Music for OT-6-B (Feb 12)

Prelude:           Solemn Introduction: Tambling
Processional Hymn: 352: Love Divine All Loves Excelling
Gloria:            94: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Readings:          594
Offertory:         (11) Lectio octava "Pelli meae": Lasso
Acclamations:      103-104-105: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Agnus Dei:         108: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Communion Hymn:    429: You Satisfy The Hungry Heart
Final Hymn:        342: Amazing Grace
Postlude:          Tuba Tune: Tambling

Music Notes:


Roland de Lassus (c1530-1594), born in Mons Belgium, worked
for several patrons from age eight, giving rise to the legend
that he was three times abducted for his beautiful voice. In Italy
he adopted the name by which he is best known, Orlando di Lasso,
and obtained his fist post as choirmaster at St John Lateran Rome.
The bulk of his career was spent in Munich (1556/7-, 1560- head of
chapel) in service of Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria, and it was there
that he wrote the "Lectiones novum ex libris Hiob (1582)". The eighth
lesson, "Pelli meae", sets Job 19:20-27, in which Job laments his boils,
the last of a series of afflictions. When the Bible speaks of leprosy
it is not clear that what is specified is what we know as Hansen's
disease, so the leper of today's Gospel might very well have thought
of himself as a modern Job, in which case he must have remembered the
second half of the passage, beginning at the words "Scio enim quod
redemtptor meus vivit..." This has also been famously set by Handel
in Messiah: "I know that my redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand
at the latter day upon the earth: And though worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh shall I see God."
--Richard Mix, director.


Christopher Tambling (1964-) attended (1976-82) Christ's Hospital
School (founded 1552 by King Edward VI) and was organ scholar at St
Peter's College Oxford. In Scotland (1991-), he was conductor of Perth
Symphony Orchestra, Perth city organist, choirmaster and music director
at Trinity College Glenalmond. In England (1995-), he is Director of
Music at Downside School and Master of the Schola Cantorum of Downside
Abbey. [Downside Abbey was founded 1605 by English Benedictines in Douai
France (due to Henry VIII and Reformation) and provided a school for
English gentry; the monks suffered during the French Revolution; they
returned to England, first to Shropshire (1795), then Downside (1814);
community status raised (1899) from Priory to Abbey; the monks teach
and supply priests for parishes and missions in the area.]
--Ed Teixeira, organist.