THE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

SUGGESTED MUSIC SELECTIONS FOR A FUNERAL, MEMORIAL SERVICE OR COMMITTAL SERVICE

Congregational Hymns (from The Presbyterian Hymnal 1990)

260 A Mighty Fortress is Our God 543 Abide With Me 280 Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound 339 Be Thou My Vision 341 Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine 438 Blest Be the Tie That Binds 306 Fairest Lord Jesus 526 For All the Saints 281 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah 138 Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty 467 How Great Thou Art 507 I Come with Joy to Meet My Lord 282 If Thou but Trust in God to Guide Thee 263 Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise 464 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee 371 Lift High the Cross 376 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling 383 My Faith Looks Up to Thee 172 My Shepherd Will Supply My Need 210 Our God, Our Help in Ages Past 404 Precious Lord, Take My Hand 170 The Lord’s My Shepherd, I’ll Not Want 171 The King of Love My Shepherd Is

Solos

Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life - Ralph Vaughan Williams (baritone solo) Deep River - Spiritual (male or female soloist) He Shall Feed His Flock (Messiah) - George Frideric Handel (alto & soprano duet) I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Messiah) - G. F. Handel (soprano solo) O Rest in the Lord (Elijah) - Felix Mendelssohn (alto solo) Pie Jesu () - Gabriel Fauré (soprano solo) Pie Jesu (Requiem) - Maurice Duruflé (alto solo) Shall We Gather at the River - Aaron Copland (solo) The Lord’s Prayer - Albert Hay Malotte (male or female soloist)

Any congregational hymn listed above could also be sung as a solo

Choral Selections (for a quartet or octet of choristers or more as noted)

A Gaelic Blessing - (octet+) And I Saw A New Heaven - Edgar Bainton (octet+) A Prayer of Saint Patrick - John Rutter (quartet+) Ave verum corpus - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (quartet+) Be Thou My Vision - Bob Chilcott (octet+) Beati quorum via - Charles Villiers Stanford (octet+) Flocks in Pastures Green Abiding (Sheep May Safely Graze) - J.S. Bach (quartet+) God Be in My Head - John Rutter (quartet+) God So Loved the World - Bob Chilcott (octet+) If Ye Love Me - Bob Chilcott (octet+) If Ye Love Me - Thomas Tallis (quartet+) God So Loved the World - Bob Chilcott (octet+) God So Loved the World - Sir John Stainer (octet+) Greater Love Hath No Man Than This - John Ireland (octet+) How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place (A German Requiem - Johannes Brahms (octet+) In Paradisum (Requiem) - Gabriel Fauré (octet+) Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee - Johannes Brahms (octet+) My Shepherd Will Supply My Need - Virgil Thompson (quartet+) O For a Closer Walk with God - Charles Villiers Stanford (quartet+) The Lord Bless You and Keep You - John Rutter (octet+) There is a Balm in Gilead - arr. Dawson (octet+) Ubi caritas - Maurice Duruflé (octet +)

Prelude and Postlude organ music (while the guests are entering and departing)

"Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele" - J. S. Bach "Sheep May Safely Graze" - J. S. Bach "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" - J.S. Bach "Fantaisie in G" - J. S. Bach Selections from "Water Music" - George Frideric Handel "Rhosymedre" - Ralph Vaughan Williams "Prière à Notre-Dame" - Léon Boëllmann "Chorale Preludes" - Johannes Brahms "Three Chorale Preludes" - Healey Willan

August 2016