Gloria S280    Robert Powell (b.1932)

Sequence Hymn 121    Christ, when for us you were baptized    Caithness

Offertory Anthem    As I went down to the river to pray    arr. Robert A. Harris (b. 1938)
Attributed to George H. Allan in the Slave Songbook, 1867

Dr. Robert A. Harris is 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. Still 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  S129    Robert Powell

Fraction anthem S163    Robert Powell

Communion Anthem    Jesus so lowly    Harold Friedell (1905-1958)
Text: Edith Williams

Jesus, so lowly, child of the earth:
Christen me wholly, bring me new birth.
Jesus, so lonely, weary and sad;
Teach me that only love maketh glad.

Harold Friedell was well known as an organist and educator, teaching at Juilliard and Union Seminary, a composer of a large number of choral anthems and solo organ pieces, and as a prominent leader in the American Guild of Organists. He was appointed as organist and choirmaster at New York’s Calvary Church in 1939, and then moved to the same position at St. Bartholomew’s Church in 1946 where he remained until the end of his career.

Communion Hymn 512    Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Dove    Mendon