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The Annual All-Church Pancake Breakfast and Membership Voting Meeting

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Debi Kilde, singer/actor
Carson Rose Schneider, pianist

Beware the Winter Settlin’ In

First Readings Project
Minneapolis, MN

Conversation on a Train

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Elena Glass, Debi Kilde, David Lohman
Video: Jack Davis, Loonarcity.com

Die Gedanken Sind Frei

First Readings Project
Minneapolis, MN

Disenfranchised

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Dr. Catherine Roma Commission Consortium Choir
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How To Sing Like a Planet

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Massachusetts High School All-State Choir
Rollo Dilworth

A Garret of Old Playthings

Words: Carl Sandburg
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Janet Youngdahl, ElizabethAlexander

A Love Like That (song)

Words: Daniel Ladinsky, after Hafiz
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Ruth MacKenzie, Jacqueline Ultan, Elizabeth Alexander

A Palette To Paint Us As We Are

Words: Gerald Rich / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
One Voice Mixed Chorus / Jane Ramseyer Miller
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A Taste of Home

Words & Music by Elizabeth Alexander
Gary Rue, vocals and guitar

All of Life Becomes a Prayer

Carson Cooman, organist
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Be Grateful, My Soul

Words: Norbert Čapek / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Canadian Mennonite Univ. Women’s Chorus / Janet Brenneman
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Before the Bread

Words: English folk blessing
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Lumina Women’s Ensemble

Being Who You Are

Words & Music by Elizabeth Alexander
Pennsylvania Youth Chorale Junior Choir / Julie Maragos
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Beware the Winter Settlin’ In

First Readings Project
Minneapolis, MN

Blessed Be the Flower That Triumphs

Words: Michael deVernon Boblett / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Bethlehem Chorale / David L Mennicke
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Calm the Tempests of My Heart

Words: Soren Kierkegaard
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Lumina Women’s Ensemble

Cherish Your Doubt

Words and Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Soloist: Shirley Leiphon
Choir of Unity Church-Unitarian / Ruth Palmer

Chosen People

Movement III. from Kindling
Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
UU Congregation of Atlanta / Donald Milton III

Conversation on a Train

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Vocalists: Elena Glass, Debi Kilde
Pianist: David Lohman

Conversation on a Train

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Elena Glass, Debi Kilde, David Lohman
Video: Jack Davis, Loonarcity.com

Die Gedanken Sind Frei

First Readings Project
Minneapolis, MN

Die Gedanken Sind Frei

16^th century German protest song
Translation, arrangement, and additional lyrics: Elizabeth Alexander
John Hubert, Jennifer DeDominici, Sarah Libert

Disenfranchised

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Dr. Catherine Roma Commission Consortium Choir
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Do Not Leave Your Cares At the Door

Words: Rev. Norman V. Naylor
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Mounds Park Academy Chamber Choir

Faith is the bird that feels the light

Words: Rabindranath Tagore
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
First Readings Project / J. David Moore

Faith is the bird that feels the light

Words: Rabindranath Tagore
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
First Readings Project / J. David Moore

Faith is the bird that feels the light

Words: Rabindranath Tagore / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Wheaton College Women’s Chorale / Mary Hopper
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Fighting Over What We Believe

Words & Music by Elizabeth Alexander
Greta Oglesby, Jared Oxborough / Randi Rexroth
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Freedom and Justice

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Voice & Guitar: Gary Rue

Get Curious

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
University of Illinois Women’s Glee Club / Andrea Solya
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Grace

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
St. Louis Women’s Chorale / Leanne Latuda
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Grace

Words & Music by Elizabeth Alexander
Kate Huizinga, voice
Sue McIntire, piano

Handles

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
CHARIS Chorus / Stuart Chapman Hill
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Hear Us, O Never-Failing Light

Words: Mozarabic Blessing of the Paschal Candle
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Lumina Women’s Ensemble

Holy One, Source of Radiance and Reason

Words: Rob Eller-Isaacs
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Lumina Women’s Ensemble

How To Sing Like a Planet

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Massachusetts High School All-State Choir
Rollo Dilworth

How To Sing Like a Planet

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
RIMEA Senior All-State Choir / Rollo Dilworth
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How To Sing Like a Planet

Words & Music by Elizabeth Alexander
Peninsula Girls Chorus / Karyn Silva

If You Can Walk You Can Dance

Words: Zimbawean proverb / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Rhode Island Junior All-State Chorus / Matthew Cunningham
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If You Can Walk You Can Dance

Words: Zimbawean proverb / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Saline High School Chamber Choir
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If You Can Walk You Can Dance

Words: Zimbawean proverb / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen / Elisabeth Ziegler
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I’ll Go Alone

Words: Evelyn K. Dudley / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
La Caccina & Constellation / Carling Fitzsimmons
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Immortal Love

Words: John Greenleaf Whittier / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Concordia University St Paul Christus Chorus / David Mennicke
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Impermanent Things

Evan Vicic, viola
Elizabeth Alexander, piano

Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

Words: Edith M. Reid, vs. 1-2 / Elizabeth Alexander, vs. 3
Music: Polish carol, arr. Elizabeth Alexander
Lumina Women’s Ensemble

Intertwined

Words & Music by Elizabeth Alexander
Sarah Franzen

Jump!

Words: Ray Bradbury / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
New Mexico All-State Treble Choir / Arian Khaefi
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Let it Matter

Words & Music by Elizabeth Alexander
All Voices Choral Project
Lee Hoffman

Like a Leaf

Words: Wendell Berry / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Highlands High School Choirs / Jacob Young
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Love is the Spirit of this Church

Words: Tony Larsen / Music: Elisha Hoffman, arr. Alexander
Unitarian Universalist Church in Reston / Cynthia Young
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Love is the Spirit of this Church

Words: Tony Larsen / Music: Elisha Hoffman, arr. Alexander
Unitarian Universalist Church in Reston / Cynthia Young
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Luminous Awakening

Words: Hildegard von Bingen / Translation & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Washington National Cathedral Singers / Michael McCarthy
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Night at the Red Cat

Simon Alexander-Adams
Elizabeth Alexander

No Ordinary Song

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Laura Betinis Healy, Anthony Healy

One More Redeemer

First Readings Project
J. David Moore, conductor

One More Step

Music & Words: Joyce Poley / Arrangement: Elizabeth Alexander
Community Church of Chapel Hill, UU / Glenn Mehrbach
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Pages

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Harmonium Choral Society / Ann Matlack
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Praise Wet Snow Falling Early

Oregon Repertory Singers
Conductor: Gil Seeley

Reasons for the Perpetuation of Slavery

Words and Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Cantala, Lawrence University / Phillip Swan

Saving all the Whales in the Sea

Words & Music by Elizabeth Alexander
Unity Church-Unitarian / Ahmed Anzaldúa
Soloists: Laura Betinis Healy & Mark Dietrich

Shades of Gray

Elizabeth Alexander

Song of Kabir

Words: Kabir / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Unity Singers, Unity Church-Unitarian / Ruth Palmer
Photography: Lorelee Wederstrom

Sue Loves Butter

Indianapolis Women’s Choir
Meagan Johnson

The Annual All-Church Pancake Breakfast and Membership Voting Meeting

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Debi Kilde, singer/actor
Carson Rose Schneider, pianist

The Eternal One

Words: Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “The Oversoul”
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
John Hubert, Sarah Libert

The Gate is Open

Words: Sister Peronne Marie Thibert
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
South Bend Chamber Singers / Nancy Menk

The Gospel Isn’t Written In the Bible Alone

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Libby Turner, Elizabeth Alexander

The Meadow Doesn’t Know About the Stock Market

Words : George Ella Lyon
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Ruth MacKenzie, Jacqueline Ultan, Elizabeth Alexander

The One-Handed Creeper

Left hand: Elizabeth Alexander

This is What Democracy Looks Like

Refrain: Traditional
Music & Additional Words: Elizabeth Alexander
Twin Cities Justice Choir / Tesfa Wondemagegnehu

This is What Democracy Looks Like

Refrain: Traditional
Music & Additional Words: Elizabeth Alexander
Vocalist & Educator: Alysia Lee

We Give Thanks for Being

Words: Traditional / Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Choirs of Unity Church-Unitarian / Ahmed Anzaldúa

What’s Keeping You From Singing?

Words & Music: Elizabeth Alexander
ENCORE!, Her Voice Productions
Randi Grundahl Rexroth

What’s Keeping You From Singing?

Words & Music by Elizabeth Alexander
ENCORE! / Randi Grundahl Rexroth
Her Voice Productions

When the Song of the Angels Is Stilled

Words: Rev. Howard Thurman
Music: Elizabeth Alexander
Concordia Univ. St Paul Christus Chorus / David Mennicke

Y Comienzo a Bailar (“And I Begin To Dance”)

Words & Music by Elizabeth Alexander / Translated by Agustin Cadena
Supertonic Choir / Isaac Stone / Karishma Thanawala
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