Worship for November 22, 2020
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About the Music:
On this last Sunday of the liturgical year, we celebrate Christ the King with all of our music including the quintessential hymn for this occasion, number 494, "Crown Him With Many Crowns". The tune, was written by Sir George Elvey in 1868 particularly for this text and is named Diademata which is derived from the Greek word for crown.
Our anthem for Christ the King Sunday, "Ain'-a That Good News" is chosen to particularly complement the Gospel of the day. It was written by American composer and choir director William Dawson who was a long-time professor at the Tuskegee Institute and developed the Tuskegee Institute Choir into an internationally renowned ensemble. Dawson's arrangements of spirituals have become standards of contemporary choral literature
The voluntaries this Sunday, for horn and organ, were composed by Randall Faust (b. 1947), professor of music at Western Illinois University from 1997-2018. Early in his career, Randy also taught at Shenandoah for several years. The Prelude, "Meditation" (1983), was designed to function as a meditative prelude to the concluding voluntary, "Celebration". which was composed in 1974 for an Easter service in Winchester, VA. There are hints of the Easter Sunday chant "Victimae paschali laudes" in both pieces, which were chosen especially for this final Sunday of the liturgical year on which we celebrate Christ the King. Dr. Bradley Tatum returns to Trinity as our horn soloist.