Service Music Listing - This Coming Sunday
May 20, 2012 + The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after the Ascension
Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the Adult Choir
Prelude: Prayer of Christ Ascending Olivier Messiaen
Opening Hymn 214 Hail the day that sees him rise Llanfair
Pascha nostrum: Hymn 417 This is the feast Festival Canticle
Sequence Hymn 483 The head that once was crowned with thorns St. Magnus
Offertory anthem: O clap your hands Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sanctus S125 Richard Proulx
Fraction anthem: Christ our Passover Jeffrey Rickard
Communion anthem: The Lord ascendeth up on high Michael Praetorius
Communion Hymn 328 Draw nigh and take the body of the Lord Song 46
Closing Hymn 494 Crown him with many crowns Diademata
Organ: Toccata on 'Grosser Gott' Grayston Ives
Music Note: Messiaen's quietly ecstatic prayer of 'Christ ascending towards his Father' is from his 1932 Ascension Suite, described by the composer as "Four meditations for orchestra." He arranged it for organ the next year, and it is still one of his most frequently performed pieces. Over the course of some nine minutes the music takes on a radiant glow, using gradually ascending notes and progressively ascending sections, as part of a typically weightless, timeless experience created by very long note values and unpredictable rhythms. † Dating from 1920, Vaughan Williams's arrangement of Psalm 47 was originally orchestrated for organ, brass and percussion, and can be heard in arrangements for organ alone and for full orchestra. The joyous mood of the text is capitalized upon in a setting of extroverted jubilation. The brass and organ parts work fanfare-like counterpoints around the vocal lines. After an anticipated climax on "Sing praises unto our King," the music reaches a moment of quiet introspection. Here the vocal lines take on an almost speech-like quality that seems to pay homage to the tradition of Anglican chant. The moment, however, is quickly interrupted by the brass, and the energy of the music returns to the same joyous mood as the opening. This is a piece clearly designed to fill a space with a grand noise in praise of God. (Stephen Kingsbury) † The postlude was commissioned by the 2011 Sewanee Church Music Conference, Sewanee, Tennessee. It presents the tune of Hymn 366 in long notes in the pedal, undergirding a quickly repeated figuration above. (This is the essence of most organ toccatas which, translated from the Italian 'toccare', means 'to touch.')
Choral Evensong at 5:00 p.m. sung by the St. John's Youth Choir (with Tea at 4:00 p.m.)
Preces and Responses: John Abdenour
Phos Hilaron: Andrew Walker
Psalms 19 and 46 Anglican Chants by C. Hubert H. Parry and after Martin Luther
Evening Canticles: David Hogan “Washington”
Anthem: For the beauty of the earth - John Rutter
At the conclusion of Evensong: Organ Recital
Andy Kotylo, Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven
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