Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. with the St. John’s Adult Choir, sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker.

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Meditation on New Britain    Frederick Swann (1931-2022)

Frederick Lewis Swann was an American church and concert organist, choral conductor, composer. He began playing the organ for church services as a ten-year old. He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in music and later studied at the School of Sacred Music of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. One of the best-known organists of the 20th and early 21st century, Swann was the former Director of Music and Organist at New York City’s Riverside Church and Organist Emeritus of the Crystal Cathedral. Playing the organ on the weekly Hour of Power television program, he was seen by an estimated audience of twenty million viewers in 165 countries.

Processional Hymn 390    Praise to the Lord, the Almighty    Lobe den Herren

Song of Praise    Dignus es    Benjamin P. Straley (b. 1986)

Sequence Hymn 671    Amazing grace! How sweet the sound    New Britain

Offertory Music    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    Land of Rest, arr. Annabel Morris Buchanan (1889-1983)

Fraction Anthem    Be Known to us, Lord Jesus    Gary James (b. 1957)

Communion Anthem    The Lord’s Prayer    John Tavener (1944-2013)

Communion Hymn 516    Come down, O Love divine    Down Ampney

Hymn in Procession 397    Now thank we all our God    Nun danket alle Gott

Voluntary    Chorale Improvisation on Nun danket alle Gott    Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)