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Service Music:

Voluntary
Trumpet Tune    Henry Heron (1738-1795)
Prelude    Robert Paoli (b. 1991)

Processional Hymn 556    Rejoice ye pure in heart!    Marion

Gloria S280    Robert Powell (b. 1932)

Sequence Hymn 593    Lord, make us servants of your peace    Dickinson College

Offertory Anthem    O gracious light    Michelle Horsley (b. 1990)

Sanctus  S130    Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Fraction anthem S164    Jesus, lamb of God    Franz Schubert

Communion Anthem    Nunc Dimittis in C minor    George Dyson (1883-1964)

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word.
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be. World without end, amen.

Hymn in Procession 438    Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord!    Woodlands

Voluntary    Processional    Robert Paoli (b. 1991)

Service Music:

Voluntary
O for a closer walk with God (2015)    Craig Phillips (b. 1961)
Meditation on Slane (2015)    June Nixon (b. 1942)

One of Australia’s best-known organists, choir trainers, and composers, June Nixon was the first woman to be granted the John Brooke prize for the Choir Training Diploma at the Royal College of Organists in London. In 1968 she was the winner of the Australian National Organ Competition, and in 1973, was appointed Organist and Director of Music at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne. She retired from this position in February 2013 and is now Organist Emerita. Nixon is a widely published composer, both in the USA and England, writing music that is accessible and enjoyable for both musicians and listeners. Several cathedral choirs have recorded her works, and her arrangement of the traditional carol The Holly and the Ivy was included in the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from Kingʼs College, Cambridge.

Processional Hymn 381    Thy strong word did cleave the darkness    Ton-y-Botel

Gloria S280    Robert Powell (b. 1932)

Sequence Hymn 629    We limit not the truth of God    Halifax

Offertory Anthem    O for a closer walk with God    Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Words: William Cowper (1731-1800), found at Hymn 683

Sanctus  S130    Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Fraction anthem S164    Jesus, lamb of God    Franz Schubert

Communion Anthem     O send out your light, 2009    Scott Lamlein (b. 1972)
Words: Psalm 43:1-2

O send out your light and your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling.
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy;
And I will praise you with the harp.
O send out your light and your truth, let them lead me, O God, my God.

Communion Hymn 302    Father, we thank thee who hast planted    Rendez à Dieu

Hymn in Procession 488    Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart    Slane

Voluntary    Carillon    Herbert Murrill (1909-1952)

The English organist, choral conductor, broadcasting executive, and composer, Herbert (Henry John) Murrill, studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He occupied various posts as organist and choral director, and was Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1936 he joined the staff of the BBC, where he was program organizer, finally reaching the post of Head of Music in 1950.

Service Music:

Voluntary    Aria    Flor Peeters (1903-1986)

This Aria was originated in 1943 as the slow movement of a Sonata for trumpet and piano, and it is still a permanent fixture on exam syllabuses for aspiring young trumpeters. Peeters himself arranged it for organ. The expressive melody unfolds above an accompaniment of soft repeated chords. As in so much of his finest work, there is a simplicity and sincerity in this music that speaks directly to the heart.

Processional Hymn 474    When I survey the wondrous cross    Rockingham

Gloria S280    Robert Powell (b. 1932)

Sequence Hymn 674    Forgive our sins as we forgive    Detroit

Offertory Anthem    Thou God of truth and love    Malcolm Archer (b. 1952)
Words: Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

Thou God of truth and love,
We seek thy perfect way,
Ready thy choice to approve,
Thy providence to obey:
Enter into thy wise design,
And sweetly lose our will in thine.

Why hast thou cast our lot
In the same age and place?
And why together brought
To see each other’s face?
To join with softest sympathy,
And mix our friendly souls in thee?

Didst thou not make us one,
That we might one remain,
Together travel on,
And bear each other’s pain;
Till all thy utmost goodness prove,
And rise renewed in perfect love?

O may thy Spirit seal
Our souls unto that day,
With all thy fulness fill,
And then transport away!
Away to our eternal rest,
Away to our Redeemer’s breast!

Malcolm Archer’s setting of this Charles Wesley text contains a highly lyrical melody and emotional connection. Pay special attention to the dramatic treatment of the middle verse: “Didst Thou not make us one, that being one we must remain? Together, travel on, and bear each others’ pain.” The text and tune lift up a universal message of following Christ, serving others, and God being with us in times of trouble.

Sanctus  S130    Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Fraction anthem S164    Jesus, lamb of God    Franz Schubert

Communion Motet    Oculi omnium    Charles Wood (1866-1926)
Words: Psalm 144:15

Oculi omnium in te spirant Domine: et tu das illis escam in tempore opportune. Gloria tibi Domine. Amen.
The eyes of all wait upon thee, O Lord: and thou givest them their meat in due season. Glory be to thee, O Lord. Amen.

Communion Hymn 305    Come, risen Lord, and deign to be our guest    Rosedale

Hymn in Procession 344    Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing    Sicilian Mariners

Voluntary    Voluntary on Sicilian Mariners    Carson Cooman (b. 1982)

Service Music:

Voluntary    Prelude on Hyfrydol    Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)

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    My God, how wonderful thou art    Richard Scarth (b. 1983)
Words: Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)

My God, how wonderful Thou art,
Thy majesty how bright,
How beautiful Thy mercy seat,
In depths of burning light!

How wonderful, how beautiful,
The sight of Thee must be,
Thine endless wisdom, boundless pow’r,
And awesome purity!

Father of Jesus, love’s reward,
What rapture will it be,
Prostrate before Thy throne to lie,
And ever gaze on Thee!

Sanctus  S130    Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Fraction anthem S164    Jesus, lamb of God    Franz Schubert

Communion Motet    O nata lux    Annabel Rooney (b. 1973)

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.

Annabel McLauchlan Rooney studied in Cambridge with an MPhil and a PhD on eighteenth-century opera. She writes predominantly choral music, and combines this with performance and instrumental teaching. Annabel’s music appears regularly at Evensong at Christ’s College Chapel, and has been performed by choirs including those of the Chapel Royal, and Exeter and Ely Cathedrals. The choir of Christ’s College, Cambridge, released a CD of Annabel’s sacred choral music, As a Seed Bursts Forth, in 2019.

Communion Hymn    I love to tell the story    Hankey

Hymn in Procession 460    Alleluia! sing to Jesus!    Hyfrydol

Voluntary    Cortège Académique    Ernest MacMillan (1893–1973)

Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan was a Canadian orchestral conductor, composer, organist, and Canada’s only “Musical Knight.” He is widely regarded as being Canada’s pre-eminent musician, from the 1920s through the 1950s. His contributions to the development of music in Canada were sustained and varied, as conductor, performer, composer, administrator, lecturer, adjudicator, writer, humourist, and statesman.