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)
  
2 October 2014
In This Issue

5 October 2014  - The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

9:00am Eucharist, II

      Treble Choir / Canterbury Choir

      John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster

            Guilmant / Sonata No. 3, Op. 56 (Adagio molto)

            Samuel Hunter / Sweeter Far than Honey

            White / A Prayer of St. Richard of Chichester

            Guilmant / Sonata No. 3, Op. 56 (Fuga)

            Hymns

            LEVAS 99*         My hope is built on nothing less                          Bradbury

            596* (st. 1)         Judge eternal, throned in splendor               Komm, o komm

            598*                   Lord Christ, when first thou cam'st          Mit Freuden zart

 

11:15am Eucharist, II                      

      Parish Choir

      John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster

            Guilmant / Sonata No. 3, Op. 56 (Adagio molto)

            Walmisley / Psalm 19

            Samuel Hunter / Sweeter Far than Honey

            Guilmant / Sonata No. 3, Op. 56 (Fuga)

            Hymns

            448*                   O Love, how deep                             Deus tuorum militum

            596* (st. 1)         Judge eternal, throned in splendor               Komm, o komm

            431*                   The stars declare his glory                                        Aldine

            598*                   Lord Christ, when first thou cam'st          Mit Freuden zart

 

3:00pm Blessing of Animals Service (outdoors)

      Training Choir

            Hester / Bless these animals

            Hymns

            405                     All things bright and beautiful                           Royal Oak

            400                     All creatures of our God and King       Lasst uns erfreuen

 

4:15pm Organ Recital (see note below about PARKING this Sunday afternoon)**

      Brian Hunt, Organ

            J.S. Bach / Partita on O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV 767

                        (O God, thou faithful God)

            Mendelssohn / Prelude & Fugue in d minor, Op. 37

            Franck / Pr�lude, Fugue, et Variation, Op. 18

            Charles Callahan / Prelude on Repton

 

5:00pm Eucharist, II

      John Linker, Organist

            Guilmant / Sonata No. 3, Op. 56 (Adagio molto)

            Guilmant / Sonata No. 3, Op. 56 (Fuga)

            Hymns

            598*                   Lord Christ, when first thou cam'st          Mit Freuden zart

            596* (st. 1)         Judge eternal, throned in splendor               Komm, o komm

            37*                     O brightness of the immortal Father's face  Evening Hymn

 

[* = Hymns chosen from the 2009 Hymn Survey]

 

**Parking Sunday afternoon - Due to the Animal Blessing Service, Bell Court will be closed from the Main Street Entrance. For the Sunday afternoon 4:15 Concert, you are advised to enter the Bell Court Neighborhood from Forest Avenue, and park on Sayre or in the small parking lot behind the church. All the usual doors will be open, including the Main Street door and glass doors on both ends of the loggia/concourse. 
Organist Brian Hunt to Perform this Sunday in Good Shepherd
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Brian Hunt

This Sunday we welcome organist Brian Hunt to play the 4:15pm recital. Brian Hunt has been the Organist/Assistant Director of Music at the Cathedral of Christ the King (RC) since September 2004. He assists Robert Whitaker, Director of Music, in an active and comprehensive music program at the cathedral. Their ensembles include an Adult Choir, Boys Choir, Girls Choir, Folk Choir, Cantors, and Resurrection Choir. They also sponsor an annual Cathedral Concert Series. Prior to his appointment at Christ the King, he was the Director of Music for Mary Queen of the Holy Rosary Parish in Lexington. Brian is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, having completed a Bachelors of Music Education in 1979 and the Master of Sacred Music degree in 2004. His teachers include Mr. Arnold Blackburn, and Dr. Schuyler Robinson.

 

He has been active in the Lexington Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. He completed additional study with the Royal School of Church Music in Croydon, England in July 1990. He was included in the 60th Edition of Who's Who in America in 2005. He received the GIA Pastoral Musician of the Year award in 2005. 
Notes for Sunday's Music

Alexandre Guilmant, active 100 years after Bach's death, was influenced by Bach through studying with Jacques Lemmens in Brussels. Lemmens studied with Hesse, who studied with Bach himself. During the 19th and early 20th multi-movement organ compositions gained great popularity. The second and third movements of Sonata No. 3 are played for the Voluntaries. While Guilmant called these works "sonata," his contemporary Charles-Marie Widor called them "symphony." From 1871-1901 Guilmant was organist at the Church of La Trinit� in Paris, and in 1896 succeeded Widor as professor of organ at the Paris Conservatory.

 

The Anthem Sweeter Far than Honey by Samuel Hunter (b. 1988) is a fresh treatment of Psalm 19. Throughout the work the organ part provides color and an added depth to the text offered by the voices. Many phrases commence with the interval of an ascending fifth producing a haunting effect. The anthem was commissioned in 2011 by the Association of Anglican Musicians for use at their Annual Conference in Greenville, SC. Samuel Hunter is a native of Asheville, NC, and at a young age is already enjoying international success as a choral composer.
Choir Tour to Louisville on Saturday 10/18 and other news...
St Luke's Anchorage, 
Choir Tour Destination 10/18

Last spring the choir had to cancel their trip to Louisville to sing evensong in St Luke's Anchorage as a result of threatening weather. 

This trip has now been rescheduled for Saturday, October 18th. 

  

St Luke's has appointed a new rector who is familiar to people who have been around Good Shepherd for any length of time.  Fr Michael Delk was curate at Good Shepherd in the late 90s, and is now the newly appointed rector of St Luke's Anchorage.  We're looking forward to being with Fr Delk and the entire St Luke's community on October 18th.  If you'd like to tag along with the choir on this trip October 18th, please be in touch with me (contact info below), and we'll be pleased to reserve you a place.  The cost is $25 per seat for adults and $10 for kids aged 12 and under.


 

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We will again celebrate All Saints' with our annual

All Saints' Concert on Sunday, November 2

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at 6:00pm.  In years past some families of those who died in the past year have helped to underwrite the concert by purchasing scores for the music library as a memorial for their loved ones.  If you are in a position to help out in this way, please do be in touch.

 


 

John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster

859 252 1744

choirmaster@goodshepherdlex.org
Kentucky Bach Choir holds "Bachtoberfest"
Join Sebastian for a pint at Bachtoberfest on 12th October at Blue Stallion Brewery
Kentucky Bach Choir
proudly presents
Bachtoberfest

Sunday 12th October, 4-6pm
Blue Stallion Brewery

German Food and Beer
Vocal and Instrumental Music
Reverse Raffle with many prizes
Grand Prize drawing for $1,000

Tickes are $75 each.
Please CLICK HERE to print the order form to mail in with your check.
University of Kentucky Opera presents Sweeney Todd

Several singers who have graced Good Shepherd's choir stalls in recent months are involved in the University of Kentucky Opera's production of Sweeney Todd. Further info as well as ticket information can be found HERE.

Upcoming Sunday Afternoon Concerts in Good Shepherd

We have launched our second annual concert series each Sunday afternoon throughout the academic year through May 2014.  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.

 

5 October 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Brian Hunt (Lexington, KY)

 

12 October 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Robert Poovey (Rochester, NY)

 

19 October 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Owen Sammons (Paris, KY)

 

26 October 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Mitchell Miller (Bloomington, IN)

 

2 November 2014 - 6:00pm - Annual All Saints' Concert by Good Shepherd Choirs

 

9 November 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Louis Perazza (Philadelphia, PA)

 

16 November 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Jerry Martin, MD (Lexington, KY)

 

23 November 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Kevin Faulkner (Elizabethtown, KY)

 

30 November 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Owen Sammons (Paris, KY)

 

7 December 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Jane Johnson (Lexington, KY)

 

14 December 2014 - 4:15pm - Choir Concert by Cantabile, Donna Bonner, Director (Lexington, KY)

 

21 December 2014 - 5:00pm - A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols
Good Shepherd Choir at St Paul's Within the Walls, Rome, June 2013
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