Music for Easter-4-B (May 7)

Prelude:           Sonata em La maior: Carlos Seixas
Processional Hymn: (5) 421: Immaculate Mary
                   447: Shepherd Of Souls
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Readings:          557
Offertory:         (5) 414: On This Day O Beautiful Mother
                   (11) Hospodin jest muj pastyr (Psalm 23): Dvorak
Acclamations:      Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei:         Deutsche Messe: Schubert/Proulx
Communion Hymn:    849: The King Of Love
                   265: Regina Caeli
Final Hymn:        417: Sing Of Mary
Postlude:          Preludio: Jose Marques e Silva

Music Notes:


Franz Schubert (1797-1828) composed his "Deutsche Messe (D 872)"
in 1826. Richard Proulx adapted its music to English Mass texts in
1985; these easy-to-sing melodies will be used throughout the Easter
Season; please use the heavy-stock music cards in the pews (and leave
them there for the next Mass!).


Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) born in Nelahozeves Czechoslovakia;
1857-9 studied at Prague Organ School; played viola in nucleus of new
Provisional Theatre orchestra; 1873- private teaching and composing;
1874-76-77 won Austrian State Stipendium; 1878 Simrock published some
works. Foreign performances multiplied (e.g., Slavonic Dances, Sixth
Symphony, Stabat mater). Well received in England; 1884 The Spectre's
Bride; 1885 Seventh Symphony; 1886 St Ludmilla; 1890 Requiem Mass;
honorary doctorate from Cambridge. 1890 visited Russia; continued to
launch new works in Prague and London; 1891 began teaching at Prague
Conservatory. Came to USA; 1892-95 director of National Conservatory
in New York, taught composition; Ninth Symphony ('From the New World'),
String Quartet in F, String Quintet in E-flat, Cello Concerto. Financial
strain and family ties took him back to Prague, where he began to write
symphonic poems and finally had his efforts at dramatic music rewarded
with success of fairytale opera Rusalka (1901).


Carlos Seixas (1704-1742) born in Coimbra Portugal, assumed the
position of cathedral organist in his native town at age 14. From 1720
he was active at Santa Maria Cathedral and the court chapel in Lisbon,
where he was a highly regarded harpsichordist and a keyboard teacher
much sought after by the noble families of the capital.


José Marques e Silva (1778-1837) was a member of the Barnabite monastery
in Lisbon Portugal, and perhaps the most influential Portuguese musician
of the early nineteenth century in his dual capacity as teacher at the
Lisbon Cathedral music school and, from 1808, mestre de capela of the court
chapel.