Second Sunday of Christmas - January 3, 2016

• Organ: Sinfonia from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 – J. S. Bach (1685-1750) 
• Service Music: Merbecke 
• Opening Hymn: 148 See Amid the Winter’s Snow 
• Offertory Hymn: 122 In the Bleak Midwinter 
• Anthem: Christmas Hymn – Dudley Buck (1839-1909) 
• Hymn during Communion: 146 ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime 
• Closing Hymn: 155 From East to West, from Shore to Shore
• Organ: Variations on “Quand Jésus naquit à Noël” – Claude Balbastre (1724-1799)
  

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1st Sunday of Christmas (The Holy Family) – December 27, 2015

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• Organ: 3 Noëls – Nicolas-Antoine Lebègue (1631-1702)
• I. Puer Nobis Nascitur
• II. Une Vierge Pucelle
• III. L'Amour de Marie
• Opening Hymn: 135 Shepherds in the Field Abiding
• Service Music: Merbecke
• Psalm 128:1-5 (read responsively)
• Offertory Hymn: 143 Angels, from the Realms of Glory
• Concluding Hymn: 138 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• Organ: Toccata, Op. 67, No. 2 – Georges MacMaster (1862-1898)

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Christmas Eve – December 24, 2015, 10pm

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• Organ: Polish Fantasia (Christmas Eve at Wawel Cathedral), Op. 9, No. 1 – Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946)
• Processional Carol: 118 O Come, All Ye Faithful
• Service Music: Merbecke
• Kyrie, Gloria
• Carol: 132 Of Eternal Love Begotten (vv. 1, 3, 4)
• Gradual Carol: 119 Silent Night
• Gospel: Luke 2:1-20
• Offertory Carol: 140 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
• Anthem: What Is This Lovely Fragrance – Healey Willan (1880-1968)
• Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei (Merbecke)
• Communion Carols: 137 What Child Is This; 125 Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
• Communion Motet: O Magnum Mysterium – Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
• Concluding Carol: 154 Joy to the World
• Organ: Toccata from Organ Symphony No. 5 – Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)

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Christmas Eve – December 24, 2015, 4pm

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• Carol: 123 Once in Royal David's City (2 verses)
• Carol: 126 Away in a Manger
• Solo: “The Kings” – Peter Cornelius (sung by Andrew Gilchrist)
• Offertory Carol: 138 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (3 verses)
• Communion Carols: 125 Infant Holy, Infant Lowly; 119 Silent Night (3 verses)
• Closing Carols: O Little Town of Bethlehem (2 verses); 154 Joy to the World (2 verses)

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Advent 4 - December 20, 2015

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• Organ: Variations on “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” – Konrad Harley
• Opening Hymn: 95 O Come, Divine Messiah
• Service Music: Merbecke
• Canticle 18 (Luke 1:47-55): 756 My soul magnifies the Lord (The Song of Mary, or The Magnificat)
• Offertory Hymn: 109 When the King Shall Come Again
• Anthem: Advent Carol – Dale Wood
• Sanctus and Benedictus: Merbecke
• Agnus Dei: Merbecke
• Hymn during Communion: Thy Kingdom Come – arranged for choir and organ by Konrad Harley from a chorale prelude for organ by Healey Willan (1880-1968)
• Concluding Hymn: 91 People, Look East! The Time Is Near
• Organ: Toccata on “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” – Konrad Harley

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Advent 3 - Decmeber 13, 2015

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• Organ: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
• Opening Hymn: 116 “Your Kingdom Come”—On Bended Knee
• Kyrie: 705 (Franz Schubert)
• Canticle 3 (Isaiah 12:2-6) O Lord, I will praise you (The First Song of Isaiah)
• Offertory Hymn: 97 Jesus Came, the Heavens Adoring
• Anthem: Where Jordan Cuts the Wilderness – arranged by Konrad Harley
• Sanctus and Benedictus: 735 (Franz Schubert)
• Agnus Dei: 747 (Franz Schubert)
• Hymn during Communion: 102 Prepare the Way, O Zion
• Concluding Hymn: 111 Herald! Sound the Note of Judgement
• Organ: Prelude in E Minor – Nicolaus Bruhns (1637-1718)

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Advent 2 - December 6, 2015

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• Organ: Chaconne in C Minor, BuxWV 159 – Dieterich Buxtehude (1639-1707)
• Opening Hymn: 88 Come, Thou Long-expected Jesus
• Kyrie: 705 (Franz Schubert)
• Baptismal Hymn: 35 Wash, O God, Our Sons and Daughters
• Canticle 19 (Luke 1:68-79): 758 Blessed is the Lord God of Israel (The Song ofZechariah)
• Offertory Hymn: 96 Creator of the Stars of Night
• Anthem: Sleepers, Wake – Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
• Sanctus and Benedictus: 735 (Franz Schubert)
• Agnus Dei: 747 (Franz Schubert)
• Closing Hymn: 103 On Jordan’s Bank, the Baptist’s Cry
• Organ: Toccata in D Minor, Op. 108, No. 1 – Albert Renaud (1855-1924)

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Advent 1 – November 29, 2015

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• Organ: Fantasia on “Veni Emmanuel” – Alec Rowley (1892-1958)
• Opening Hymn: 89 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
• Service Music: John Merbecke
• Psalm 25:1-9 Unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soul
• Offertory Hymn: 101 Hail to the Lord’s Anointed
• Anthem: To Thee, O Lord – Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
• Hymn during Communion: 105 Where Jordan Cuts the Wilderness
• Concluding Hymn: 111 Herald! Sound the Note of Judgement
• Organ: Fantasia on “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” – Konrad Harley

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Reign of Christ – November 22, 2015

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• Organ: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (“Dorian”), BWV 538 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
• Opening Hymn: 306 O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing
• Service Music: David Hurd
• Psalm 132:1-13 Lord, remember David
• Offertory Hymn: 384 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
• Anthem: Glory and Worship – Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
• Hymn during Communion: 65 Here, Lord, We Take the Broken Bread
• Concluding Hymn: 381 Praise, My Soul
• Organ: Prelude in G Major – Nicolaus Bruhns (1637-1718)

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Pentecost 25 – November 15, 2015

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• Organ: Scherzo in E Major (from Ten Pieces for Organ) – Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)
• Opening Hymn: 362 Tell Out, My Soul
• Service Music: John Merbecke
• Canticle: 1 Samuel 2:1-10 My heart rejoices in the Lord
• Offertory Hymn: 434 The Love of Jesus Calls Us
• Anthem: Upon the Gospel’s Sacred Page – adapted by Konrad Harley from a Czech folksong
• Hymn during Communion: 52 O God, Unseen Yet Ever Near
• Concluding Hymn: 363 My Soul Proclaims Your Glory, Lord
• Organ: Rigaudon – André Campra (1660-1744)

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All Souls/Remembrance Sunday – November 8, 2015

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• Organ: “There Is a Spirit that Delights to Do No Evil...” – from the dying words of James Naylor (1660) – Ned Rorem (b. 1923)
• Opening Hymn: 528 O God, Our Help in Ages Past
• Hymn: 659 O Canada
• Hymn: 660 God Save Our Gracious Queen
• Trisagion: 707 Holy God, holy and mighty, holy immortal one, have mercy on us
• Service Music: David Hurd
• Psalm 116:1-8 (Anglican Chant): My delight is in the Lord
• Offertory Hymn: 576 For the Healing of the Nations
• Anthem: Behold! the Mountain of the Lord – Konrad Harley
• Hymn during Communion: Russian Kontakion: “Give rest, O Christ, to Thy servant with Thy saints”
• Concluding Hymn: 573 O Day of Peace
• Organ: Prelude and Fugue in G Minor – Franz Tunder (1614-1667)

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All Saints – November 1, 2015

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• Organ: Feux Follets, Op. 53, No. 4 – Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
• Opening Hymn: 276 For All the Saints
• Service Music: David Hurd
• Psalm 24 (Anglican Chant): The earth is the Lord’s, and all that therein is
• Offertory Hymn: 278 Jerusalem the Golden
• Anthem: O, What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be – Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872), arranged by Konrad Harley
• Hymn during Communion: 277 How Blessed Are All the Saints
• Concluding Hymn: 444 Your Hand, O God, Has Guided
• Organ: Toccata in B Minor - Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)

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Pentecost 22 – October 25, 2015

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• Organ: Allegretto grazioso (from Six Organ Pieces) – Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
• Opening Hymn: 412 O God, Beyond All Face and Form
• Service Music: David Hurd
• Psalm 34:1-8, 19-22 (Anglican Chant): I will always give thanks unto the Lord
• Offertory Hymn: 445 God the Creator
• Anthem: Jesus, the Joy of Loving Hearts – Konrad Harley
• Hymn during Communion: 470 Seek Not in Distant, Ancient Hills
• Concluding Hymn: 560 God Whose Almighty Word
• Organ: Allegro from Concerto in F Major by Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751), transcribed for organ by J.G. Walther (1684-1748)

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Saint Luke the Evangelist – October 18, 2015

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• Organ: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor – Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702-1762)
• Opening Hymn: 355 All Creatures of Our God and King
• Service Music: David Hurd
• Psalm 147:1-7 (Anglican Chant): O praise the Lord, for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God
• Offertory Hymn: 431 Take Up Your Cross, the Saviour Said
• Anthem: O Sing Unto the Lord – Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
• Hymn during Communion: 647 Spirit of the Living God
• Concluding Hymn: 371 To God Be the Glory
• Organ: Voluntary in A Major – William Selby (1738-1798)

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Harvest Thanksgiving – October 11, 2015

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• Organ: Chaconne in F Major – J.C.F. Fischer (1656-1746)
• Opening Hymn: 262 Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
• Service Music: David Hurd
• Psalm 100 (Anglican Chant): O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands
• Offertory Hymn: 258 We Plough the Fields and Scatter
• Anthem: Nun danket alle Gott (Now Thank We All Our God), from Cantata No. 79 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
• Hymn during Communion: 260 As Saints of Old
• Concluding Hymn: 379 Rejoice, the Lord Is King
• Organ: Nun danket alle Gott (Now Thank We All Our God), Op. 65, No. 59 – Sigfrid Karg- Elert (1877-1933)

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Pentecost 19 – October 4, 2015

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• Organ: Fantasia with Imitation in B Minor, BWV 563 - J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
• Opening Hymn: 506 Lord of All Hopefulness
• Service Music: David Hurd
• Psalm 26 (Plainsong): Be thou my judge, O Lord
• Offertory Hymn: 628 O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High
• Hymn during Communion: 361 Surely It Is God Who Saves Me
• Concluding Hymn: 323 Ye Holy Angels Bright
• Organ: Toccata in D Minor – Alphonse Mailly (1833-1918)

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St Barnabas - June 14, 2015

• Organ: Psalm Prelude Set 1 No. 1 – Herbert Howells (1892-1983)*
• Opening Hymn: 'Let the round world with songs rejoice' (Gonfalon Royal)
• Introit: We wait for thy loving kindness O Lord – Sir William McKie*
• Service Music: 
• Communion Service in D – Kenneth Leighton
• Gloria: Community Mass – Richard Proulx
• Psalm 112: 1-4 (Anglican Chant):  Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord *
• Gradual Hymn: 'Blessed feasts of blessed martyrs, holy women, holy men' (Holy Manna)
• Offertory Hymn: 'The Church’s one foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord' (Aurelia)
• Hymn during Communion: 'Give me the wings of faith'  (Westminster)
• Communion Anthem: Behold, the tabernacle – Sir Willam Harris
• Hymn: 'By all your saints still striving' (Ewing)
• Organ: Toccata in G – Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)

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Pentecost 2 - June 7, 2015

• Organ: Benedictus – Alec Rowley
• Hymn 394 “Eternal, unchanging
• Service Music: Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling
• Psalm 138:1-4-  I will give thanks to you O Lord with my whole heart*
• Gospel Alleluia:
  The ruler of this world will be driven out:
  and when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself. 
• Offertory Hymn 560 'God, whose almighty word'
• Anthem: Draw us in the spirit`s tether – Harold Friedell*
• Hymn during Communion 51 (verses 4 & 5 only) 'Therefore we before him bending'
• Concluding Hymn 335 'How shall I sing that majesty'
• Organ: Finale Jubilante – Healey Willan

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Trinity Sunday - 31 May 2015

• Organ: Prelude on Rhosymedre – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
• Service Music: Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling
• Hymn 1 'Holy, holy, holy'
• Psalm  29: 1-4 - Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength *
• Gospel Alleluia:
  Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name:
  worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness 
• Hymn  326 'Bright the vision that delighted'
• Anthem: Veni Sancte Spiritus K.47 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart*
• Hymn during Communion  64 'Author of life divine'
• Hymn 391 'Sing ye praises to the Father'
• Organ: Voluntary in C – William Croft (1678-1727)

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Whitsunday - The Day of Pentecost - May 24, 2015

• Organ: Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist
  (Now we ask the Holy Ghost) – Dietrich Buxtehude
• Hymn 655: "Holy Spirit, ever dwelling"
• Service Music: A Community Mass – Richard Proulx
• Psalm  104: 1, 31-35 - O Lord how manifold are your works! *
• Gospel Alleluia:
  Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful
  and kindle in them the fire of your love. 
• Hymn  645: "Come down, O love divine"
• Anthem: Veni Sancte Spiritus K.47 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart*
• Communion Hymn 637: "Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire"*
• Communion Motet: "O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit" – Thomas Tallis
• Hymn 643: "Holy Spirit, come with power"
• Organ: Komm, heliger Geist (Come, Holy Ghost) – J.S. Bach

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7th Sunday of Easter - May 17, 2015

• Organ: Prelude on St. Botolph – Eugene Hill
• Hymn 247: "Hail the day that sees him rise"
• Service Music: 
• Missa brevis gregorium – Brendan Culver 
• Gloria – John Merbecke
• Psalm  47: 1-6 (Anglican chant) - O clap your hands together all ye peoples*
• Gospel Alleluia:
  Go, make disciples of all the nations;
  I am with you always; yes, to the end of time
• Hymn 378: "Crown him with many crowns"
• Anthem: Lift up your heads – William Mathias*
• Communion Hymn:  “O Jesus, King most wonderful” (St. Botolph)*
• Hymn 491: "The head that once was crowned with thorns"
• Organ: Chorale Prelude on St. Magnus’ – Alec Rowley

Music Notes

This morning the choir is delighted to present the first hearing of ‘Missa brevis gregorium’ by Brendan Culver. Brendan has written, "The Missa Brevis de Gregorium was composed in early 2015. It's title suffix, of Gregory, references both the prominent stylistic influence of Gregorian plainchant and earliest polyphony. The prayer book text was selected as the most appropriate English alternative to Latin."

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6th Sunday of Easter - May 10, 2015

• Organ: Meditation – Frank Bridge (violin and organ)
• Service Music: Community Mass – Richard Proulx
• Hymn 485 “Love divine, all loves excelling”
• Psalm  98: 1-6 - Sing to the LORD a new song...*
• Gospel Alleluia:
  Jesus said: “If anyone loves me he will keep my word,
  and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him.”
• Hymn “Sing of Mary, pure and lowly” (Hermon)*
• Motet: Ave Maria – Anton Dvorak*
• Hymn during Communion  647 “Spirit of the living God”
• Communion Motet: If ye love me – Thomas Tallis*
• Hymn 433 “Lord, you give the great commission”
• Organ: Spring Song – Frank Bridge (violin and organ)

Music Notes

The warmest of welcomes to Daniel Kushner, violinist, to our 10:30 service this morning.

Mary is often referred to as “the mother of all mothers”, so it is appropriate that on this Mothers’ Day the anthem is a setting of ‘Ave Maria’ by the Czech composer, Anton Dvorak (1841-1904), originally written for a low-register voice with organ accompaniment; we’ll sing it in an arrangement for choir, organ and violin. Dvorak wrote it in the summer of 1877, and he dedicated the song to his wife Anna, who premiered it on her name day (26 July) accompanied by Dvorak at the organ. The Hail Mary is based on these passages from the Bible: Luke 1:28-35, 42-48. The text is what Roman Catholics and some Anglicans regularly use at the conclusion of a eucharist, known as the Angelus.

At least one former organist of St. Barnabas’ (John Dewdney) composed music for his choir to sing. (Unfortunately, when he retired he must have taken the music with him since none of it can be found in our choir library.) But as far as we know, no music by any other composer has been ‘premiered’ (i.e. given its first hearing) at a service in our parish – that is, until next Sunday, May
17. At the 10:30 service the choir is excited to sing a brand new setting of the communion service by Brendan Culver, a young Hamilton musician who recently graduated from York University and who will undertake a Master’s degree in composition at the University of Toronto starting next fall. You might remember Brendan as our bagpiper at the Remembering concert in November 2014 – obviously a man of many talents (he also plays the organ), and he’s hoping to join us for the service next week to hear his music for the first time.

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Pentecost 2 - June 7, 2015

• Organ: Benedictus – Alec Rowley
• Hymn 394 "Eternal, unchanging"
• Service Music: Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling
• Psalm  138:1-4 - I will give thanks to you O Lord with my whole heart *
• Gospel Alleluia:
  The ruler of this world will be driven out:
  and when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself .
• Hymn 560 "God, whose almighty word"
• Anthem: Draw us in the spirit's tether – Harold Friedell *
• Hymn during Communion  51 (vv 4 & 5 only) "Therefore we before him bending"
• Concluding Hymn 335 "How shall I sing that majesty"
• Organ: Finale Jubilante – Healey Willan

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5th Sunday of Easter - May 3, 2015

• Organ: Adagio (from Sonata 3) – Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
• Service Music: Trinity Service - Christopher Tambling
• Hymn 349 “All people that on earth do dwell”
• Psalm 22: 24-30 - My praise is of him in the great assembly...
• Gospel Alleluia:
  Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth and the life.
  No-one can come to the Father except through me.
• Hymn 329 “Maker, in whom we live”
• Motet: TBA
• Hymn during Communion  52 “O God, unseen yet never ear”
• Hymn 527 “How firm a foundation”
• Organ: Toccatina – Christopher Tambling (1964- )
  

Music Notes

We’re delighted to have Daniel Kushner, violinist and member of our 9 am congregation join us next Sunday at 10:30 am. Daniel will join with the choir in an anthem by Anton Dvorak.

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4th Sunday of Easter - April 26, 2015

• Organ: Pastorale in F - J.S. Bach
• Service Music: Trinity Service - Christopher Tambling
• Hymn 2 “When morning gilds the skies”
• Psalm 23 (Anglican chant) - The Lord is my shepherd...
• Gospel Alleluia:
  I am the good shepherd, says the Lord:
  I know my own sheep and my own know me. 
• Hymn 520 “The king of love my shepherd is”
• Anthem: Look at the world – John Rutter
• Hymn during Communion  569 “Come, my way, my truth, my life”
• Hymn 322 “All hail the power of Jesus’ name”
• Organ: Prelude in C (BWV545) – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Music Notes

As a nod to Earth Day (which was last Wednesday) today’s anthem is a paean to nature, with both words and music by the ubiquitous English composer, John Rutter (born 1945).

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Easter 3 - April 19, 2015

• Organ: Prelude on ‘Rockingham’ – Frederick Silvester
• Service Music: John Merbecke
• Hymn 206 “Christ the Lord is risen today”
• Psalm 4 - Answer me when I call O God ...
• Gospel Alleluia:
  Lord Jesus, explain the scriptures to us.
  Make our hearts burn within us as you talk to us.
• Hymn 506 “Lord of all hopefulness”
• Anthem: Christ, being raised from the dead – Keith Bissell
• Hymn during Communion 70 “Jesus, the joy of loving hearts”
• Hymn 210 “Yours be the glory”
• Organ: Fanfare – Kenneth Leighton

Music Notes

Frederick Silvester (1901–1966) was an English-born Canadian organist/choirmaster/administrator who was organist at Church of the Messiah in Toronto before moving to Bloor St. United Church where he presided for almost 30 years before his death. From 1957-1960 Silvester conducted the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, and for many years was registrar at the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) was a Yorkshireman who became one of the UK’s most celebrated composers of both sacred and secular music. Leighton taught for many years at both Oxford (where he also studied) and Edinburgh universities while at the same time enjoying the patronage of other major composers who championed his music (Vaughan Williams being one).

Keith Bissell (1912-1992) was born in Meaford, ON and died in Newmarket. He worked primarily in the field of music education, starting out as a public school teacher and eventually becoming supervisor of music for the Scarborough Board of Education. Bissell composed a great deal of music, much of it choral. His younger brother (Claude) was president of the University of Toronto during the 1960s.

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Easter 2 - 12 April 2015

• Organ: Arabesque (from ‘24 Pièces en style libre’) - Louis Vierne (1870-1937) (played by Peter Dunphy)
• Hymn 205 “The day of resurrection” 
• Service Music: Community Mass – Richard Proulx)
• Psalm 133 - Tone II.1: Oh, how good and pleasant it is... 
• Gospel Alleluia
  Jesus said: “You believe because you can see me.
  Happy are those who have not seen and yet believe.”. 
• Hymn 224 “Awake, arise, lift up your voice”
• Anthem: Most glorious Lord of life – Sir William Harris
• Hymn during Communion 56 “I am the bread, the bread of life”
• Hymn 220 “Christ is risen, Christ is risen”
• Organ: Organ: Adagio (from ‘Troisième symphonie’) - Louis Vierne (1870-1937) (played by Peter Dunphy)

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Easter Day - April 5 2015

Easter Day - April 5 2015

• Organ: Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn (Today the Son of God triumphs) BWV 630 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
• Service Music: 
• Kyrie/Gloria – John Merbecke 
• Sanctus/Benedictus/Agnus Dei – Missa brevis – Walter MacNutt (1910-1996) 
• Hymn “Christ the Lord is risen today”
• Psalm 118: 1-2, 14-16 - Anglican chant 
• Gospel Alleluia
  Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast. 
• Hymn “That Eastertide with joy was bright”
• Anthem: “Lift up your heads, O ye gates” – William Mathias (1934-1992)
• Hymn during Communion “Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour”
• Communion Motet: This joyful Eastertide – arr. by Charles Wood
• Hymn “Ye choirs of new Jerusalem”
• Organ: Toccata in D minor – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
  

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Holy Week

March 29 2015 - Palm Sunday

• Organ: Intrada (from Miniature Suite) – John Ireland
• Processional Hymn 181 “All glory, laud and honour”
• Service Music: A New Plainsong – David Hurd
• Psalm 31: 9-16 - Have mercy on me O LORD for I am in trouble;
• Gospel Acclamation
  Christ was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.
  But God raised him high and gave him the name which is above all names.
• Hymn 184 “My song is love unknown”
• Hymn during Communion 189 “Alone thou goest forth, O Lord”
• Communion Motet: O Domine Jesu Christe – Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)
• Hymn 187 “As royal banners are unfurled”
• No concluding organ music today.
   
•  Music Notes:
  John Ireland (1879-1962) was a British composer, organist and teacher in the early and mid 20th century. Apart from a few compositions for the organ, Ireland’s main contributions to church music are his anthem “Greater love hath no man” and the wonderful tune we sing today to the hymn “My song is love unknown”.
   

April 2 2015 - Maundy Thursday

• Opening Hymn 487 “Where charity and love prevail”
• Service Music: A New Plainsong – David Hurd
• Psalm 116: 1, 12-17
  I love the LORD because he has heard the voice of my supplication
• Offertory Hymn 75 “With the body that was broken” 
• Hymn during Communion 54 “Bread of the world, in mercy broken” 
• Communion Motet: Ave verum corpus – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

April 3 2015 - Good Friday

• Crux fidelis – King John of Portugal
  Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis: nulla silva talem profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulces clavos, dulce pondus sustinet.
  Faithful cross, above all other, One and only noble tree: None in foliage, none in blossom, None in fruit thy peer may be. Sweetest wood and sweetest iron, Sweetest weight is hung on thee!
  

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Lent 5 - March 22 2015

• Organ: Méditation (from Messe de Mariage) - Jean Francaix (1912-1997)
  
• Opening Hymn 564 Lead us, heavenly Father
• Psalm  51: 1-3, 10-13
• Lenten Gospel Acclamation: If anyone serves me he must follow me; wherever I am, there must be my servant also, says the Lord.
• Litany
• Offertory Hymn 185 Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle
• Hymn during Communion 49 Draw near and take
• Communion Motet: Ave verum corpus - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Hymn 438 O Jesus, I have promised
• Organ: Largo (from Suite profane) - Jean Francaix (1912-1997)

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Lent 4 - March 15 2015

• Organ Voluntary in A -  Christopher Gibbons (1615-1676)
  
• Opening Hymn 524 - O Christ, the great foundation
• Service Music: Mass for 3 voices – William Byrd (1539/40-1623)
• Psalm 107: 1-3, 17-22 (Tone VI) - Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good
• Lenten Gospel Acclamation: God so loved the world that he gave his only Son: everyone who believes in him has eternal life.
• Offertory 551 My faith looks up to thee (Olivet)
• Hymn during Communion 72 Bread of Heaven (Jesu, meine Zuversicht)
• Communion Motet: Who is at my window who – Welford Russell
• Hymn 398 Let us with a gladsome mind (Monkland)
• Organ: Pavan (The Earle of Salisbury) – William Byrd

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Music Notes

This Sunday (March 15) three of our lead singers (alto, tenor, bass) will sing a special setting of the communion service – William Byrd’s “Mass for 3 Voices”. Byrd (1543-1623) has been called “the greatest English composer, an arbiter of the sublime and master of his craft”. We sincerely hope that this beautiful music will enhance your worship during this Lenten season.

William Byrd (1543-1623) is known to have been a tenaciously loyal Roman Catholic in a country which was more or less militantly Protestant. It took some courage, therefore, for a composer to set Latin texts at all at that time. Actually to publish three Latin masses (one in 3 parts, one in 4 parts, and one in 5 parts) took a great deal more courage, yet Byrd did publish them between 1593 and 1595, just a year or two after they were written. The Masses were originally written with the pragmatic purpose of giving small amateur choirs settings of important texts which they could reasonably hope to master. The Mass for 3 Voices which we hear this morning is for alto, tenor and bass and will be sung by our choir leads.

Welford Russell (1900-1975) was a Canadian composer who is particularly remembered for his output of choral works. Born in Neepawa, Manitoba, Russell made a living as a surgeon and was notably a medical missionary in India from 1925-1941. He pursued musical activities in his spare time. He studied the organ in Ireland and pursued studies in music composition with Godfrey Ridout and singing with Weldon Kilburn at the Toronto (now Royal) Conservatory of Music. He published a Stabat mater and eight individual choral pieces, of which his part-song Who Is at My Window Who? has been widely performed.

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Lent 3 - Sunday March 8, 2015

• Organ Prelude: Ich ruf zu dir (I call to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ) – J.S. Bach
• Opening Hymn 629 - Jesus, thy blood and righteousness (Walton)
• Service Music: A New Plainsong – David Hurd
• Psalm 19: 1-4 (Tone III.4) - The heavens declare the glory of God...
• Lenten Gospel Acclamation: I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me will never die, says the Lord.
• Offertory Hymn 603 - Holy Spirit, storm of love (Arfon Minor)
• Hymn during Communion 479 - O Christ, the master carpenter (Albano)
• Communion Motet: Expectans, expectavi – Charles Wood 
• Hymn 306 O for a thousand tongues (Richmond)
• Organ: Ich ruf zu dir (I call to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ) – Herbert Collum

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Music Notes

There is an intriguing back-story to the text of today’s communion motet, “Expectans expectavi” (“I waited patiently for the Lord”). Although this Latin title alludes to Psalm 40, it is also the title of one of the last poems of Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915), a young Scottish poet and scholar who was killed in the second year of World War I by enemy fire at the Battle of Loos. Like his contemporary and fellow poet, Wilfred Owen (also felled, three years later, on the Western Front), Sorley wrote brilliant, bitter verse about the savagery and futility of war (“When you see millions of the mouthless dead/Across your dreams in pale battalions go . . .”). In 1919, composer Charles Wood (1866-1926) set to music the final two stanzas of Sorley’s “Expectans expectavi,” creating a moving anthem that, in part, memorialized the lost generation of British youth slaughtered in The Great War. And while the first three stanzas of Sorley’s poem are a sardonic assessment of years wasted in frivolity, these final verses, interpreted through Wood’s uplifting music, manifest the poet’s inextinguishable belief that fathoms deep, beneath the superficial banality of his life, dwells the God-found chamber of his soul that “Unwitting, I keep white and whole.”

Next Sunday (March 15) three of our lead singers (alto, tenor, bass) will sing a special setting of the communion service – William Byrd’s “Mass for 3 Voices”. Byrd (1543-1623) has been called “the greatest English composer, an arbiter of the sublime and master of his craft”. We sincerely hope that this beautiful music will enhance your worship during this Lenten season.

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LENT 2 - 1 March 2015

• Organ: Voluntary in F minor (first movement) – Maurice Greene
• Opening Hymn 546 “God moves in a mysterious way”
• Service Music: A New Plainsong – David Hurd
• Psalm 22: 22-26 - Praise the Lord you that fear him
• Gospel Acclamation
• Offertory Hymn 375 “At the Name of Jesus”
• Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end – Maurice Greene
• During Communion: The Lenten Prose
• Concluding Hymn 347 “The God of Abraham praise”
• Organ: Voluntary in F minor (second movement) – Maurice Greene

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Music Notes

Born in London, the son of a clergyman, Maurice Greene was a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral, and later became organist there. Greene went on to the position of organist at the Chapel Royal; in 1730 he became Professor of Music at Cambridge University, and in 1735 he was appointed Master of the King's Musick.

His compositions are largely in the Georgian style, particularly the longer anthems such as his acknowledged masterpiece which we'll hear this morning, “Lord, Let Me Know Mine End”. In this anthem. Greene sets a text full of pathos with a moving duet in the middle of the work. For the text of his work, Greene chose parts of the 39th Psalm, in which David meditates on man's frailty, and applies for pardon and deliverance by considering that there is really no solid satisfaction to be had in this world. That if it offers nothing but vanity, may God deliver us from seeking our part of it, and that we are comforted by the fact that we have a God we can go to, who welcomes us, and in whom we can trust.

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LENT 1 - February 22, 2015

• Organ: Introit (from ‘Messe Basse’) – Louis Vierne 
• Opening Hymn  175 “Forty days and forty nights”
• Service Music: A New Plainsong – David Hurd
• Trisagion 
• Psalm 25: 1-4 (Tone I.4) To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul
• Gospel Acclamation:
  We do not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. 
• Offertory Hymn 330 O praise ye the Lord
• Anthem: Teach me, O Lord – Thomas Attwood
• Communion Hymn  633 Lord Christ, we praise your sacrifice
• Concluding Hymn 170 The glory of these forty days
• Organ: Prelude Lent – Alphonse Schmitt

Music Notes

British composer Thomas Attwood was the son of a musician in the royal band, and in 1783 he was sent to study in Naples and Vienna at the expense of the Prince of Wales, who had been favourably impressed by his skill at the harpsichord. In Vienna, he became a favorite pupil of Mozart. In 1796 he was appointed organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, and in the same year he was made composer to the Chapel Royal. In 1838, as Attwood was composing an anthem for the coronation of Queen Victoria, he died, and he is appropriately buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, in a crypt under the pipe organ.

Louis Vierne (1870-1937) and Alphonse Schmitt (1875-1912) were contempories in Paris, where Vierne presided over the organ at Notre Dame Cathedral and Schmitt at St. Philippe de Roule.

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Ash Wednesday - February 18, 2015

• Opening Hymn  175 “Forty days and forty nights”
• Service Music: A New Plainsong – David Hurd
• Trisagion 
• Psalm 103: 8-11, 17,18 - The Lord is full of compassion and mercy
• Gospel Acclamation:
  A pure heart create for me, O God, and give me again the joy of your help 
• Offertory Hymn 614 “Forgive our sins as we forgive”
• Communion Hymn 511 “Lord Jesus think on me”
• Communion Motet: Lord, for thy tender mercies’ sake – Richard Farrant
• Concluding Hymn 345 “King of glory, King of peace”

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The Last Sunday of Epiphany (Transfiguration) - February 15, 2015

• Organ: Lento – Frank Bridge
• Opening Hymn 337 “God, your glorious presence”
• Service Music: John Merbecke
• Psalm 50: 1-6 The Lord the God of gods has spoken:
• Gospel Alleluia: This is my Son my Chosen: listen to him! 
• Offertory Hymn 387 “All praise to thee”
• Communion Hymn “We have come at Christ’s own bidding”
• Communion Motet: O nata lux (O Light of Light) – Thomas Tallis
• Concluding Hymn 374 “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus”
• Organ: Menuetto – John Ireland

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Epiphany 5 February 8 2015

• Organ: Fantasia in C major BWV 570 - J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) (played by Peter Dunphy) 
• Opening Hymn 40 “O Spirit of the living God” (Wareham) 
• Service Music: Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling 
• Psalm 147: 1-7 How good it is to sing praises to our God:
• Gospel Alleluia: Jesus says I am the light of the world: whoever follows me will have the light of life. 
• Offertory Hymn 384 “Praise to the Lord, the almighty” 
• Communion Hymn 64 “Author of life divine” 
• Communion Motet: Prayer to Jesus – George Oldroyd 
• Concluding Hymn 325 “Angel voices, ever singing” 
• Organ: Fugue in G minor "Little" BWV 578 - J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) (played by Peter Dunphy) 

Music Notes

This morning’s prelude and postlude exemplify two baroque musical forms, the Fantasia and the Fugue. A Fantasia is a relatively free form in the 16th and 17th centuries, in which a composer exercises creative fancy, usually in contrapuntal form. The Fugue however is more structured and can be described as a texture rather than a form. The normal Fugue opens with a subject or theme in one voice or part. A second voice answers, with the same subject transposed and sometimes slightly altered, usually at the interval of a fifth, while the first voice continues with an accompaniment that may have the character of a countersubject that will be used again as the piece progresses.

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Candlemas - February 1 2015

• Organ: Three Liturgical Preludes – George Oldroyd
• Opening Hymn  "In his temple now behold Him" (Regent Square)
• Introit: When to the temple Mary went – Johannes Eccard
Service Music: A Community Mass – Richard Proulx
• Psalm 84 (a metrical paraphrase by Isaac Watts) (Tune: Westminster)
• Gospel Alleluia
   My eyes have seen your salvation: which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples. 
• Offertory Hymn 132 "Of eternal love begotten"
• Anthem: Nunc dimittis (from Evening Service in G) – Sir Charles Stanford
• Communion Hymn "Hail to the Lord who comes"
• Concluding Hymn 335 "How shall I sing that majesty"
• Organ: Te Deum Laudamus – Dietrich Buxtehude

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Conversion of Paul - January 25 2015

• Organ: Variations on 'Amazing Grace' – Denis Bedard
• Opening Hymn 432 "Jesus calls us! O’er the tumult"
• Service Music: A Community Mass – Richard Proulx
• Psalm 67
• Gospel Alleluia
  This Jesus God raised up: and of that all of us are witnesses. 
• Offertory Hymn: "And can it be"
• Anthem: “How lovely are the messengers” (from St. Paul) – Felix Mendelssohn
• Communion Hymn 446 "Word of God, come down on earth"
• Concluding Hymn 352 "Amazing grace"
• Organ: Fugue in G major – Felix Mendelssohn

Music Notes
Today we commemorate Paul’s conversion. With reference to that event the offertory hymn this morning is “And can it be”, a text by Charles Wesley. Originally titled “Free Grace,” this hymn is one of several hymns by Wesley that is still widely sung in the present day. Although we do not know exactly when “And Can It Be” was written, it is usually associated with a very early period linked with the Charles Wesley’s own conversion. Regardless of when it was written, the hymn clearly describes the experience of conversion and the wonder of one who is still amazed “That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?”.

"Saint Paul," the first of Mendelssohn’s oratorios, was begun in Düsseldorf, Germany and finished in Leipzig in the winter of 1835, the composer being then in his twenty-sixth year. Its three principal themes are the martyrdom of Saint Stephen, the conversion of Saint Paul, and the apostle’s subsequent career. The work was first produced May 22, 1836 at Düsseldorf. “How lovely are the messengers” is from Part Two of the oratorio.

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