Young Ones WELCOME Participants to Clergy Welcome to St. Paul's! We The Rev'd Curtis A. Farr, Host are pleased to offer this concert of song and spoken Music word for the community we John R. Abdenour, Director of Music love. While this is not a service Edward Tipton, Organist of worship, per se, please Rich Clymer, Ken Tedeschi, Trumpets, Robert Hoyle, Horn stand and sing with us when Scott Cranston, Bill Whitaker, Trombones, Lee Caron, Timpani invited in the bulletin. We hope that you will join us The St. Paul?s Choir following the concert for a Cantoris Choir reception in the Parish Hall. If Treble ? Matthew B., William B., Madison C., there is anything we can do to Claire ., Conor G., Ryan G., Julia H.*, make you feel more welcome, Evan M., Josephine M., Miranda S. please let an usher know. Alto ? Cantoris: Robin Clark-Smith, Sarah Bleasdale (Section Leader), If you know a child who Laura Mozier, Eva Uhrich loves to sing, consider telling Tenor ? Cantoris: Christopher McCormack (Section Leader) them about St. Paul's. Those Bass ? Cantoris: Eric Andren, Benjamin P., who join the choir get a Gregory Sullivan (Section Leader) top-notch musical education along with membership in a spiritually-grounded, loving Decani Choir community of music lovers. Treble ? Michael A., Olivia B., Madison C., Connect with St. Paul's by Madeline C., De'ana D., Ashton D., filling out a Natalie F.., Caitlyn G., Maya K., Welcome Emmeline S. Card and Alto ? Tracey Cranston, Sarah McCormack leaving it Tenor ? Benjamin McCormack (Section Leader), Jonathan Taylor with the freewill Bass ? Dylan C. (Section Leader), Philip Sidebottom, Noah S. offering. *Head Chorister of the Choir We will be in touch Ushers and may Lucy Buggy, Trish Garton connect you to Reception ways you can participate in Music Ministry Team various ministries or to answer Suzanne Haas, Chair any questions that you may have. We thank Mr. Tipton for joining us today to play the organ. He currently Welcome to St. Paul's! serves as Director of Music of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in New Canaan, Connecticut, having previously served for over twenty years as distinguished Canon-Precentor of the American Cathedral in Paris and of St. John's Cathedral in Los Angeles.
The Rev'd Curtis Farr, Rector Music for Organ Méditation Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Music for Brass Ensemble Canzona per Sonare No. 4 Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
* * * Words of Welcome The Rev'd Curtis Farr
Hymn in Procession All are invited to sing (and to stand if desired)
The Audience may be seated. In the presence of the angels Music by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Tibi, Christe, splendor Patris Thee, O Christ, the Father's splendor vita, virtus cordium Life and virtue of the heart, in conspectu Angelorum. In the presence of the angels Votis, vocis psalimus Sing we now with tuneful art, alternantes concrepando Meetly in alternate chorus, melos damus vocibus. Bearing our responsive part.
Collaudamus venerantes Thus we praise with veneration omnes coeli milites All the armies of the sky; sed praecipue primatem. Chiefly him, the guardian primate, Coelestis exercitus Of celestial chivalry, Michaelem in virtute Michael, who in princely virtue conterentem Zabulum. Cast Abbaddon from on high.
Quo custode procul pelle By whose watchful care repelling - rex Christe piissime King of everlasting grace _ omne nefas inimici. Every ghostly adversary, Mundos corde et corpore All things evil, all things base, paradiso redde tuo Grant of us thine only goodness, nos sola clementia. In thy Paradise a place.
Gloriam Patri melodis Sing we glory to the Father, personemus vocibus; And with sweetest voices sing Gloriam Christo canamus, Glory to the'eternal Savior; Gloriam Paraclito, To the Spirit, let praises ring: Qui trinus et unus Deus Thee, our single, triune Godhead, Extat ante saecula. Amen. Source from which all worlds shall spring. Amen. Rabanus Marus (776-856); tr. J. M. Neale and others A Reading: Jacob and the Angel Genesis 32:22-33 The same night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob?s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, ?Let me go, for the day is breaking.? But Jacob said, ?I will not let you go, unless you bless me.? So he said to him, ?What is your name?? And he said, ?Jacob.? Then the man said, ?You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed.? Then Jacob asked him, ?Please tell me your name.? But he said, ?Why is it that you ask my name?? And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, ?For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.? The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle.
As they shout exultingly the hymn . . . Music by Edward Bairstow (1892-1983) Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and stand with fear and trembling. And lift itself above all earthly thought. For the King of kings and Lord of lords, Christ our God cometh forth to be our oblation and to be given for food to the faithful. Before him come the choirs of angels, with every Principality and Power. The Cherubim with many eyes and wingéd Seraphim, who veil their faces as they shout exultingly the hymn: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Liturgy of St. James (4th cent.) Hymn All are invited to sing (and to stand if desired)
The Audience may be seated. A Reading: Gabriel and Mary Luke 1:26-38 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin?s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, ?Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.? But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. The angel said to her, ?Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.? Mary said to the angel, ?How can this be, since I am a virgin?? The angel said to her, ?The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God. And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. For nothing will be impossible with God.? Then Mary said, ?Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.? Then the angel departed from her. Blessed are you Music (Op. 2 No. 2) by Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you, benedicta tu in mulieribus, blessed are you among women, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus. and blessed if the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen. now and in the hour of our death. Amen.
A Reading: Michael and the Dragon Revelation 12:1-10 A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birthpangs, in the agony of giving birth. Then another portent appeared in heaven: a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born. And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. But her child was snatched away and taken to God and to his throne; and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days. And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought back, but they were defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world? he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, proclaiming, ?Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Messiah, for the accuser of our comrades has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
Give ear to our voice Music by John Abdenour (b. 1962) A Sequence for St. Michael, which Alcuin wrote for the Emperor Charles MICHAEL, Archangel Of the King of Kings, Give ear to our voices. We acknowledge thee to be the Prince of the citizens of heaven : And at thy prayer God sends His angels unto men, That the enemy with cunning craft shall not prevail To do the hurt he craves To weary men. Yea, thou hast the dominion of perpetual Paradise, And ever do the holy angels honour thee. Thou wert seen in the Temple of God, A censer of gold in thy hands, And the smoke of it fragrant with spices Rose up till it came before God. Thou with strong hand didst smite the cruel dragon, And many souls didst rescue from his jaws. Then was there a great silence in heaven, And a thousand thousand saying "Glory to the Lord King.? Hear us, Michael, Great archangel, Come down from thy high seat, To bring us the strength of God, And the lightening of His mercy. And do thou, Gabriel, Lay low our foes, And thou, Raphael, Heal our sick, Purge our disease, ease thou our pain, And give us to share In the joys of the blessed. Alcuin (735-804); translated by Helen Waddell (1889-1965), alt.
A Reading: Holy, holy, holy Isaiah 6:1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. And one called to another and said: ?Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.? The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. And I said: ?Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!? Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: ?Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.? Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ?Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?? And I said, ?Here am I; send me!?
The angelic orders Music by Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Izhe heruvimi táyno obrazuyushche We, who mystically represent the Cherubim, Izhivotvoriáshchey Tróytse and chant the thrice-holy hymn Trisviatúyu pesn pripeváyushche. to the Life-Giving Trinity, Fsia koye nine zhitéyskoye, let us now lay aside otlozhím popechéniye. Amin. all earthly cares. Amen. Yáko da Tsariá fseh podimem! That we may receive the King of all, Angelski mi nevidimo dorino chínme. Alliluya. escorted invisibly by the angelic orders. Alleluia. --Liturgia Svyatovo Ioanna Zlatousta Cherubic Hymn, Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
A Reading: George and Clarence From It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Gazing at Clarence, George asked, ?Look, who are you?? ?I told you, George,? Clarence replied, ?I?m your guardian angel.? ?Yeah, yeah, I know. You told me that.? George poked Clarence in the chest to make sure he was real. ?What else are you? Are you a hypnotist?? ?No, of course not.? ?Well then why am I seeing all these strange things here?? ?Don?t you understand, George? It?s because you were not born . . .? ?Well if I wasn?t born, who am I?? ?You?re nobody. You have no identity.? ?What do you mean, no identity? My name?s George Bailey . . .? ?There is no George Bailey. You have no papers, no cards, no driver?s license, no 4F card, no insurance policy . . .? George rifled his clothes fruitlessly. ?They?re not there either.? ?What?? ?Zuzu?s petals.? And Zuzu?s petals had indeed vanished. Clarence continued, ?You?ve been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you.? ?Now wait a minute here,? George shook his head to clear it. ?This is some sort of a funny dream I?m having. So long, mister, I?m going home.? ?Home?? queried Clarence, ?What home?? ?Aw shut up! Cut it out! You?re crazy! That?s what I think. You?re screwy. You?re driving me crazy too ? I?m seeing things here. I?m going home and see my wife and family. You understand that? And I?m going home alone.? George stalked off to discover that his wife and family did not exist. Clarence glanced heavenward. ?How am I doing, Joseph? Thanks! No I didn?t have a drink!?
Hymn All are invited to sing (and to stand if desired)
The Audience may be seated. Final thoughts
Hymn All are invited to sing (and to stand if desired)
Please join us following the concert for a reception in the Parish Hall. Music Notes Athelstan John Laurie Riley (his friends called him was Rabanus Marus (c. 776-856), who composed Athelstan for short), was born to wealth in the hymn ?Tibi Christe Splendor Patris,? which Victorian England and never pursued a paying came to be sung customarily on the feast of St. career, instead devoting his time to the Michael and All Angels. Tomás Luis de Victoria Anglo-Catholic Movement and the improvement was Spain?s leading composer during the of liturgical aesthetics. He was also a scholar and Counter-Reformation and a peer of Palestrina arts patron, and in 1906 he served as chairman of among church musicians of the day. His setting of the editorial board of The English Hymnal, despite Tibi Christe Splendor Patris alternates plainsong being neither a musician nor a priest. He is best and polyphonic verses. known today as a writer of hymns, his most Rabanus Marus was also the author of the hymn durable offering no doubt being ?Ye watchers and "Christ the fair glory," which we sing (thanks to ye holy ones.? A perfect marriage of music and our editor friend Riley) to a sturdy, Vaughan verse, the hymn is so much fun to sing that Williams-arranged tune, Coelites plaudant. modern churchgoers often enthusiastically belt ?. . . Cry out, Dominions, Princedoms, Powers, Compared to the dense web of Western influences Virtues, etc. etc.? without the foggiest notion what encompassing Alcuin, Rabanus Marus, Riley, they are singing about. Thrones, Dominions, Vaughan Williams, Victoria, and Elgar, the world Princedoms, etc. are orders or classes of angels, of Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky was a thing unto established in Judeo-Christian doctrine and lore itself. Born in Votkinsk, a small town considerably and each having their place in the heavenly closer to Kazakhstan than to Moscow, pecking order, beginning with the Seraphin with Tchaikovsky was educated for a career in civil their six wings surrounding the throne of God and service despite showing formidable musical talent singing the Sanctus in perpetuity, then the in his youth. Following his obligatory and brief Cherubin and on down the line. career in government, he enrolled in the founding class of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1862, Riley was a founding member of the Alcuin Club, which exposed him to Western music and an organization devoted to liturgical scholarship technique and launched his musical career. In and promoting The Book of Common Prayer. The 1879 Tchaikovsky published his Liturgy of St. John club's name honors the English medieval scholar Chrysostom Op. 41, without the permission of the and poet Alcuin (735-804), who composed a censors of the Royal Palace, something which had poem, ?A Sequence for St. Michael,? dedicated to not been done in a very long time. The Cherubic the Emperor Charlemagne. Alcuin?s poem was Hymn Op. 41 No. 6 is a fascinating admixture of auspiciously set to music in 1964 by Herbert Western and Russian influences and in its glacial Howells; Howells? setting was considered for this pace of harmonic development seems to be an concert but deemed too ambitious for an event essay in eternity. only four weeks into the new choir season. A new setting of the poem has been created specially for The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (source of the St. Paul's Choir to sing at this concert. A Tchaikovsky?s Cherubic Hymn) is one of three Sequence for St. Michael is a colorful work ancient Eastern Orthodox, Antiochene liturgies, concerning the Archangel Michael and his battle the others being the Liturgy of St. Basil and the with the dragon as depicted in the Book of Liturgy of St. James. The oldest of the three, Revelation. The work is scored for choir and dating in part to the fourth century, the Liturgy of organ, brass quintet and timpani. St. James also contains a Cherubic Hymn, which has come down to us through centuries of Edward Elgar composed this setting of Ave Maria Catholic use ? and subsequent English translation for the burial of W. A. Allen, a friend of his ? as the hymn "Let all mortal flesh keep silence." A father?s, in 1887, and revised it for publication in staple of the St. Paul?s Choir?s repertoire, Edward 1902 as his Opus 2 No. 2. A brief, early work, Ave Bairstow?s superb setting of these words contains Maria is nonetheless pure Elgar in its drama, intensity, and compositional space for a big expressiveness and drama. acoustic (not necessary, unfortunately, at St. Back to Alcuin. One of the great scholar?s students Paul?s). It is fascinating that two works as disparate as Tchaikovsky?s Cherubic Hymn and Psalm 148. Although Darwall composed tunes Bairstow?s Let all mortal flesh both trace their and bass lines for all 150 psalms, his setting of the liturgical DNA back to the same early Eastern 148th Psalm is the only one still in common use. Orthodox wellspring. A generation younger than Richard Baxter but Two hymns round out the musical program. ?Ye following a similar career path, John Mason was holy angels bright? was composed by the Rev. a nonconformist minister and part time poet. He Richard Baxter, who lived in interesting times. published several volumes of poetry which were As a young Anglican minister during the English reprinted many times, and in 1906 his poem Revolution, he served for a time as a chaplain to ?How shall I sing that majesty? first appeared in a one of Cromwell?s regiments, then, following the hymnal ? The English Hymnal, edited by our Restoration, somehow managed the impressive friend Athelstan Riley. The tune is a much later feat of getting himself appointed as chaplain to affair, the contemporary melody Coe Fen Charles II, and later being offered the bishopric of composed by Ken Naylor, who was director of Hereford. He declined the Hereford post and music at Leys School, a public school located just retired, turning to the composition of poetry. He outside Cambridge, England, and near Coe Fen. published his Poetical Fragments in 1681, which Married to the new tune, ?How shall I sing that included ?Ye holy angels bright.? The hymn bears majesty? has become something of an Anglican a strong rhetorical resemblance to Riley?s ?Ye easy listening hit, but in this case the fame is well watchers and ye holy ones,? calling to praise in deserved: Together tune and words form a turn the angels (v. 1), the souls at rest (v. 2), the majestic and powerful--if easy to listen to--essay saints below (v. 3), and the present, living in worship and spirituality. singer(s) (v. 4). The tune Darwall?s 148th was originally composed in 1770 by John Darwall as a setting for Brady & Tate?s versified version of John Abdenour
Do you know a child who loves to sing? The St. Paul's Choir offers outstanding opportunities for young people in Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade, featuring individualized small group instruction in singing, music theory and history. Choristers form lasting friendships founded in shared experiences such as our August Choir Camp, choir festivals, concerts, and tours. All children are welcome! In October, the choir will participate in the 25th annual Sing Praises Choir Festival at All Saints Church in Worcester, MA, directed by Dr. Barry Rose, one of the leading figures of English church music in the 20th century. In July, 2020, the choir will undertake a tour of Canada, singing services in Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal. All children are welcome, whether otherwise affiliated with St. Paul's or not. For further information, contact Director of Music John Abdenour at [email protected]. Services Clergy SUNDAY The Most Rev'd Michael Curry 8:00am Holy Eucharist, Rite II Presiding Bishop 9:30am Holy Eucharist, Rite II The Right. Rev'd Ian Douglas Bishop Diocesan 5:00pm NightChurch The Right Rev'd Laura Ahrens WEDNESDAY Bishop Suffragan 7:30am Holy Eucharist, Rite II The Rev'd Curtis Farr Rector followed by breakfast The Rev'd Deacon Edrice Viechweg Deacon The Rev'd Alice Mindrum Priest Affiliate Staff John Abdenour Director of Music Cathy Comstock stpaulsfairfield.org/pledge-now Accounts & Communications Manager Jett McAlister Coming Up Seminarian Oct. 6 Blessing of the Animals, Ben Schober 9:30am Sexton All-Generation Forum: Vestry God's Creation, 11am Jim Buggy Oct. 12-13 Choir Festival, All Saints, Senior Warden Worcester, MA Linda Shaffer Oct. 13 Sunday School, 11am Junior Warden The Rev'd Cass Shaw Caitlin Hagedus Clerk Sermon & Forum Michael Boyd St. Paul's Cinema: Arrival, Treasurer 2:30pm, Fireside Room Oct. 18-19 St. Paul's Tag Sale Class of 2020 6-9pm | 10am-5pm Jennifer Cowenhoven, Dave Haas, Kevin Lennon Oct. 27 We've Come This Far By Class of 2021 Faith, Convention Eucharist Tracey Cranston, Rick Hutchinson, Annie Smith Hartford Convention Class of 2022 Center, 11am Amy Deutsch, Lisa Callahan, Joanne Fredericks PumpkinFest, 12-4pm
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