Music for Easter 2015

Chancel, organ console, altar and mural

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Music for The Great Vigil of Easter with the Ascension Choir, Dr. Dennis Keene, Choirmaster and Organist, and The Manton Memorial Organ.

Anthem (Sung in Latin)
Vidi aquam

Gregorian Chant

Offertory Anthem
Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Communion Anthem
Woman, Why Do You Weep? (1978)
Bruce Adolphe

Postlude
Offerte du Veme ton: Vive le Roi!
André Raison (ca. 1640-1719)

Music of Easter

Prelude
Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major (St. Anne)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Choir Introit
Victimae paschali
Eleventh-century plainchant

Gloria
Gloria in excelsis in B-flat Major
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Offertory Anthem
Chorus from Messiah
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Communion Music
Chorale
Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630)

Scottish Melody
Arranged by Parker-Shaw

Exsultate justi
Lodovico Viadanna (1560-16-27)

O Taste and See
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)

Postlude
Toccata (Symphonie V)
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)

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On the 25th anniversary of September 11, Mother Liz invites us to remember those lost, the first responders’ sacrifice, and the courage and compassion that arose amid devastation. Ascension will be open for prayer and reflection from 8 am to 5 pm, with bells tolling at 8:46. She shares a prayer from Bishop Allen Shin, calling us to confront hatred, resist violence, and make peace.

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