Sing to the Lord, the new incarnation of "Music in Catholic Worship" (only much longer and more thorough!) is up on the USCCB website:
http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/SingToTheLord.pdf
I have printed it and started to read the final draft, but I haven't gotten far yet. It's Advent, after all...
peace,
Jennifer
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Soul of Genius
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence
nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius.
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
--W. A. Mozart
Clearly my attempts at a weekly blog about why and how music is planned fell by the wayside right about at the moment the choral/liturgical season got busy. But I will keep trying, at least in little bits...
The 10:45 choir will be leading a Lessons and Carols service for Advent, this coming Sunday evening at 7pm. For the first time, although this is our third or fourth year, we've actually had adequate publicity and announcements and such, so I actually have hope in a decent crowd...
Advent Lessons and Carols
Sunday, December 9, 2007 7:00pm
Processional: Prepare the Way of the Lord (Taizé) (Gather Comp. 330)
Greeting
Opening Prayer (chanted) (All are seated)
First Lesson: Genesis 3:8-15
Choir: Lo, How a Rose (Gather Comp. 373) (2 verses)
My mother, fifty-odd years out of Catholic school, can still sing the alto part to this piece...I know there are tons of different arrangements of it out there, but I can't imagine ever moving from this one.
Carol: Creator of the Stars of Night (Gather Comp. 334) (4 verses)
Second Lesson: Isaiah 9:1-6
Choir: Crown Him King of Kings (Bach)
Our old noisy Bach friend--huge, happy, unapologetic, and the choir sounds great on it.
Carol: O Come, Divine Messiah (Gather Comp. 333)
Third Lesson: Isaiah 40:1-11
Choir: Prepare Ye (Robinson)
Awesome little piece, sort of jazzy-gospel-but-still-definitely-white-folks-singing in character, at least the way we do it--but it sounds Right this way. I heard it first at Ascension, and I loved it enough to order it 5 years later for this group. Sort of a lazy but implacable groove, with a kick-tail tenor solo on which Jeff completely wails...
Fourth Lesson: Haggai 2:6-9
Choir: Like those who watch for midnight’s hour (Bach) (Seven Lenten Chorales, “Out of the Depths,” vs 2)
Carol: The King Shall Come (Gather Comp. 347) (all verses)
Fifth Lesson: Isaiah 7:10-15
Carol: Maranatha, Lord Messiah (GC 324) (verses 1, 5, 6, 7)
Sixth Lesson: Baruch 4:36-5:9
Choir: Come, O Just One (Trapp)
My old friend Lynn Trapp--he's a man, by the way--did this lovely setting. Far more "Cathedral" than we usually are, very formal and Grand-sounding, but the choir's really rising to the occasion. Great fun.
Carol: People, Look East! (Gather Comp. 337) (all verses)
Gospel Acclamation: Advent Gospel Acclamations (verse for Advent IV Cycle A)
Seventh Lesson (The Gospel): Luke 1:26-35, 38 (chanted by Fr. Ken)
Choir: No Wind at the Window (Bell/Breedlove)
I seldom get to compose any more; I started this setting 2 years ago and finally actually completed it this year. It's a really nice strophic text about the Annunciation--vintage John Bell in style and syntax, which I happen to love--set to a haunting Gaelic (Scottish?) melody. I set it for SATB choir, and it's going well, although we've barely rehearsed it and we have to "perform" it this Sunday...I'm slightly petrified.
Intercessions: GC 277 (cantor and choir)
Closing Prayer
Closing Hymn: O Come, Emmanuel (Gather Comp. 323) (verses 1-4)
Y'all come on Sunday, hear?
peace,
Jennifer
nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius.
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
--W. A. Mozart
Clearly my attempts at a weekly blog about why and how music is planned fell by the wayside right about at the moment the choral/liturgical season got busy. But I will keep trying, at least in little bits...
The 10:45 choir will be leading a Lessons and Carols service for Advent, this coming Sunday evening at 7pm. For the first time, although this is our third or fourth year, we've actually had adequate publicity and announcements and such, so I actually have hope in a decent crowd...
Advent Lessons and Carols
Sunday, December 9, 2007 7:00pm
Processional: Prepare the Way of the Lord (Taizé) (Gather Comp. 330)
Greeting
Opening Prayer (chanted) (All are seated)
First Lesson: Genesis 3:8-15
Choir: Lo, How a Rose (Gather Comp. 373) (2 verses)
My mother, fifty-odd years out of Catholic school, can still sing the alto part to this piece...I know there are tons of different arrangements of it out there, but I can't imagine ever moving from this one.
Carol: Creator of the Stars of Night (Gather Comp. 334) (4 verses)
Second Lesson: Isaiah 9:1-6
Choir: Crown Him King of Kings (Bach)
Our old noisy Bach friend--huge, happy, unapologetic, and the choir sounds great on it.
Carol: O Come, Divine Messiah (Gather Comp. 333)
Third Lesson: Isaiah 40:1-11
Choir: Prepare Ye (Robinson)
Awesome little piece, sort of jazzy-gospel-but-still-definitely-white-folks-singing in character, at least the way we do it--but it sounds Right this way. I heard it first at Ascension, and I loved it enough to order it 5 years later for this group. Sort of a lazy but implacable groove, with a kick-tail tenor solo on which Jeff completely wails...
Fourth Lesson: Haggai 2:6-9
Choir: Like those who watch for midnight’s hour (Bach) (Seven Lenten Chorales, “Out of the Depths,” vs 2)
Carol: The King Shall Come (Gather Comp. 347) (all verses)
Fifth Lesson: Isaiah 7:10-15
Carol: Maranatha, Lord Messiah (GC 324) (verses 1, 5, 6, 7)
Sixth Lesson: Baruch 4:36-5:9
Choir: Come, O Just One (Trapp)
My old friend Lynn Trapp--he's a man, by the way--did this lovely setting. Far more "Cathedral" than we usually are, very formal and Grand-sounding, but the choir's really rising to the occasion. Great fun.
Carol: People, Look East! (Gather Comp. 337) (all verses)
Gospel Acclamation: Advent Gospel Acclamations (verse for Advent IV Cycle A)
Seventh Lesson (The Gospel): Luke 1:26-35, 38 (chanted by Fr. Ken)
Choir: No Wind at the Window (Bell/Breedlove)
I seldom get to compose any more; I started this setting 2 years ago and finally actually completed it this year. It's a really nice strophic text about the Annunciation--vintage John Bell in style and syntax, which I happen to love--set to a haunting Gaelic (Scottish?) melody. I set it for SATB choir, and it's going well, although we've barely rehearsed it and we have to "perform" it this Sunday...I'm slightly petrified.
Intercessions: GC 277 (cantor and choir)
Closing Prayer
Closing Hymn: O Come, Emmanuel (Gather Comp. 323) (verses 1-4)
Y'all come on Sunday, hear?
peace,
Jennifer
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