Music for Easter-4-A (Apr 13)

Prelude:           Pastorale: Zipoli
Processional Hymn: 256: At The Lamb's High Feast We Sing
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          556
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         849: The King Of Love
                   (11) My Shepherd will supply: Thomson
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    432: Shepherd Of Souls In Love Come Feed
                   265: Regina Caeli
Final Hymn:        258: Alleluia Let The Holy Anthem Rise
Postlude:          Pastorale: Shephard

Music Notes:


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Ego sum pastor bonus, alleluia; et cognosco oves meas,
et cognoscunt me meae, alleluia, alleluia (I am the good
shepherd, alleluia; I know my sheep and my own sheep know
me, alleluia, alleluia).


Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) born in Kansas City MO,
attended Harvard University, went to Paris and studied
with Nadia Boulanger, authored "The State of Music (1939)",
was New York Herald-Tribune music critic (1940-54), was
instrumental in the development of the "American Sound"
in classical music so often associated with the patriotic
compositions of Aaron Copland. His research into Southeastern
USA shape note tunes, folk hymns, white spirituals, led to
his arrangement of "My Shepherd will supply my need" (text
by Isaac Watts (1674-1748), hymn tune RESIGNATION from
"The Southern Harmony (1835)"). It was incorporated into his
film score for a Department of Agriculture documentary about
the Mississippi River Valley "The River (1937)" which is freely
viewable online (http://www.archive.org).