Music for July 10, 2022 + The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Vocal Music

• Walk In Peace – Lowell Prescott (21st Century)

Instrumental Music

• Prelude on “Evan” – Gordon Young (1919-1998)
• Prelude in C – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
• Prince of Denmark’s March – Jeremiah Clarke (c.1674-1707)

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

• Hymn 390 - Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (LOBE DEN HERREN)
• Hymn 609 - Where cross the crowded ways of life (GARDINER)
• Hymn R266 - Give thanks with a grateful heart (GIVE THANKS)
• Hymn 602 - Jesu, Jesu, fill us with thy love (CHEREPONI)
• Hymn 610 - Lord, whose love through humble service (BLAENHAFREN)
• Psalm x – Tone IIa

Walk in Peace

Christine and Matthew Donley are singing a duet on a text based on verses from John and Proverbs, Walk in Peace. Christine is the new choral director at Kingwood Park High School, after working for a number of years at Riverwood Middle School.

Walk in Peace is composed by Lowell Prescott, a composer living in Minneapolis, MN. Prescott has worked as an educator, church musician, and vocalist in addition to his work as a web developer and a video and audio editor.

Instrumental Music

I have been gone all week to the Biennial Convention of the American Guild of Organists, held this year in Seattle, Washington. Since there has been no time to practice, I will be playing pieces from my Wedding Playlist, music that I can play at the drop of a hat. 

First is a setting of a little known hymn tune connected to the prose setting of the 23rd Psalm, The Lord’s my shepherd; I’ll not want. Prelude on "Evan" was composed by the American composer Gordon Young.

Young was born in McPherson, Kansas and educated at Southwestern College (Winfield, Kansas) and the Curtis Institute (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) where he was a student of Alexander McCurdy. After serving churches in Philadelphia and Kansas (where he also worked as a radio organist and newspaper critic), Young became the music director (for fifteen years) at First Presbyterian Church in Detroit, where he was a visible and important presence in the American church music scene. He also taught organ on the faculty of Wayne State University. Young published voluminously, and his organ and choral works were in the catalogs of most major American publishers.

During communion you will hear the famous Prelude in C from Das wohltemperierte Klavier (The Well-Tempered Clavier, or Keyboard) by Johann Sebastian Bach. Many people recognize it as the accompaniment for Ave Maria by Charles Gounod.

Jeremiah Clarke was an English Baroque composer, who is best remembered for the popular keyboard piece commonly known as the "Trumpet Voluntary," although its proper title is the Prince of Denmark's March. This piece was thrust into the public consciosness by its use as the processional at the wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles.