Sunday, August 4th, 2013

The St. Augustine Choir continues their Summer recess this Sunday.

This is Ashley Sosis's first Sunday at Trinity Church.

Organ Prelude: Fuga in C Major, BuxWV 174, by: Dietrich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707)

Processional Hymn: At the Name of Jesus 435

Gospel Hymn O Love, How Deep, How Broad 448

Organ Offertory: Elevation from Messe Pour Les Convents by: François Couperin (1668-1733)

Organ Communion Meditation 1: Variations on “St. Columba” Arranged by: Don Freudenburg (b. 1939)

Organ Communion Meditation 2: Wedlock (God is My Strong Salvation) Arranged by: Wilbur Held

Communion Hymn: What Wondrous Love is This 438

Recessional Hymn: All Hail the Power of Jesus Name 450

Organ Postlude: Paean, by: John Marsh (b. 1939)

Music Notes

by: Ashley Sosis

The organ pieces heard in today’s service were chosen to communicate the joy I feel on this first Sunday of my service to Trinity as Music Director. Dietrich Buxtehude was recognized during his lifetime as one of the most influential musicians in northern Europe. It is said that Johann Sebastian Bach walked 200 miles from Arnstadt to Lübeck to hear one of Buxtehude’s brilliant organ performances. The challenge of his “little fugue” is to keep the touch light as the fingers dance through every phrase. François Couperin, known as “The Great” to distinguish him from the other famous Couperins, was organist at St. Gervais, Paris. Although most of his music is for harpsichord and other instruments, his first published music was for organ in the form of two masses. The movement, “Elevation” (el-ah-vah-shion) comes from the second of the two and was written to be played at the moment the bread and wine are lifted by the celebrant during the Eucharistic Prayer. “St. Columba” is most famously associated with the hymn text, “The King of Love My Shepherd Is.” “Wedlock” is a different but similar tune from “What Wondrous Love is This”. “Wedlock” first appeared in the 1844 Sacred Harp Hymnal with the hymn text, “God is My Strong Salvation”, six years after the first printing of “What Wondrous Love is This” in Southern Harmony. John Marsh, a contemporary composer, wrote Paean to sound like (as the title suggests) a song of praise, joy or triumph.