Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the Youth and Adult Choirs; sermon by the Rev’d Susan Pinkerton.
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Voluntary Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Meditation on Peace like a river Sondra Tucker, 2006
While the Voluntary is instantly recognized as “phantom of the opera” spooky music, this stereotyped association tends to obscure the brilliance of the composition. Long before it was used in films, video games and ringtones, it was transcribed and arranged for orchestra, band, piano, brass and other instruments (even marimba!). A theory exists that it may have been an arrangement by Bach of a lost violin piece; since the 1980s, scholars have been debating whether it is even by Bach at all. Various stylistic departures from the rest of Bach’s output are generally explained by it being an early work, based on the improvisatory forms of North German composers much studied and admired by Bach. Even if the music is by one of his predecessors, a listener can in any case imagine a teenage Bach pulling out all the stops and having fun with the massive chords, virtuosic use of the pedals, echo effects and startling dissonance.
Processional Hymn 518 Christ is made the sure foundation Westminster Abbey
Gloria in excelsis S278 William Mathias (1934-1992)
Sequence Hymn 581 Where charity and love prevail Cheshire
Offertory Anthem The Spirit of the Lord Philip Stopford (b. 1977)
Words from Isaiah 61
The spirit of the Lord is upon me,
Because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor.
He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives
And recovering of sight to the blind, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord,
To give unto them that mourn a garland of ashes, the oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness,
That they might be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord that he might be glorified.
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud,
And as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth,
So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before the nations.
Philip Stopford is a contemporary English composer who began his career as a youth chorister at Westminster Abbey, singing under Simon Preston and Martin Neary. His music is equally popular with American choirs as it is with English ones, due to his accessible yet thought-provoking compositional style. Our Youth Choir (along with the choir of St. James’s Church) will be premiering a new work by Philip at the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival in October.
Sanctus S128 William Mathias
Fraction Anthem S166 Agnus Dei Gerald Near (b. 1942)
Communion Anthem Bread of the world, in mercy broken John Abdenour (b. 1962)
Words: Reginald Heber (1783-1826), found at Hymn 301
Closing Hymn Shall we gather at the river At the River
Voluntary Toccata Brevis Daniel Gawthrop, 1985