Music for OT-25-B (Sep 20)

Prelude:           Andante con moto (Opus 101 no 6): Stanford
Processional Hymn: 388: God Whose Purpose Is To Kindle
Kyrie:             -spoken-
Gloria:            113: Glory To God: Andrews
Readings:          651
Psalm:             (Guimont p 149) The Lord upholds...
Acclamation:       (OT-25-B) God has called us...
Intercessions:     -spoken-
Offertory:         391: Let There Be Peace On Earth
                   (11) (NCAB p 378) Pray That Jerusalem: Stanford
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  172-175-177: Community Mass: Proulx
Agnus Dei          189: Lamb Of God: Proulx
Communion Hymn:    453: I Received The Living God
Final Hymn:        289: Sing Out Earth And Skies
Postlude:          Allegro (Opus 105 no 6): Stanford

Music Notes:


This weekend at the Saturday 5 pm (Vigil) Mass the Music
is led by the School Choir (Rebecca Monson, director).


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper)
(Ps 118:4,5) Tu mandasti mandata tua custodiri nimis; utinam
dirigantur viae meae, ad custodiendas iustificationes tuas
(You have ordered that your commandments be kept diligently;
O that my ways may be guided towards the keeping of your statutes).


Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) was born in Dublin Ireland,
an only son of accomplished amateur musicians (father sang bass and
played cello, mother played piano). In 1862 he came to London to study
music; 1870 won scholarship to Queens College Cambridge; 1873 Trinity
College organist; 1874-77 studies in Germany; 1874 BA; 1878 MA;
1883 honorary Oxford DMus; 1883 Royal College of Music composition
professor; 1887 Cambridge music professor; 1888 honorary Cambridge DMus;
1897- Leeds Philharmonic Society conductor; 1901- Leeds Festival conductor;
1902 knighted. An exacting but respected teacher, his pupils included:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams,
John Ireland, Frank Bridge, Charles Wood, Geoffrey Shaw, Herbert Howells.
His secular music include orchestral works, concertos, chamber compositions,
songs, part-songs, madrigals, incidental pieces. His religious music includes
oratorios, requiem, services, motets, anthems, organ pieces.



Online resources:
prelude ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92oVPEYZJcA )
postlude ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu48E6K597g )