2007 - Fall
Schedule and Repertoire Plans
September
Sunday, September 2 - Summer Break (Labor Day weekend)
Thursday, September 6
Thursday schedule for Chancel Choir resumes
7:15 rehearsal
Sunday, September 9 (Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 18)
9:15 Rehearsal - Chancel Choir Sunday schedule resumes with 9:15 rehearsal.
10:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
139:1-5, 13-18 - Plainsong Tone III.5
(Berkley Guse, Cantor)
Offertory:
"O How Amiable" - R. Vaughan Williams (Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"If With All Your Hearts" from Elijah - Felix Mendelssohn
(Marc Semrow, tenor)
Thursday, September 13
7:15 rehearsal
Sunday, September 16 (Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 19)
9:15 rehearsal
10:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
51:1-11 - Plainsong Tone IV.1
(Cantor)
Offertory:
"Immortal, Invisible" - Eric H. Thiman
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Lord, Have Mercy" - William Byrd
(Chancel Choir)
Thursday, September 20
7:15 rehearsal
Sunday, September 23 (Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 20)
9:15 rehearsal
10:00 Eucharist
After service in choir room, initial interest meeting for planning February production ofBritten's opera Noye's Fludde (Noah's Flood).
Psalm:
113 - James Turle [Anglican Chant]
(Chancel Choir)
Offertory:
"Now Thank We All Our God" - Felix Mendelssohn
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"God Be In My Head" - H. Walford Davies
(Chancel Choir)
Thursday, September 27
7:15 rehearsal
Sunday, September 30 (Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 21)
9:15 rehearsal
10:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
146 - Old 113th harm. Vicar Earle Copes [metrical setting - #429 in Hymnal 1982]
(Chancel Choir)
Offertory:
"Fight the Good Fight" - Harold Rhodes
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Simple Gifts" - Shaker song [ #554 in Hymnal 1982]
(Chancel Choir)
October
Thursday, October 4
7:15 rehearsal
Sunday, October 7 (Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 22)
Psalm:
37:1-10 - David Hurd [metrical setting - text from #669 in Hymal 1982, tune from #735 WLP]
(Chancel Choir)
Offertory:
"They That Wait on the Lord" - William C. Steere
"Surely It Is God Who Saves Me" - Arthur Rhea [Hymnal 1982 #678]
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Panis Angelicus" - César Franck
(Marc Semrow, tenor)
Thursday, October 11
7:15 rehearsal
Sunday, October 14 (Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 23)
Psalm:
"Like the Gentle Rain" - Mary Lynn Lightfoot
(Junior Choir with Rachael Morgan, soloist)
Offertory:
"Sanctus" from Requiem - John Rutter
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Day and Night I Call to Thee" - CPE Bach
(Don Stanislawski, bass)
Thursday, October 18
7:15 rehearsal
Sunday, October 21 (Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost Proper 24)
Psalm:
121 "I to the Hills Lift Mine Eyes"- Burford [Hymnal 1982 #668]
(all)
Offertory:
"Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us" - William Bradley Roberts
(Jane Ferris, alto)
Communion:
"Agnus Dei" from Requiem - John Rutter
(Chancel Choir)
Thursday, October 25
7:15 rehearsal
Sunday, October 28 (Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost Proper 25)
Psalm:
84:1-6 - "How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place" [Hymnal 1982 #517] - J.L. Macbeth Bain
(congregation)
Offertory:
"The Lord is My Shepherd" from Requiem - John Rutter
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Verleih uns Frieden" (Lord, in thy mercy grant us peace) - Felix Mendelssohn
(Betty Schubert, soprano; Jane Ferris, alto; Marc Semrow, tenor; Don Stanislawski, bass)
November
Thursday, November 1
7:15 rehearsal
Sunday, November 4 (All Saints)
Prelude:
"Requiem Aeternam" from Requiem - John Rutter
"Out of the Deep" from Requiem - John Rutter
(Chancel Choir)
Psalm:
23 - "The Lord is My Shepherd" from Requiem - John Rutter
(Chancel Choir)
Offertory:
"Pie Jesu" from Requiem - John Rutter
(Chancel Choir with Betty Schubert, soprano)
Sanctus:
"Sanctus" from Requiem - John Rutter
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Agnus Dei" from Requiem - John Rutter
"Lux Aeterna" from Requiem - John Rutter
(Chancel Choir)
Thursday, November 8
7:15 rehearsal
Sunday, November 11 (Twenty Fourth after Pentecost Proper 27)
Psalm:
145:1-5, 18-22 - Plainsong Tone VIII.2
(Cantor)
Offertory:
"Thou Knowset, Lord, The Secrest Of Our Hearts" - Henry Purcell
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us" - William Bradley Roberts
(Jane Ferris, alto)
Thursday, November 15
7:15 rehearsal
Sunday, November 18 (Twenty Fifth after Pentecost Proper 28)
Psalm:
Canticle 9 "The First Song of Isaiah" - Carl Haywood [WLP 881]
(Chancel Choir)
Offertory:
"Chorus of the Faithful" from The Day of Judgement - Georg Philipp Telemann
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"I'll Walk with God" - Nicholas Brodszky and Paul Francis Webster
(Marc Semrow, tenor)
Thursday, November 22
NO REHEARSAL - Thanksgiving Break
Sunday, November 25 (Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King)
NO CHANCEL CHOIR REHEARSAL or SERVICE - Thanksgiving Break
Psalm:
46 - "" -
Offertory:
"Praise to Lord Who Reigns Above" - Glenn L. Rudolph
(Jane Ferris, alto)
Communion:
"Ave Verum" - Faure
(Betty Schubert, soprano and Jane Ferris, alto)
Thursday, November 29
7:15 rehearsal
December
Sunday, December 2 (First Sunday of Advent)
Psalm:
122 - Plainsong Tone I.2
(Cantor)
Offertory:
"Wachet auf!" - J.S. Bach
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Ave Maria" - Gabriel Fauré
(?Betty Schubert, soprano)
Thursday, December 6
7:15 rehearsal
Friday, December 7
7:00pm The Fayrfax Ensemble
Annual Christmas lessons and carols concert.
Sunday, December 9 (Second Sunday of Advent)
Psalm:
72:1-7, 18-19 - Plainsong Tone I.1
(Cantor)
Offertory:
"Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming" - 14th-century German - M. Praetorius(1571-1621) [CFC p. 210]
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Quia fecit mihi magna" from Magnificat - J.S. Bach
(Don Stanislawski, bass)
Thursday, December 13
7:15 rehearsal
Friday, December 14
7:00pm Stoughton Opera Company
Amahl & the Night Visitors
Sunday, December 16 (Third Sunday of Advent)
"People Look East" - Advent Lessons & Carols - Pageant
First Reading: Genesis 3:1-15, 22-24 Fall and curse of Adam and Eve
Procession (in):
Hymn "Creator of the earth and skies" (text from Hymnal 148, tune Conditor Alme) arr. Richard Proulx [with handbells, tamborine, and finger cymbals]
Stanza 1: Chancel Choir
Stanza 2: "Adam" - (Chancel Choir Men)
Stanza 3: "Eve" - (Chancel Choir Women)
Stanza 4: Chancel Choir
Stanza 5: All
Second Reading: Isaiah 11:1-9 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse
Anthem: "Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming" - 14th-century German - M. Praetorius(1571-1621) [CFC p. 210]
(Chancel Choir)
Hymn 65 "Prepare the way, O Zion"
Third reading: Micah 5:2-4 "But you, O Bethlehem ..."
Hymn 54 "Savior of the nations, come!"
Anthem: "Sans Day Carol" (Now the Holly Bears a Berry) - Cornish traditional arr. John Rutter(b. 1945) [CFC p.219]
(Chancel Choir)
Fourth reading: Isaiah 7:10-14 "Behold, a young woman shall conceive ..."
Hymn 56 "O come, O come, Emmanuel"
Fifth reading: Luke 1:26-28 "In the sixth month the angel Gabriel ..."
Anthem: "The Angel Gabriel" - Basque carol arr. Malcolm Archer(b. 1952) [AFC p. 171]
(Chancel Choir)
Hymn Flor y Canto #449 - "Bueno Dias, Paloma Blanca"
Sixth reading: Luke 2:1-16 [Nativity]
Hymn 93 "Angels from the realms of glory"
Seventh reading: Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 "The people who walked in darkness"
Anthem: "Sleepers Wake" - J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
"Zion Hears Her Watchmen's Voices" [p. 29]
(Marc Semrow, Tenor)
"Glory Now to Thee" [p.43]
(Chancel Choir)
Eighth reading: Baruch 5:1-9 "Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction ..."
Anthem: "People, Look East" - Besançon carol arr. Barry Ferguson (b. 1942)
(Chancel Choir)
Offering:
Anthem: "Jesus, Our Brother" - Orientis Partibus, medieval French melody
(Junior Choir)
Communion:
Hymn Flor y Canto #294 "Preparen el Camino"
Anthem: "And He Shall Reign as King" - Larry King (1932 - 1990)
(Chancel Choir)
Procession (out):
Hymn 99 "Go Tell It On the Mountain"
Ninth Reading: Revelations 22:13-14, 16b-17, 20
Thursday, December 20
7:15 rehearsal
Friday, December 21
7:00pm Christmas Caroling Party at the Ferris Family Home
Sunday, December 23 (Fourth Sunday of Advent)
Psalm:
80:1-7, 16-18 - (spoken)
Offertory:
Introduction from "Songs of Experience" - Will Raymer
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Angelus ad Virginem" (Gabriel to Mary came) - 14th-century Irish arr. David Willcocks
(Jane Ferris, alto; Elsie Raymer, soprano; Janet Stone, soprano)
Monday, December 24 (Christmas Eve)
4:00 Family Eucharist (NO CHOIR)
8:50 rehearsal
9:15 pre-service music
5' 00"
"And He Shall Reign as King" - Larry King (1932 - 1990)
(Chancel Choir)
3' 30"
"Angelus ad Virginem" (Gabriel to Mary came) - 14th-century Irish arr. David Willcocks (b. 1919)
(Jane Ferris, alto; Elsie Raymer, soprano; Janet Stone, soprano)
?' ?"
Toccata, Villancico and Fugue for Organ, Op. 18 - Alberto Ginastera (1916 - 1983)
(Greg Upward, organist)
2' 30"
"Pat-a-pan"- Burgundian Air arr. Katherine Davis (1892 - 1980)
(Chancel Choir)
3' 00"
"Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming" - 14th-century German - Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621) [CFC p. 210]
(Chancel Choir)
?' ?"
Noel En Musette (Christmas Out of Bagpipe) - Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
(Greg Upward, organist)
6' 00"
"Sans Day Carol" (Now the Holly Bears a Berry) - Cornish traditional arr. John Rutter(b. 1945) [CFC p.219]
(Chancel Choir)
3' 30"
"Introduction from 'Songs of Experience'"- Will Raymer
(Chancel Choir)
?' ?"
"Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen" (Lo How A Rose Eer Blooming) - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
(Greg Upward, organist)
2' 30"
"Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" - John Gardner (b. 1943)
(Chancel Choir with Rachael Morgan, side drum)
1' 30"
"Hodie Christus natus est" - Procession from A Ceremony of Carols - Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
(Chancel Choir) [procession to rear of nave]
10:00 Festive Choral Eucharist
Psalm:
"Psallite" (Sing with Joy)- Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621)
(Chancel Choir)
Offertory:
"In the Bleak Mid-Winter" - Harold Darke (1888 – 1976) [100 Carols for Choirs p. 174]
(Chancel Choir with Betty Schubert, soprano and Marc Semrow, tenor)
Communion:
"O Gloriosa Domina" (O Blessed Virgin) - Michael Head (1900 – 1976)
(Janet Stone, soprano)
Tuesday, December 25 (Christmas Day)
NO CHOIR - Christmas Break
10:00 - Eucharist, said with Hymns
Thursday, December 27
NO CHOIR - Christmas Break
Sunday, December 30 (First Sunday after Christmas)
NO CHOIR - Christmas Break
January
Thursday, January 3
NO CHOIR - Christmas Break
Sunday, January 6 (The Epiphany)
NO CHOIR - Christmas Break
Procession of the Three Kings...
Hymnal #128 "We Three Kings"
Kings sing stanza 1-4, All sing stanza 5 and refrains
stanza 2 Melchoir - Steve Smith
stanza 3 Caspar - John Scherpelz
stanza 4 Balthazar - Charlie Morgan
Psalm:
72:1-7,10-14 - (spoken)
Offertory:
"Die Könige" (The Three Kings) -Peter Cornelius
(Berkley Guse, tenor)
Thursday, January 10
Thursday schedule for Chancel Choir resumes
7:15 rehearsal
(Second Sunday of Advent)
Psalm:
72:1-7, 18-19 - Plainsong Tone I.1
(Cantor)
Offertory:
"Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming" - 14th-century German - M. Praetorius(1571-1621) [CFC p. 210]
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Quia fecit mihi magna" from Magnificat - J.S. Bach
(Don Stanislawski, bass)
Thursday, December 13
7:15 rehearsal
Friday, December 14
7:00pm Stoughton Opera Company
Amahl & the Night Visitors
Sunday, December 16 (Third Sunday of Advent)
"People Look East" - Advent Lessons & Carols - Pageant
First Reading: Genesis 3:1-15, 22-24 Fall and curse of Adam and Eve
Procession (in):
Hymn "Creator of the earth and skies" (text from Hymnal 148, tune Conditor Alme) arr. Richard Proulx [with handbells, tamborine, and finger cymbals]
Stanza 1: Chancel Choir
Stanza 2: "Adam" - (Chancel Choir Men)
Stanza 3: "Eve" - (Chancel Choir Women)
Stanza 4: Chancel Choir
Stanza 5: All
Second Reading: Isaiah 11:1-9 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse
Anthem: "Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming" - 14th-century German - M. Praetorius(1571-1621) [CFC p. 210]
(Chancel Choir)
Hymn 65 "Prepare the way, O Zion"
Third reading: Micah 5:2-4 "But you, O Bethlehem ..."
Hymn 54 "Savior of the nations, come!"
Anthem: "Sans Day Carol" (Now the Holly Bears a Berry) - Cornish traditional arr. John Rutter(b. 1945) [CFC p.219]
(Chancel Choir)
Fourth reading: Isaiah 7:10-14 "Behold, a young woman shall conceive ..."
Hymn 56 "O come, O come, Emmanuel"
Fifth reading: Luke 1:26-28 "In the sixth month the angel Gabriel ..."
Anthem: "The Angel Gabriel" - Basque carol arr. Malcolm Archer(b. 1952) [AFC p. 171]
(Chancel Choir)
Hymn Flor y Canto #449 - "Bueno Dias, Paloma Blanca"
Sixth reading: Luke 2:1-16 [Nativity]
Hymn 93 "Angels from the realms of glory"
Seventh reading: Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 "The people who walked in darkness"
Anthem: "Sleepers Wake" - J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
"Zion Hears Her Watchmen's Voices" [p. 29]
(Marc Semrow, Tenor)
"Glory Now to Thee" [p.43]
(Chancel Choir)
Eighth reading: Baruch 5:1-9 "Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction ..."
Anthem: "People, Look East" - Besançon carol arr. Barry Ferguson (b. 1942)
(Chancel Choir)
Offering:
Anthem: "Jesus, Our Brother" - Orientis Partibus, medieval French melody
(Junior Choir)
Communion:
Hymn Flor y Canto #294 "Preparen el Camino"
Anthem: "And He Shall Reign as King" - Larry King (1932 - 1990)
(Chancel Choir)
Procession (out):
Hymn 99 "Go Tell It On the Mountain"
Ninth Reading: Revelations 22:13-14, 16b-17, 20
Thursday, December 20
7:15 rehearsal
Friday, December 21
7:00pm Christmas Caroling Party at the Ferris Family Home
Sunday, December 23 (Fourth Sunday of Advent)
Psalm:
80:1-7, 16-18 - (spoken)
Offertory:
Introduction from "Songs of Experience" - Will Raymer
(Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"Angelus ad Virginem" (Gabriel to Mary came) - 14th-century Irish arr. David Willcocks
(Jane Ferris, alto; Elsie Raymer, soprano; Janet Stone, soprano)
Monday, December 24 (Christmas Eve)
4:00 Family Eucharist (NO CHOIR)
8:50 rehearsal
9:15 pre-service music
5' 00"
"And He Shall Reign as King" - Larry King (1932 - 1990)
(Chancel Choir)
3' 30"
"Angelus ad Virginem" (Gabriel to Mary came) - 14th-century Irish arr. David Willcocks (b. 1919)
(Jane Ferris, alto; Elsie Raymer, soprano; Janet Stone, soprano)
?' ?"
Toccata, Villancico and Fugue for Organ, Op. 18 - Alberto Ginastera (1916 - 1983)
(Greg Upward, organist)
2' 30"
"Pat-a-pan"- Burgundian Air arr. Katherine Davis (1892 - 1980)
(Chancel Choir)
3' 00"
"Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming" - 14th-century German - Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621) [CFC p. 210]
(Chancel Choir)
?' ?"
Noel En Musette (Christmas Out of Bagpipe) - Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
(Greg Upward, organist)
6' 00"
"Sans Day Carol" (Now the Holly Bears a Berry) - Cornish traditional arr. John Rutter(b. 1945) [CFC p.219]
(Chancel Choir)
3' 30"
"Introduction from 'Songs of Experience'"- Will Raymer
(Chancel Choir)
?' ?"
"Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen" (Lo How A Rose Eer Blooming) - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
(Greg Upward, organist)
2' 30"
"Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" - John Gardner (b. 1943)
(Chancel Choir with Rachael Morgan, side drum)
1' 30"
"Hodie Christus natus est" - Procession from A Ceremony of Carols - Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)
(Chancel Choir) [procession to rear of nave]
10:00 Festive Choral Eucharist
Psalm:
"Psallite" (Sing with Joy)- Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621)
(Chancel Choir)
Offertory:
"In the Bleak Mid-Winter" - Harold Darke (1888 – 1976) [100 Carols for Choirs p. 174]
(Chancel Choir with Betty Schubert, soprano and Marc Semrow, tenor)
Communion:
"O Gloriosa Domina" (O Blessed Virgin) - Michael Head (1900 – 1976)
(Janet Stone, soprano)
Tuesday, December 25 (Christmas Day)
NO CHOIR - Christmas Break
10:00 - Eucharist, said with Hymns
Thursday, December 27
NO CHOIR - Christmas Break
Sunday, December 30 (First Sunday after Christmas)
NO CHOIR - Christmas Break
January
Thursday, January 3
NO CHOIR - Christmas Break
Sunday, January 6 (The Epiphany)
NO CHOIR - Christmas Break
Procession of the Three Kings...
Hymnal #128 "We Three Kings"
Kings sing stanza 1-4, All sing stanza 5 and refrains
stanza 2 Melchoir - Steve Smith
stanza 3 Caspar - John Scherpelz
stanza 4 Balthazar - Charlie Morgan
Psalm:
72:1-7,10-14 - (spoken)
Offertory:
"Die Könige" (The Three Kings) -Peter Cornelius
(Berkley Guse, tenor)
Thursday, January 10
Thursday schedule for Chancel Choir resumes
7:15 rehearsal