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Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae (Maritime Calamity Song)

Season 2024-2025
Performance Date May 3, 2025
Performance Year 2025
Performance Time 4:00 PM
Additional Performances May 4, 2025
Location American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Performance Title Philip's Favorites II
Composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Country Finland
Year Composed 1997
Timing 10:00"
Performers

VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Jennifer Bevington, soprano; David Gindra, bass

Text Translation

May the eternal light shine upon them, O Lord;
may perpetual light shine upon them.

Over eight hundred people perished in a shipwreck in the northern Baltic Sea.
The car ferry Estonia, en route from Tallinn to Stockholm, was overturned in a severe storm and sank.
Have mercy, O Lord.

There were about 1000 passengers on board. 910 people lost their lives in the wreck of the Estonia; 139 were saved.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth
them out of their distresses.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth
them unto their desired haven.
—Psalm 107: 23-30, King James version

(The news text is from Nuntii Latini, the weekly news
broadcasts in Latin by the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
These extracts are from the reports broadcast on September
30, 1994 and October 7, 1994, translated into Latin by Reijo
Pikäranta.)

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