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.
Starting this week, we welcome you back to full, in-person worship services with us at Trinity. We have two options for Holy Eucharist. An 8am service (Rite I) and a larger service at 10:30am (Rite II) each Sunday.
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 September 19, 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 the choir sings a choral arrangement of a text originally written by Anglican priest Percy Deamer in 1931. Dearmer published a wide range of books and edited several hymnals in which he collaborated with Ralph Vaughan Williams, and is noted for his original hymns as well as those he translated from other languages into English.
This arrangement is by American organist, choirmaster, teacher, and composer Harold Friedell, who composed it in 1949. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Friedell served as organist and choirmaster at several New York City churches, including Calvary Episcopal Church and St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, and taught at the Union Theological Seminary School of Sacred Music. His melody for this anthem was adapted as a hymn tune known as “Union Seminary”, which appears with this text in a number of modern hymnals.
Dr. Charles Callahan (b. 1951) wrote a beautiful organ setting of this hymn tune, which serves as the opening voluntary. Callahan is a well-known American composer, organist, choral conductor, and teacher. He is also noted for two volumes on American organ building history, The American Classic Organ and Aeolian-Skinner Remembered. Trinity’s organ is an Aeolian-Skinner instrument, built in the late 1950’s in the American Classic style. This style of organ building blends different stops from all eras of organ building into one instrument that can effectively play music of all styles and eras with equal facility, Aeolian-Skinner was the leading builder of this style of instrument.
William Selby, born in England in 1738, emigrated to America before the Revolution. In addition to being a harpsichordist and church organist, he was also a merchant, teacher, and composer. He was organist at Trinity Church in Newport, RI, and at King’s Chapel, Boston. His “Fugue in D” serves as the closing voluntary this week.