Music for October 28, 2018

Vocal Music

• Alleluia from Exultate Jubilate, K.165  – W. A. Mozart (1756-1791) Christine Marku, soprano
• Look at the World – John Rutter (b. 1945)

Instrumental Music

• Declare the Maker's Praise - Joseph D. Daniel / arr. Tammy Waldrop
• Arioso from Cantata 156 – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
• Sinfonia from Cantata 79: Wir Danken dir, Gott – J. S. Bach

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

• Hymn 410 - Praise, my soul, the King of heaven (LAUDA ANIMA)
• Hymn 302 - Father, we thank thee who hast planted (RENDEZ A DIEU)
• Hymn 671 - Amazing grace! how sweet the sound (NEW BRITAIN)
• Hymn 693 - Just as I am, without one plea (WOODWORTH)
• Hymn 535 - Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim (PADERBORN)
• Psalm 126 – Tone VIIIa

There's only one service this Sunday as we begin our 2018 Stewardship emphasis. Because of this, we pull out most of the stops for music this week!

We'll start out with an opening voluntary played by the Good Shepherd Handbell Guild. These 10 women meet each Wednesday morning during the school year. It's an interesting mix of ages, as the the youngest is 13 (we have three home-schooled youth). There are two sets of mother/daughters and one set of sisters. We have people with over 20 years of playing experience down to those playing for the first time.

The piece is an original composition by Joseph Daniel, a free-lance musician living in Michigan, with degrees in music from Baylor and the University of Michigan.

Then the Good Shepherd Choir will be joined by the Coventry Choir in John Rutter's beautiful anthem, Look at the World. Rutter is considered one of the leading living composers of sacred music. His anthem is perfect for our Stewardship emphasis as it enumerates the natural beauties that God created in the world and for which we give thanks.

Every good gift, all that we need and cherish,
Comes from the Lord in token of his love.
We are his hands, stewards of all his bounty,
His is the earth and his the heavens above.

Praise to thee, O Lord for all creation,
Give us thankful hearts that we may see
All the gifts we share, and every blessing,
All things come of thee

Mozart, age 18

Venanzio Rauzzini
engraved by Samuel Freeman 

Then at the offertory, Christine Irwin Marku will sing the soprano show-piece, Alleluia, from Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate.

Mozart was just 16 when he wrote this. The man (yes, man) for whom Mozart wrote it, Venanzio Rauzzini, was the Italian soprano castrato of choice for the musical chattering classes of Milan. The composer and performer had been flung together to produce Mozart’s early opera, Lucio Silla, in which Rauzzini starred. The singer would eventually, after a couple more adulatory years wowing them in Italy, move permanently to the unlikely destination of Bath, England, living largely off his reputation by teaching and mounting subscription concerts.