Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by the St. John’s Choir School and Adult Choir, sermon by the Rev’d Todd FitzGerald.
Worship at Home:
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Service Music:
Voluntary Méditation Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Processional Hymn 366 Holy God we praise thy Name Grosser Gott
Song of Praise 417 This is the feast Festival Canticle
Sequence Hymn 51 We the Lord’s people, heart and voice uniting Decatur Place
Offertory Anthem Oh, how can I keep from singing Robert A. Harris (b. 1938)
Traditional folk hymn
My life flows on in endless song,
Above earth’s lamentation
I hear the real though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
I hear the music ringing.
It sounds an echo in my soul. Since love is lord of heaven and earth
Oh, how can I keep from singing?
What though the tempest round me roars,
I know the truth; it liveth.
What though the darkness round me close,
Songs in the night it giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
I hear the music ringing.
Since love is lord of heaven and earth
Oh, how can I keep from singing?
Dr. Robert A. Harris is currently a Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. He also serves as Director of Music and Choirmaster at the Winnetka Congregational Church in Winnetka, IL. Dr. Harris held the position of Professor of Conducting and Director of Choral Organizations at NY from 1977 to 2012. Active as a conductor, composer, clinician, lecturer and adjudicator, he has also held guest professorships in conducting at Wayne State University in Detroit, the University of Texas in Austin, and the University of South Africa in Pretoria.
Sanctus S125 Richard Proulx (1937-2010)
Fraction Anthem Christ our Passover Jeffrey Rickard (b. 1942)
Communion Anthem Ein Blümlein wenn’s die Sonne spüret Jan Berger (1909-2002)
Words: Maria Brubacher, 1825
Ein Blumlein wenn’s die Sonne spuret Sich offnet stille, sanft und froh;
Wann Gottes Gnade dich beruhret, Lass auch dei Herz bewirken so.
A rose touched by the sun’s warm rays, all its petals gently do unfold;
So you, when touched by God’s great mercy, let joy and gladness win your soul.
Jean Berger was a German-born American pianist, composer, and music educator. He composed extensively for choral ensemble and solo voice. In 1933, he moved to Paris, where he took the French name Jean Berger and toured widely as a pianist and accompanist. From 1939 to 1941, he was an assistant conductor at the Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro and on the faculty of the Brazilian Conservatory. In 1941, he moved to the United States and served in the U.S. Army and became a US citizen. From 1946 to 1948, he worked as an arranger for CBS and NBC and toured as a concert accompanist. This setting of a Pennsylvania German hymn is miniature gem – light, transparent, and beautiful.
Communion Hymn It is well with my soul
Closing Hymn 455 O Love of God, how strong and true Dunedin
Voluntary Toccata on Grosser Gott Matthew H. Corl (b. 1965)
Yingying Xia, organ scholar
