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Music Notes for May 20

May 15, 2012 By TrinityNetAdmin

On Sunday, May 20 (Cleveland Marathon Sunday), the 8 a.m. service will take place as usual in the Chapel. The 9 a.m. service will be celebrated near the Euclid Ave. doors, and we’ll have music and a big “presence” on the front steps and on Euclid Avenue as we encourage the runners coming by the Cathedral!

At 11:15, the Cathedral Choir sings “Ascendit Deus” by Peter Phillips (for the Sunday after Ascension Day) and the stirring “Song of Wisdom” by Stanford.

And mark your calendars for:

Wednesday, May 23 12:10 p.m.
Brownbag Concert
The final Brownbag Concert of the season will be an especially festive one! Horst Buchholz returns to conduct the Trinity Chamber Orchestra in organ concertos by Franz Joseph Haydn and the contemporary American composer Stephen Paulus, with Todd Wilson and Elizabeth Lenti as organists. This promises to be an especially exciting concert – invite friends and plan to be here!

Wednesday, May 23 6 p.m.
Choral Evensong commemorating Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler
The Cathedral Choir sings the great “Collegium Regale” Evening Service by Herbert Howells, and the Very Rev. Tracey Lind is homilist. Choral Evensong is a special highlight in the weekly round of worship here at Trinity. Join us for this last evensong of the spring season, followed by a delicious community supper!

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Music Notes for Sunday, July 10, 2011

July 7, 2011 By TrinityNetAdmin

At the 10 a.m. service, we will have two musical treats. Lorna and Bertram Hartling (daughter and son-in-law of Trinity member Dolores Wilson) will play viola and violin music by Bach and Schubert. The Hartlings are visiting from Germany and their playing this Sunday is in memory of Lorna’s father, B. Lemarr Wilson. Prelude music will begin at 9:50.

We also have the special pleasure of hosting the 1962 Yale Whiffenpoofs. The group is gathering in Cleveland this weekend as guests of Bonnie Humphrey and Charles Michener. The Whiffenpoofs have been a Yale choral tradition for more than 100 years. The 1962 vintage has remained especially close, and it’s a treat to have them singing this Sunday!

The Cathedral Choir is taking a well-earned hiatus during July and August. During this time we will have hearty congregational singing, occasional vocal or instrumental soloists and one Summer Choir Sunday each month (July 24 and Aug. 21). Singers of all ages and abilities are welcome to sing in the pick-up choir. Meet in the choir room at 9:15 a.m. to rehearse for the 10 a.m. service.

Todd Wilson

Director of Music & Worship

 

 

 

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Music this Week

June 26, 2011 By TrinityNetAdmin

Music Notes for Sunday, June 26, 2011

Today is the last Sunday before we move to our summer schedule, and also marks the Cathedral Choir’ final Sunday of the regular season. Our opening and closing hymns incorporate texts (and, for the opening hymn, a tune) written by Americans in the late 20th century. Brian Wren’s poem “Bring many names” is a wonderful visual depiction of God’s many aspects, set to a tune written especially for this text.

At the offertory, the choir will sing my arrangement of a tune written by Eric Routley to honor Jim Litton, the long-time musician at Trinity Church in Princeton, and later conductor of the American Boy Choir. The communion anthem is one of several subline motets by Anton Bruckner. Though best known for his symphonies, Bruckner was organist at St. Florian’s Abbey in Linz, Austria, and wrote superb choral music.

It is a pleasure to welcome tow instrumentalists today – trumpeter David Duro, and my daughter, Rachel Wilson, playing cello.

We offer affectionate and grateful thanks to organist Tim Robson, who finishes his “official” stint on the organ bench today. Tim has been an enormous help as an ideal musician and colleague, making our Sunday organ-playing seamless over the last few months, and we look forward to his continuing as part of the Trinity community.

Tim is giving us a special and unusual postlude today, typical of his broad-ranging musical tastes! He offers the following program note: The composer, Phillip Glass (b. 1937) is a prolific and influential American who writes in a style usually known as minimalism. Minimalism dispenses with traditional melody and harmony, and  features figures repeated over long periods with subtle rhythmic and harmonic changes as the work progresses. The listener is encouraged to let the mass of sound “wash over” and be struck by the remarkable harmonic changes that occur. “Dance No. 4″ is one of Glass’s few works for solo organ. It was originally written to be choreographed by Lucinda Childs.

Finally, I want to that the Choir for their dedication in giving their time and talent to the betterment of our worship for ten months of the year. It’s likely that no group devotes more time and energy on a weekly basis. We bid a fond and grateful farewell to soprano Audrey Kohler (off to grad school in Chicago) and to alto Justin Bland (off to grad school in Las Vegas).

I hope that many of you will join us for Summer Choir Sundays (for singers of all ages and abilities) on July 24 and August 21 (meet in the choir room at 9:15).

 

Todd Wilson

Director of Music & Worship

 

 

 

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Music for the Week of May 15

May 20, 2011 By TrinityNetAdmin

The Kenny Davis Jazz Quartet Wednesday, May 18 at 12:10 p.m.

The Kenny Davis Jazz Quartet will perform at our Brownbag Concert on Wednesday, May 18 at 12:10 p.m. Trumpeter Kenny Davis is one of the jazz icons of the Cleveland area, and has performed all over the nation. Join us for what is sure to be a terrific program!

 

Evensong  Wednesday, May 18 at 6:00 p.m.

We welcome the choirs of Christ Church, Hudson (Nicole Keller, director) and Christ Church, Shaker Heights (Justin Miller, director) as they combine to sing Evensong on May 18 at 6 p.m. Canticles will be by Stanford in B-flat, and the anthem is Faure’s lovely Cantique de Jean Racine. The Rev. Peter Faass, Rector of Christ Church, Shaker Heights, will be the homilist.

Music Notes for Sunday, May 1, 2011

On this, our Sunday observance of Earth Day, the offertory anthem by contemporary American composer Donald McCullough sets a strong and thought-provoking text by Rabbi Chaim Stern.

During communion the choir will sing a beautiful hymn entitled “The Blue Green Hills of Earth” which is an excerpt of Paul Winter’s Missa Gaia (Earth Mass), commissioned in 1981 by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. These words were based on a description by astronaut Rusty Schwiegart – the first person to walk in space without an “umbilical cord.”

The opening hymn is an exuberant Easter text by American hymn-writer Brian Wren. The gradual and closing hymns set earth-centered texts also from contemporary pens – the gradual hymn text being by Fred Pratt Green, and the final hymn is a poem written in 2008 by Edith Sinclair Downing.

We welcome saxophonist Dr.john Perrine (a regular member of the 9:00 Gateway Band). John is Associate Professor of Music and coordinator of jazz studies at Cleveland State University, and it is a special pleasure to have him with us at 11:15 today.

Organist Tim Robson gives us some French fireworks with the Carillon-Sortie by Henri Mulet as the postlude.

Todd Wilson

Director of Music & Worship

 

 

 

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