Service Music:

Voluntary    Processional    Robert A. Harris

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. 

Processional Hymn 618    Ye watchers and ye holy ones    Lasst uns erfreuen

Gloria S280    Robert Powell (b. 1932)

Sequence Hymn 137    O wondrous type! O vision fair    Wareham

Offertory Anthem    O nata lux    Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)

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.

Sanctus  S130    Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Fraction anthem S164    Jesus, lamb of God     Franz Schubert

Communion Anthem    Eternal light    Leo Sowerby (1895-1968)
Words: Alcuin Albinus Flaccus (c. 735-804)

Eternal Light, shine into our hearts,
Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil,
Eternal Power, be our support,
Eternal Wisdom, scatter the darkness of our ignorance,
Eternal Pity, have mercy upon us;
that with all our heart and mind and soul and strength
we may seek thy face
and be brought by thy infinite mercy to thy holy presence;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Leo Sowerby began to compose at the age of 10. His interest in the organ began to teach himself at the age of 15. He studied and taught at the American Conservatory of Music, received the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his cantata, the Canticle of the Sun, and was the first composer to receive the Rome Prize from the American Academy. His substantial output includes over 500 works in every genre but opera and ballet. After his retirement as organist and choirmaster from St. James Episcopal Cathedral in Chicago, he was called to Washington National Cathedral to become the founding director of the College of Church Musicians, a position he held until his death.

Hymn in Procession 460    Alleluia! sing to Jesus!    Hyfrydol

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.