SUNDAY WORSHIP FOR AUGUST 23, 2020
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About the Music:
This Sunday's Prelude is Antiphon III: "I am black but comely, O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem", Op. 18, No. 3 by Marcel Dupre (1886-1971). Another improvisation made during the Vesper service for the Feast of the Assumption at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on August 15, 1919, this piece spins out long phrases for a Solo flute on the Great, accompanied by an undulating left hand accompaniment on the Swell. The music illustrates the text from the Song of Solomon 1:5.
Hymn 525, "The Church's one Foundation" was written by Samuel Stone in 1866 and is sung to the tune Aurelia composed by Samuel Sebastian Wesley, grandson of Charles Wesley. Originally sung with the words "Jerusalem the Golden", Aurelia is a Latin name meaning golden.
The anthem, "You are the Christ" was composed by Richard Wayne Dirksen on a text based on the words of Peter in this Sunday's appointed Gospel. Dirksen was the long serving Precentor, Organist, and Choirmaster at the Washington National Cathedral and the tune, Wyngate Canon, is named for the street in Bethesda where his son and family live. It is sung by our tenor section leader, Julian Baldwin, and accompanied by handbell ringer extraordinaire, Jolly deGive.
The Postlude is the "Fanfare in D Major" by Jacques-Nicholas Lemmens (1823-1881), a Belgian organist and composer of the 19th century who was widely acknowledged to be the best organist of his time. He was an influential teacher and was instrumental in bringing the organ works of Bach to France and Belgium.