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September 26, 2010
6:00 p.m.

Pianist, composer and Dove Award winner Rolin Mains and musical guests will provide an hour of meditative music during a Contemplative Concert on Sunday, September 26, at 6 p.m. Admission is free.

The music will be freely improvised, creating a space for audience members to go ‘wherever the music leads them’. Audience members are encouraged to bring meditation pillows, or they can simply come and enjoy the music in their own way. In a world marked by sustained noise and motion, this contemplative concert promises to create a space of quietude, calm and timelessness. We offer this experience as refreshment before the start of a hectic week or to cap off a great weekend.

Rolin Mains creates meditative musical landscapes with the Gallery Musicians during Christ Cathedral’s First Friday Sacred Soul Space services. The music is marked by free tonalities, gentle dynamic shifts, and a wide breadth of musical influences. Mains also serves as music director at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in East Nashville. He is founder of the Nashville Composers Association, an award-winning producer, and won a Dove award for Best Instrumental Album of the Year.

Six Death Row inmates were released from prison after their convictions were reversed. Their harrowing stories are told in their own words to create the drama, THE EXONERATED. This powerful commentary on the American justice system was created by Jessica Blank and Erik Jenson. It will be performed in a staged reading at Christ Church Cathedral in six performances October 7-9 and 14-16.

The production is directed by Ted Swindley in collaboration with Nashville Shakespeare Festival and Destiny Theatre Experience. It tells the story of five men and one woman -- what they were falsely accused of, how they were wrongly convicted, and their eventual exoneration. The play was first presented off-Broadway in New York City in 2002, has toured throughout the U.S. and was made into a cable television film in 2005.

The award-winning play was written by Blank and Jensen after they conducted interviews with more than 40 wrongfully convicted death row inmates across the United States during the summer of 2000. They chose to tell the stories of six individuals who served from two to twenty-two years on death row for crimes they did not commit. Court documents provided the voices of lawyers, judges, police and witnesses.

Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performances are $10 and $5 for students.

Due to a mature subject matter, THE EXONERATED is not recommended for children.

A Performance of the Musical Play Sweet Singer
followed by a Lecture on Lyrical Theology
led by ST Kimbrough, Jr.

ST Kimbrough, Jr. is known as a professional singer under the name Steven Kimbrough. His baritone voice has been praised as magnificent, mellow, dramatic, elegant, pure liquid gold, and his acting as brilliant and captivating by critics throughout the world. In addition, he is the author/editor of numerous books and articles on musical, biblical, theological and historical subjects including a number of volumes dedicated to the work of Charles Wesley. He holds a doctorate in Old Testament and Semitic languages from Princeton Theological Seminary, is the founding President of The Charles Wesley Society, and has served as Associate General Secretary of the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church. Kimbrough wrote the musical Sweet Singer in 1985 and premiered it that year at New York’s Carnegie Hall to a sold-out house. Since that time he has presented over 500 performances on three continents. Kimbrough has recently published his book entitled The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley: A Reader. Lyrical theology is a term first used by S. T. Kimbrough, Jr. in 1984 to describe theology that is couched in poetry, hymns/songs, and liturgy. It is characterized by rhythm and expressive of emotion and sentiment. Dr. Kimbrough will explore and expand on the themes contained in that work.

Friday, October 29
Musical Play Sweet Singer, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 30
Lecture on Lyrical Theology, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Book Signing, 12:00 p.m.

Cost: $15 for Musical Play and Lecture
$10 for Musical Plan, $5 for students
$10 for Lecture, $5 for students

Sunday, October 31
ST Kimbrough will be our guest preacher
7:00 am, 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Liturgies
9:45 a.m., Focused and Faithful Forum