Annibale Carracci, Isaiah, Musée du Louvre, Paris
O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence-- [NRSV, Isaiah 64:1]
First Sunday of Advent [Comments]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Variations on an Advent Tune (O come, Emmanuel) [Holman: listen], Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)
Mass Setting: Missa in Adventu, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)
Introit: Machet die Tore weit [text/listen], Andreas Hammerschmidt (1612/12-75)
Motet: Never weather-beaten sail [text], Richard Shephard (b.1949)
Postlude: Le monde dans l’attente du Sauveur from Symphonie-Passion [Beaupérin: YouTube], Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Christmas Rose
A procession with Lessons and Carols for Advent
Sunday, November 27, 2011, at 4:00 pm
Preludes:
Es ist ein' ros’, James Woodman (b. 1957)
Es ist ein' ros’ [info/listen], Johannes Brahms (1833-97)
Advent Responsory: I look from afar [text], Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)
O Antiphons [information],
Lo, how a rose [info/listen], trad.; harm. Praetorius; arr. Phil Mattson
Zion, at thy shining gates [text], Bohemian Brethren's Kirchengesänge (1566), arr. George Guest (1924-2002)
Nova! Nova! [text/listen],
Dixit Maria [text/listen],
This is the record of John [text/listen]
Never weather-beaten sail [text]
Gaudete omnes et laetamini [text], Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Postlude:
Fantasy: Lo, he comes, Kenneth Leighton (1929-88)
