Music for worship 052211

FirstLight
Gathering Song(s)
O sing to the Lord
Forever

Opening Song
Alabare

Prayer of Praise Response
Halle, halle, hallelujah

Scripture/Proclamation
Open your ears, O faithful people

Offertory
Revelation song

Prayers
Amazing grace, alleluia

Closing Song
Marvelous light

11AM
Hymns
The day of resurrection (LANCASHIRE)
I love to tell the story (HANKEY)
How great thou art (O STORE GUD)

Prayer of Praise Response
Halle, halle, hallelujah

Scripture
Open your ears, O faithful people

Anthem
Handel/Hopson, Praise the Lord

Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow (with Alleluias)
LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Instrumental/Organ Music
Prelude: JS Bach, Christ lag in todesbanden
Offertory: Handel, Two Dance Movements, Sonata in E Minor
Libby Barker, flute
Postlude: William Walton, March Crown Imperial

Worship music for 051511

FirstLight
Gathering Song(s)
Come let us worship and bow down
Here I am to worship

Opening Song
Come, now is the time to worship

Prayer of Praise Response
Alleluia, alleluia (Sinclair)

Offertory
Haas, The marvels of God

Doxology
Alleluia, give thanks

Closing Song
You are my all in all

11AM
Hymns
Easter people, raise your voices (REGENT SQUARE)
The King of love my shepherd is (ST. COLUMBA)
Savior, like a shepherd lead us (BRADBURY)

Prayer of Praise Response
106,Alleluia, give thanks

Anthem
Haas, The marvels of God

Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow (with Alleluias)
LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Instrumental/Organ Music
Prelude: Howells, Psalm Prelude, XXIII.4
Offertory: Improvisation on Bradbury
Postlude: JS Bach, Today the son of God has triumphed

Music for worship 050811

FirstLight
Prelude
Presto in 5/8
Connor Watson, piano

Gathering Song(s)
Open our eyes, Lord
Knowing you

Opening Song
I give you my heart

Prayer of Praise Response
He is Lord

Offertory
Lead me to the cross

Doxology
Alleluia, give thanks

Closing Song
Lord, you have come to the lakeshore


11AM
Hymns
108, Christ is alive (TRURO)
377, Lord, you have come to the lakeshore (PESCADOR DE HOMBRES)
344, Christ of the upward way (SURSUM CORDA)

Introit
Anonymous, Come into his presence singing alleluia

Prayer of Praise Response
Traditional, He is Lord

Anthem
Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Call
Ken Scott, Jr., bass soloist

Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow (with Alleluias)
LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Benediction Response
Danish, Three-Fold Amen

Instrumental/Organ Music
Prelude: JS Bach, Christ ist erstanden
Offertory: John Rutter, All things bright and beautiful
Chancel Choir
Postlude: Lefebure-Wely, Sortie in B-Flat

Music for Resurrection Sunday, 2011

FirstLight
Prelude
Thine is the glory
No Walls Instrumental Ensemble

Gathering Song(s)
He is exalted (STF 2070)
Lord, I lift your name on high STF 2088)

Opening Song
That’s why we praise him

Confession
Halle, halle, halleluja (STF 2026)

Offertory
Everlasting God

Communion
Responses by Leon Roberts
I will rise

Closing Song
Christ the Lord is risen today (EASTER HYMN)


11AM
Hymns
Christ the Lord is risen today (EASTER HYMN)
Thine is the glory (JUDAS MACCABEAUS)

Response of Praise
Michael Barker, Easter Fanfare and Alleluia
Summit Ringers

Confession
2026, Halle, halle, hallelujah (HALLE, HALLE)

Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow (LASST UNS ERFREUEN)

Music during Communion
Responses by Eslinger
Now the green blade riseth,
Lo, in the grave he lay

Benediction
Handel, Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah

Instrumental/Organ Music
Prelude: Douglas Wagner, Rondo Jubilate
Adult Handbells, Brass Ensemble
Offertory: Russel Nagy, Now, O Death, where is thy sting
Chancel Choir
Postlude: Louis Vierne, Carillon de Westminster

Music for 041711 Palm-Passion Sunday

FirstLight
Gathering Song(s)
All glory laud and honor (in procession)

Confession
Lord have mercy

Offertory
How deep the Father’s love for us

Doxology
What wondrous love is this

Closing Song
The wonderful cross

11AM
Hymns
88, All glory, laud and honor (VALET WILL ISH DIR GEBEN) (in procession)
101, When I survey the wondrous cross (HAMBURG)

Introit/Opening Prayer
John and Phyllis Miller, Donkey
Carol Choir

Confession
2277, Lord have mercy (SINGAPURA)

Scripture/Proclamation
A most gracious display, Ylvisaker
In the garden Jesus bows, Miller
Before the cock crew twice, Pjeturrsson

Doxology
What wondrous love is this (WONDROUS LOVE)

Instrumental/Organ Music
Prelude: Arr. Bulla, Fanfare-Prelude on St. Theodulph
No Walls Instrumental Ensemble
Offertory: Deborah Grovener, O Love divine
Postlude: JS Bach, Prelude in E Minor

Music for 041011

FirstLight
Gathering Song(s)
Holy, holy, holy
We sing of your glory

Opening Song
How great is our God

Confession
Lord have mercy

Offertory
Create in me a clean heart

Doxology
Give thanks

Closing Song
I danced in the morning


11AM
Hymns
477, Ye servants of God, your master proclaim (HANOVER)
302, I danced in the morning (SIMPLE GIFTS)
Awake, O Sleeper (MARSH CHAPEL)

Confession
2277, Lord have mercy (SINGAPURA)

Anthem
Carl Nygard, He shall feed his flock
Julia Capps, soprano soloist

Doxology
Unto God be praise and glory (PICARDY)

Instrumental/Organ Music
Prelude: Michael Helman, Prayer for Peace
Adult Handbells
Offertory: Improvisation on Marsh Chapel
Postlude: JS Bach, Little Prelude in E Minor

Virtual Choir 2.0

Eric Whitacre developed the concept of a virtual choir better than a year ago and saw it come to fruition with an Internet performance of his work Lux Arumque last fall. This evening the 2.0 version makes its debut. The first venture included 185 singers; this year's numbers 2052 from 50 countries, with about 400 tenors!

From the WQXR site:

For the Virtual Choir 2.0 Whitacre posted a video online of himself conducting Sleep with a simple piano accompaniment. Choristers were invited to obtain the printed music and record themselves singing their individual part in front of a webcam, following his cues on screen and listening to the accompaniment in earphones. The closing date for entries was December 31, 2010.

In 2010 singers sent video recordings of themselves performing the anthem; Whitacre melded the videos into a single unit and added himself as conductor. The atmospheric nature of Lux Arumque lends itself to less precision than one would expect in other settings, so the piece works just fine. One suspects something similar with the new work, Sleep, and this second venture into virtual choral music. Below is last year's video. Click here and follow the links to listen this evening.