Welcome to Westminster Choir’s Virtual Rehearsal Room!
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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
December 16, 2018: Lessons & Carols
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the Choir Loft
Adam Lay Ybounden – Cooman
https://youtu.be/6jVlYzsmhBo
Jesus Christ, The Apple Tree – Poston
https://youtu.be/I9UodkM5EHI
Seek Him That Maketh The Seven Stars – Dove
https://youtu.be/uApqkssDQRk
December 23, 2018: 4th Sunday of Advent
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the Choir Room
Anthem: Riu Riu Chiu – 15th Century Spanish
https://youtu.be/4uNh82VT3q4
Call to Prayer: Sleepers Wake! A Voice astounds us – Bach
Offertory: Magnificat – Howells
https://youtu.be/SUvyxYHu8B4
December 24, 2018: 7:30pm Christmas Eve
7:30pm worship; 6:45p warmup in the choir loft
Anthem: And the glory of the Lord, from Messiah – G.F. Handel
https://youtu.be/al9v97FQwVM
Offertory: For unto us a child is born, from Messiah – G.F. Handel
https://youtu.be/MWMjeobSfkg
December 24, 2018: 10:15/11pm Christmas Eve
10:15 mini-concert, 11pm service; 9:30p warmup in the choir loft
Mini-concert selection: Magnificat – Finzi
https://youtu.be/K_UU-Oy_fA0
https://youtu.be/dyArsztTkys
Mini-concert selection: Carol of Joy – Forrest
https://youtu.be/OgtQoSa0cjQ
Anthem: Final Chorus (Tollite hostias) , from Christmas Oratorio – Saint-Saens
https://youtu.be/Sr7WiMBYzAE?t=2068
Offertory: The Stars in their watches rejoice – Thompson
https://youtu.be/oa3HPaHv6Co
January 6, 2019: Epiphany
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the Choir Room
Offertory: The Stars in their watches rejoice – Thompson
https://youtu.be/oa3HPaHv6Co
Communion: Jesus, The Light of the World – G. Elderkin
January 13, 2019: Baptism of the Lord
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the Choir Room
Anthem: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day – Gardner
Call to Prayer: Come, Holy Ghost – Gibbons
Offertory: Down to the River to Pray – arr. Curry
January 20, 2019: MLK Sunday
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the Choir Loft, with Craig Robertson conducting
Anthem: Is Not His Word Like a Fire, from The Cry of Jeremiah – R. Powell
Call to Prayer: Give Me Jesus – Traditional
Offertory: Hallelujah! from The Cry of Jeremiah – R. Powell
January 27, 2019
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the Choir Room
Anthem: Go in peace – A. Waite
Call to Prayer: Silent Devotion and Response – Bloch
https://youtu.be/N3emhs5FtZo
Offertory: O Praise the Lord With One Consent – Handel
https://youtu.be/tHF_WOHw4q8?t=92
February 3, 2019: Communion Sunday
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the Choir Loft, with Hillary Schefter, harp
Offertory: Cantique de Jean Racine – G. Fauré
https://youtu.be/NF6JW9_rD2Y
PRONOUNCIATION GUIDE: https://youtu.be/_fW_AwpWVvs
Communion: Nocturne, from A Feast of Praise – R. Thompson
https://youtu.be/P4TqkIUuMtI?t=193
February 10, 2019: Pulpit Players — NO CHOIR
February 17, 2019
11am worship, 10:25am warmup in the Choir Room
Anthem: Lord, Grant Thou Me A Quiet Mind – Clarke
Offertory: Khumbaya – Soweto Gospel Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW-3h9G3dE
February 24, 2019: Evensong
4pm worship, 3:20pm warmup in the Choir Loft
Evening Service in g minor – Purcell
Magnificat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoEn-e2zKzU
Nunc dimittis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM8s36LE5Fc
The Spirit of The Lord – Elgar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzM4Tzm9VW0
