Music Notes Sept 5, 2010
Emmanuel Church, Newport, RI
Pentecost 15 (Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity)
Green – September 5, 2010 - Year C – RCL
Summer Choir 8:45 to rehearse music for the 10 AM Eucharist
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Hymn 376 Joyful, joyful, we adore thee Hymn to Joy
Gloria S-280 Setting: Robert Powell
Psalm 139:1-5, 13-17
Sequence Hymn 675 Take up your cross, the Savior said Bourbon
Anthem Summer Choir
Presentation Hymn 577 God is love, and where true love is Ubi caritas (Murray)
The Great Thanksgiving - Sursum Corda
Eucharistic Prayer A
Sanctus S-125 Setting: Richard Proulx
Lords Prayer (spoken)
Fraction Anthem Behold the Lamb of God Choristers
Communion Hymn Will you come and follow me? Insert Kelvingrove
Dismissal Hymn 716 God bless our native land America
Music Notes: Last week the word ‘focus’ on what is important was expressed as being key to making things happen with a positive outcome. All sorts of things begin shortly, either just before or after Labor Day, school, after school activities and choir rehearsals. Again, with our start date of Friday, September 10, (see schedule on web), the main ‘focus’ will be making it happen and I pray many will commit this year to participate in singing, as well as encouraging others to do the same for the goal of increasing our faith and that of all those who worship at Emmanuel Church. Being a choir member and/or working behind the scenes, represents being part of a team effort doing the incredibly important work of singing and leading singing, in our weekly worship, whether we be professionally trained, just want to sing for the fun and learning of it or to work in support of the singers in other non-singing tasks, teaching and monitoring, to name two. We use the Voice for Life curriculum (see website), by which adults as well as young choristers can learn and increase their music skills. Our music this Sunday has something old & something new, from Hymn 376, ‘Joyful, joyful, we adore thee,’ by Beethoven, to a song called ‘The Summons,’ a Scottish folk-tune titled Kelvingrove, arranged by the well-known Scottish composer John Bell.
Mr. Bell was born & resides in Scotland and his compositions are largely known here due to the American church music publisher GIA. He is a liturgical composer, who writes co-operatively with colleagues in Glasgow and has a deep interest in music from non-European cultures as well as a passion for the song of the Assembly, (Us). Though his primary vocation is as a preacher and teacher, he spends over half his time working in the areas of music and liturgy, both at conferences and in small parishes, for which his work takes him frequently into Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. With his colleagues, he has produced over 15 collections of songs and a wide range of liturgical materials specifically for use by lay people. He also oversaw the production of a substantial hymnal for the Church of Scotland which, in North America, goes by the title Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise. He has authored collections of sermons and meditations, is an occasional broadcaster on radio and television, and manages to survive in all this without the benefit of a car, cell phone, camera, or an Ipod. Wonders never cease! ‘God bless our native land!’
Peace and see you at worship – AJH
The Chorister Creed & Prayer
‘I will sing with the spirit and with understanding also’
The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians 14:15
Bless, O Lord, us your servants who minister in your temple;
Grant that what we sing with our lips we may believe in our hearts,
And what we believe in our hearts we may show forth in our lives;
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
