All Saints’ - November 3, 2013

• Organ: Before the Image of a Saint - Siegfried Karg-Elert (1877-1933) 
• Opening Hymn 276 “For all the saints” (Sine nomine) 
• Service Music: Holy Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling 
• Psalm 24: 1-6
• Gospel Alleluia
  

  Choir: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
  All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
  Cantor: They are before the throne of God:
  and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.
  All: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia 

• Offertory Hymn 275 “O what their joy” (O Quanta Qualia)
• Anthem: And I Saw a New Heaven – Edgar Bainton (1880-1956)
  

  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

• Communion Hymn 286 “Give me the wings of faith” (Westminster)
• Concluding Hymn 281 “Who are these like stars appearing” (All Saints)
• Organ: Toccata in G – Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)

Music Notes:
Edgar Leslie Bainton (14 February 1880 -- 8 December 1956) was a British-born composer, most celebrated for his church music. Perhaps his most famous piece is the liturgical anthem “And I saw a new heaven”, but during recent years Bainton's other musical works - neglected for decades - have been increasingly heard in the concert repertoire. In the early 1930s Bainton did lecture tours to Canada and in the summer of 1933 the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music offered him its directorship. Accordingly, in 1934 Bainton and his family started a new life in Australia where, for the next 20+ years he taught and conducted. In 1956 a heart attack severely affected his health - his wife had died not long beforehand - and on the morning of 8 December he died on the beach at Point Piper in Sydney.

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