November 8, 2009


Robert Vonnoh, In Flanders Field - Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow, Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio, 1890

Jesus said to Martha, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die (NRSV, John 11:25-26a).'

Remembrance Sunday

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Choirs


Prelude: Chorale Prelude, O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen, Op. 122, no. 6 (Blessed are ye faithful souls) [Golebiowski: listen; Sonnleitner: listen; Vuola: NML; Oortmerssen: NML] (info); Johannes Brahms (1833-97)


Introit: In the midst of life [text], Russian Chant

Mass Setting: Missa de Beata Virgine, Gregor Aichinger (1564-1628)

Motet: Requiem aeternam [text], Felice Anerio (1560-1594)

Postlude: O God our help, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)

4:00 pm Evensong
The Cathedral Singers


Prelude: Chorale Prelude, O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen, Op. 122, no. 6 (Blessed are ye faithful souls) [Golebiowski: listen; Sonnleitner: listen; Vuola: NML; Oortmerssen: NML] (info); Johannes Brahms (1833-97)

Introit: Holy is the True light [text] [Christ Church, Oxford: YouTube; Carwood: CML] (info); William Harris (1883-1973)

Preces and Responses: Donald Hunt (b.1930)

Psalm: 121 (Walford Davies)

Canticles: Service in C, Philip Radcliffe (1905-86)

Anthem: O Thou, whose all-redeeming might [text], David Blackwell (b. 1961)

Postlude: Chorale-prelude, O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, Op. 122 (O world, I now must leave you) [listen], Johannes Brahms