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 22, 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:
This week we are fortunate to welcome Drew Young as our new Church Music Intern/Assistant Director as well as our soloist. Drew is a recent graduate of Rollins College in Winter Park, FL, and will begin his master’s degree in choral conducting at Shenandoah University this fall, studying with Dr. Matt Oltman.
Drew, a tenor, will sing the recitative “And God created man”, followed by the aria “In native worth and honor clad” from Franz Joseph Haydn’s famous oratorio “The Creation”. This oratorio was written between 1797 and 1798 and depicts the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis. This particular recitative and aria celebrates the creation of man, then woman. Haydn (1732-1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period who, for most of his career, was the most celebrated composer in Europe.
The organ voluntaries are unique works by Haydn and his Viennese friend, Mozart. The “Adagio for the Glass Harmonica” was originally written in 1791. This instrument, invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761, used a series of rotating glasses, graduated in size and played by the fingers, to produce musical tones. The “Adagio” was arranged for organ by English-born American concert organist E. Power Biggs in 1951.
During Communion and at the Postlude I will play several of Haydn’s pieces for a mechanical organ clock, a popular 18th century instrument that combined a mechanical clock with a small mechanical organ of flute pipes.These pieces were written in 1792 for a famous clock in Vienna, and E. Power Biggs arranged these examples for organ.