Prelude: Prelude in F: Thayer
Processional Hymn: 320: Come Ye Thankful People Come
Penitential Rite: -spoken-
Gloria: Gloria de Lourdes: Lecot/Berry
Readings: 771 (weekday one)
Intercessions: -spoken-
Offertory: (NCAB p 484) Thou visitest the earth: Greene
Acclamations: 103-104-105: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Agnus Dei: 108: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Communion Hymn: 358: There Is A Balm In Gilead
Final Hymn: 474: America The Beautiful
Postlude: Festival Postlude in G: Thayer
Music Notes:
Maurice Greene (1695-1755), born in London, was a chorister at St Paul Cathedral; took organ lessons (1710) and became organist at St Dunstan in the West (1716) then at St Andrew (1717); appointed Master of the King's Band (1718); published 40 anthems (1743); inherited a large estate (1750) which enabled him to work on a collection of Cathedral music with publication in mind, it was left incomplete at his death and finished by William Boyce (c1710-1779).
Whitney Eugene Thayer (1838-1889) born in Mendon MA, studied with John Knowles Paine at Harvard (after 1862), then studied two years in Germany; organist of several Boston churches; faculty member of New England Conservatory (opened 1867); published a comprehensive course of organ study (1874, five volumes); 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 as teacher and composer, and was organist of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (1881-86).
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