- Organ Prelude on “Praise, my soul” – Eugene Hill
- Service Music: Holy Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling
- Opening Hymn 381 “Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven” (Praise my soul)
- Psalm 2
- Gospel Alleluia
Choir: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
Cantor: This is my Son, my Chosen: listen to him!
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
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Offertory Hymn 374 “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus” (Hyfrydol)
- Anthem: Jubilate Deo in C – Benjamin Britten
- Communion Hymn 84 “Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour” (St. Osmond)
- Concluding Hymn 344 “From all that dwell below the skies” (Lasst uns erfreuen)
- Organ: Paean – Kenneth Leighton
O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song. Be ye sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him, and speak good of his Name. For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation.
As befitting the Sunday before Lent, all of today’s music is joyous. Usually, the organ prelude is relatively quiet and contemplative, helping you to prepare for worship (we hope!); unusually, today it’s an uplifting piece (based on our opening hymn) by the Canadian Eugene Hill, born in Toronto in 1909. Hill was an organ student of the legendary Dr. Charles Peaker (long-time organist of St. Paul’s, Bloor St.) and later of the even more legendary G.D. Cunningham in England. He spent most of his career teaching in the USA where he died in 1976.
Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) was a British composer and pianist. His compositions include church and choral music, pieces for piano, organ, cello, oboe and other instruments, chamber music, concertos, symphonies, and an opera. He had various University appointments, most notably as Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh. “Paean” is a celebratory piece, in which many familiar Leighton traits are used - striding rhythms, dissonant chords, melody, et al. Leighton’s work always maintained the importance of melody at the forefront. This is a longer-than-normal postlude, but you’re encouraged to remain seated and have a listen with ears open to something different.
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was a unique force in British music. Of the brilliant composers among his contemporaries, none wrote such a wide variety of music across such a broad spectrum of genres and for such a range of ages and abilities. A sizeable proportion of his choral music is easily within the reach of a good ordinary choir, another part is well within the grasp of a reasonable church choir, and there is, of course, all the music he wrote specifically for children. The exuberant Jubilate in C was composed in 1961 for St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle at the request of the Duke of Edinburgh.
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