Welcome to Sundays at Home
Good morning and welcome to Trinity! So glad you are tuning in virtually for today’s service. Each week you’ll find Sundays at Home with Trinity Episcopal Church. We feature the full service recording, as well as the sermon and anthem on their own.
In-person services are held at Trinity Church each Sunday at 8:00am & 10:30am and at 12:00noon each Wednesday.
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 January 16, 2022
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Music Notes
This week is the second in our current liturgical season of Epiphany. The service begins with a prelude from the pen of an underrepresented African-American composer, Florence Price. Ms. Price (1887-1953) was the first African-American composer to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. Her output numbers over 300 compositions.She majored in piano and organ at the New England Conservatory of Music and lived in Chicago for the remainder of her life. Her organ work, “Adoration”, has a devotional quality with a dignified melody accompanied by somber chords.
Theodore Dubois (1837-1924) studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he later became the director, and was organist at the Church of La Madeleine. One of the approximately 100 pieces he wrote for organ, the “Toccata in G” is a bustling allegro movement with a slower middle section that is followed by a repeat of the beginning.
The Offertory, “Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life” is from the Five Mystical Songs by noted English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. This mystical verse by the famous Welsh poet George Herbert (1593-1633) expands on John 14:6 (I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life) by incorporating additional metaphors for Christ such as Light, Feast, and Strength (verse two) and Joy, Love, and Heart (verse three). The three-fold structure of the first verse is repeated in the other two, making a trinity in each verse and there are three verses, making a trinity of trinities. Our bass section leader, Noah Wagar, is the soloist for this lovely work, known as “The Call”.
During Communion, the choir will sing an arrangement of the traditional spiritual “Let Us Break Bread Together” by Arlen Clarke (b. 1954). A conductor, composer, and singer, Clarke was born in upstate New York and directed the choirs at Belhaven College in Jackson, MS. He also served as composer-in-residence during the 1989-1990 season at Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Kansas City, MO