Music for OT-11-C (Jun 17)

Prelude:           Slow March: Shephard
Processional Hymn: 465: Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          610
Intercessions:     -spoken-
Offertory:         348: There's A Wideness In God's Mercy
                   (11) Unam petii: Anerio
Acclamations:      Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    301: Praise My Soul The King Of Heaven
Final Hymn:        312: Sing Of The Lord's Goodness
Postlude:          Pastorale: Shephard

Music Notes:


Richard Shephard (1949-), born in England, began his career
in Anglican church music at Gloucester Cathedral as a chorister;
attended Corpus Christi College Cambridge as choral scholar;
has held posts at Salisbury Cathedral, Godolphin School, York
Minster. Received Lambeth Degree (2001 DMus); appointed Fellow
of the Royal School of Church Music (2004). Composes anthems
and liturgical settings for choir, pieces for organ.


Giovanni Francesco Anerio (c1567-1630) born at Narni Italy,
became associated (1583) with the Oratory of St Philip Neri; was
organist (1595) at St Marcello; choirmaster (c1601-03) at St John
Lateran; choirmaster (1609-10) at Verona Cathedral; ordained priest
(1616); choirmaster (1624) to King Sigismund III of Warsaw Poland;
died in Graz Austria while traveling. He was a great Roman master
of polyphony in the late Renaissance, and contributed to the early
development of the oratorio.


Unam petii is a setting of Psalm 25:4 Unam petii a Domino, hanc
requiram: ut inhabitatem in domo Domini omnibus diebus vitae meae
(One thing I have asked of the Lord, this I will seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life).