What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, July 3, 2016

My playlists are on Spotify for you to enjoy: GSM – July 3, 2016 https://goo.gl/oAv3So
Don’t forget that we have more choral and organ music programmed
on Sunday evenings beginning at 10 p.m. eastern.

Rob Kennedy
WCPE The Classical Station
Web: TheClassicalStation.org
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Traditional American spiritual, arr. Gerre Hancock: Deep River
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, John Scott

Leo Sowerby: Thy Word is a Lantern
Choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York, Larry King

Dr. Gerre Hancock (1934-2012) was Organist and Master of the Choristers at St. Thomas’ Church, New York from 1971-2004. Sowerby wrote this anthem in memory of President John F. Kennedy.

Robert Ward: Let Us Heed the Voice Within
The Belmont Chorale, Sherry Hill Kelly
Linda Ford, organ

Stephen Paulus: Hymn for America
Essential Voices USA, Judith Clurman

Jane Marshall: Psalm 85, A Psalm of Peace
Turtle Creek Chorale, Timothy Seelig

Robert Ward won the Pulitzer Prize for his opera “The Crucible”. He was Chancellor of the NC School of the Arts and later taught at Duke University. Judith Clurman’s Essential Voices USA is different from other choral groups in that it varies the number of singers used on the requirements of the music being performed. Jane Marshall (1924-) was for many years a member of the Sacred Music graduate faculty at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Douglas Major: The Lord is My Shepherd & Litany to the Holy Spirit
Choir of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, Marblehead, Massachusetts
Douglas Major, organ

Dr. Douglas Major was Assistant Organist at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Washington, DC, from 1974-2002.

Rene Clausen: Set me as a seal
Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy

Richard T. Proulx: Anthem, In Praise of Music
Compline Choir of Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, Jason Anderson
Jeff Fair, horn; Brian Fairbanks, tabor

Dr. René Clausen (1953-) is a Professor of Music at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Richard Proulx (1937-2010) was Organist and Director of Music at Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral from 1980-1994. He was a prolific composer of all genres of music.

Bruce Neswick: I Will Set His Dominion in the Sea
Choir of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., Samuel Carabetta
J. Dan Kiser, organ

Traditional, arr. Barbara Harbach: Land of Rest: “How Long, O God” and
“Amazing Grace”
Barbara Harbach, organ
1965 Aeolian-Skinner organ at Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri

Barbara Harbach interweaves these two hymns in this artful chorale prelude. Dr. Bruce Neswick is the Canon for Cathedral Music at Trinity Cathedral, Portland, Oregon.

J.S. Bach: Cantata 170, “Vergnugte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust”
Hanover Band, Roy Goodman
Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto

The German translates as “Delightful rest, beloved pleasure of the soul”. This solo cantata was written for alto or countertenor and was first performed on July 28, 1726.

Howard Hanson: Lumen In Christo
Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, Gerard Schwarz

Lumen in Christo dates from 1974. In it the composer explores light in all its manifestations.

Emma Lou Diemer: Fantasie (1958)
Christa Rakich, organ
1932 Kilgen organ in St. Justin’s Church, Hartford, Connecticut

Dr. Emma Lou Dimer (1927-) has written music in a variety of styles from traditional to experimental.

Horatio Parker: Hora Novissima
Abendmusik Chorus; Nebraska Wesleyan Choir; Nebraska Chamber Orchestra
John Levick
Anna Soranno, soprano; Julie Simson, mezzo-soprano;
Kent Hall, tenor; Duane Andersen, bass-baritone

Parker composed his oratorio Hora Novissima to the opening words of De contemptu mundi by the twelfth-century French Benedictine monk, Bernard of Cluny.