Music Notes: March 14, 2010
Emmanuel Church, Newport, RI 
Fourth Sunday in Lent - March 14, 2010
Year C - RCL
8:45 – Choir Call to vest & rehearse at 9
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10 A.M. Eucharist
Entrance Hymn 556 Rejoice, ye pure in heart Marion
Kyrie S-96 Setting by Franz Schubert, arr. Richard Proulx
Psalm 32 Plainsong Tone II.1
Sequence Hymn 470 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy Beecher
Anthem Out of the depths K. Lee Scott
Presentation Hymn 144 Lord Jesus, Sun of Righteousness Cornhill
Sanctus S-130 Setting by Franz Schubert, arr. Richard Proulx
Lords Prayer – Spoken
Fraction Anthem S-153 Christ our Passover (omit Alleluias) Ambrosian chant
Communion Music Taste and See para. of Psalm 34, James E. Moore Anthem Behold the Lamb Getty & Townend
Hymn 301 Bread of the World Rendez a Dieu
Dismissal Hymn 690 Guide me, O thou great Jehovah Cwn Rhondda
Music Notes: For the Fourth Sunday in Lent, (also known as Mid-Lent), the hymns are 556, 470, 144, 301 & 690. The text of 301, ‘Bread of the World,’ Krista Haskell sang last week. If you would like to hear that beautiful song again, I hope to have it on our Music Notes webpage soon. As written about last week, the musical setting Krista sang was composed by John Abdenour of St. Paul’s, Fairfield, CT: http://www.stpaulsfairfield.org/content.cfm?id=2016. Do explore their music web pages. The success of their chorister program can be an inspiration for us as we develop our choir at Emmanuel and have excited anticipation for the RSCM Newport Summer Course this August. Developing a program such as this is important not just for singing, but for Christian formation and learning, as well. John commented, ‘Getting things off the ground is by far the hardest part. We have started and need the help of young singers with the support of their parents, to learn and exclaim songs of praise & worship in our liturgy each and every Sunday. With God’s help we continue, week by week together meeting either Friday afternoons with the adults and/or Sundays after church from 11:30 to 12:30. Back to Sunday’s music: Mercy is a dominant theme of the day: to quote the RSCM Journal, ‘we think… of the…prodigal son, and yet in so many ways it is the prodigal father who is the most remarkable.’ The parable presents ‘a beautiful picture of God’s extravagant, overwhelming, forgiving love for us!’ At the Anthem, the choir sings a paraphrase of Psalm 130 set by K. Lee Scott, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Lee_Scott and http://www.kleescott.com/index1.html. Psalm 130 pleas for God to hear our prayer and have mercy on us. At communion we sing a setting of ‘Behold the Lamb who bears our sins away…we share in this bread of life…as a sign of our bonds of peace.’ It may be viewed on YouTube at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvX9Fa53-o – Enjoy. Our liturgical version for choir & organ will not be as elaborate, but the message is the same.
A closing prayer for Lent
Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth;
give me an undivided heart to revere your name. (Psalm 86:11 NRSV)
Peace and see you at worship – AJH
