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)
  
11 September 2014
In This Issue

14 September 2014  - The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

7:45am Eucharist, I

      John Linker, Organist

      Improvisations before the service, at the Offertory, and Communion

 

9:00am Eucharist, II

      Training Choir / Canterbury Choir

      John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster

            Karg-Elert / Schm�cke dich, o liebe Seele, Op. 65

            Bedford / Come, Holy Spirit, Come (Training Choir)

            Parry / Dear Lord and Father of mankind

            Karg-Elert / Ich dank dir, lieber Herre, Op. 65

                        (I thank Thee, Lord, for keeping thy watch throughout the night)

            Hymns

            593*                   Lord, make us servants of your peace  Dickinson College

            538* (st. 1)         God of mercy, God of grace                Lucerna Laudoniae

            411*                   O bless the Lord, my soul!               St Thomas (Williams)

 

11:15am Eucharist, II                      

      Men's Schola

      John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster

            Karg-Elert / Schm�cke dich, o liebe Seele, Op. 65

            Purcell / In God's word will I rejoice

            Karg-Elert / Ich dank dir, lieber Herre, Op. 65

                        (I thank Thee, Lord, for keeping thy watch throughout the night)

            Hymns

            593*                   Lord, make us servants of your peace  Dickinson College

            538* (st. 1)         God of mercy, God of grace                Lucerna Laudoniae

            411*                   O bless the Lord, my soul!               St Thomas (Williams)

 

4:15pm Organ Recital

      Eugene Lavery, Organist (Louisville, KY)

            Ives / Variations on America

            Elgar / Salut d'Amour

            Bach / Fantasia & Fugue in G minor, BWV 542

            Vierne / Scherzo from Symphony No. 6

            Mulet / Carillon-Sortie

 

5:00pm Choral Evensong

      Treble Choir & Parish Choir

      John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster

      Owen Sammons, Assisting Organist

            Linker / Responses

            Stanford / Evening Service in B-flat

            Wesley / Blessed be the God and Father

            Hymns

            29*                     O Trinity of blessed light                                        Bromley

            24*                     The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended                 St. Clement

 

[* = Hymns chosen from the 2009 Hymn Survey]
Organist Eugene Lavery to Perform this Sunday in Good Shepherd
Eugene Lavery

This Sunday we welcome organist Eugene Lavery to play the 4:15pm recital.

 

New Zealand born organist Eugene Lavery is an exciting and versatile musician, highly sought after as a keyboard artist, conductor and teacher. Recent and upcoming engagements include solo recitals at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Holy Cross Cathedral, Lagos, Nigeria; and St. Paul's Cathedral, London, United Kingdom.

 

As Organist and Director of Music at historic Calvary Episcopal Church in Louisville, Kentucky, Lavery directs the semi-professional adult choir and oversees the annual Sacred Arts series which offers a diverse range of liturgical and concert performances. Mr. Lavery previously served as Artistic Director of the award-winning Cathedral Choir School of Delaware; one of the most prominent Episcopal chorister programs in the United States.

 

Lavery received his Bachelor of Music with First Class Honors from the University of Auckland while also serving as Organ Scholar and then Assistant Organist at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2007 Mr. Lavery relocated to New York after gaining entry to the prestigious Master of Music program at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Paul Jacobs.

 

Pursuing a multi-faceted career, Lavery has appeared as an organist for live broadcasts for Television New Zealand and Radio New Zealand; recorded a solo CD 'Joie' on the Harrison & Harrison organ of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland; served as conductor and organist for Royal School of Church Music courses in the United States, New Zealand, and Nigeria; and performed with the American Symphony Orchestra and Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra.
Notes for Sunday's Music

The music of Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) is becoming increasingly well known, though he's not yet a standard household name in this country. If an organ composer wants to be recognized in Germany, he writes music based on chorales (i.e., German hymns). Such was the case of Karg-Elert when he composed his 66 Chorale Variations, Op. 65, of which two are played for the voluntaries this morning. He was influenced by the music of Bach (no surprise there; every composer is influenced by Bach!), Claude Debussy, and Max Reger. Both Schm�cke dich, o liebe Seele and Ich dank dir, lieber Herre represent these influences. Schm�cke dich (based on Hymn 339) is a luscious, chromatic treatment of this Eucharistic tune. Ich dank dir, lieber Herre (based on a tune not found in our Hymnal) features numerous echo passages wherein the player changes manuals rapidly every few beats for dramatic effect. Fragments of the tune are heard in the soprano voice, but in a disguised manner. Flourishes and chromaticism abounds, though within the strict parameters of tonality, hallmark traits for this romantic / impressionistic / expressionistic composer.

 

The Anthem for Evensong, Samuel Sebastian Wesley's Blessed be the God and Father, was written for a service on Easter Day at Hereford Cathedral, when 'only Trebles and a single Bass voice' were available, the bass singer being the Dean's butler. The central portion of the work, a dialogue between a treble soloist and the treble chorus, is flanked by passages for tenors and basses alone. The final fughetta on the words 'But the word of the Lord endureth forever' is heralded by a dramatic dominant seventh chord of E flat on full organ. Wesley (1810-1876) held positions at Hereford, Exeter, Winchester and Gloucester Cathedrals, as well as Leeds Parish Church.
First Evensong of the year this Sunday

Please join us as the choir sings our first Evensong service of the year this Sunday at 5:00pm.

 

Evensong is considered to be among the most valuable crown jewels of the Episcopal Church. This service is sung daily by most cathedrals and collegiate churches, countless composers have written music for the texts of evensong. The service originated in Archbishop Thomas Cranmer's first Book of Common Prayer in 1549. Cranmer compiled the canonical offices of Compline and Vespers to become the principal evening service of the Anglican Church. The service was slightly modified in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, which is the customary source of Evensong texts to this day. The recitation of the Psalter is one of the key components of Evensong, as well as the Magnificat (Song of Mary), Nunc dimittis (Song of Simeon), and a series of prayers chanted between Officiant and Choir. This service will feature festive music, including Wesley, Blessed be the God and Father, Stanford Evening Service in B-flat, and Linker Responses. Please come and bring your friends and neighbors!


 

Child care available from 4-6pm on Sunday 9/14.

Upcoming Sunday Afternoon Concerts in Good Shepherd

We are launching our second annual concert series each Sunday afternoon throughout the academic year beginning in September 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.

 

14 September 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by Eugene Lavery (Louisville, KY)

 

21 September 2014 - 4:15pm - Organ Recital by John Linker (Lexington, KY)

 

28 September 2014 - 4:15pm - Choir Concert by Unversitatis Schola Cantorum, J. Young, Director (Lexington, KY)

 

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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