Music for Easter-1-B (Apr 16) Easter

Prelude:           xxx
Processional Hymn: 266: The Strife Is O'er
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          vigil 533, day 551
Offertory:         x
                   (11) When Mary thro' the garden went: Stanford
Acclamations:      Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    263: That Easter Day With Joy Was Bright
                   265: Regina Caeli
Final Hymn:        261: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
Postlude:          xxx

Music Notes:


Franz Schubert (1797-1828) composed his "Deutsche Messe (D 872)"
in 1826, setting devotional poetry by Johann Philip Neumann (1774-1849),
professor of Physics at the Vienna Polytechnical Institute; the
collaboration resulted in an Austrian folk-style Mass practical
for use by that student congregation. It consists of eight songs,
titled according to the appropriate points during the Mass at which
they are to be sung. During the Easter Season we will be using the
Richard Proulx adaptation of these Mass-Songs to the texts of the
Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Memorial Acclamation, Amen, Agnus Dei;
the congregation music is on heavy-stock pew-cards.


Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), born in Dublin, grew up in
a prosperous home (attorney father); studied at Cambridge University,
selected as Trinity College Cambridge organist (age 18);
traveled to Germany, studied composition under Carl Reinecke and
Friedrich Kiel, became friends with Johannes Brahms.
Held music posts at Trinity College Cambridge and Royal College of
Music (London). Along with Parry and Elgar initiated a remarkable
revival in English choral music which had languished since Purcell.
Enormous influence on the next generation (Vaughan Williams, Holst,
Howells, Bridge, Butterworth, Moeran, Bliss, Grainger). Wrote
symphonies, concertante works, chamber works, operas, solo organ music;
best known for his choral music.


"When Mary thro' the garden went" is the third of "Eight Part-Songs
(1910, Opus 123)" setting a text by poet Mary E Coleridge (1861-1907).
It is fanciful, imagining Mary Magdalene, on the first Easter morning,
walking sadly and reflectively through the garden of Gethsemane, and
anticipates in its closing measures the great joy a moment away.