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Below, you’ll find a schedule of our upcoming anthems, posted month-to-month. Also included are youtube links to my preferred recordings, and in some instances, practice tracks and/or sheet music. Enjoy! – Adam
September 9, 2018 : Celebration Sunday
11am Worship, 10:25am warmup in the loft with the Montview Brass
Anthem: Antiphon, from Five Mystical Songs – Vaughan-Williams
https://youtu.be/xUAArcEkLQY
Call to Prayer: Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love (excerpts) – Lovelace
Offertory: Mercy and Truth are Met – Rorem
https://youtu.be/9BOgSIsMbOM
Benediction Response: Glory to God in the Highest (excerpt) – Thompson
https://youtu.be/OR1YBc6oD8U?t=1m7s
PDF of score (different typeset, start pg. 4): http://orfeonmalaga.org/musica/Thompson-Glory_To_God_In_The_Highest.pdf
September 16, 2018: Selection from Dave Brubeck’s jazz mass, “To Hope!”
11am worship, 10:25am warmup with Steve Kennedy, bass & Dan Gasser, drums
Anthem: Our Father – Brubeck
https://youtu.be/ZtfjhRo03m4?t=23m35s
Call to Prayer: Kyrie – Brubeck
Offertory: All My Hope – Brubeck
https://youtu.be/PfpjFlICgjY (interesting (??) fact: this recording from the day before I came to audition at Montview!)
Benediction Response: Great Amen – Brubeck
September 23, 2018: Selections as part of the Concert to End Gun Violence
11am worship, 10:25am warmup – in quartets(ish)!
Anthem: Leroy Kyrie – Taverner
https://youtu.be/rSNot2pen7Q
Call to Prayer: O God, Show Mercy To Us (Thaxted, #341) – G. Holst
Offertory: I Believe – Miller
https://youtu.be/Qfeb7dlChmE
Benediction Response: Sevenfold Amen – Stainer
September 30, 2018
11am worship, 10:25am warmup
Anthem: Praise The Lord, All Ye People – M. Haydn
Sheet Music: Haydn – Praise the Lord
Offertory: How Great Are Thy Wonders – G. Schumann
https://youtu.be/ahod2HMYz-A
Benediction Response: Vivace, from Magnificat – C.T. Pachelbel
https://youtu.be/KttyQAkpWJY?t=4m18s
October 7, 2018: World Communion Sunday
11am worship, 10:25am warmup – in quartets(ish)! – with Katie Burns, cello; Russ Callison, guitar; Leena Waite, violin; Phoebe Bawmann, soloist; Cantate Choir; Dan Gasser, percussion
Offertory: Wana Baraka – arr. Kirchner
https://youtu.be/CqeGrwqTkGA?t=51s
Sheet Music Here (click the paper icon next to SSATBB)
Communion Music: Pange Lingua – Kodaly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqsDQlzpR4g
Sheet Music Here
Allí está Jesús – P. Sosa
Clips and Sheet Music samples found here
https://youtu.be/79DKNq3gOZI (just try to ignore the pianist that sounds like he’s playing at Nordstrom’s)
Benediction Response: Praise, Praise, Praise the Lord – Trad. Cameroon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK5qAZ0mPI
October 14, 2018: Fall Pulpit Players
11am worship, 10:25am warmup – with Mary Louise Burke conducting
— NO Anthem due to Pulpit Players production —
Call to Prayer: Talk About a Child That Do Love Jesus – arr. Dawson
(there’s no video on youtube available of the choral arrangement, but check out this fantastic rendition by Kathleen Battle (using the same harmonies as the Dawson arrangement)) : https://youtu.be/_CXw8Ncwmhc
Offertory: Ubi Caritas – Durufle
https://youtu.be/QjbH7AK5LUc
Benediction Response: A Gaelic Blessing – Rutter
https://youtu.be/cWcHVUfHrcc
October 21, 2018
11am worship, 10:25am warmup
Anthem: Jubilate Deo, from Te Deum (Collegium Regale) – Howells
https://youtu.be/tUXQjvcXUmw
Offertory: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing – arr. Waite
Benediction Response: When Rooks Fly Homeward – Baynon
https://youtu.be/vnbUHMcBNp4
October 28, 2018: Reformation Sunday
11am worship, 10:25am warmup – with Lise Nelson, bagpipes
Anthem: Cantate Domino canticum novum – Schutz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdQyHj1y-xU
For SHEET MUSIC, Click Here
Benediction Response: Highland Cathedral – arr, Kuzma
November 4, 2018: All Saints Sunday
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the loft – with chamber orchestra
Offertory: Introit & Kyrie, from Requiem – Faure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAQ58qeFhxQ
Communion Anthem: Agnus Dei, from Requiem – Faure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1FKoPO-S2w
November 11, 2018: 100th Anniversary of the Armistice
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the choir room
Call to Prayer: Agnus Dei (final stanza) – Barber
https://youtu.be/FOwRW8ee4S8?t=453
Offertory: O Come Let Us Sing Unto the Lord – Piccolo
https://youtu.be/EBlT8fOWGBs?t=46
November 18, 2018: Thanksgiving Sunday
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the choir room
Offertory: The Promise of Living – Copland
https://youtu.be/M1fR1-N–P4
November 25, 2018: Christ the King
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the choir room
Selections TBD
