Music for April 14, 2019 + Palm Sunday

Vocal Music

• Hosanna to the Son of David – David Halls (b. 1963)
• Surely He Bore Our Grief – Michel Guimont (b. 1950)

Instrumental Music

• My Song Is Love Unknown – Karl Osterland (b. 1956)

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

• Hymn R267 - The King of Glory (PROMISED ONE)
• Hymn 154 - All glory, laud, and honor (VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN)
• Hymn 435 - At the name of Jesus (KING’S WESTON)
• Hymn R235 - O sacred head, now wounded (HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN)
• Hymn R214 - Your only Son, no sin to hide (LAMB OF GOD)
• Hymn R233 - Glory be to Jesus (WEM IN LEIDENSTAGEN)
• Hymn R227 - Jesus, remember me (Jacques Berthier)
• Hymn 474 - When I survey the wondrous cross (ROCKINGHAM)

David Halls

The Children of the Coventry Choir join the Good Shepherd Choir to begin our service with the Liturgy of the Palms. This service will begin outside the church (weather permitting) and will include the distribution of the palm crosses. Both choirs will sing Hosanna to the Son of David by David Halls, the Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral in Great Britain. 

Michel Guimont

During the service, the Good Shepherd Choir will sing a contemporary setting of the Isaiah 53 text "He was despised and rejected" by the Canadian Composer Michel Guimont. Educated at Concordia University, University of Montreal, and Westminster Choir College, Guimont has been director of music at Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica in Ottawa since 1991 and director of music of the University of Ottawa Choir since 2010.

The only organ piece this week is a contemplative setting of the hymn My Song is Love Unknown (hymn 458) by the American organist Karl Osterland, director of music at Historic Trinity Lutheran Church in Detroit. He has his BA and MM in Organ Performance from the University of Michigan, studying with Robert Clark and Marilyn Mason.  He also studied composition with William Bolcom there.