Welcome to Sundays at Home
Good morning and welcome to Trinity! So glad you are tuning in virtually for today’s service. As we worship remotely, each week you’ll find Sundays at Home with Trinity Episcopal Church. We will be featuring the full service recording, as well as the sermon and anthem on their own.
If you would like to join us for an in-person service we have two options for Holy Eucharist. An 8am service in our sanctuary (without music) and then a full service at 9am in the Bishop’s Garden each Sunday. Simply bring a chair, mask, and a heart for worship.
Once again, thank you for tuning in and for being faithful with your time, talents, and treasures.
Grace and Peace!
Rev. Jonathan V. Adams
Worship for August 15, 2021
Please view the embedded video of our service below by clicking on the grey arrow in the middle of the image.
During the summer, our Trinity Kids series will be featuring previously recorded episodes.
About the Music:
Our guest musician this week is Dr. Marjory Serrano-Coyer, who will join me in playing several beautiful works for violin and organ. A member of this parish, Marjory was just recognized by Frederick Community College for her excellent teaching there. She is co-concertmaster of The Apollo Orchestra, has performed at Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Kennedy Center, and teaches violin and viola at FCC.
The Prelude will be “Adagio for Violin and Organ” by Andre Caplet (1878-1925), a French composer now known primarily for his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy. We will play an arrangement of one of Felix Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words”, Op. 19, No. 1 for the Offertory, arranged for violin and piano/organ by Craig Duncan. The “Songs Without Words” is a series of short lyrical piano pieces written by the early Romantic composer between 1829-1845. At Communion, Marjory will play the solo Fantasie No. 4 in D by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), a German Baroque composer and friend of Bach and Handel. He was simultaneously director of music at all five of the main city churches in Hamburg from 1721. Another French organist and composer, Louis-James-Alfred Lefebure-Wely (1817-1869), played a major role in the development of the French symphonic style of organ playing. He was a prolific composer and his music is melodic, approachable and popular. I will play his “March in C” for the Postlude.
The hymn “Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness” was written in German by Johann Frank (1618-1677), a significant poet in his day who wrote 110 hymns. It was translated into English by Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878), noted for her English translations of German hymns which were polished but remained true to the original. Winkworth was a pioneer in promoting women’s rights and especially encouraged higher education for women. A quick check in the Hymnal 1982 index reveals 10 examples of her work.