Music for Sunday 29 August 2010

Back to the ordinary Sundays again, at least for a little while.  This month, the parish has been out in red and white, although now I think about it, three of the five Sundays have been in green.


Last week we installed the first full choristers in the youth choir at All Saints, and hopefully there will be more to come in the next few weeks.  This necessitates a little tweaking of the rehearsal schedules; if I'm to make space for a new group of white level choristers, the light blue level ones will have be shifted into shorter sectional rehearsals.  It's a nice problem to have!

Readings for this week are linked here.  The psalm will be sung to Anglican chant.

The Mass setting for the week is Philip Mathias's Christ Church Mass (Together in Song, 757).  It's funny: the old choir complained bitterly about learning this setting last year, and there's only one poor dear left who thinks this was an outrageous and daft imposition when she was perfectly happy with Dudman.  Just about everyone else -- choir and congregation -- have found it a refreshing change.  I suppose it is nearly time to have the two settings in alternation from week to week.

Hymns for the week are as follows:

Introit: Praise, my soul, the King of heaven [134]
Gradual: All praise to our redeeming Lord [442 i]
Offertory: Robe yourself, my soul, in gladness [503]
Communion: Sweet sacrament divine