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