Music for OT-18-C (Aug 5)

Prelude:           Prelude in D Major: Thayer
Processional Hymn: 343: O God Our Help In Ages Past
Kyrie:             -spoken-
                   (11) Missa VIII (de angelis): chant
Gloria:            135: Angels and Saints: Janco
                   (11) Missa VIII (de angelis): chant
Readings:          631
Intercessions:     -spoken-
Offertory:         387: Harvest Of Justice
Acclamations:      140-141-145: Angels and Saints: Janco
                   (11) Missa VIII (de angelis): chant
Agnus Dei:         146: Angels and Saints: Janco
                   (11) Missa VIII (de angelis): chant
Communion Hymn:    433: One Bread One Body
Final Hymn:        847: Immortal Invisible God Only Wise
Postlude:          Allegro Maestoso: Thayer

Music Notes:


This weekend (Sunday after First Friday) at 11 am our Mass
setting will be Missa VIII "de angelis" (chant).


Whitney Eugene Thayer (1838-1889) born in Mendon MA,
studied with John Knowles Paine at Harvard (after 1862),
then two years in Germany; organist of several Boston churches;
faculty member of New England Conservatory (opened 1867);
published a comprehensive course of organ study (5 volumes, 1874);
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: teaching, composing,
was organist of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (1881-86).