Concert andEvensong

Established in 1822, Christ Church Cathedral is the oldest house of

worship in Louisville. The Cathedral has and continues to uphold the highest standard for music and worship. While the great traditions of the church are at risk of being lost in our culture, the Cathedral desires to maintain our heritage of Anglican music and historical liturgies while always looking forward and being relevant in our world today. With this in mind, our worship reflects the contemplative nature of evening worship through Evensong to the joyous celebrations of the nativity and resurrection. If you would like to know more about the Cathedral, please talk with one of the clergy as you leave tonight or visit our website at www.christchurchlouky.org. If you would like to become a supporter of Cathedral Arts, please make your check payable to Christ Church Cathedral with Cathedral Arts in the memo line and place it in the offering plate. Envelopes are available at the entrances if you would prefer to mail your contribution.

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Concert

And all the bells rang out the good news Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)

Playing Through the Seasons Selections from various seasons of the liturgical year

Canon Dr. Robert L. Bozeman, organ

Christmas

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern BuxWV 223 Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)

Prière avant la Communion Olivier Messiaen From Livre du Saint Sacrement (1908-1992)

Out of the Depths I Cry to Thee, O Lord Robert J. Powell (b. 1932)

O Lamm Gottes, Unschuldig Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

K Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

Fugue in Eb, BWV 552,2 Johann Sebastian Bach (1637-1707)

Epiphany

Lent/Passion

Trinity

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As organists, we spend much of our lives and careers playing music for specific liturgical seasons and events. I’ve titled today’s concert “Playing Through the Seasons: Selections from various seasons of the liturgical year,” and chosen five pieces representing three seasons and one feast day in the church calendar.Daniel Pinkham was Music Director Emeritus of historic King’s Chapel in Boston where he served from 1958-2000. He was a prolific composer of multiple genres and contributed significantly to the organ repertoire. “And all the bells rang out the good news” is the final movement from Versets for small organ. This seven movement collection uses various experimental compositional techniques including using weights on keys to hold a chord while the organist plays on a different manual. “And all the bell...” uses a pedal tone, here actually in the pedal and on low C, with an active melody in the right hand, supported by a repeated eighth note carillon in the left hand.

Buxtehude was organist at Marienkirche, Lübeck, succeeding Franz Tunder and marrying Tunder’s daughter, which was a common practice of the time when succeeding a gentlemen in business. Bach walked 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lübeck to see Buxtehude, overstaying his leave and receiving severe reprimand. Buxtehude influenced not only Bach but also Handel, Mattheson and Telemann. His chorale fantasia on “How brightly shines the morning star” is a sectional piece which treats the melody in a variety of ways. We first hear the melody in the bass with moving eighth notes above in 6/8 meter. A similar treatment to the second phrase occurs next, but with the chorale in the soprano. A brief

stylus phantasticus section interrupts the 6/8 figuration before returning to another statement of the chorale. The work concludes with a gigue, echoing on various manuals and coming to a close bringing in the pedal for the first time on the last few bars. The text of this chorale is a common hymn for Epiphany, the season celebrating the star leading the Wise Men to Jesus. In our modern lectionary, we quickly move to the Baptism of Jesus, to his first miracle at the Wedding in Cana and conclude the season with the Transfiguration.

Olivier Messiaen remains one of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century. He was deeply devoted to his faith and spent his career as organist at L’Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris. He developed his own scales for composition which he called “modes of limited transposition.” These modes were used both melodically and harmonically as the basis for his music. Additionally, he was fascinated with Greek and Hindu rhythms and bird song, being an avid ornithologist. Messiaen also had synesthesia, the ability to see colors related to particular sounds, which influenced his choices in mode, registration and overall compositional style. Livre du Saint Sacrement, was Messiaen’s last composition and the longest work for a solo instrument ever written. As with most of Messiaen’s pieces, there is a subtitle based from scripture. For “Prière avant la Communion,” the fourteenth movement from this collection, the scripture comes from Matthews 8:8 “Lord, I am not worthy...but speak the word only...”.

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Two chants are used in this selection, the first the Alleluia from the Feast of the Dedication of a Church and the Gradual of Epiphany.

Three short pieces for Lent follow, each with a unique compositional style. Powell’s setting of Psalm 130 is from his second book of Psalm preludes. No statement of a melody or cantus firmus is made. Rather, Powell expresses the first line of the Psalm “Out of the depths” through his choice of key, Phrygian on D, texture and rhythm. O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig is one of seven passion chorales found in the Orgelbüchlein, or Little Organ Book, by Bach. The motivic material for the chorale is a two-note slur, perhaps to represent sighing, in the soprano and bass with a strict canon in longer notes between the alto and tenor voices. The use of canon is significant and perhaps related to the sacrifice (the Lamb being led to the slaughter) or obedience (the Son following the will of the Father). Estonian composer Arvo Pärt was commissioned to write Annum per Annum, or Year by Year to celebrate the 900th year in which daily masses were given at the Speier Cathedral, Germany. The work was dedicated to St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, with the five movements based on the ordinary of the mass: K-G-C-S-A: Kyrie-Gloria-Credo-Sanctus-Agnus Dei. While reaching back nearly a century, Pärt also incorporates the technique of minimalism, which in music is the use and/or repetition of a single idea,

motive, note(s), or rhythmic pattern. The translation of Kyrie is: Lord, have mercy.

The great Fugue in Eb, the final piece from Bach’s Clavierübung III, has many significant numerological elements which lend it to be played for the feast of the Trinity. The fugue is in three sections, representing the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and all references to three, including triple meter, and the key of Eb (three flats) support the Trinitarian theme. Additionally, the initial fugue is reminiscent of the hymn tune “O God our help in ages past,” though it is questionable whether Bach would have even known this hymn tune.

Following the opening five-part fugue in common time, the middle section in 6/4 meter recalls several of the manualiter pieces from earlier in the same collection, with a motive of constant moving eighth notes, with the St. Anne melody appearing in the second statement of the theme. The final section introduces a new fugue subject in triple meter, again referencing the Trinity. In the last ten measures, the St. Anne subject returns, this time in the pedal, with the other two subjects from the second and third sections uniting for a dramatic and resolute conclusion. The final verse of the hymn “O God our help” reminds us that as we begin each year anew, we in some way return to our own beginning: “Time like an every flowing stream, bears all our years away; they fly, forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day.”

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is Cathedral Musician at Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, KY and Artistic Director of Cathedral Arts. Canon Bozeman earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree (DMA) in organ performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where he was a teaching assistant, studying organ with Roberta Gary and harpsichord with Vivian Montgomery. His research topic “Gesture, Movement, and the Keyboard Performer” received a grant from the University of Cincinnati Graduate Research Council, funding research of the project and the subsequent video related to the project. Dr. Bozeman is the creator of “Better Movement: Better Music” and works with singers, instrumentalists, and other professionals in the area of somatic education (learning through the body), assisting his students to move in ways that make their goals achievable, with ease. He is currently an Andover Educator trainee, studying to teach the course “What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body,” created by Barbara Conable.

Other grants for his work have been

funded by the Tangeman Sacred Music Center (Cincinnati) and the Christ Church Cathedral (Indianapolis) Episcopal Church Women. He has also presented lectures on topics of worship in the 21st century to the School of Theology at Sewanee, and to several chapters of the American Guild of Organists.

He directed and produced “An American Evening,” a CD recording of music by American composers featuring the Cathedral Choir and the Gober Chancel organ at Christ Church Cathedral. In 2004, he was organist on “I hear that music ringing,” a CD recording by the Chancel Choir of First Presbyterian Church, Kirkwood, Missouri.

He received the Master of Music degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Conservatory of Music, studying with John Ditto, and the Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Oklahoma. He is a regular recitalist on organ, harpsichord and piano as well as a conductor. For videos from and more information about “Gesture, Movement, and the Keyboard Performer” visit www.robertbozeman.com.

Canon Dr. Robert L. Bozeman

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Evensong

O Lord, open thou our lips: And our mouth shall show forth thy praise.O God, make speed to save us: O Lord, make haste help us.Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.Praise ye the Lord. The Lord’s Name be praised.

Preces • sung by the choir Malcolm Archer

Opening Sentence

Procession

Invitatory and Psalter

Phos Hilaron • Hymn 25 O gracious Light • sung by all • verse 3 will be sung in a four-part canon, one measure apart as follows: soprano, alto, tenor, bass.

Introit Stephen ChatmanWhen the sun sets West,Feathered shift of sky,Satin clouds undressHeaven’s kiss bids the flat light goodbye.Endless calm, red mist,Glist’ning golden beams,Gently they are kissed,By night’s dark melting blaze of dreams.When the sun sets West.

• all be seated

Psalm 34:1-10 • sung by the choir J. Marcus Ritchie Book of Common Prayer page 627

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Magnificat in C Charles V. Stanford Book of Common Prayer page 119

First Lesson 2 Timothy 2:14-21

• silence is kept after each reading for reflection

Remind them of this, and warn them before God that they are to avoid wrangling over words, which does no good but only ruins those who are listening. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved by him, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly explaining the word of truth. Avoid profane chatter, for it will lead people into more and more impiety, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth by claiming that the resurrection has already taken place.

Second Lesson Mark 10:13-22People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.’ And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them. As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus said to

him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: “You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You shall not defraud; Honour your father and mother.” ’ He said to him, ‘Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth.’ Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, ‘You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’ When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.

They are upsetting the faith of some. But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this inscription: ‘The Lord knows those who are his’, and, ‘Let everyone who calls on the name of the Lord turn away from wickedness.’ In a large house there are utensils not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for special use, some for ordinary. All who cleanse themselves of the things I have mentioned will become special utensils, dedicated and useful to the owner of the house, ready for every good work.

The Lessons

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The Apostles’ Creed

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I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

The Responses Malcolm Archer

The Lord be with you.And with thy spirit. Let us pray. • all kneelLord have mercy upon us,Christ have mercy upon us,Lord have mercy upon us.

The Prayers

Nunc dimittis in C Charles V. Stanford Book of Common Prayer page 120

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The Lord’s Prayer • chanted by all

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Suffrages Malcolm Archer

O Lord, show thy mercy upon us: and grant us thy salvation.O Lord, save the State: and mercifully hear us when we call upon thee.Endue thy ministers with righteousness: and make thy chosen people joyful.O Lord, save thy people: and bless thine inheritance.Give peace in our time, O Lord: Because there is none other that fi ghteth for us, but only thou, O God.O God make clean our hearts within us: and take not thy Holy Spirit from us.

Collects

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• all be seated• an offering will be taken during the following anthem

A Prayer of Thanksgiving • said by all

Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love.We thank you for the blessing of family and friends, and for the loving care which surrounds us on every side.We thank you for setting us at tasks which demand our best efforts, and for leading us to accomplishments which satisfy and delight us.We thank you also for those disappointments and failures that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on you alone.Above all, we thank you for your Son Jesus Christ; for the truth of his Word and the example of his life; for his steadfast obedience, by which he overcame temptation; for his dying, through which he overcame death; and for his rising to life again, in which we are raised to the life of your kingdom.Grant us the gift of your Spirit, that we may know him and make him known; and through him, at all times and in all places, may give thanks to you in all things. Amen.

• all stand

Anthem View Me, Lord Richard H. Lloyd

View me, Lord a work of thine: Shall I then lie drown’d in night?Might thy grace in me but shine, I should seem made all of light.Cleanse me, Lord, that I may kneel At thine altar, pure and white;They that once they mercies feel, Gaze no more on earth’s delight.Wordly joys, like shadows, fade When the heav’nly light appears;But the cov’nants thou hast made, Endless, know nor days, nor years.In thy word, Lord, is my trust, To thy mercies fast I fly;Though I am but clay and dust, Yet they grace can lift me high.

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Procession

The Grace

Concluding Hymn 31 Most Holy God • Vs. 1-2 all, Vs 3 women, Vs 4 Men, Vs 5 all

Dismissal • sung by the choir

The Very Rev. Joan Pritcher, officiantThe Cathedral Choir

Canon Dr. Robert L. Bozeman, cathedral musicianBruce Neswick, assisting organist

Please join us in the narthex following Evensong for refreshments, fellowship, and to greet our guest artist.

Prayers

The Lord be with youAnd with thy spiritThe Lord give us his peaceAnd life eternal, Amen.

CAathedralrtsPatrons2013 - 2014

AnonymousRobert M and Angie V HallidayThe Rev Richard H and Joan Reed HumkeKirt Jacobs and Cynthia FanningSylvia Watson Jaegers

BenefactorAnonymous • In Memory of Sam Batt OwensJanet L Margerum

CorporateLee CochranThe Rev Whit Stodghill and Michael B Foster MD

Sponsor

PatronFaith J AeiltsDr Robert L BozemanJerry D and Carol S BrownRobert L BurnsMary Z CeridanDr. Elizabeth P CurryDavid W and McCall EngW Vance and Roberta K FrittonStratton O Hammon IIThomas Hunter and Gerald L Tschiegg

FriendJames R and Rebecca B CollingsKent W Echler and William O Shelton William P and Mitzi FriedlanderJane G HallidayChristopher B HartAnna Minter HartmanJohn L and Linda R Kiesel

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Christ Church Cathedral

The Rt. Rev. Terry Allen White, BishopThe Very Rev. Joan Pritcher, Dean in the InterimThe Rev. Dr. Eva Markham, DeaconThe Rev. Gary England, DeaconCanon Dr. Robert L. Bozeman, Cathedral MusicianZachary Cavan, Parish Administrator & SextonThomas Thill, Sacristan

421 South Second Street, Louisville, KY 40202502-587-1354www.christchurchlouky.org

Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky

Next Month’s Evensong • March 9Kyle Black, organ, Indiana University

Playing music of Clarence Mader & J. S. Bach Service music: Richard Ayleward, John Stainer

Canticles: R. Vaughan Williams in C

An American EveningThe Cathedral Choir’s latest CD recording, is now available online

and as a MP3 download.Visit the music page on the Cathedral’s website

to purchase it and see other videos and recordings.

Shrove Tuesday Benefi t Dinner and ConcertPurchase tickets now! — Hosted by the Cathedral Choir.

This year we are offering:Gumbo YaYa! Vegan/Gluten Free and Alternative Available

Music Provided by:The Cathedral Choir & Screaming Soloists

The Cathedral StringersThe Virtuoso Canon Dr. Bozeman, Not-in-charge

Ticket donations suggested to be $10 a person/$25 per familyPurchase directly from any choir member or purchase online via the

Cathedral’s website.