Worship From Home
As we worship remotely during this time of social distancing, each week you’ll find Sundays at Home from Bishop Martin G. Townsend and members of Trinity Church. We will feature the full service recording, as well as the sermon and anthem on their own. You can also download PDFs of the Readings and Gospel, as well as the full sermon on our website.
This week we thank Sheryl Mazzatenta for reading the lesson and the psalm. And we thank Colton Haney for offering the prayers. As always we are grateful Christian Myers and our choristers for having recorded the anthem.
WORSHIP FOR MAY 24, 2020
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On this Sunday after the Day of Ascension, we sing Alice Parker's arrangement of "Come Away to the Skies" which uses the tune Exultation from Southern Harmony and the hymn text by Charles Wesley. In this recording we have used singer positions and camera angle to follow the sweep of the organ pipes up to the vaulted ceiling in an attempt to recall the Ascension of Jesus into heaven, forty days after his Resurrection.
Alice Parker is a world renowned composer, arranger, conductor, and pedagogue, who rose to prominence as the principal arranger for the Robert Shaw Chorale from 1948-65. The voluminous body of Parker-Shaw choral arrangements of American hymns and folk songs is a staple of choirs throughout the world. At age 95 she is still an active musician who has continued to compose and serve as a clinician, including a visit to Upperville about fifteen years ago when she led a community hymn-sing in the church and worked with the Trinity Choir in rehearsal and for a Sunday service.