Pollokshields Parish Church Choir

Anthems for March 2012

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Sunday 4th March
anthem: From the Rising of the Sun - Frederick Gore Ouseley
Sunday 11th March Communion Sunday: Introit: O Salutaris - Elgar
Sunday 18th March

Sunday 25th March
anthem: God so loved the World - Stainer

Anthems for February 2012

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Sunday 4th February
Solo anthem: Pie Jesu - Fauré

Sunday 11th February
anthem: Lord for tomorrow and its Needs -Faber

Sunday 18th February
anthem: Soul of my Saviour - Faber

Sunday 25th February
anthem: Prière from Moisé - Rossini

January Anthems 2012

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The anthems sung by the Choir in January were:
January 8th 2012 I give you a new commandment by Peter Aston (b. 1938), Professor emritus of Music and the University of East Anglia.
text from John 13: I give you a new commandment, love one another as I have loved you

January 15th 2012: Teach me, O lord, the way of Thy Statutes by Thomas Attwood (1765-1838), organist at St Paul's Cathedral, a pupil of Mozart and teacher of John Goss (below). words from psalm 119:
Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
Click here to hear a performance by Somerville College Oxford.
January 22nd 2012: O Saviour of the World - Sir John Goss (1800-1880), organist of St Paul's Cathedral 1838-1871.
O saviour of the world, who by thy cross and precious blood hast redeemed us, save us and help us, we humbly beseech thee O Lord. Amen
Here it is sung by a Dutch choir.
January 29th 2012: The King Shall Rejoice - Handel (1685-1759)
One of the four famous anthems written by Handel for the coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline in 1727. The words are from psalm 21: The King shall rejoice in Thy strength, O Lord.
Here is a wonderful performance by Winchester Cathedral Choir under David Hill

Choir Dinner

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The Choir Dinner will held in Mimmo's, on Wednesday 18th January at 7 p.m.

Organ Music for Spring 2012

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The January 2012 voluntaries will all feature music by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Sunday 1st January:
Offering: Largo
Recessional: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon
Sunday 8th January:
Offering: O Lord whose mercies numberless from Saul.
Recessional: Allegro from Concerto Opus 7 no 10
Sunday 15th January:
Offering: Ombra mai fu from Serse.
Recessional: La Réjouissance from The Royal Fireworks
Sunday 22nd January:
Offering: Andante Larghetto from Berenice.
Recessional: Hornpipe from The Water Music
Sunday 29th January:
Offering: Siciliano from Oboe Concerto in Bb.
Recessional: Minuets I and II from The Royal Fireworks

February will be all French
Sunday 5th February:
Offering: Sicilienne - Gabriel Fauré
Recessional: Grand Choeur Dialogué - Gigout

Sundays 12 and 19th February - Scott playing (LD in Kenya)

Sunday 26th February: First Sunday of Lent
Offering: Prière à Notre Dame - Boëllmann
Recessional: Toccata - Gigout

March will be devoted to J.S.Bach

Sunday 4th March: Second Sunday of Lent
Offering: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV634 -
Recessional: Prelude in C minor BWV546
Sunday 11th March: Third Sunday of Lent
Offering: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß BWV622
Recessional: Fugue in C minor BWV 546
Sunday 18th March: Fourth Sunday of Lent
Scott playing (LD giving recital in St Salvator's Cathedral, Bruges)
Sunday 25th March: Fifth Sunday of Lent
Offering: Alle menschen mussen sterben BWV643
Recessional: Fugue in B minor BWV 544
Sunday 1st April: Palm Sunday
Offering: Air from Orchestral Suite in D
Recessional: Toccata in D minor BWV 565
Sunday 8th April: Easter Sunday
Scott playing

Scott's Dates for 2012

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Scott will very kindly play on the following dates (no doubt more to follow):

12th and 19th February
18th March
8th April (Easter)
20th May

Advent/Christmas 2011

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First Sunday of Advent
anthem: Aria: Rejoice Greatly - Handel
voluntary: Venez divin Messie - Lebégue

Second Sunday of Advent
anthem: "Ecce Novum Gaudium" (17th cent Scottish, harm. LD)
voluntary: Toccata from Suite Gothique - Boellmann

Third Sunday of Advent
anthem:A Maiden Most Gentle (French trad arr. Carter)
Voluntary: Toccata in B minor Gigout

Fourth Sunday of Advent
anthem:Sans Day Carol (English trad. arr Rutter)
Voluntary: Chorale Prelude: In dulci Jubilo - Bach

Christmas Eve Watchnight:
Carols: A Maiden Most Gentle (French trad arr. Carter), Sans Day Carol (English trad. arr Rutter)
Voluntary: Sortie in Eb - Lefébure-Wély

Christmas Day: Introit: "Ecce Novum Gaudium" (17th cent Scottish, harm. LD)
Voluntary: Toccata from Symphony no 5 - Widor.

Anthems for March

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Sunday 13th March - "God of Mercy" - Pergolesi
Sunday 20th March - "Laudate Dominum" - Mozart
Sunday 27th MArch - "Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our Hearts" - Purcell

Surely He hath Borne our Griefs

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You will find the midi files for Surely here.

Deputy Organist

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There will be a deputy organist on the following dates:
Sunday 13th, 20th and 27th of February,
Sunday 6th March,
Sunday April 11th April.

January 2011

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Sunday January 2nd: 2nd Carol Service (as so many of the congregation had been unable to attend church over Christmas due to the weather).
anthems: In the Bleak Midwinter - Harold Darke (1911)
Away in a Manger - arr. Willcocks
Voluntary: Sortie - Lefébure-Wély

Sunday January 9th:anthem: Chorus of Hebrew Slaves - Verdi
Voluntary: Toccata from Suite Gothique Boellmann

Wednesday 12th January - 1st rehearsal

Sunday January 16:anthem: Prière from Moisé - Rossini
Voluntary: Toccata from Symphony no 5 - Widor

Wednesday 19th January: Choir Dinner - Viva, Bothwell St.

Sunday January 23rd:
anthem: Sunset and Evening Star - Parry
Voluntary: Toccata in D minor - Bach

November 2010

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Wednesday 3rd November = No practice

Sunday 7th November: Voluntary Pièce héroique - Franck

Wednesday 10th November = rehearsal 7.15

Sunday 14th November: Remembrance Day Anthem: Pie Jesu - Lloyd Webber
Voluntary: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen -Mahler

Wednesday 17th November = rehearsal 7.15
Sunday 21st November: Anthem: Hail, Redeemer, King Divine
Voluntary: Toccata in B minor - Gigout

September/October 2010

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Anthem for Sunday 26th September: Cantate Domino - Pitoni
Voluntary: Brideshead Revisited - Geoffrey Burgon (died 21st September 2010)

Wednesday 29th September: Rehearsal 7.15

Saturday 2nd October 11 a.m. Service with the Scottish Asian Christian Network

Anthem for Harvest Sunday 3rd October: Psalm 23 - Joseph Gélineau SJ
Voluntary: Les Moissonneurs (The Harvesters - Couperin

Wednesday 6th October: Rehearsal 7.15

Anthem for Sunday 10th October (Scott Playing):

Wednesday 13th October - no rehearsal

Anthem for Sunday 17th October: I Give you a New Commandment - Aston

Voluntary: Fugue in G minor BWV 542 - Bach

Anthem for Sunday 24th October: Teach me, O Lord - Attwood

Wednesday 27th October - no rehearsal

Anthem for Sunday 31st October : Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach
Voluntary: March from Scipio Handel

Wednesday 3rd November - no rehearsal

Choir Resumes

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Choir practices resume on Wednesday September 8th. All welcome.

Choir Practices

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Choir practices will take place on the following dates:

Wednesday 13th January
Wednesday 20th January

We then have the Burns Night on the 25th so there will be no practice on the 27th or in February until the 24th.

Anthems for January-March 2010

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Sunday 3rd January Good King Wenceslas trad. arr. Willcocks
Sunday 10th January Chorus of Hebrew Slaves Verdi
Sunday 17th January Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach
Sunday 24th January O Holy Jesu White
Sunday 31st January Prayer of St Ignatius Quilter

I shall be away for the first three weeks in February. Scott will be playing.

February
Sunday 28th February Moses' Prayer Rossini

March
Sunday 7th March God of Mercy Pergolesi (b.1710)
Sunday 14th March Surely He hath borne our griefs Handel
Sunday 21st March O Saviour of the World Goss
Sunday 28th March - Palm Sunday Fling Wide the Gates Stainer

Organ Music for January 2010

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2010 is the bicentenary of the births of Chopin and Schumann and the tercentenary of the birth of Pergolesi. Chopin did not write any organ music so in the month of January, for the Offering voluntaries I will be playing the piano preludes opus 28 which Louis-James-Alfred Lefébure-Wely played at Chopin's Requiem Mass in the Madeleine on 30th October 1849. The concluding voluntaries will be French showpieces beginning with Lefébure-Wely himself.

Sunday 3rd January 2010:
Offering: Prelude no 4 in E minor - Chopin (1810-1949)
Final: Sortie in Eb Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817-1869)

Sunday 10th January 2010:
Offering: Prelude no 6 in B minor - Chopin (1810-1949)
Final: Toccata from Symphony no 5 Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)

Sunday 17th January 2010:
Offering: Prelude no 20 in C minor - Chopin (1810-1949)
Final: Toccata in B minor Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)

Sunday 24th January 2010:
Offering: Funeral March part 1 - Chopin (1810-1949)
Final: Toccata from Suite Gothique Léon Boëllmann(1862-1897)

Sunday 31st January 2010:
Offering: Funeral March part 2 - Chopin (1810-1949)
Final: Toccata Théodore Dubois (1837-1924)

Carol Service 27th December 2009

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HYMN 290 The race that long in darkness pined
Prayer and Lord's Prayer
Reading 1. Isaiah ch 9 v 2-7
Hymn 295 Who would think?
Reading 2 Micah ch 5 v 2-5
Carol: In the Bleak Midwinter Harold Darke (1909)
Reading 3 Luke ch 1 v 26-38
HYMN 319 Of the father’s love begotten
Reading 4 Luke ch 2 v 1-7
Carol: What splendour Comes Lully/Bizet
Reading 5 Luke ch 2 v 8-16
HYMN 323 The first Nowell
Reading 6 Matthew ch 2 v 1-12
HYMN 310 See him lying on a bed of straw
Offering Music: Chorale prelude on El niño querido - Liam Devlin
Prayers of Dedication and Intercession
Reading 7 John ch 1 v 1-9
HYMN 303 It came upon the midnight clear
Benediction.
Organ Voluntary: In Dulci Jubilo - Bach

St Andrew's Night with the Guild 30th November 2009

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The Guild kindly invited the Opera Group of St Aloysius' College to join the Choir in a musical evening for St Andrew's Night in aid of a school for AIDS orphans in Nairobi in which members of the Opera Group will be working in February 2010. The evening raised over £300 for which we are enormously grateful.

Hymn: Jesus calls us o'er the tumult
Church music: Lloyd Webber Pie Jesu from Requiem
Lindsey Izzard & Liz Izzard, sopranos
Handel aria: let the bright seraphim from Samson
Ann Archibald - soprano
Music from the Opera
Verdi Chorus: Va pensiero from Nabucco
Rossini Chorus: Prière from Moisé
Mozart duetto from Le Nozze di Figaro
Clare MacMillan & Madeleine Kearns, sopranos
Mozart aria: Madamina from Don Giovanni
Michael Diamond - baritone
Chopin Nocturne in Bb minor
Michael Mofidian, piano
Lloyd Webber High Flying Adored from Evita
Robert McNeilly - baritone
Purcell Spirit Scene & Final scene from Dido and Aeneas
Megan Glassford, soprano with St Aloysius' College Opera Group
Scottish songs: John Anderson my Jo - Ann Archibald, soprano
Bothwell Castle - Billy Izzard, tenor
Community singing.

Anthems in December

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Sunday 6th December The King Shall Rejoice - Handel (died 1759)
Sunday 13th December Lo, how a rose e'er blooming - Praetorius
Sunday 20th December - no anthem (Nativity Play)

Choir Night Out - Wednesday 21st October

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Hymns for the Next Three Weeks:

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25th October ( ordinary service) nos132, 641, 264, 721 and 702

1st November ( All Saints) 739, 742, 120, 740 and 511.

8th November ( Remembrance) 10.50am start;
nos; 715, 692, 712, 263 and 266 with one verse of 703 after the benediction.

Open Doors Organ Recital - September 19th 2009

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1. Introduction and Passacaglia - Rheinberger
2. Music by Handel (died 250 years ago this year):
Organ concertos nos 2 and 4
Arias: Dopo Notte (from Ariodante) &
Va tacito e nascosto(from Giulio Cesare
Alla Hornpipe (from The Royal Fireworks)
3. Toccata in B minor - Eugene Gigout
4. Humoresque - Pietro Yon
5. Majesté du Christ and Transports de Joie - Olivier Messiaen
6. Arioso - Bach
7. Sortie in Eb - Lefébure-Wély

Encores: Arias: Largo al Factotum - Rossini
Toréador's Song -Bizet

Viviana Sichi (soprano), Michael Diamond (baritone), Liam Devlin (organ and piano)

Music List for September 2009

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Wednesday 9th September Choir practice
Sunday 13th September (Communion): Scott playing
Wednesday 16th September – practice.
Sunday 20th September: Anthem: Jesus Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach
Wednesday 23rd September – practice.
Sunday 27th September Chorus of Hebrew Slaves - Verdi
Wednesday 30th September – practice.

Music List for October 2009

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Sunday 4th October: Moses' Prayer - Rossini
Sunday 11th October: Scott playing
Wednesday 14th October – no practice.
Sunday 18th October: Cantate Domino - Pitoni
Wednesday 21st October – Choir Night Out
Sunday 25th Cctober: The King Shall Rejoice - Handel
Wednesday 28th October: – practice

Music Lists for November

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Sunday 1st November All Saints Day: anthem: Litany of the Holy Spirit - Hurford
Sunday 8th November Remembrance Day: anthem: Thou Knowest, Lord, the Secrets of our Hearts - Purcell
Sunday 15th November O Holy Jesu - White
Sunday 22nd November St Cecilia's Day: Come,Ye sons of Art -Purcell
Sunday 29th November 1st of Advent: Sheep may safely Graze - Bach
Monday 30th November Music for St Andrew's Day at the Guild