Schedule and Repertoire Plans
May
Sunday, May 27 (Day of Pentecost - Whitsunday - Memorial Day Weekend)
10:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
Psalm 104:25-35, 37 (spoken)
Offertory:
Communion:
June
Sunday, June 3 (First Sunday after Pentecost Trinity Sunday)
9:15 rehearsal
10:00 Eucharist
[Psalm]:
Canticle 13 Page 90, BCP (spoken)
Offertory:
"We Sing to Him" - Henry Purcell
(Berkley Guse, tenor)
Communion:
Sunday, June 10 (Second Sunday after Pentecost Proper 5)
9:15 rehearsal
10:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
Psalm 30(spoken)
Offertory:
"A Simple Song" from Mass - Leonard Bernstein
(Lynn Morgan, soprano)
Communion:
Sunday, June 17 (Third Sunday after Pentecost Proper 6) - Summer Service Schedule Begins
8:15 rehearsal
9:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
5:1-8 (spoken)
Offertory:
"Sound the Trumpet" - Henry Purcell
(Janet Stone, soprano and Jane Ferris, alto)
Communion:
"Now Thank We All Our God" - J.S.Bach
(Janet Stone, soprano and Jane Ferris, alto)
Sunday, June 24 (Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 7)
8:15 rehearsal
9:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
22:18-27 (spoken)
Offertory:
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem" - arr. Russell Schulz-Widmar
(Lynn Morgan, soprano and Charlie Morgan, bass)
Communion:
July
Sunday, July 1 (Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 8)
8:15 rehearsal
9:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20(spoken)
Offertory:
"Laudamus Te" from Gloria- Antonio Vivaldi
(Deb Anken-Dyer, soprano and Kris Rasmussen, alto)
Communion:
Sunday, July 8 (Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 9)
8:15 rehearsal
9:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
Psalm 66:1-8 (spoken)
Offertory:
"?" - ?
(Hank Hempe)
Communion:
Sunday, July 15 (Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Proper 10)
8:15 rehearsal
9:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
25:1-10 (spoken)
Offertory:
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" - J.S. Bach
(Mary Ann Germanson, alto)
Communion:
"The Call" from Five Mystical Songs - Ralph Vaughan Williams
(Mary Ann Germanson, alto)
Sunday, July 22 (Eigth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 11)
8:15 rehearsal
9:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
15 (spoken)
Offertory:
"The Father's Love" - Simon Lole
(Hazel Holden, Berkley Guse or Hank Hempe and daughter duet)
Communion:
"?" - ?
(?)
Sunday, July 29 (Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 12)
8:15 rehearsal
9:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
138(spoken)
Offertory:
(Matthew Eisentraut, trombone)
Communion:
(Matthew Eisentraut, trombone)
August
Friday, August 3 at 7:30 pm
Don Stanislawski sings with
Isthmus Vocal Ensemble at Luther Memorial Church
http://www.isthmusvocalensemble.org
Sunday, August 5 - Summer Break
Sunday, August 12 (Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Proper 14)
8:15 rehearsal
9:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
138(spoken)
Offertory:
"Agnus Dei" - Gene Grier
(Janet Stone, soprano)
Communion:
"O Master, Let Me Walk With Thee" - Calvin Hampton
(Janet Stone, soprano)
Sunday, August 19 (Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 15)
8:15 rehearsal
9:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
80:1-2, 8-18(spoken)
Offertory:
Communion:
"God the Lord is Always Near" - J. S. Bach
(Janet Stone, soprano and Tom Stone, bass)
Sunday, August 26 - Summer Break
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)
Junior Choir Sunday schedule resumes with 8:45-9:15 rehearsal.
Chancel Choir Sunday schedule resumes with 9:15 rehearsal.
10:00 Eucharist
Psalm:
1(?)
Offertory:
"O How Amiable" - R. Vaughan Williams (Chancel Choir)
Communion:
"If With All Your Hearts" from Elijah - Felix Mendelssohn
(Marc Semrow, tenor)
..�.:.&.��w.. u." - (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)
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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