Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the St. John’s Youth and Adult Choirs, sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker.
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Service Music:
Voluntary
Tuba Tune on Laudate Dominum (2015) June Nixon (b. 1942)
Andantino Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)
Processional Hymn 432 O praise ye the Lord! Laudate Dominum
Gloria S280 Robert Powell (b.1932)
Sequence Hymn 137 O wondrous type! O vision fair Wareham
Offertory Anthem Christ whose glory fills the skies T. Frederick H. Candlyn (1892-1964)
Words: Charles Wesley (1707-1788), found at Hymn 7
T. Fredrick H. Candlyn was a Briton who emigrated to the U.S. to undertake church music in New York, first at St. Paul’s, Albany and later at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. His style is in line with the Wesley family and other very “tuneful” composers. One of his most beloved works, Christ, whose glory fills the skies uses a soaring melody for the first and final stanzas, while the second stanza is a completely different four-part texture. Text painting occurs at words such as “unaccompanied” when the organ stops playing.
Sanctus S130 Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Fraction Anthem S164 Jesus, lamb of God Franz Schubert
Music at Communion O nata lux Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
O nata lux de lumine,
Jesu redemptor saeculi,
dignare clemens supplicum
laudes preces que sumere.
Qui carne quondam contegi
dignatus es pro perditis,
Nos membra confer effici,
tui beati corporis.
O born light of light,
Jesus, redeemer of the world,
mercifully deem worth and accept
the praises and prayers of your supplicants.
Thou who once deigned to be clothed in flesh
for the sake of the lost ones,
Grant us to be made members
of your blessed body.
Hymn in Procession 618 Ye watchers and ye holy ones Lasst uns erfreuen
Voluntary Fanfare John Cook (1918-1984)
A trumpet mardi gras for organ! This is the last time we’ll hear the Trompette-en-Chamade (horizontal trumpet over the main entrance) and Trompette Harmonique (high pressure trumpet in the chancel) in worship until Easter Sunday, as Lent begins this coming week.
Assisting Organist: Bruce Henley