Music for April 8, 2018 + The Second Sunday of Easter

Vocal Music

• Rise Up, My Heart with Gladness -  J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

Instrumental Music

• Divine Praise  - Dimitri Bortniansky (1751-1825)
• Prelude on “Bread of Life” Gordon Young (1919-1998)
• Postlude in D  - A. Louis Scarmolin (1890-1969)

Congregational Music (all hymns from the Hymnal 1982 with the exception of those marked “R” which are from Renew.)

• Hymn 205 - Good Christians all, rejoice and sing (GELOBT SEI GOTT)
• Hymn 417 - This is the feast of victory (FESTIVAL CANTICLE))
• Hymn 206 - Alleluia! O sons and daughters, let us sing (O FILII ET FILIAE)
• Hymn 188 - Love’s redeeming work is done (SAVANNAH)
• Hymn 490 - I want to walk as a child of the light (HOUSTON)
• Hymn - In the bulb there is a flower (HYMN OF PROMISE)
• Hymn 178  - Alleluia, alleluia! Give thanks (ALLELUIA NO. 1)

I am away this Sunday, and in my absence, I want to welcome Jill Kirkonis to the organ and  Harrison Boyd as soloist for this Sunday's music. Harrison has been our bass choral intern this past year. He is a junior at New Caney High School, and a very talented musician. He also happens to be the grandson of Lynn and Mike Boyd.

Harrison will be singing Bach's harmonization of the Lutheran Easter Chorale, AUF, AUF, MEIN HERZ, with a translation of the German text by my former professor, the late Lloyd Pfautsch. It's a lilting tune that expresses well the joy of the resurrection.