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Choir Anthem Schedule Cathedral Choir Schedule Fall 2019 -- Summer 2020 (Track 1, ST) - Year C to Year A (Track 2, GT) Date Event Time Music Notes September Sunday 1 Proper 17 Ps 81:1, 10-16 (Anglican – John Stainer) Offertory Sing We Merrily (Sydney Campbell) Communion Lord For Thy Tender Mercy’s Sake (Richard Farrant) Sunday 8 Proper 18 10 AM call Ps 139:1-5, 12-17 (Anglican – Ralph Vaughan Williams) Sylvia gone Choristers Offertory Let My Heart and Soul Praise the Lord (G.F. Handel) Communion Pilgrims’ Hymn (Stephen Paulus) Sunday 15 Proper 19 10 AM call Ps 14 (Anglican – Henry Smart) Sylvia gone Offertory See What Love (Felix Mendelssohn) NEW Sunday 22 Proper 20 10 AM call Ps 79:1-9 (Anglican – T. Tertius Noble) set Anthem Be Thou My Vision (Bob Chilcott) NEW Communion Lift Thine Eyes (Felix Mendelssohn) SSA Sunday 29 Proper 21 10 AM call Ps 91:1-6, 14-16 (Anglican – Kellow John Pye) set Anthem Poor Man Lazrus (Jester Hairston) Scholars Communion Grant, We Beseech Thee (Francis W. Snow) October Sunday 6 Proper 22 10 AM call Ps 137 (Anglican – George Mursell Garrett) Anthem Behold, The Tabernacle Of God (William Harris) Sunday 13 Proper 23 10 AM call Ps 66:1-11 (Anglican – William Russell) expand from 1-8 Offertory Jubilate Deo (Benjamin Britten) in Anthems 4, pg 140 Sunday 20 Proper 24 10 AM call Ps 119:97-104 (Anglican – William Crotch) Steve gone Anthem I Lift Up My Eyes To The Hills (Maggie Burk) Zachary directs Sunday 27 Proper 25 10 AM call Ps 65 (Anglican – Edward John Hopkins) use 9-14 only Offertory Fight the Good Fight (John Gardner) Communion Ubi Caritas (Maurice Durufle) November Sunday 3 “All Saints” 10 AM call Ps 149 (Anglican - John Randall) Offertory Lux Aeterna (John Rutter) from Requiem, page 54 Communion O How Glorious (Healey Willan) Sunday 3 Evensong 3 PM call (Wisdom 3:1-9 / Revelation 21:1-4, 22-22:5) All Saints Introit O How Glorious (Healey Willan) Preces Harrison Oxley (sung in Ab) Psalms 148 (Thomas Attwood Walmisley), 150 Mag/Nunc Downing Service (Bob Chilcott) Anthem Lux Aeterna (John Rutter) from Requiem, page 54 Hymns 35, 279 Sunday 10 Proper 27 Ps 145:1-5, 18-22 or 98 (Anglican – Peter Hallock) Offertory Never Weather-Beaten Sail (Charles Wood 1866-1926) Sunday 17 Proper 28 10 AM call Ps Canticle 9 Anthem City Called Heaven (Josephine Poelinitz) Sunday 24 Proper 29 10 AM call Canticle 16 / S-248 Christ the King Anthem At The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners (Malcolm Archer b. 1952) Communion I Wonder As I Wander (Michael Weber) Thursday 28 Thanksgiving 9:15 AM call Ps 100 (Anglican - George Elvey) 8:45 a.m. Breakfast Offertory Harvest Song (Austin Lovelace) Communion O Taste and See (Ralph Vaughan Williams) with choristers December RCL Year A (Track 2 / GT) Sunday 1 Advent 1 Ps. 122 (Responsorial Mode 1) Introit Advent Responsory (Adrian Self) Candles Advent Wreath Prayers (Malcolm Archer) Anthem As the Dark Awaits the Dawn (Christopher Aspaas) Sunday 8 Advent 2 10 AM call Ps 72:1-7, 18-19 (Responsorial Mode 1) Offertory A Spotless Rose (Bob Chilcott) in On Christmas Night Sunday 15 Advent 3 10 AM call Ps 146:4-9 (Responsorial Mode 1) [or Canticle 3 or 15] Anthem E’en So Lord, Quickly Come (Paul Manz) Sunday 22 Advent 4 10 AM call Ps 80:1-7, 16-18 (Responsorial Mode 1) “Angel speaks to Joseph” Anthem The Cherry Tree Carol (Stephen Cleobury) .
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