Ridvan celebrates Baha’u’llah’s time in 1863 in the garden of Ridvan in Baghdad when He publicly declared His station as a Manifestation of God. The Ridvan Festival is 12 days long and is also the time of year when Baha’is elect their governing bodies.
“Gather All the People” is a virtual choir project in honor of Naw-Ruz. It was put together by the European Baha’i Choir and it features 44 singers from across Europe and a cellist. It is the first virtual project created by the European Baha’i Choir.
The lyrics of the song are based on this excerpt of a prayer by Abdu’l-Baha:
Gather all people beneath the shadow of Thy bounty and cause them to unite in harmony, so that they may become as the rays of one sun, as the waves of one ocean, and as the fruit of one tree.
Abdu’l-Baha
If you’d like to know more about the European Baha’i Choral Festival, you may be interested in this Baha’i Blog interview with festival director Ameli Dziemba: The European Baha’i Choral Festival
If you enjoyed listening to “Gather All the People”, you may also enjoy this playlist from the 2019 European Baha’i Choral Festival from our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3f2MUjB
In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.
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So very beautiful!
Alison Ewing (April 4, 2021 at 10:44 AM)