10:00am Eucharist, II

      Summer Choir

      John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster

            Barber / Adagio for Strings

            Copland / Fanfare for the Common Man

            Hymns

            616*                   Hail to the Lord's Anointed              Es flog ein kleins Waldv�gelein

            LEVAS 134*       Take me to the water                              Spiritual, Arr. Boyer

            511* (st. 1)         Holy Spirit, ever living                                      Abbot's Leigh

            LEVAS 143*       Wade in the water                             Spiritual, Arr. Haywood

            718*                   God of our fathers                                          National Hymn

5:00pm Eucharist, II

      John Linker, Organist

            Barber / Adagio for Strings

            Copland / Fanfare for the Common Man

            Hymns

            616*                   Hail to the Lord's Anointed          Es flog ein kleins Waldv�gelein

            511* (st. 1)         Holy Spirit, ever living                                  Abbot's Leigh

            43*                     All praise to thee, my God, this night       The Eighth Tune

[* = Hymns chosen from the 2009 Hymn Survey]

Sunday's voluntaries are both by American composers in celebration of Independence Day this weekend. Samuel Barber's famous Adagio for Strings is a favorite among organ transcription enthusiasts. This work began its life as the second movement of Barber's String Quartet, Op. 11, composed in 1936 while Barber was spending a summer in Europe.  As one of the most riveting emotional pieces of the 20th century, it has earned itself a place in popular culture. It has appeared on several television and film soundtracks, most notably Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Oscar-nominated 2001 film Am�lie, and has been performed for memorial services of dignitaries.  The organ transcription is by William Strickland and was published by G. Schirmer in 1949.

Charles Villiers Stanford's anthem, O for a closer walk with God, is an arrangement of the tune Caithness, which first appeared in the Scottish Psalter of 1635 (see Hymn 684), named for one of the most remote Scottish counties at the northeastern tip of the country. Stanford spent nearly 20 years as organist of Trinity College, Cambridge and was knighted in 1902.

The closing voluntary is Aaron Copland's dramatic Fanfare for the Common Man. The fanfare was written in 1942 at the request of the conductor Eugene Goossens for performance by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the first performance being given by that conductor and orchestra on March 14, 1943. In 1944, Copland's fanfare was one of ten collected by Goossens into a volume of fanfares. In his fanfare, Copland strove for what he himself described as "a certain nobility of tone, which suggested slow rather than fast music." The title followed from the composer's reaction to that of Walter Piston's Fanfare for the Fighting French. As Copland recalled, "It seemed to me that if the fighting French got a fanfare, so should the common man, since, after all, it was he who was doing the dirty work in the war." A few years later, feeling it to be "worth further development," Copland used the Fanfare for the Common Man in the finale of his Third Symphony.

Summer Choir Sings in July

Do you like to sing? Well then, Summer Choir is for you! During the summer there are no midweek rehearsals, just a rehearsal the hour prior to the morning service. Repertoire for the summer will include favorites over the past year as well as other easy reads from standard choral repertoire. Be in touch with John Linker (859 335 6166; john@johnlinker.com) if you'd like to sing any of the Sundays throughout June and July.