The Gift of Resilience: Luminaries in the Darkness, A Remembrance of Love
Leslie Burrs and Mark Kramer
December 21, 2025
Cranaleith Spiritual Center invites you to an evening of reflection, light, and soulful music. Join us on Sunday, December 21st as we gather in community for a special seasonal celebration filled with warmth, remembrance, and connection.
The Gift of Resilience: Luminaries in the Darkness, a Remembrance of Love is a musical experience of contemplative, meditative, and reflective memories generated by love lost, love gained, familial ties and friendship everlasting.
This concert is performed by the award-winning artist, Leslie Savoy Burrs (composer, flute, alto flute, bamboo flutes) and the international jazz artist Mark Kramer (piano). The music for this concert presentation consists of compositions by Burrs as well as jazz and folk standards.
This program is designed to engage the audience spiritually through the music while encouraging a dialogue and reminiscence of love’s offerings through time.
Together, we’ll find solace, hope, resilience and peace through music and fellowship.
The entire day is Free and Open to All. Donations are gratefully received.
Come, rest in the gifts of music, community, and the enduring strength we share.
Evening Schedule:
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3:30–5:00 PM – Community Supper, Enjoy a warm meal with fellow guests in the Education & Conference Building Dining Room.
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4:00–5:00 PM – Mill-Rae Historic House Tours, Meet at the first-floor lobby of the Education & Conference Building to begin.
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4:00–5:00 PM – Holiday Craft Activity Art Room (located in Administration Building, across from the Conference Center).
- 5:30–6:30 PM – Concert with Leslie Burrs & Mark Kramer, Education & Conference Building Conference Room.
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6:30 – 7:00 PM – Luminary Walk, Be a part of our Luminary Fundraiser and concert finale. We’ll begin in the first-floor lobby. Limited luminaries will be available for purchase the day of – Advanced purchase strongly recommended. Please click here for more information regarding our luminary fundraiser.
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Gift Shop Open: 3:30–5:30pm and 7:00–8:00pm – Find unique & meaningful gifts and other seasonal items.
About the Facilitators
Leslie Burrs
Jazz and Classical Composer, Performing and Recording Artist Composer, flutist and Philadelphia native Leslie Savoy Burrs signed a three-album re-release, international jazz record contract with the Paris record label, Libreville Records. Including a duo album with Jazz Great, Kenny Barron titled: IMPRESSIONS OF ANOTHER YOU. CARVINGS released on vinyl and streaming platforms features Burrs’ […]
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Mark Kramer
Raised just a block down from John Coltrane's home, Mark Kramer enjoys a productive, colorful, and creative career as an improvising pianist (live performance - clubs and concerts - and recording), arranger-composer, producer/engineer, and occasional educator. Jazz Style is METAMODERN* Impossibly melodic + technically-adroit + oscillates between understated to fully-stated modernism and postmodernism - - - paying homage to […]
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