May 6, 2018

The Sixth Sunday of Easter

ORISON: Christians to the Paschal victim (Tune: Victimae Paschali laudes) – Plainsong, Mode I; melody att. Wigbert (d. 1050?)

PSALM 98 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Lift your voice rejoicing, Mary (Tune: Fisk of Gloucester) – Thomas Foster (b. 1938)

NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tone V; harm. Vicente Ripollés (1867-1943)

ANTHEM: Regina caeli laetare – Robert White (c. 1538-1574)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Thomas Adams, cantor

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April 22, 2018

The Fourth Sunday of Easter

ORISON: The Lord is my Shepherd – Bobby McFerrin (b. 1950)

PSALM 23 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014)

HYMN: Jesus, our mighty Lord (Tune: Monk’s Gate) – Sussex folk melody, adapt. and arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

NUNC DIMITTIS – John Mundy [Munday] (c. 1555-1630)

ANTHEM: The Good Shepherd – Alice Parker (b. 1925)

Jason Anderson, director • Joel Matter, reader • Derek Curtis-Tilton, cantor

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April 15, 2018

The Third Sunday of Easter

ORISON: This joyful Eastertide (Tune: Vruechten) – mel. from Psalmen, 1685; harm. Charles Wood (1866-1926)

PSALMS 134 & 4 – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014)

HYMN: Jesus lives! (Tune: Saint Albinus) – Henry John Gauntlett (1805-1876)

NUNC DIMITTIS – Tyler A. Morse (b. 1990)

ANTHEM: Christus surrexit – Jacob Handl (1550-1591) *

The Rt. Rev. Gregory H. Rickel, presider Ÿ Jason Anderson, director • William Turnipseed, reader • Joel Bevington, cantor

* Quartet in anthem: Tyler Morse and Joel Bevington, altos  • Arvind Narayanan and Gregory Bloch, tenors

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April 8, 2018

The Second Sunday of Easter

ORISON: That Easter Day with joy was bright (Tune: Puer nobis) – mel. from Trier MS., 15th cent.; adapt. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621); harm. George R. Woodward (1848-1934)

PSALM 133 – Setting based on a theme from Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990); adapt. Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976)

HYMN: Alleluia! O sons and daughters, let us sing (Tune: O filii et filiae) – melody from Airs sur les hymnes sacrez, odes et noels, 1623 *

NUNC DIMITTIS:  Plainsong, Tone VII; harm. Thomas Morley (1557-1602)

ANTHEM: Sermone blando angelus – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585)

Jason Anderson, director • Jeffrey Ricco, reader • Jeremy Matheis, cantor

* Jeremy Matheis & Thomas Adams, soloists

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April 1, 2018

Easter Day

PROCESSIONAL: Easter Canticle – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) †

PSALM 118:14-24 – Plainsong, Tone VIII.1

HYMN: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (Tune: Gaudeamus pariter) – melody from Medieval Bohemian Carol Melody, 1544; harm; Hymnal, 1940, and Harvey Grace (1874-1944)

NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong, Tonus peregrinus; harm. William Byrd (c. 1539/1540-1623)

ANTHEM: Salvation is created – Pavel Chesnokov (1877-1944); arr. for men’s voices by Vladimir Morosan

Jason Anderson, director • Jeremy Matheis, reader • Thomas Adams, cantor

† Soloists in processional: Joel Matter and Layne Benofsky

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