Musical offering for the seventh day of Christmas
December 31, 2022
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Sunday musical offering
September 25, 2022
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace,
according to thy word;
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people,
To be a light to lighten the gentiles,
and to be the glory of thy people Israel.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
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Sunday musical offering
June 5, 2022
Haec dies quam fecit Dominus:
Exultemus et laetemur in ea. Alleluia.
This is the day which the Lord has made:
Let us be glad and rejoice in it. Alleluia.
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Happy birthday, Samuel
March 9, 2022Samuel Barber (1910-1981) composed the Adagio for Strings in 1936 as the second movement of his String Quartet in B minor. In 1967 Barber adapted the music into a choral composition, using the words of the Agnus Dei from the Latin Mass. It’s sung here by VOCES8.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
dona nobis pacem.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
have mercy upon us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world,
grant us peace.
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Happy birthday, Charles
September 30, 2021Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) was born in Dublin and attended Queen’s College Cambridge on an organ scholarship. In 1882 he helped to found the Royal College of Music in London, where he taught composition for the rest of his life. Among his students were Arthur Bliss, John Ireland, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Gustav Holst , George Butterworth, Frank Bridge, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Although Stanford composed music in many genres, he is best remembered for his sacred choral music. Beati quorum Via, a choral setting of Psalm 119:1, is the last of Stanford’s Three Latin Motets, published in 1905.
Beati quorum via integra est, qui ambulant in lege Domini.
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
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Sunday musical offering
July 11, 2021
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Happy birthday, Gabriel
May 12, 2021In honor of the birthday of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), here is “Pie Jesu” from the Requiem, performed by VOCES8.
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Sunday musical offering
March 14, 2021
Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening into the house and gate of heav’n:
to enter into that gate and dwell in that house,
where there shall be no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light;
no noise nor silence, but one equal music;
no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession;
no ends nor beginnings, but one equal eternity;
in the habitation of thy glory and dominion, world without end. Amen.
–John Donne (1572-1631)
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Musical offering for the fourth Sunday of Advent
December 23, 2018
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Sunday musical offering
September 9, 2018
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