The Shepherd's Song


Psallam spiritu et mente.
I will sing with the Spirit and with the understanding also.
--Motto of the Royal School of Church Music (I Corinthians 14:15)
  
18 January 2014
In This Issue

19 January 2014 - The Second Sunday after the Epiphany


9:00am Eucharist, II

      Canterbury Choir

      John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster

      Jackson Campbell, Assisting Organist

            Bo�llmann / Verset (from Mass 7, Heures mystiques)

            Handel / Behold the Lamb of God (from Messiah)       

            Bo�llmann / Sortie (from Mass 7, Heures mystiques)

            Hymns

            135*                   Songs of thankfulness and praise                          Salzburg

            124* (st. 1)         What star is this                                                  Puer nobis

            439*                   What wondrous love is this                        Wondrous Love

            543                     O Zion, tune thy voice                                           Eastview

 

11:15am Eucharist, II

      Treble Choir / Parish Choir

      John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster

      Jackson Campbell, Assisting Organist

            Bo�llmann / Verset (from Mass 7, Heures mystiques)

            Jacobs / Psalm 40:1-12

            Handel / Behold the Lamb of God (from Messiah)       

            Bo�llmann / Sortie (from Mass 7, Heures mystiques)

            Hymns

            135*                   Songs of thankfulness and praise                          Salzburg

            124* (st. 1)         What star is this                                                  Puer nobis

            439*                   What wondrous love is this                        Wondrous Love

            543                     O Zion, tune thy voice                                           Eastview

 

4:15pm Concert

      Margaret Jones and Susan Weatherford, Recorders; John Linker, Organ

      A "Christmas in January" Program

Palestrina / Adoramus te, Arr. Pfohl / God rest you merry, gentlemen, Wilhousky / Carol-Noel, Arr. Meader / Coventry Carol, Arr. Scott / Infant holy, infant lowly, Arr. Rutter / Angels we have heard on high, Arr. Hynson / Silent night, Arr. Rutter / Still, still, still, Berlin, Arr. Shaw / White Christmas, Torme & Wells / The Christmas Song 

     

5:00pm Eucharist, II

      Sung by Cantabile, Donna Bonner, Director

      John Linker, Organist

      Joshua Bracken, Music Intern / Assisting Organist

            Clausen / Set me as a seal

            Mozart / Ave verum corpus     

            Hymns

            135*                   Songs of thankfulness and praise                          Salzburg

            124* (st. 1)         What star is this                                                  Puer nobis

            WLP 750            So the day dawn for me                                                       

                                               Wildridge and St Charles, Queensborough Terrace

 

[* = Hymns chosen from the 2009 Hymn Survey]
Notes for Sunday's Music
 

Sunday morning we welcome organ student Jackson Campbell as he plays the opening voluntary. French composer L�on Bo�llmann (1862-1897) wrote for organ, piano, orchestra, voice, and chamber music. He died at the age of 35, leaving behind a wife and three children. When Bo�llmann's wife died the following year, his teacher Eug�ne Gigout raised Bo�llmann's three children, one of whom, Marie-Louise Bo�llmann-Gigout (1891-1977), became a noted organ teacher in her own right. Bo�llmann's Heures mystiques is a collection of eight organ masses, with movements intended to accompany various liturgical actions. Two movements from Mass 7 are played today are Verset and Sortie. Due to the simple nature of this music and lack of a clearly indicated pedal part, these pieces are equally at home on the organ or harmonium, a keyboard instrument popular in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

 

The Anthem Sunday morning is Handel's famous chorus from Messiah, "Behold the Lamb of God," a text which echoes the Gospel Lesson read today (John 1:29). Set in the contemplative key of g-minor, "French overture" dotted rhythms convey the text in a jagged manner.

 

Music Intern Joshua Bracken plays Franck's Pr�lude in B Minor (from Pr�lude, Fugue, et Variation, Op. 18, No. 3) for the opening Voluntary of the 5:00pm service. Written in 1862, it is a part of the larger Six Pi�ces pour le Grand Orgue. The Pr�lude, with its solo oboe melody accompanied by flutes in the lilting meter of 6/8, suggests a pastoral scene of beautiful calm.

 

The Communion Motet sung by Cantabile at the 5:00pm service, the famous Ave verum corpus, by Mozart is among the most popular sacred choral works worldwide. Written in the last year of Mozart's life, the work was a gift for Anton Stoll, organist of the Baden parish church. In his classic study of the composer, German-American musicologist Alfred Einstein concluded that the Ave verum corpus, like the best of Mozart's church music, does not impress by its grandeur and the lofty dignity of its expression, "but by its humanity, by its appeal to all devout and childlike hearts, by its directness."
"Cantabile" to Perform this Sunday in Good Shepherd

 

The Cantabile Vocal Ensemble is a group of 12 dedicated, talented young men and women who first began singing together in February 2012.   Most of them are former students at Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School who are simply united in their love and dedication to quality music and its vocal expression. In February 2012, they voluntarily approached Donna Bonner, their choral music teacher during their tenure at Dunbar, about the possibility of singing together again. In the ensuing months, they began rehearsing a varied repertoire of acappella music on a weekly basis and have since been featured guests at several musical venues in and around Lexington. These include Mt. Horeb Presbyterian Church, Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, the Henry Clay Home at Ashland, and Woodford Theatre. They are excited about their reunion with director Donna Bonner, who also directed the Dunbar choral music program for 16 years.   Mrs. Bonner, who holds an undergraduate degree in music from Berea College and a Master's Degree in music from Eastern Kentucky University, is also very excited about the opportunity of enjoying a new "musical odyssey" with her former students.   

I Love Singing!   Be A Chorister for an Evening - Sunday, February 16

 

Sunday evening February 16th at 6:00pm, Good Shepherd parishioners and friends of ALL ages are invited to join the choir for a dinner and a rehearsal in the Undercroft. Want to learn more about master composers, have a greater understanding of more languages, and contribute to a team endeavor? This is for you! In addition to dinner and rehearsal, there will be activities for all ages. Call 859 252 1744 so we can get you in the count for dinner.
French organist Olivier Latry
Organist Olivier Latry to Perform in Good Shepherd Friday, Feb. 28
 
Olivier Latry, one of the three organistes-titulaires de Grande-Orgue of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, will be a playing a recital in Good Shepherd on Friday 28 February 2014 at 7:00pm. This remarkable event is co-sponsored between the Lexington and Louisville Chapters of the American Guild of Organists as well as Good Shepherd.  Latry is also organ professor at Paris Conservatory and is considered to be one of the finest organists in the world.

Tickets will go on sale soon.  Watch for an e-mail in the near future indicating how to go about purchasing tickets.

Check out the following YouTube clips of Latry's amazing musicality.

What's Coming Up

 

16 March 2014 - Choir Tour to Louisville

Keeping with the spirit of celebrating our faith with neighboring parishes, the Choir is taking a short tour Sunday afternoon March 16th to sing Evensong in St Luke's Anchorage.  Good Shepherd along with St Luke's Choir, directed by Lisa Lewis, will join together for the service, which is preceded with an organ recital by John Linker.  

Upcoming Sunday Afternoon Concerts in Good Shepherd


We have launched an exciting new concert series each Sunday afternoon throughout the academic year.  Though these concerts are primariliy organ recitals, 

many different genres of music will be celebrated throughout the year.  

Please spread the word and invite your friends!

All Sunday afternoon concerts are at 4:15pm (unless otherwise noted) and admission is free, 

however, donations are gratefully accepted.

 

19 January 2014 - 4:15pm - Choir Concert by Cantabile, Donna Bonner, Director

 

26 January 2014 - 4:15pm - Trumpet and Organ Recital by Patrick Tuck, Trumpet, 

           with John Linker, Organ

 

2 February 2014 - 4:15pm - Clarinet and Organ Recital by Andrew Burton, Clarinet, 

           with John Linker, Organ

 

9 February 2014 - 4:15pm - Choir Concert by University of Kentucky Blue Note Ensemble, 

             Dimitrius Walker, Director

 

16 February 2014 - 4:15pm - Voice Recital by Whit Whitaker, Tenor

 

23 February 2014 - 4:15pm - Central Music Academy Student Recital

 

2 March 2014 - 4:15pm - Bluegrass Concert by University of Kentucky Bluegrass Ensemble

 

16 March 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Clif Cason

 

30 March 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Joshua Bracken

 

6 April 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Jason Overall

 

13 April 2014 - 4:15pm - Trumpet & Organ Recital by Caleb Hudson, Trumpet, and John Linker, Organ

 

27 April 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Jane Johnson

 

4 May 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Zachary Klobnak

 

11 May 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Ted Gentry

 

18 May 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Larry Sharp

 

25 May 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Margaret Dickinson

 

1 June 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Robert Nicholls
Good Shepherd Choir at St Paul's Within the Walls, Rome, June 2013
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