March 2020
March 1 – The First Sunday in Lent
Thomas Morley: Nolo mortem peccatoris
Richard Runciman Terry: Richard de Castre’s Prayer to Jesus
March 8 – The Second Sunday in Lent
Orlando Gibbons: Almighty and everlasting God
John Stainer: God so loved the world
March 15 – The Third Sunday in Lent
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut cervus
Heinrich Isaac: O esca viatorum
March 22 – The Fourth Sunday in Lent (“Lætare”)
Maurice Greene: Lord, let me know mine end
John Rutter: God be in my head
March 29 – The Fifth Sunday in Lent
Jacquet de Berchem: O Jesu Christe
Anonymous: O Domine, Jesu Christe
April 2020
April 5 – The Sunday of the Passion or “Palm” Sunday
Arthur Hutchings: Hosanna to the Son of David
Blasius Ammon: Tenebrae factae sunt
Marc’Antonio Ingegneri: O bone Jesu
April 12 – Easter Day
(Brass Ensemble)
arr Henry Ley: The strife is o’er
Clemens non Papa : Congratulamini omnes
April 19 – The Second Sunday of Easter
(Choir Excused)
April 24 – David Enlow, Concert Organist
Friday, 7:00 pm
David Enlow is a “commanding” organist (The New Yorker), teacher, and conductor based in New York, who is active in North America and Europe. Credited with “immense virtuosity” (Stuttgarter Zeitung) and “performances full of color, passion, invention, and power” (The American Record Guide), David works in concert music and church music. His solo recordings include Pater Seraphicus, the complete major organ works of César Franck; Piano à l’Orgue, an album of piano transcriptions; and Bach on Park Avenue, recorded on the Mander organ at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.
Free-will offering / Gala Reception to follow
April 26 – The Third Sunday of Easter
Jacquet de Berchem: Alleluia, surrexit Dominus vere
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana: O sacrum convivium
May 2020
May 3 – The Fourth Sunday of Easter
(Choir Excused)
May 10 – The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Alessandro Scarlatti: Exsultate Deo
Harold W. Friedell: Come, my way
May 17 – The Sixth Sunday of Easter (“Rogation”)
Healey Willan: I beheld her, beautiful as a dove
Arthur Baynon: When rooks fly homeward
Henry Purcell: In these delightful, pleasant groves (Madrigal in the Garden)
May 24 – The Seventh Sunday of Easter
Armstrong Gibbs, arr Richard Lloyd: Thee will I love, my God and King
Giovanni Croce: Virtute magna
May 31– Pentecost (“Whitsunday”)
Thomas Tallis: O Lord give thy Holy Spirit
Thomas Tallis: If ye love me
June 2020
June 7 – Trinity Sunday
William Lovelock: O praise God in his holiness
Knut Nystedt: Laudate Dominum
During the summer months, hymns and a mass setting are sung by the congregation at the 9:00 Mass. The choir returns on Sunday, September 27th.
Season Archive
September 2019
September 22 – The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
William H. Harris: Behold the tabernacle of God
Knut Nystedt: Laudate Dominum
September 29 – St. Michael & All Angels
(Sunday)
Andrea Gabrieli: Angeli, archangeli
Jakob Handl: Michael, coeli signifer
October 2019
October 6 – The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Giovanni Croce: Cantate Domino
Henry Loosemore: O Lord, increase my faith
October 13 – The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Dr Christopher Tye: Praise ye the Lord ye children
Flor Peeters: Ave verum corpus
October 20 – The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
George Oldroyd: Prayer to Jesus
Déodat de Séverac: Tantum ergo
October 27 – The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Choir Excused
November 2019
November 3 – The Sunday in the Octave of All Saints
Dr Christopher Tye: Sing unto the Lord, ye that are his saints
William H. Harris: Holy is the true light
November 10 – The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost
Thomas Tompkins: I am the resurrection and the life
Claudio Casciolini: Panis angelicus
November 17 – The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
Charles Wood: Never weather-beaten sail
Henry Purcell: Thou knowest Lord, Z 58
November 24 – Christ the King
John Amner: Lift up your heads
Adrian Batten: O sing joyfully
December 2019
December 1 – The First Sunday of Advent – The Feast of Title & Dedication
Charles Wood: O thou the central orb
Thomas Tompkins: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem
December 8 – The Second Sunday of Advent
Francisco Guerrero: Canite tuba in Sion
Otto Goldschmidt: A tender shoot
December 15 – The Third Sunday of Advent (“Gaudete”)
Annual Christmas Pageant by the Church School
December 22 – The Fourth Sunday of Advent
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Ne timeas, Maria
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Alma redemptoris mater
December 24 – Christmas Eve
4:30 pm Family Mass with Procession and Blessing of the Crèche
William Mathias: A babe is born, op 55
William Walton: Make we joy now in this fest
December 29 – The First Sunday after Christmas
Choir Excused
January 2020
January 5 – The Second Sunday after Christmas
William Mathias: A babe is born, op 55
William Walton: Make we joy now in this fest
January 12 – The Baptism of our Lord
Jakob Handl: Veni, sancte spiritus
Harold W. Friedell: Jesus, so lowly
January 19 – The Second Sunday after the Epiphany
Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni: Cantate Domino
Thomas Morley: Agnus Dei
January 26 – The Third Sunday after the Epiphany
Choir Excused, Annual Meeting to follow at 10:00 am
Arvid Gast, International Concert Organist
Friday January 31, 7:00 pm
Born in Bremen, Germany, concert artist Arvid Gast is director of the Church Music Institute at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck. In addition, he is titular organist of the historic organs in St. Jakobi Lübeck, and held the same position at the Concerthall “Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen” in Magdeburg. He is the founder of the International Dieterich Buxtehude Organ Competition in Lübeck, and this season, will serve as visiting professor of organ at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. His recordings, concert invitations, and interpretation courses at home and abroad attest to his abilities as an eminent recitalist and pedagogue. Professor Gast will play a full program on the Advent Organ featuring music of Liszt, Karg-Elert, and Reger. Free-will offering.
February 2020
February 2 – Candlemas
Giovanni Maria Nanino: Difusa est gratia
Igor Stravinsky: Ave Maria
February 9 – The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany
Choir Excused
February 16 – The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
William H. Harris: Most glorious Lord of life
William H. Harris: The Holy Eucharist (Him, holy)
February 23 – The Last Sunday after the Epiphany
Peter Hallock: The Lord is my light
William H. Harris: Holy is the true light
