June 28, 2009

Istanbul, Kariye Camii, Paracclesion, bema arch, Raising of Jairus' Daughter, 1315-21

He took her by the hand and said to her, "Talitha cum," which means, "Little girl, get up (NRSV, Mark 5:41)!"

The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Institution de l’Eucharistie from Le Livre du Saint-Sacrement [Bate: listen; Latry: listen; Weir: listen], Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)

Introit: Cantate Domino [text] [YouTube Playlist], Giuseppe Pitoni (1657-1743)

Mass Setting: Missa Quatuor Vocum, Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Motet: O Sacrum Convivium [text], Giovanni Croce (1557-1607)

Postlude: Les Ressuscités et la lumière de vie from Le Livre du Saint-Sacrement [Bate: listen; Latry: listen; Weir: listen], Olivier Messiaen

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Récit de tierce en taille from Livre d'orgue [Latry: listen], Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703)

Introit: O gladsome light, Louis Bourgeois (1510-61)

Preces and Responses: Thomas Ebdon (1738-1811)

Psalm: 145

Canticles: Service in C for two voices, Alan Ridout (1934-96)

Anthem: Round me falls the night [text], Adam Drese (1620-1701)

Postlude: Prelude and Fugue in a, BWV 543 [Albrecht: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1705)

June 21, 2009

Giorgio de Chirico, Christ and the Storm (detail), Vatican Museum, 1914

And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him (Mark 4:41)?"

The Third Sunday after Pentecost [Comments]

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs

Prelude: Vater Unser, BWV 636 [Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introit: Cantate Domino [text/listen], Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)

Mass Setting: Missa Secunda [text/listen], Hans Leo Hassler

Motet: Laudate Dominum [text], Hans Leo Hassler

Postlude: Toccata in C, BWV 564 [Kibbie:listen], Johann Sebastian Bach

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Prelude: Voluntary in F, John Blow (1649-1708)

Introit: Rejoice in the Lord alway [text], Anonymous English, 16th cent.

Preces and Responses: John Reading (1654-92)

Psalm: 4 (Morley)

Canticles: Dorian Mode, John Blow

Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord alway [New College: text/listen], Henry Purcell (1659-95)

Postlude: Cornet Voluntary in G [Stembridge: listen], William Walond (1725-70)

June 14, 2009

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Last Supper, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, 1524-25

"I am the living bread that came down from heaven (NRSV, John: 6:51a)."

Corpus Christi

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Choirs of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York
The Cathedral Choirs

Prelude: Praeludium in g-moll (Chapuis: listen), Vincent Lübeck (1654-1740)

Introit: Ave verum corpus [text] [St. John's: listen], Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Mass Setting: Service in F, Harold Darke (1888-1976)

Motet: Pange lingua [text] [BBC Singers: NML], Bob Chilcott (b. 1955)

Postlude: Improvisation, Tim Brumfield

4:00 pm Evensong
The Choirs of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York
The Cathedral Choirs

Prelude: Suite du 2e ton pour le Magnificat [Beyhurst/Chantres du Roy:listen], Jean-Adam Guilain (fl. 1702-39)

Introit: Hail, gladdening light [text/listen], Charles Wood (1866-1926)

Preces and Responses: Paul Spicer (b. 1952)

Psalm: 63, (Bairstow)

Canticles: Service in F, Peter Aston (b. 1938)

Anthem: Let all mortal flesh keep silence [text] [YouTube], Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
Draw us in the Spirit’s tether [Riverside: text/listen], Harold Friedell (1905-58)

Postlude: Suite du 2e ton pour le Magnificat [Beyhurst/Chantres du Roy:listen], Jean-Adam Guilain

June 7, 2009

God with Seraphim, Les Petites Heures de Jean de Berry, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 14th c.

And one [seraph] called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory (NRSV, Isaiah 6:3)."

Trinity Sunday [Comments]

There is no Choral Eucharist or Evensong this Sunday.

There will be a special Eucharist at 1:00 pm with hymns to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Synod of Montreal. The organ voluntaries opening and closing the Eucharist will be from Charles-Marie Widor, Symphony No. 4 [listen].