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)
  
21 November 2013
In This Issue
28 November 2013 - Thanksgiving Day

10:00am Eucharist, II

      Whit Whitaker, Tenor

      John Linker, Organist

              Buxtehude / Erhalt uns Herr bein dinem Wort, BuxWV 185

              Vaughan Williams / Love Bade Me Welcome (from Five Mystical Songs)

              E.R. Warren / God be in my heart

              Bach / Arr. Virgil Fox / Now thank we all our God

              Hymns

                 433*             We gather together                                                        Kremser

                 290*             Come, ye thankful people, come             St. George's, Windsor

                 291*             We plow the fields and scatter                                 Wir pflugen

                 397*             Now thank we all our God                                     Nun dankett 

1 December 2013 - The First Sunday of Advent

 9:00am Eucharist, II

      Training Choir / Treble Choir / Canterbury Choir

      John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster

              Bach / Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645

              Snyder / One Little Candle (Training Choir)

              arr. Vaughan Williams / The Truth from Above

              Lloyd Webber / Rhapsody on Helmsley

              Hymns

                 59*               Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding                                  Merton

                 68* (St. 1)    Rejoice! rejoice, believers                                     Llangloffan

                 53*               Once he came in blessing                    Gottes Sohn ist kommen

                 57*               Lo! he comes, with clouds descending                         Helmsley

 

11:15am Advent Procession and Eucharist, II

      Parish Choir

      John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster

              Palestrina / Advent Responsory

              Wood / King Jesus hath a garden

              Rachmaninoff / Богородице Дево (Bogorođitse Devo)

              arr. Vaughan Williams / The Truth from Above

              Lloyd Webber / Rhapsody on Helmsley

              Hymns

                 in Bulletin     Come, thou Redeemer of the earth    Veni, Redemptor genitum

                 59*               Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding                                  Merton

                 278*             Sing we of the blessed Mother                                   Rustington

                 57*               Lo! he comes, with clouds descending                         Helmsley

 

4:15pm Concert

         Owen Sammons, Organ

            Sammons / Dialogues Symphonique

            An improvised organ symphony utilizing the antiphonal

            resources of the Miller and Wrigley Organ

                        I. D�bat

                        II. D�lib�ration

                        III. Romance

                        IV. Cacophonie

                        V. Chorale Antiphonal

 

5:00pm Eucharist and Confirmations

      Owen Sammons, Visiting Organist

              Hymns

                 490*             I want to walk as a child of the light                              Houston

                 Taiz�            God of promise

                 66*               Come, thou long-expected Jesus                                 Stuttgart

 

[* = Hymns chosen from the 2009 Hymn Survey]

Notes for Sunday's Music

 

This Sunday we begin a new liturgical year as we return to "year A" in our three-year cycle. As the Church is remarkably good at marking time, this Sunday we observe the beginning of the Advent season with our annual Advent Procession as part of the 11:15 service.

 

This Sunday's Hymns - As is the case with several carols and hymns for Advent and Christmas in current common use, the text and tune of Hymn 59 gained greater acceptance and use in the Episcopal Church through their inclusion in a recording of Advent Lessons & Carols by the choir of King's College, Cambridge. The text is found in two tenth-century sources and was originally used for the Office of Lauds during Advent. The tune Merton has been joined with this text since 1861 and entered American Episcopal hymnals in 1892. Hymn 53 was originally a German text published in 1544. The editors of The Hymnal 1982 reduced the hymn from nine stanzas to four, with a translation by Catherine Winkworth. The tune associated with this text dates from a Bohemian Brethren hymnal from 1531, and the tune name (Gottes Sohn ist kommen) reflects the German text. Hymn 57, with a text by Charles Wesley, has been a favorite Advent hymn among many Anglican parishes ever since Ralph Vaughan Williams chose to include it in The English Hymnal in 1906. Helmsley is a small Yorkshire town whose vicar, Richard Conyers, was a friend of Charles Wesley.

 

J.S. Bach's organ chorale prelude Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme is for many places a quintessential element of advent music. This simple setting is in three voices and is part of the "Six Sch�bler Chorales," a small collection of Bach's own organ transcriptions from his cantatas (five are from known cantatas; one may be from a lost cantata).

 

The closing voluntary is a free work based on the hymn tune Helmsley. William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982), a student of Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, was a prolific English organist and composer, holding positions at All Saints' Margaret Street, London, and later Westminster Central Hall Church, one of the largest Methodist churches in the UK. William Lloyd Webber had two musician sons, one of whom became quite famous as a composer for the musical theatre (Andrew Lloyd Webber, b. 1948). 
Organist Owen Sammons to Perform this Sunday in Good Shepherd
 
Continuing our Sunday afternoon concert series, Owen Sammons plays the Miller and Wrigley organ in a recital at 4:15pm.  This program, a five-movement organ symphony, will be entirely improvised.
 
Owen Sammons is Director of Music and Arts at St Peter's Episcopal Church, Paris, Kentucky.  Owen has appeared at Good Shepherd on many occasions over the past decade, both as singer and as organist.  Most recently Owen served as organist for the Choir's tour to Italy and France this past summer.
 
 

 

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.

 

 

1 December 2013 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Owen Sammons. 

                        Owen Sammons is Director of Arts & Music at St Peter's Episcopal Church, Paris, Kentucky.

 

8 December 2013 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Jane Johnson. 

                        Jane Johnson is Organist at Crestwood Christian Church, Lexington,

                        and is Director of Student Affairs, College of Fine Arts, University of Kentucky.

 

15 December 2013 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by John Linker. 

                        John Linker is Organist/Choirmaster at Church of the Good Shepherd, Lexington.    

 

                        Program

                        Widor / Symphonie gothique, Op. 70

 

22 December 2013 - NO CONCERT TODAY.

                        5:00pm A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

 

24 December 2013 (Christmas Eve) - 6:15pm - Organ Recital by John Linker. 

                        John Linker is Organist/Choirmaster at Church of the Good Shepherd, Lexington.    

 

                        Program

                        Widor / Symphonie gothique, Op. 70

 

29 December 2013 - NO CONCERT TODAY.

 

5 January 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Owen Sammons. 

Owen Sammons is Director of Arts & Music at St Peter's Episcopal Church, Paris, Kentucky.

 

12 January 2014 - 4:15pm - Recorder and Organ Recital by Susan Weatherford, Recorder, with John Linker, Organ

 

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 - 4:00pm (note time change for today) - Early Music Concert by faculty members of University of Kentucky School of Music

 

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

What's Coming Up

 

22 December 2013 - 5:00pm - A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols for Christmastide

This is an annual favorite of Good Shepherd parishioners and community members alike.  Nine lessons that trace man's fall in the Garden of Eden all the way through the birth of Christ promising redeption are read by representatives of parish ministries and the community.  Familiar Christmas carols are sung by the congregation and the choir sings settings both old and new to help tell the story.  Please arrive early to find a good seat, as this is one of our most popular services of the year.

 

28 February 2014 - 7:30pm - Organist Olivier Latry in Recital

Olivier Latry, one of the three organistes-titulaires de Grande-Orgue of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, will be playing a recital in Good Shepherd on Friday 28 February 2014. This remarkable event will be 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. You may read more info about this dynamic musician here.
Good Shepherd Choir at St Paul's Within the Walls, Rome, June 2013
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