more sacred music. I even searched through the missing composer list, probably more than once. So Hans played a significant part in helping me put together my collection.

They were so kind to donate all these CDs to me.  I added them to the site (and YouTube channel) and again I could delete some composers from the list of Missing CDs. I am so grateful, thank you both very much!

New: Jacob Cooper

05-06-2020

Thanks to Christine Read I got acquainted with Jacob Coopers Stabat. She wrote to me:

On my way home from work last night, I turned on the local classical radio station in the middle of a composition that was unlike anything I had heard before. I’ve learned that I can often hear something unfamiliar at late hours, and yesterday was no exception. They were playing Jacob Cooper’s Stabat Mater Dolorosa. It was so beautiful and moving that I stopped at a quiet place and just listened to the rest of it in the dark. It moved me to tears, particularly in these times of stress and worldwide tragedy. Please add it to your collection, if possible. 

Both works on this album take as their starting point a single moment from an older work (Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Caprice no 6 in G minor by Paganini) and through processes of repetition, distortion and in the case of the Stabat mater, extreme slow-motion, create a completely new soundscape.
For me the most remarkable feature of this CD is the text. It does not focus on the Virgin Mary’s grief about Jesus’ death but on maternal grief about the loss of her daughter!

Missing Cds: Bernasconi

26-05-2020

On the web page Missing Cds you will find a list of over 400 composers who may have composed a Stabat Mater that never has been recorded or even never has been performed. It always makes me happy to delete one from the list as I did recently with Howard Blake and Nicola Logroscino.
Andrea Bernasconi, a composer on my list, was born in Italy, in 1706. Andrea started his career in Italy but in 1755 he was appointed to the post of Kapellmeister at the Bavarian court in Munich where he produced several operas, a few symphonies and a great deal of church music. The manuscripts of the church music were preserved in the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche in Munich until 1944, when the entire collection was destroyed by Allied bombing. Fortunately a few of the sacred works survived in other libraries, including two settings of the Stabat Mater in C minor and G minor. This is what I learned from Mr. John A. Rice who contacted me about Bernasconi. Mr. Rice is a music historian and he is responsible for the YouTube channel Settecentista. The primary aims of his videos are two:
1) to help listeners learn the conventions–melodic, harmonic, and formal–that underlie eighteenth-century music; and 2) to introduce listeners to the musical delights and analytical insights that await them as they go beyond the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
He is working on an edition of the two Stabat Mater settings, which (as far as he knows) have not been performed since the eighteenth century. John Rice was so kind to share this video with me. For me it is interesting to have a first hearing of the opening movement in a ‘virtual performance’ which we, John Rice and me, hope will encourage choral conductors to perform it ‘live’.
NB: The words in capital letters above the music refer to voice-leading schemata as introduced by Robert Gjerdingen in his book “Music in the Galant Style.” Some of the terms (such as Prinner and Sol-Fa-Mi) were introduced by Gjerdingen in his book; others (such as Lully and Le-Sol-Fi-Sol) were introduced by others, including John Rice.

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Stabat Mater by Eric van Boxtel, commissioned by Stabat Mater Foundation in 2008.

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My friend Marten Kuilman from Amsterdam, is painting the stations of the cross. Here is his 12th station of the cross. October 10th 2020, having dinner together.
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12th station of he cross in Church Veenhuizen, Drenthe, The Netherlands during cycle trip in Appelscha, July 15th 2020.

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Kruiswegpark in Roermond, very special, during our visit on May 24th 2020.

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12th station of the cross painted by P. Cornelis de Moor, in St Jans Basiliek, Laren (nh), during performance Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium, December 15th 2019.

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Autel d' or (Golden Altar), Niki de Saint Phalle (1962). Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, Holland, December 11th 2019

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Twelfth station of the cross in Parish Church of Portimão in Portugal, enjoying family time in Ferragudo.
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12th station of the cross, mosaic in stone, Holy Cross Church in Bloomsbury (London) enjoying a sunday city walk. 
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Trinity church, London, sculpture. Invited  for the premiere of Pieta by composer Richard Blackford in Cadogan Hall. Impressed!
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Werner Tübke, Crucifixion scene (1984), chalk litograph on zinc plate.
I made this photo in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, June 22th 2019 during our cycle tour along the Elbe river.

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12th station of the cross, psinted by Johan Lange from Aken (Germany) 1884-1890.

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Our Lady of the Basilica, Zwolle. 
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Michael Triegel, Deus absconditus (God is hidden). Museum De Fundatie in Zwolle. I  love his paintings.
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Zwolle, Grote kerk of St. Michaels Churc. A vey old sculpture of Crucifixion in the wall, maybe 12th station of the cross. Unfortunately very damaged. Please, could you translate the latin text?
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Magdenburg Cathedral June 24th 2019, cycling trip along the Elbe in Germany.
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Paul Sinkwitz, Crucifixion group, tempera draft (1957)  Lutherstadt Wittenberg, exhibition modern Christian Art. #Lutherstadt #Wittenberg #mothermary #stabatmater #stabatmaterdolorosa #crucifixion #religiousart #stationsofthecross #artstations #sorrowfulmother #motherofjesus #classicalmusic #sacredmusic #pergolesi #golgotha #calvary  #mary

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Otto Pankok, Mary and John under the cross, woodcut (1958). Lutherstadt Wittenberg, exhibition modern Christian Art. #Lutherstadt #Wittenberg #mothermary #stabatmater #stabatmaterdolorosa #crucifixion #religiousart #stationsofthecross #artstations #sorrowfulmother #motherofjesus #classicalmusic #sacredmusic #pergolesi #golgotha #calvary  #mary #john #woodcutting

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Marc Chagall, Crucfixion, 1969, (1) and Crucifixion, Mother and Child, 1964 (2). In Lutherstadt, Wittenberg, June 2019, Exhibition Modern Christian Art. #Lutherstadt #Wittenberg #mothermary #stabatmater #stabatmaterdolorosa #crucifixion #religiousart #stationsofthecross #artstations #sorrowfulmother #motherofjesus #classicalmusic #sacredmusic #pergolesi #golgotha #calvary #chagall #marcchagall

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Keith Haring, 1982, Untitled, without Mary. Lutherstadt Wittenberg Exhibition Modern Christian Art.
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Lutherstadt Wittenberg Exhibition Christian Art from Chagall to Beuys. Willi Baumeister, Crucifixion, Lithograph.
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Crucifixion, 1912, Etching. Mueum Lutherstadt Wittenberg during our cycling trip in Germany, June 2019.

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Exhibition Lutherstadt Wittemberg Modern Christian Art from Chagall to Beuys. James Ensor, Crucifixio, print 23 from Portfolio Scenes Life of Christ, colour lithograph, 1912-1921.
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Exhibition Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Christian Art from Chagall to Beuys. Georges Rouault, Christ on the cross, 1936, colour aquatint etching.June 21th 2019
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July 5th, Bremen, Church of our Lady. I noticed groups of little figures in a glass display case showing scenes from the passion of Jesus. They are made by the woodcutters David Guenou and his son Daniel from Togo in Africa. They converted to Christianity in the the sixties when a priest from Bremen was a missionary in Togo. The woodcarving was a present from the Togo Parish. By the way: we loved Bremen during our cycling trip in Germany.
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Bremen Cathedral, beautiful painting of the crucifixion on the front wall of the church dedicated to St. Peter. July 5th 2019.
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In Damnatz, during our cycling trip from Dresden to Hamburg, we stumbled upon this old, timber framed church with a painting of the crucifixion. July 2th 2019
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Tangermünde, June 27th 2019, St Stefan's Church. On the baptismal font, as wel as at the baroque pulpit I found a relief of Mary near the cross.

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St. Jacobi Church in Perleberg, Germany June 28th 2019 during our cycling tour from Dresden to Hamburg. In the wall of the tower is a crucifixion sculpture of sand stone. Though Mary is not present, I just could not resist taking this picture because of the inscription above: ANNO DOMINI MCCCLXI.
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Church Museum New Bavo Haarlem. Station of the Cross XII 1920. Artist unknown. 
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Church New Bavo Museum Haarlem, Jan van Scorel 1525.
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Stralsund, Germany, Nicolai Kirche and painting of the Crucifixion in the church.

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Family vacation in Germany, May 2019, A trip to Stralsund, Nicolaikirche. Several altars from the 15th century:: (1)Burgermeister-altar with Jesus is taken down from the cross, short after 1500. (2) Altar by Riemer and Betler (1451) and High altar (ca. 1480), Crucifixion by J P Hinze.
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Nehringen, Germany, during a family vacation. St. Andreas kirche. Stations of the cross.

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Stations of the cross-Jesus meets his mother Maria and  Jesus is nailed to the cross- paintings by Jan Wiesman, a Dutch painter. Exhibition in Pop-up Gallery in Bloemendaal. Netherlands.

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Art stations of the cross Amsterdam 2019: Jesus meets his mother (Station 2). A colorful installation by Lynn Aldrich is made from all sorts of ordinary cleaning tools, such as plastic sponges and brushes.
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Project Art stations of the cross, number 7: Jesus falls for the second time. Two drawings by Paul van Dongen: Judgement and Resurrection. The Small Museum, Paradiso, Weteringschans 6-8. In 2016 the music venue and cultural center Paradiso, housed in a converted former church building from the nineteenth century, opened The Small Museum. The smallest museum in the Netherlands, it is located in one of the cabinets where the Vrije Gemeente (Free Congregation) used to display its announcements. The exhibitions regularly link to the religious past of the building.
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Art stations of the cross 2019 Amsterdam. Number 2: Jesus takes up the cross by G. Roland Bierman. De Hoftuin, Nieuwe Herengracht 18.
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Art Stations of the Cross 2019 Amsterdam Nr. 6 Veronica wipes the face of Jesus. Güler Ates, Water no longer dances with light, new site specific work. In the Stations of the Cross, Veronica is the woman who helps Jesus persevere. She confronts us with the classic question: In whom do we invest, convinced that the person can make a difference in this world? Who can lean on us? Güler Ates grew up in the mystic tradition of East Turkey. She is based in London and works with video, photography, printmaking and performance. One of the core elements in her work is cultural displacement. She studies the interaction of Eastern and Western cultures.

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Beginhof Chapel Amsterdam when I wasin Amsterdamwithmy grandson Guidofor the Art Stations of the Cross on monday April 15th.

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Project Art Stations of the Cross Amsterdam. Nr. 5 Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the cross. It is the contemplation of the suffering caused by the slave trade, in which traders from Amsterdam were also involved. Iris Kensmil, an artist with a Surinam background, has painted portraits of three eighteenth-century individuals from Surinam who managed to secure for themselves a position and a future in opposition to colonial oppression. (Their actual likenesses are unknown.) Just like Simon of Cyrene, who stopped to help Jesus by carrying his cross, these people resisted injustice. The triptych hangs amongst the group portraits in the Amsterdam Gallery as a call to action.

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In 1997 I created the Ultimate Stabat Mater website for Hans with the program FrontPage. At that time he had around 40 Stabat Mater CDs. His notes on the composer, the music, the texts and translations and the different versions all came online. After this he managed the site by adding new composers and translations regularly. At the time of his death in 2005 he had 211 Stabat Maters. After his death I continued collecting the information and managing the site. I wish to thank the Dutch Stabat Mater Foundation which gave me the financial support in 2014 to renew this site!

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