 | Goulding & Wood Opus 50
The "Miller and Wrigley Organ" |
TONIGHT - Friday 21 June at 7:30pm . -
The dedicatory recital of our new organ, the "Miller and Wrigley Organ" built by Goulding & Wood Organbuilders.
John Linker, along with Owen Sammons (organist at St Peter's in Paris, KY) and Schuyler Robinson (organ professor at University of Kentucky), will present the dedicatory recital with an eclectic program of organ repertoire. On the program will be subtle and not-so-subtle works by Bach, Franck, Rheinberger, Messiaen, Howells, Vierne, Cook, Albright, and Mulet.
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23 June 2013 - 5 Pentecost
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10:00am Eucharist, II
Whit Whitaker, Tenor
John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster
Carter Leer, Assisting Organist
Locklair / The Peace may be Exchanged (from Rubrics, 1988)
Hallock / Psalm 42 Quemadmodum
Brown / This River
Vaughan Williams / Love bade me welcome from Five Mystical Songs
Hymns
686* Come, thou fount of every blessing Nettleton
314* Humbly I adore thee Adoro devote
388*O worship the King Hanover
4:00pm Choir Concert
Touring Choir
A concert of choral music that will be performed while the choir
is in Italy and France over the next two weeks.
5:00pm Eucharist, II
Touring Choir
Andrew Burton, Clarinetist
John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster
Stanford / Beati quorum via
Traditional Appalachian / Down to the river to pray
Hymns
686* Come, thou fount of every blessing Nettleton
511* Holy Spirit, ever living Abbot's Leigh
43* All praise to thee, my God The Eighth Tune
[* = Hymns chosen from the 2009 Hymn Survey]
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Notes for Sunday's Music
Dan Locklair's Rubrics is a liturgical suite for organ in five movements. It was composed during the spring of 1988 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on a commission from the Organ Artists Series of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for their tenth anniversary year celebration. The work was premiered in Pittsburg on 16 April 1989 by the American organist Mary Preston. Each movement is a meditation on rubrics from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. (Rubrics are the italicized "instructions" given throughout the prayer book. Originally these instructions were in red, hence the name "rubrics.") "The Peace may be exchanged" is a lyrical aria, featuring a solo diapason color and accompanied by strings and double pedal throughout. Echoing Fr Cole's sermon from last Sunday, we have programmed a repeat of Love bade me welcome from Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams so that the congregation has yet another opportunity to meditate through this extraordinary text by 17th-century priest George Herbert. The music by Vaughan Williams includes an orchestral style of accompaniment complete with luscious strings and cantabile solo registers. The work received its first performance on 14 September 1911, at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester (England), with Vaughan Williams conducting.
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Choir Send-Off Concert 23 June
Join us for a special concert on Sunday 23 June at 4:00pm as the choir sings repertoire that will go on tour with them to Italy and France later this month, where they'll sing concerts and services in Rome, Florence, and Paris. Following this concert, the choir will sing the 5:00pm Eucharist that evening.
Choirs are Enrolling for 2013-14We're planning an action-packed academic year, and we want YOU! Good Shepherd offers choirs for all ages, from preschool through retirement. Instruction in music theory, choral repertoire, foreign languages, rehearsal, performance, spirituality, and liturgical education are all part of the package. And all of this is offered for FREE! Contact John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster, for more information.
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Concerts in Good Shepherd |
 Sunday 23 June at 4:00pm - Bon Voyage Concert (followed by Eucharist at 5:00pm)
Join us for a special send-off concert as the choir prepares to depart for Italy and France. The Choir will be singing services and concerts in Rome, Florence, and Paris, visiting parishes and the Cathedral in the American Episcopal Diocese of Europe.
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Choir Europe Tour 2013
One of the purposes of this choir pilgrimage is to visit our sister Episcopal parishes in Europe and to visit many other holy sites along the way. Just as there is an Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, with its mother church (Cathedral) located in Lexington and parishes spanning a defined geographic region, there is also a Diocese of Europe (technically called the "Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe"). The Cathedral for this diocese is located in Paris and twenty-two parishes are found throughout Europe. The Director of Music at the American Cathedral is Kentucky native Zach Ullery, Good Shepherd's former Assistant Organist from 2001-2008. Click the links below to learn more about the venues in which our Choir will be singing. St Pauls Within the Walls, RomeSt James Church, FlorenceL'Eglise de la Madeleine, Paris The American Cathedral, Paris
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Advance Planning - Highlights for 2013/14
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Choir Reunion Weekend
Mark your calendars now for an exciting weekend of reunion activities for the choir program from 20 - 22 September 2013! As a way of celebrating the installation of our new Goulding & Wood organ, all singers of Good Shepherd Choirs, past and present, are invited to participate in this weekend of choral festivities. If you haven't done so already, please be in touch with John Linker and he will provide you with pertinent details.
Annual All Saints' Concert - 1 November
This year's All Saints' Concert will feature Mozart's final masterpiece, Requiem, K. 626. Note that this year's concert will be on a Friday evening at 7:00pm.
Organist Olivier Latry coming to Good Shepherd in 2014
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.
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