Trinity Episcopal Plans "The Music of Holy Week" on Sunday, April 9
The program begins at 4:00pm
March 28, 2017
By: O. J. Cunningham
Trinity Episcopal Church in Bay City
Trinity Episcopal Church in Bay City announces its plans for "The Music of Holy
Week" on Sunday, April 9, 2017, at 4:00 p.m. The program will feature hymns,
collects, organ music and anthems for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good
Friday.
Participants include Exultate Deo Chamber Choir, Robert Sabourin, Director; Steven Egler, Organist; and Jett Whitehead, lector.
Choral music will include "O Bone JesuV by Marc' Antonio Ingegneri (c.1535-1592); "Hosanna to the Song of David" by Arthur Hutchings (1906-1989);
"Jesu, Grant Me This I Pray" by C. H. Kitson (1874-1944); "Nole Mortem
PeccatorisV by Thomas Morley (1557/8-1602); "Panis Angelicus" by Giovani P. daPalestrina (1525-1594); "If Ye Love Me" by Peter Aston (1938-2013), "Ubi
Caritas" by Maurice Durufle (1902-1986); "God so Loved the World" by John
Stainer (1840-1901); "That Virgin's Child" by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585); and
"There is a Green Hill Far Away" by Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995).
Organ music will include "Benedictus" by Max Reger (1873-1916); VUbi Caritas" by Gerald Near (b. 1942); "Choral Dorien" by Jehan Alain (1911-1940); and "Stabat Mater" by Alan Viner (b. 1951).
Hymns that will be sung by the choir and congregation include "At the Name of
Jesus" by Ralph Vaughan William (1872-1958); "Cross of Jesus" by John Stainer;
"God is Love" by Richard Proulx (1937-2010); and "Stabat Mater" (Melody from the Maintzisch Gesangbuch 1661).
The service is open to the public free of charge. Trinity Episcopal Church is
located at 815 North Grant Street on the corner of Center Avenue and Grant in
downtown Bay City. Barrier free access is from the church parking lot on 5th Street. Friends of music will host a reception in the Guild Room following the service. For more information, please call 989-892-5813.
Members of Exultate Deo include the following:
Soprano Alto
Tara Aukerman, Midland Patti Bowen, Midland
Allison Dakos, Saginaw Mary K. Freel, Bay City
Valerie Fargo, Midland Sue Gamble, Mt. Pleasant
Sarah Giekas, Bay City Jennifer Jarvis, Bay City
Diane Gladstone, Saginaw Peggy Knutson, Saginaw
Sarah Haskett, Midland Tiffany Wika, Saginaw
Deanna Patton, Saginaw Emily Wollner, Lansing
Robin Von Wold, Midland Jan Wollner, Midland