Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (lit. "I will gladly carry the cross-staff"), BWV 56, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. The text, by Christoph Birkmann, describes the Christian life as a voluntary journey "carrying the cross" as a follower of Jesus. The words indirectly refer to the prescribed Gospel reading, which says that Jesus traveled by boat. The poet compares life to a sea voyage, and at the end yearns for death as the ultimate destination. Called an "artist worth keeping an eye on" by the Washington Post and noted for "clarity and fire" by the New York Times, Jonathan is a member of the Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street in New York City and performs regularly with ensembles across the United States including the Clarion Music Society, Musica Sacra, Antioch Chamber Ensemble, Spire Chamber Ensemble and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. He has shared the stages of the Barclays Center, Alice Tully Hall & Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Walt Disney Concert Hall with such groups as the New York Philharmonic, the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal, Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Quebec, among others.
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