Service Previews, Recordings & Sermons

Spiritual Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by Erica Shippee, sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker.

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Voluntary    Marche Funèbre    Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)

Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d’Honneur, a first for a female composer. Her first experiments in composition took place in very early days, and in her eighth year she played some of her music to Georges Bizet, who was much impressed with her talents. She gave her first concert when she was eighteen, and from that time on her work as a composer gained steadily in favor. She wrote mostly character pieces for piano, and salon songs, almost all of which were published.

Opening Hymn 287 v. 1-4    For all the saints, who from their labors rest    Sine Nomine

Gloria in excelsis S278     William Mathias (1934-1992)

Anthem    Pie Jesu from Requiem    Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Erica Shippee, soloist

Pie Jesu, Domine, dona eis requiem.
Dona eis requiem sempiternam requiem.

Merciful Jesus, Lord, grant them rest.
Grant them rest, eternal rest.

Sanctus S128     William Mathias

Fraction Anthem S166    Agnus Dei     Gerald Near (b. 1942)

Closing Hymn 293    I sing a song of the saints of God    Grand Isle

Voluntary    Toccata from Suite Gothique    Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)

During the sixteen years of his professional life, Boëllmann composed about 160 pieces in all genres. Faithful to the style of Franck and an admirer of Saint-Saëns, Boëllmann yet exhibits a turn-of-the-century Post-romantic esthetic, which especially in his organ works, demonstrates “remarkable sonorities.” His best-known composition is Suite gothique (1895), now a staple of the organ repertoire, especially its concluding Toccata, a piece “of moderate difficulty but brilliant effect,” with a dramatic minor theme and a rhythmic emphasis that made it popular even in Boëllmann’s own day. Before his untimely death at age 35, Boëllmann became known as “a dedicated teacher, trenchant critic, gifted composer and successful performer…who coaxed pleasing sounds out of recalcitrant instruments.”

Outdoor Service at 2:00 p.m., sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker.

The Service will be held on the west lawn, weather permitting.

Spiritual Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by Sofia Jones and Brendan Gallagher, sermon by the Rev’d Susan Pinkerton.

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Voluntary     Chant de Paix (Song of Peace)    Jean Langlais (1907-1991)

Opening Hymn 620 vv 1, 2, 5    Jerusalem, my happy home    Land of Rest

Gloria in excelsis S278     William Mathias (1934-1992)

Anthem    Swing low, sweet chariot    Spiritual, arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925)

Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home

I looked over Jordan, and what did I see
A band of angels coming after me
Sometimes I’m up, sometimes I’m down
Sometimes I’m almost to the ground

Alice Parker is a national treasure: America’s reigning queen of choral music. – American Record Guide
My twenty-years’ experience with Robert Shaw, an immersion in folk music of many kinds, has had a profound effect on my own understanding of song. I learned to see each tune as a small universe, setting up its own rules of pitch and rhythm, mood and dance. If I understand that universe, and work within it for my setting, the result is an organic whole that allows the original melody to flourish. – Alice Parker

Sanctus S128     William Mathias

Fraction Anthem S166    Agnus Dei     Gerald Near (b. 1942)

Closing Hymn 690    Guide me, O thou great Jehovah    Cwm Rhondda

Voluntary    Postlude on Cwm Rhondda    Paul Manz (1919-2009)

Spiritual Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by Claudia Ayer, sermon by the Rev’d Margie Baker.

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Voluntary    Prelude in E-flat BWV 552A    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Opening Hymn 9 vv 3, 4, 5    Awake, awake to love and work    Morning Song

Gloria in excelsis S278     William Mathias (1934-1992)

Anthem    We shall walk through the valley    Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989)

Sanctus S128     William Mathias

Fraction Anthem S166    Agnus Dei     Gerald Near (b. 1942)

Closing Hymn 680 vv 1, 2, 3    O God, our help in ages past    St. Anne

Voluntary    Fugue in E-flat BWV 552B    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Spiritual Eucharist Rite II at 10:30 a.m. sung by Cate Emerick and John Nowacki, sermon by the Rev’d Susan Pinkerton.

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Prelude in F    Eric Thiman (1900-1975)
Prelude on Deep River    Adolphus Hailstork (b. 1941)

Opening Hymn 494 vv 1,2,5    Crown him with many crowns    Diademata

Gloria in excelsis S278     William Mathias (1934-1992)

Anthem    How can I keep from singing
Sung by the Youth Choir

Sanctus S128     William Mathias

Fraction Anthem S166    Agnus Dei     Gerald Near (b. 1942)

Closing Hymn 290 vv 1,2,4    Come, ye thankful people, come    St. George’s, Windsor

Voluntary    Now thank we all our God    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Arranged for organ by Virgil Fox (1912-1980)

Spiritual Eucharist Rite II at 10:00 a.m. with hymns, sermon by the Rev’d Susan Pinkerton.

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Service Music:

Voluntary    Prelude on Kremser    John Ferguson, 2001

Opening Hymn 433    We gather together    Kremser

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

Voluntary    Postlude on Nun danket    Robert Edward Smith, 1996