Christmas Day - December 25th, 2011

10:00 am Choral Eucharist 

• Prelude: Pastorale and Lullaby - Alec Templeton 
• Setting:
• Sanctus and Benedictus from The New Plainsong - David Hurd 
• Agnus Dei from Missa Brevis - Andrea Gabrieli 
• Music during Communion: Magnum Mysterium - Cristóbal de Morales 
• Postlude: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - Alec Templeton

Christmas Eve - December 24, 2011

10:30pm: Carol Sing 
11pm Choral Eucharist

• Setting: 
• Kyrie and Agnus Dei from Missa Brevis #4 – Corde Natus - Healey Willan 
• Sanctus and Benedictus - Merbecke 
• Music during Communion:  A Carol for Christmas - Eric Robertson 
• Postlude: Fugue on “The Magi” - J.S. Bach

Reign of Christ - November 21, 2010

• Organ Preludes:
  • Intermezzo (from ‘Petite Suite’) - Gerald Bales;
  • Ave Maria - Victor Togni
• Anthem: Judge Eternal, Throned in Splendour - Malcolm Archer
• Organ Postlude: Trumpet Tune in D - Henry Purcell

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• Music Notes

The composers of this morning’s organ preludes were both Canadian. 

Early in his career Gerald Bales (1919-2002) was organist at St. Anne’s Anglican on Gladstone Ave. and St. Andrew’s Presbyterian on King St. in Toronto, then at churches in Calgary, Minneapolis and Ottawa, where he also taught at the University of Ottawa. Bales’ “Petite Suite” is his most often performed organ piece. Victor Togni (1935-1965), born in East Africa to Swiss parents, was a brilliant organist who emigrated to Canada as a young adult, first to Pembroke and Ottawa, and later, in 1960, to Toronto where he was organist at St. Basil’s Church. In 1963 Togni became organist at St. Michael’s Cathedral, but his life was cut short tragically at the age of 30 by a car accident in the spring of 1965. He was the father of well-known CBC broadcaster and Halifax-based musician/composer, Peter Togni. 

Malcolm Archer is a prolific composer of both choral and organ music. Born in England in 1952, he became organist of Wells Cathedral and later, from 2004 to 2007 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. He is now Director of Music at Winchester College. “Judge Eternal, Throned in Splendour” is a ‘catchy’ setting of the well-known hymn, the words of which can be found at #594 in our hymnbook; it is an apt text for today’s celebration of the feast of Christ the King.

Pentecost 25 - November 14, 2010

• Prelude: Benedictus - Alec Rowley
• Music during Communion: Renaissance Dances for Flute  - Michael Praetorius [Pierre Attaingnant, Tylman Susato]
• Choir: Ave verum corpus (Jesu Word of God Incarnate) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Postlude: Alla Marcia - John Ireland

All Saints - November 7, 2010

• Prelude: Before the Image of a Saint - Siegfried Karg-Elert
• Anthem: O What Their Joy - Healey Willan
• Postlude: Postlude on “Sine Nomine” - Thomas J. Crawford

Pentecost 23 - October 31, 2010

• Preludes:
  • Deck Thyself, My Soul -J. S. Bach 
  • Dearest Jesu, We Are Here - Reger 
• Anthem: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence - Holst 
• Quartet: Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord (Elijah) - Mendelssohn
  Fiona Strachan, Virginia Wright, Carlos Congote, Ross Hewitt 
• Postlude: Prelude and Fugue in E minor - J. S. Bach

Pentecost 22 - October 24, 2010

• Preludes:
  • I Call to Thee, O Lord - J. S. Bach 
  • Ah, Holy Jesu - Brahms 
• Anthem: Therefore We, Before Him Bending - Roff 
• Solo: A Simple Song (from “Mass”) - Bernstei: Virginia Wright (voice), Fiona Strachan (flute) 
• Postlude: Prelude and Fugue in F - Lübeck