10:30am Choral Eucharist, Sunday, September 30th, 2018
ACNA Ancient Text, 19th Sunday after Pentecost
Sermon on: Exodus
Themes from the readings: “Tell old pharaoh, let my people go!”; Jesus tells the disciples that anyone not against them is for them and also to eliminate temptations to sin in their lives.
Prelude: “Echoing Psalm”, By: Denes Agay, Wesley DeZwaan, Organist (Student of Ashley Sosis)
“The God of Abraham Praise”, Setting By: Gerald Near
Processional Hymn: 401 The God of Abraham praise (Leoni)
Gloria: S280, Powell
First Reading: Exodus 7:1-13; 11:9-10
Second Reading: Romans 9:14-26
Gospel Hymn: 435 At the Name of Jesus (King’s Weston)
Gospel: Mark 9:38-48
Offertory Anthem: A Choral Hymn, Tune: “Montrose”, Arranged by: Henry G. Ley, Page 68 from the Easy Oxford Anthem Book
Choir: All hail the power of Jesus Name, let angels prostrate fall:
Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown Him Lord of all.
Crown Him, ye martyrs of our God, who from His altar call;
Praise Him whose way of pain ye trod, and crown Him Lord of all.
Ye seed of Israel’s chosen race, ye ransomed of the fall;
Hail Him who saves you by His grace, and crown Him Lord of all.
Hail Him, ye heirs of David’s line, whom David Lord did call;
The God incarnate Man Divine; and crown Him Lord of all.
Let every tribe and every tongue before Him prostrate fall;
And shout in universal song the crowned Lord of all.
Amen.
Doxology: Hymn 380, Stanza 3
Holy: S125, Proulx
Communion Anthem: Go Not Far From Me, O Lord, By: Nicola Zingarelli
Choir: Go not far from me, O God;
Cast me not away in the time of age,
Forsake me not when my strength faileth me.
O let my mouth be filled with Thy praise,
That I may sing Thy glory and honor all the day long.
-Psalm 71: 7-8, 10
Communion Meditation: “Meditation on Hymn to Joy”, By: Rebecca te Velde
Recessional Hymn: 376 Joyful, joyful, we adore thee (Hymn to Joy)
Postlude: “Recessional on Hymn to Joy”, By: Richard Warner
Music Notes, By: Ashley Sosis
This Sunday’s music includes choral anthems by Henry G. Ley, and Nicola Zingarelli, solo organ music by Denes Agay.
Henry G. Ley (1887-1962) was an English organist, composer and music teacher. He began as a chorister at St. George’s Chapel of Windsor Castle and went on to hold many organist and professor posts throughout his career, most notably as organist at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford and Professor of organ at the Royal College of Music in London. According to an interview with the magazine The Musical Times in 1922, while he was a teenage organist studying at the Uppingham School (a secondary boarding school of high musical standards), he was instructed to pause his organ studies for an entire year so that he may study chamber music (instrumental ensemble music) to improve his “rhythmic sense”.
Nicola Zingarelli (1752-1837) was one of the principal Italian composers of operas and religious music of his time. He studied at the conservatory at Loreto and earned his living in his youth as a violinist. His first opera was successfully produced in Naples in 1781. He was appointed music director of the Cathedral in Milan, and then from 1794 to 1804 he was the music director at Loreto, where he composed a large number of sacred works. In 1804, he was the music director at the Sistine Chapel in Rome, composing cantatas and sacred operas as was the vogue of the era. In 1811, for patriotic reasons, Zingarelli refused to conduct at Te Deum in honor of Napoleon II (Napoleon’s son), the “King of Rome.” He was arrested and taken to Paris, where Napoleon I, an admirer of his music, released him.
Denes Agay (1912-2007) is a familiar name to anyone who studied beginning piano. He is best known for his teaching collections, anthologies and text for piano study. Born and raised in Hungary, he went on to earn his doctorate in piano composition and performance at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 1934. Agay left Hungary and moved to New York in 1939 to become an American citizen. In 1942 he enlisted in the army, where he entertained patients in the hospital ward and eventually earned the rank of sergeant. After the war, Agay began teaching, composing, and publishing, in addition to working as the conductor and arranger of the “Savings Bond Orchestra” on the NBC radio show “Guest Star”, a star-studded production of the US Treasury Department.