Tuesday, September 30, 2014

This Week at Old South Haven Presbyterian Church


Prayer List:
Betty Gardner: Brookhaven Hospital
Ann Wiswall: Brookhaven Hospital
Ursula Altomore (wife of Philip): Good Samaritan Hospital
"Eternal God, make known your presence in time of need."

Thursday, Oct.2 6:00pm "Share the Harvest"
Long Island Council of Churches
Fund raiser dinner: $135 per person
Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury
Saturday, Oct. 4 9:00am Vendors Sale/Food Sale

Sunday, Oct. 5 10:00am WORLD COMMUNION
Receive Peacemaking Offering
Sermon: "Unity and Diversity: "Faith Connects"
Lessons: John 10: 11-16 I Corinthians 12: 12-27

3:00pm "Grace Notes" Concert
Kalina Mrmevska, pianist
Bellport United Methodist Church

Wed. to Sat, Oct. 8-11 Oct. 8-11 Union Days/Alumni Council
Union Theological Seminary
Pastor Tom attending

Saturday, Oct. 11 9:00am Yard Clean-up Day

Sunday, Oct. 12 10:00am Morning Worship
Claudia Taylor, preacher

5:00pm South Country Concerts
Christ Episcopal Church, Bellport

Saturday, Oct. 18 5:00pm "Divalicious"
featuring "The Three Sopranos"

October is music month as programs are offered at Bellport United Methodist, Christ Episcopal, Bellport and Old South Haven

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

This Week at Old South Haven Presbyterian Church


Wednesday, Sept. 24 12 noon Bellport/Brookhaven Clergy
Thanksgiving Plans

Sunday, Sept. 28 10:00am Morning Worship
Sunday School
Sermon: "The Idol of Certainty"
Lessons: Genesis 3: 1-21
Luke 1: 11-17

6:00pm Potluck Supper
Guest: Sue Kahl
Patchogue Neighbor's INN

Thursday, Oct.2 6:00pm "Share the Harvest"
Long Island Council of Churches
Fund raiser dinner: $135 per person
Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury

Saturday, Oct. 4 9:00am Vendors Sale/Food Sale

Sunday, Oct. 5 10:00am WORLD COMMUNION
Receive Peacemaking Offering

Wed. to Sat, Oct. 8-11 Oct. 8-11 Union Days/Alumni Council
Union Theological Seminary
Pastor Tom attending

Saturday, Oct. 11 9:00am Yard Clean-up Day

Saturday, Oct. 18 5:00pm "Divalicious"
featuring "The Three Sopranos"

This Week at Old South Haven Presbyterian Church


Wednesday, Sept. 24 12 noon Bellport/Brookhaven Clergy
Thanksgiving Plans

Sunday, Sept. 28 10:00am Morning Worship
Sunday School
Sermon: "The Idol of Certainty"
Lessons: Genesis 3: 1-21
Luke 1: 11-17

6:00pm Potluck Supper
Guest: Sue Kahl
Patchogue Neighbor's INN

Thursday, Oct.2 6:00pm "Share the Harvest"
Long Island Council of Churches
Fund raiser dinner: $135 per person
Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury

Saturday, Oct. 4 9:00am Vendors Sale/Food Sale

Sunday, Oct. 5 10:00am WORLD COMMUNION
Receive Peacemaking Offering

Wed. to Sat, Oct. 8-11 Oct. 8-11 Union Days/Alumni Council
Union Theological Seminary
Pastor Tom attending

Saturday, Oct. 11 9:00am Yard Clean-up Day

Saturday, Oct. 18 5:00pm "Divalicious"
featuring "The Three Sopranos"

Saturday, September 20, 2014

DivaLicious Music Program Oct 18

Saturday, October 18 - Old South Haven Church presents "DivaLicious!" featuring "The Three Sopranos" in their premier concert of duets, solos and trios from Opera, Broadway and the American Songbook, sings works of Puccini, Soundheim, Lehar, Gershwin, Delibes, Berstein, Mozart, and Richard Rogers. Old South Haven Church, South Country and Beaver Dam Roads, Brookhaven Hamlet.. $20 at door. For details visit http://OldSouthHavenChurch.org, or call church office 286-0542.

 

Printable flyer attached or visit http://OldSouthHavenChurch.org/Events/Divalicious.pdf .

Music for the Service of Sunday, September 21, 2014

From: Richard Thomas
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 12:21 AM
Subject: Music for the Service of Sunday, September 21, 2014

The opening hymn is Hymn No. 266 by Brian A. Wren, “Thank You, God, for Water, Soil, and Air.”

                Note: The hymn number is missing in the bulletin.

The Rev. Brian A. Wren was born in 1936 and is Emeritus Professor of Worship at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.  He is a minister of the United Reform Church (UK).  His wife, the Rev. Susan Healfield, is a minister in the United Methodist Church.  So Rev. Wren says he is “reformed by tradition, Presbyterian by membership, and United Methodist by marriage.”  You can see and hear Brian Wren make some very short remarks on the subject of hymn writing here: http://youtu.be/xIkL2JdyQ7k   (59 seconds long).
 
   Brian Wren and wife, Susan Heafield, November 2011

The tune is AMSTEIN, composed by John Weaver in 1988.  John Weaver was born in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, in 1937 and retired as Director of Music and Organist at Madison Avenue Presbyterian  Church (NYC) in May 2005.  He was chair of the Organ Department at Julliard from 1987 to 2004.

John and I visited Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, many years ago.  The train station sign still used that name, but the village had changed its name to Jim Thorpe.  (Jim Thorpe, whose Native American name was Wa-Tho-Huk, was a baseball star, a winner of gold medals in the 1912 Olympics, and then a football star.)

You can hear the hymn sung here:

                http://youtu.be/zjpmSRc6lNs “Thank You, God, for Water, Soil, and Air,” by Brian Wren, tune AMSTEIN by John Weaver

The second hymn is Hymn No. 200, “To Bless the Earth,” which is based on Psalm 65.

Psalm 65:9 You visit the earth and give it rain;
you make it rich and fertile
with overflowing streams full of water.
You provide grain for them,
for you prepare the earth to yield its crops.
65:10 You saturate its furrows,
and soak its plowed ground.
With rain showers you soften its soil,
and make its crops grow.
65:11 You crown the year with your good blessings,
and you leave abundance in your wake.
65:12 The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture,
and the hills are clothed with joy.
65:13 The meadows are clothed with sheep,
and the valleys are covered with grain.
They shout joyfully, yes, they sing.

The tune, CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN (“Christ Is My Life”), was composed Melchior Vulpius.   Vulpius was his Latin name.  He was actually German and his true surname was “Fuchs."

Melchior Vulpius was born about 1560-1570 in Thuringia (Germany) and died 07 Aug 1615 at Weimar.

The melody was used repeatedly by Bach (BWV 95, Mvt. 1; BWV 281; BWV 282; BWV 1112) in his compositions, and was also used by Pachelbel, Telemann, Walther, Max Reger, and many others.

You can hear it sung beautifully in German, a cappella, here:

                http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/1069088.html Go to bottom of first column and click the play icon.  You get to hear the first minute.

The closing hymn is Hymn No. 256, “Let the Whole Creation Cry,” by Stopford A. Brooke.

Stopford Augustus Brooke was born in the Glendoen rectory in Donegal, Ireland, on 14 Nov 1832.  He died on 18 Mar 1916.  He was ordained in 1857 in the Church of England and was a “chaplain in ordinary” to Queen Victoria.  (That means he answered to the Queen, not to the Archbishop of Canterbury.)  When Stopford Brooke was 48 he decided he no longer believed in the tenets of the Church of England, seceded from the church, and became an unofficial Unitarian minister at Bloomsbury until he retired in 1896.

You can read some of Stopford Brooke’s sermons here:  https://archive.org/stream/earlylifejesuss00broogoog#page/n6/mode/2up The Early Life of Jesus, Sermons Preached at Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury, by Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, M.A. (published in 1888).
 
The tune is SALZBURG (1678) by Jakob Hintze (1622-1703), harmonized by J. S. Bach.
Jakob Hintze was known as an excellent contrapuntist.
                http://youtu.be/qjvhNFM_OYE?t=1m46s “Let the Whole Creation Cry” by Rev. Stopford Brooke, sung in 2013 at First Plymouth Church of Lincoln, Nebraska

Here’s just the tune, on piano:

                http://www.hymnary.org/media/fetch/149206 SALZBURG by Jakob Hintze, as harmonized by J. S. Bach, on piano


Instrumental Music

Prelude: “Diapason Dialogue” by Gordon Young

                http://youtu.be/rTQeBQs5SwY?t=56m16s "Diapason Dialogue"" by Gordon Young

The diapasons are a kind of organ pipe.  They are frequently included in the façades of pipe organs, often painted and decorated.  In Old South Haven’s Hinners organ, the diapason rank of pipes is an open 8’ diapason stop.  These are “flue pipes.” They don’t attempt to sound like some other instrument.

Flue pipes are sometimes called “labial pipes” as the sound is produced by the air passing a sharp lip, just as in a whistle.

Flue pipes sound like this:  http://www.die-orgelseite.de/audio/prinzipale.mp3 Diapason, 16’ + 8’ + 4’

While reed pipes sound like this:  http://www.die-orgelseite.de/audio/oboe.mp3 Oboe, 8’

“Diapason” is the term used in English organs.  German organs call the same stop a “Prinzipal” or “Principle” stop.

The Hinner’s organ has both metal and wood flue pipes.  The wood flue pipes are used in the pedal division and are stopped rather than open.  The rank is called the 16’ Bourdon.  “Bourdon” is derived from the French word for bumble-bee.  These pipes have a “deep, dark, and penetrating tone” that can be easily heard.

We heard “Diapason Dialogue” at the service on July 6, where it was used for the postlude.

Offertory: “Offertory in E Flat” by Ludwig Van Beethoven (arr. Franklin L. Ritter)

I couldn’t find this piece, but I did find this short piece, “Toccata Festiva” by Franklin Ritter, which is entertaining, and you can watch his feet:

                http://youtu.be/s6WHuZOesrs “Toccata Festiva,” played by Marko Hakanpää at the Grönlund organ of St. Michael's Church in Turku, Finland.


Postlude: “Voluntary in E Flat” by Jonathan Battishill (b. May 1738, London; d. 10 Dec 1801). 

In addition to being a composer, Battishill was a concert tenor.  At age 9, he sang in the boys choir of St. Paul’s, then he studied organ and singing.  In 1756, he was the harpsichordist at the Covent Garden Theatre.  He served as organist at St. Clement Eastcheap and Christ Church Newgate Steet.  His wife’s desertion in 1776 caused him to fall into a deep depression which declined into alcoholism. He never received an appointment as organist at St. Paul’s, as had been expected.  He composed very little after 1775, but before that date, he composed much theater music, music for a pantomime, a three-act opera, some songs, including “Kate of Aberdeen,” madrigals, canticles, hymns, and anthems, including a work sung at his own funeral, “Call to Remembrance.”

I couldn’t find the “Voluntary in E Flat.”  I did find a “Voluntary in B flat”

                http://youtu.be/FL3IGlxPtsY “Voluntary in B Flat” by Battishill played by Rhys Arvidson on an 1896 pipe organ at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Williamstown, Melbourne, Australia

and this: “Two Pieces for Organ” by Jonathan Battishill:

                http://youtu.be/FiFIgzQA46A “Two Pieces for Organ”

Richard

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

This Week at Old South Haven Presbyterian Church


Thursday, Sept 18 12:00noon Long Island Council of Churches
Board Meeting, Commack

Sunday, Sept. 21 10:00am Morning Worship
Sermon: "A Moral Challenge For our Day"
Lessons: Job 12: 7-10 Colossians 1: 15-17
International Day of Peace/ People's Climate March
2:00pm "Doubt"
directed by Deborah Mayo
Staller Center, Stony Brook
See Joann Neal or Pastor Tom
for transportation

Sunday, Sept. 28 10:00am Morning Worship
Sunday School
6:00pm Potluck Supper
Guest: Sue Kahl
Patchogue Neighbor's INN

Looking Ahead
Thursday, Oct.2 6:00pm "Share the Harvest"
Long Island Council of Churches
Fund raiser dinner: $135 per person
Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury

Saturday, Oct. 4 9:00am Vendors Sale/Food Sale

Sunday, Oct. 5 10:00am WORLD COMMUNION
Receive Peacemaking Offering
Wed. to Sat, Oct. 8-11 Oct. 8-11 Union Days/Alumni Council
Union Theological Seminary
Pastor Tom attending

Saturday, Oct. 11 9:00am Yard Clean-up Day

Saturday, Oct. 18 5:00pm "Divalicious"
featuring "The Three Sopranos"

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Music for the Service of Sunday, September 14, 2014


From: Richard Thomas
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 11:58 PM
Subject: Music for the Service of Sunday, September 14, 2014

The opening hymn is Hymn No. 470, “O Day of Radiant Gladness” that was authored by Christopher Wordsworth (stanzas 1 and 2, 1862), Charles F. Price (stanza 3, 1980), and an anonymous author (stanza 4, 1982).

The tune is the same tune we sang on July 20 and on August 31, 2014, ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVÖGELEIN when we sang Rusty Edwards’s hymn, “We All Are One in Mission.”  The tune dates from the 17th century, and was harmonized by George Ratcliffe Woodward in 1904.

This German folk tune is often used with the hymns “Hail to the Lord’s Anointed” and “O Day of Rest and Gladness.”

Here is the link I gave earlier with it being sung in German accompanied by a guitar:

                http://youtu.be/jxnE3iQAvU4 ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVÖGELEIN, sung in German, with guitar

Or you can listen to the tune being played on an organ here:

                http://youtu.be/KRIyOYJU6UI  “O Day of Radiant Gladness,” played by Samuel Cherubin

                                                   Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885)

Christopher Wordsworth was the nephew of the poet William Wordsworth.  (William Wordworth wrote “Daffodils,” which begins “I wandered lonely as a cloud --- that floats on high o’er vales and hills, . . .”)

He was born at Lambeth and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge.  He published a book of hymns, The Holy Year, which included poems not only for every season of the church year but also for every part of every season, following the Book of Common Prayer. He became the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln in 1870.  According to the Dictionary of Hymnology (John Julian, 1907), “He was particularly anxious to avoid obscurity, and thus many of his hymns are simple . . . . But this extreme simplicity was always intentional . . .”

His hymns include “O Lord of Heaven, and Earth, and Sea,” “Alleluia, Alleluia, Hearts and Voices Heavenward Raise,” and “See the Conqueror Mounts in Triumph.”

In most hymnals, the word used is not “radiant” but “rest,” and the hymn is then titled “O Day of Rest and Gladness.”  I found an 1865 copy of The Holy Year on Google Books:

In the book (above) in which the words were originally published, the word is “rest” not “radiant,” so that must be the correct wording.  I don’t know who changed it.  Maybe they changed it because, other than sleeping late, no one rests on the Sabbath anymore. 

We also don’t get to sing Wordsworth’s stanzas 3 through 6.

The author of the third stanza is instead Charles P. Price (b. Pittsburgh, 1920, d. 1999).  He served on the Committee on Texts for the Episcopal Hymnal of 1982, so, after the second stanza, Wordsworth’s original stanzas have been dropped and Rev. Price’s verse substituted instead. Serving on a denomination’s hymnal committee seems to be a very effective way of getting one’s own poetry published as the text to a hymn, as I’ve noted for two other authors of hymns we’ve sung.

Charles Price attended Harvard, the Virginia Theological Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.  He served as Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University (1963-1972).  In 1972, he gave up that job and returned to teaching at Virginia Theological Seminary where he had previously taught from 1956-1963.  There he was Professor of Systematic Theology until 1989.
Charles P. Price (1920-1999)

The second hymn is Hymn No. 347, “Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive” by Rosamond E. Herklots.

Rosamond Herlots was British and was born in North India.   She graduated from Leeds University, and worked as secretary to a neurologist then in the offices of the Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus in London.

The tune is DETROIT is attributed to “Bradshaw.”  It appears in sacred harp hymnals, the Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, 1820, and The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (Baptist Harmony), 1854.

You can hear the sacred harp tune DETROIT sung here (mechanically):

                http://www.sacredharpbremen.org/lieder/026-bis-099/039t-detroit DETROIT, click on the play icon for Vierstimmig.

[Sacred harp singing (an American invention) has become quite popular in Ireland, England, Germany, and other northern European countries, and even attracts people in their 20s and 30s.  (The “sacred harp” is the unaccompanied human voice.)  That’s why you can find all the sacred harp tunes at this site in Bremen, Germany.]

You can hear some humans singing DETROIT here:

                http://youtu.be/etmWYmh5Plk DETROIT, sung by Tim Eriksen and friends in Jaroslaw, a town in south-eastern Poland with about 40,167 inhabitants.

It will be easier to recognize the hymn played tomorrow if you instead listen to: 

                http://youtu.be/NRTLG7jPszA “Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive,” sung and played by Koine, with whistling, drums, piano, and guitars

or, perhaps better, to the wonderful voice of Martha Basset, here:

                http://youtu.be/FhEyMYPp79s?t=6s “Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive,” sung by Martha Basset (but with some very odd accompaniment)

The closing hymn is Hymn No. 358, Fred Kaan’s “Help Us Accept Each Other.”  We sang this as the second hymn on July 20, 2014.  We also sang it on More Light Sunday (June 1, 2014).

The words are most frequently sung to the tune ACCEPTANCE by John Ness Beck, but that isn’t the tune used in the Presbyterian Hymnal.

To hear the tune used in our hymnal, BARONITA, click here:

                http://www.hymnary.org/media/fetch/150517  “Help Us to Accept Each Other”

The tune is by Doreen Potter and is also used for the hymn, “For All the Faithful Women.”  
I told you all about Doreen Potter in my e-mail of 07/19/2014, so I won’t repeat it, but here’s her picture to jog your memory:

  Doreen Potter (1925-1980)


Instrumental Music

Prelude: “Glorificamus”  by John Redford.    You can hear a segment here:

               http://www.muziekweb.nl/Link/CLX0656  “Glorificamus” by John Redford (1471-1547, on organ by Okke Dijkhuizen  (Click the “play” icon for track 1.)

It sounds very different when played by Bernard Winsemius on an organ---which wants tuning:

                http://www.muziekweb.nl/Link/CLX3372  “Glorificamus” by John Redford played by Bernard Winsemius (Click on “play” for track 6.)

We heard this prelude at the service of May 4, 2014.

John Redford was the organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral and choirmaster there from 1531 until his death.  

He wrote an odd poem about the hard life of the choir boys during this period in England and the beatings they endured (on their “lytle butokes”), which you can read here:

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Redford “The Chorister’s Lament” by John Redford

I wonder if the lashes actually improved their singing.  I suppose it might have been an encouragement for memorization of the words.  Sandy may want to test it out with our choir.

Moving from the Renaissance back to the Medieval period, the offertory is “Composition on a Plainsong” by John Dunstable.  The following information (and much more) can be found in his Wikipedia entry:

Dunstable was born about 1390 and died on Christmas Eve day, 1453. 

Dunstable is believed to have probably been born in - - - - Dunstable! 

No one knows when he was born, but as some of his music which has survived was written sometime between 1410 and 1420, the guess is around 1390.

He served John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, the fourth son of King Henry IV (and, of course, a brother of Henry V).

After serving the Duke of Bedford, he served Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, the fifth son of Henry IV.

John Dunstable, in addition to being a composer, was an astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician.

                http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/13301  “Composition on a Plainsong” by John Dunstable          


The postlude is also by John Dunstable, “Agincourt Song.”

            http://youtu.be/QU7kGaDLW9U   The Agincourt Song, sung by the Cornell Glee Club

            http://youtu.be/KMzTC23NN08   The Agincourt Song, brass band, Monumental Brass (This arrangement has a long introduction, but they finally get to the tune.)

                http://youtu.be/fLqQG7v4ujA “The Agincourt Song” played by Luca Massaglia on organ

Richard

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

This Week at Old South Haven Presbyterian Church


I was informed this afternoon of the death of Jane Savage. Visitation is at Robertaccio Funeral Home, Patchogue, Wednesday, September 10, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. A Service will be conducted 10 am Thursday morning at St, James Church, Brookhaven
                           Tom


Saturday, Sept. 13 9:00am-2:30pm Presbytery Day
First Presbyterian Church of Babylon

Sunday, Sept. 14 10:00am Morning Worship
Sermon: "Forgiveness Undone"
Lessons: Psalm 103: 1-13
Matthew 18: 21-35

Thursday, Sept 18 12:00noon Long Island Council of Churches
Board Meeting, Commack

Sunday, Sept. 21 10:00am Morning Worship
2:00pm "Doubt"
directed by Deborah Mayo
Staller Center, Stony Brook
Contact Joann Neal for arrangements

Sunday, Sept. 28 10:00am Morning Worship
Sunday School
6:00pm Potluck Supper
Speaker from Patchogue
Neighbor's INN

Looking Ahead

Thursday, Oct.2 6:00pm "Share the Harvest"
Long Island Council of Churches
Fund raiser dinner: $135 per person
Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury

Sunday, Oct. 5 10:00am WORLD COMMUNION
Receive Peacemaking Offering

Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 8-11 Union Days/Alumni Council
Union Theological Seminary
Pastor Tom attending

Saturday, Oct. 11 9:00am Yard Clean-up Day
Saturday, Oct. 18 5:00pm "Divalicious"
featuring "The Three Sopranos"

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Music for the Service of September 7, 2014




From: Richard Thomas
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 7:12 PM
Subject: Music for the Service of September 7, 2014

The opening hymn is Hymn No. 485, “To God Be the Glory.” The congregation sang this Fanny Jane Crosby hymn on September 6, 2011, after not singing anything at all on the preceding Sunday, as the service of August 28 had been canceled by Hurricane Irene.  (Claudia’s granddaughter was going to play a piece by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach that week too, and we also missed that.)

http://youtu.be/5NH0wWzL5YQ  “To God Be the Glory” sung by a large congregation, a cappella, as recorded for the TV program, “Let the Bible Speak”
If you listen closely, you can hear that they are singing in parts.

This is a Church of Christ congregation.  Churches of that denomination generally reject the use of instrumental music in worship (as do also the Primitive Baptists, the Plymouth Brethren, the Amish, and the Old Order Mennonites).  So their congregations have had a lot of practice in singing a cappella.


          Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915)
You can also hear a spectacular version, as done in the once glorious Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (organ, choir, congregation, and chimes, with a descant!) here:

http://youtu.be/EBqcIymsE_I “To God Be the Glory,” Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, Florida  (chimes at 2:40, followed immediately by the descant)

Both the text and the tune date from 1875.  The tune was composed for the text by William Howard Doane.  W. Howard Doane also composed the tune for another Fanny Crosby (1820-1915) text, “Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet.”  You can hear a beautiful a cappella rendition of “Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet” here:

http://www.churchofgodsinging.com/index.php?do=p&id_song=19 Valerie Eck sings all parts of “Though Your Sins Be as Scarlet” (using multi-track recording)

W. Howard Doane (1832-1915) was born in Preston, Connecticut. He became the superintendent of a large Baptist Sunday School in Cincinnati, Ohio.  He composed 1,000 hymn tunes, including the tunes for “Tell Me the Old, Old Story,” “Near the Cross,” “Rescue the Perishing,” and “Safe in the Arms of Jesus.”


The second hymn is Hymn No. 175 “The Lord’s My Shepherd, All My Need.”  The text, by Christopher L. Webber, is recent, 1986.
Christopher L. Webber (1932- )

Christopher Webber is a graduate of Princeton University and of the General Theological Seminary in NYC.  He now lives in Sharon, Connecticut.  He has written a number of books, including Beyond Beowulf, Welcome to the Episcopal Church, and Re-Thinking Marriage.  He also makes maple syrup.

The tune, EVAN, is usually attributed to William Henry Havergal (1793-1870).  He was born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and educated at Oxford.  He won the Gresham Prize for an anthem in 1845. [John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907).]

Here is a choir singing different words to the tune:

                http://youtu.be/PEs4F9Y0rPw “The Lord Our Shepherd” sung to W. H. Havergal’s tune EVAN, a cappella.



The communion hymn is Hymn No. 516, “Lord We Have Come at Your Own Invitation” (1977) by the British Methodist minister and hymn-writer, the Rev. Fred Pratt Green (b. 02 Sep 1903, Roby, Merseyside, UK; d. 22 Oct 2000).  He was also the author of a book: The Last Lap: A Sequence in Verse on the Theme of Old Age, published in 1991, when Rev. Green was 88.  He also wrote The Skating Parson (1963) and The Old Couple: Poems New & Selected (1976), published by Peter Loo Poets, from which, we have the following (http://www.peterloopoets.com/html/stocklist_175.html ).

The Old Couple

The old couple in the brand-new bungalow,
Drugged with the milk of municipal kindness,
Fumble their way to bed. Oldness at odds
With newness, they nag each other to show
Nothing is altered, despite the strangeness
Of being divorced in sleep by twin-beds,
Side by side like the Departed, above them
The grass-green of candlewick bedspreads.

In a dead neighbourhood, where it is rare
For hooligans to shout or dogs to bark,
A footfall in the quiet air is crisper
Than home-made bread ; and the budgerigar
Bats an eyelid, as sensitive to disturbance
As a distant needle is to an earthquake
In the Great Deep, then balances in sleep.
It is silence keeps the old couple awake.

Too old for loving now, but not for love,
The old couple lie, several feet apart,
Their chesty breathing like a muted duet
On wind instruments, trying to think of
Things to hang on to, such as the tinkle
That a budgerigar makes when it shifts
Its feather weight from one leg to another,
The way, on windy nights, linoleum lifts.

(I like that image, as we have some linoleum that has lifted in our kitchen.)

The tune is O QUANTA QUALIA (1681), which we probably associate most often with “God of Compassion, In Mercy Befriend Us.”

                http://youtu.be/Og89Ra6bKUs   O QUANTA QUALIA, played on an organ by Lance, barefoot


The closing hymn is Hymn No. 419, “How Clear Is Our Vocation, Lord,” also by the Rev. F. Pratt Green.

The tune is REPTON (1888) by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (b. 27 Feb 1848, Bournemouth, UK; d. 07 Oct 1918, Rustington, West Sussex). 

He attended Eton, then Exeter College, Oxford.  He was director of the Royal College of Music from 1895 until his death and was also professor of music at the University of Oxford from 1900 to 1908.  Although made a baronet in 1902, the baronetcy became extinct upon his death.  He died of the Spanish flu during the pandemic in October 1918.  He was buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral. [From Wikipedia.org.]
  C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)

He is best known for JERUSALEM, which we all know from the movie Chariots of Fire.  The tune is the setting for a poem by William Blake, “And Did Those Feet, in Ancient Times, Walk Upon England’s Mountains Green.”  (The poem alludes to the legend of Glastonbury when Mary’s uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, a tin merchant, travels to England to the tin mines and brings his nephew, Jesus, along for the trip.)   From that visit, Welsh queens and kings traced their genealogy, as does Elder Deitz (through King Cunedda), which thus makes John a relation of Mary, the virgin mother of the Son of God.

a Cornish story how "Joseph of Arimathea came in a boat to Cornwall, and brought the child Jesus with him, and the latter taught him how to extract the tin and purge it of its wolfram. This story possibly grew out of the fact that the Jews under the Angevin kings farmed the tin of Cornwall." In its most developed version, Joseph, a tin merchant, visited Cornwall, accompanied by his nephew, the boy Jesus. C.C. Dobson (1879–1960) made a case for the authenticity of the Glastonbury legenda.

Assuming the legend to be true, we could work out how many of the Virgin Mary’s genes are likely to be the same as those inherited by John.  Not many, I suspect.  He doesn’t look a thing like her.

William Blake’s poem,

                And did those feet, in ancient times
                Walk upon England’s mountains green
                And was the Holy Lamb of God
                In England’s pleasant pasture’s seen?
                . . .
                Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
                Bring me my Arrows of desire:
                Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
                Bring me my Chariot of fire!

“Jerusalem” was sung at Kate and Prince William’s wedding. 

                http://youtu.be/4yIWBO_7nio “Jerusalem,” words by William Blake, music by Sir C. Hubert H. Parry.  You get to see Queen Elizabeth II and Elton John and his hubby sing it --- and all the ladies in their glorious hats

Well, back to another work by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, the tune REPTON, to which the hymn is sung, you will recognize the tune as that used for “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind.”
               
http://youtu.be/Jo9lmVy8Cc4 REPTON, played by the Co-operative Funeralcare Band North West

The Co-operative Funeralcare Band has existed for over ninety years (and is a product of the 19th century Co-Operative Movement in Great Britain).  It is “the most successful band in the history of Scottish brass band music.”

Here it is on the organ: http://youtu.be/gOdeNLOG7H8 REPTON, organ version



Instrumental Music – unknown.  We have a guest organist on Sunday, Douglas Moreland, and his selections aren’t in the bulletin.



The Westhampton Presbyterian Church was giving away its old hymnals, so I asked Tom to  get some for Old South Haven.  We now have enough so that every choir member can take one home.

Richard

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

This Week at Old South Haven Presbyterian Church


Saturday, Sept. 6 11:00am Memorial Service
for Edward Markow
Father of Elizabeth (BJ) Brown
conducted by Rev. Jeanne Baum
Reception following in Carriage House

1:00pm South Country Peace Group in
Gallery
Sunday, Sept. 7 10:00am Morning Worship/ Holy Communion
Sermon: "Indelible"
Lessons: James 2: 14-18
Mark 8: 27-35
11:15am Christian Education Committee

Saturday, Sept. 13 9:00am-2:30pm Presbytery Day
"Let Everything…Praise The Lord"
First Presbyterian Church of Babylon
workshops and worship $15
see Pastor Tom for ride

Sunday, Sept.14 10:00am Morning Worship
Sermon: "Forgiveness Undone"
Psalm 103: 1-13
Matthew 18: 21-35

Thursday, Sept. 18 12noon Long Island Council of Churches
Board Meeting, Commack


Sunday, Sept. 21 10:00am Morning Worship
2:00pm Presentation of the play "Doubt"
directed by Deborah Mayo
Staller Center, SUNYSB
(van or car pools)

Sunday, Sept. 28 10:00am Morning Worship
Sunday School
6:00pm Pot Luck Supper
Speaker from Patchogue Neighbor's INN

LOOKING AHEAD

Saturday, Oct. 18 5:00pm "Divalicious!"
featuring "The Three Sopranos"
in their premiere concert of duets,
solos and trios from Opera, Broadway,
and the American Songbook