Music for OT-20-A (Aug 17)

Prelude:           Prelude in D major (OJR#16): Thayer
Processional Hymn: 847: Immortal Invisible
Kyrie:             -spoken-
Gloria:            113: Mass for Congregations: Andrews
Readings:          635
Offertory:         350: Lord Of All Nations Grant Me Grace
                   (11) Hanacpachap cusicuinin
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  117-118-119: Peoples Mass; Danish Mass
Agnus Dei:         188: Holy Cross Mass: Isele
Communion Hymn:    44: With The Lord There is Mercy (Psalm 130)
Final Hymn:        6: Now Bless The God Of Israel
Postlude:          Allegro Maestoso: Thayer

Music Notes:


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Domus mea, domus orationis vocabitur, dicit Dominus; in ea omnis,
qui petit, accipit; et qui quaerit, invenit, et pulsanti aperietur
(My house will be called a house of prayer, says the Lord; everyone
who asks here, will receive, and he who seeks, will find, and to him
who knocks, it will be opened).


At 11 am Offertory: Immittet angelus Domini in circuitu timentium eum,
et eripiet eos; gustate et videte, quoniam suavis est Dominus (The Angel
of the Lord shall encamp round about those who fear him and shall deliver
them; taste and see how good the Lord is).


Whitney Eugene Thayer (1838-1889) born in Mendon MA, studied with
John Knowles Paine at Harvard (after 1862), then two years in Germany;
organist of several Boston churches; faculty member of New England
Conservatory (opened 1867); published a comprehensive course of organ
study (5 volumes, 1874); opened a private organ studio in Boston (1875);
edited two periodicals for organists and choir directors, directed various
musical organizations, composed many pieces for church and recital use;
much in demand as a recitalist in his younger years. Spent latter part of
his life in New York: teaching, composing, was organist of Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church (1881-86).


From Richard Mix:


Last Sunday we anticipated the Feast of the Assumption with an
Ave Maria by Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), written in 1934 for his
Orthodox parish in Paris.


The Ave Maria by Josquin Desprez (c1450-1521) sets a longer version
of this prayer, which was not to be standardized until the Council of
Trent. Josquin's reputation towered over not only other composers of the
Renaissance but over artists of other media: a contemporary resorted to
describing Michelangelo as "the Josquin of sculpture".


Hanacpachap cusicuinin is a Marian hymn in Quechua, the language of
the Inca. Published in Lima in 1631, the first two verses compare Our Lady
to a fruit tree and a pillar of ivory, respectively.