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<\/a><\/p>\nH<\/span>erri met de Bles<\/span>, Final Apparition of Christ to His Disciples <\/span><\/em>Flemish, <\/span>c. 1530-1550.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Mount Calvary Church<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Eutaw Street and Madison Avenue<\/p>\n Baltimore, Maryland<\/p>\n A Roman Catholic Parish<\/p>\n The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter<\/p>\n Anglican Use<\/em><\/p>\n Rev. Albert Scharbach, Pastor<\/p>\n Dr. Allen Buskirk, Choirmaster<\/p>\n Easter III<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n 8:00 A.M. Said Mass<\/p>\n 10:00 A.M. Sung Mass<\/p>\n Breakfast following 10 A.M. Mass<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n ____________________<\/p>\n Common<\/strong><\/p>\n Healey Willan (1880-1968)<\/span><\/p>\n Missa de S.\u00a0Maria Magdalena<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________<\/p>\n Anthems<\/strong><\/p>\n Healey Willan (1880-1968)<\/span><\/p>\n Alleluia. Worthy art thou, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created. Salvation to our God, that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb for ever. Alleluia, Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n The offertory motet, \u201cWorthy art Thou, O Lord\u201d is the setting of the antiphon for the Magnificat for Easter II in the Sarum rite, a text taken from Revelation 5 and read today in the second lesson. The music conveys the sense of grandeur and majesty of the text, which it declaims clearly in a homophonic, choral texture. Listen for the chromatic alterations that provide color and contrast: for example the radiant C major chord on \u201cpower\u201d that shines out from amid the predominantly E-flat major harmony, or the quick trip to E-flat minor adding mystery to \u201cThou hast created all things.\u201d Healey Willan (1880-1968) was born in England and attended a choir school where he studied harmony, counterpoint, and organ. From an Anglo-Catholic background, Willan was organist and choirmaster at St Mary Magdalene in Toronto, Canada from 1921 until his death. This parish, with its choir singing unaccompanied motets at a very high level, became a source of liturgical and musical inspiration for other Anglican choirs in North America.<\/p>\n __________<\/p>\n Tom\u00e1s Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)<\/p>\n Surrexit pastor bonus qui animam suam posuit pro ovibus suis, et pro grege suo mori dignatus est, alleluia. <\/em><\/p>\n The good shepherd has arisen, who laid down his life for his sheep, and for his flock deigned to die, alleluia.<\/em><\/p>\n Here is Queen’s College, Oxford.<\/a><\/p>\n In the communion motet, Surrexit Pastor Bonus, Victoria plays the six voices off each other in creative ways, often in duets or trios. At the outset, the highest three voices sing a phrase and are answered by an echo of similar material in the lower three voices (the antiphonal style). Victoria is a master of subtle drama and text painting: listen for the rising intervals of an octave or a fifth as each voice enters on \u201csurrexit.\u201d Listen also for the contrast between the prevailing sunshine and the cloud that passes overhead on \u201cmori dignatus est,\u201d that is, \u201cworthy to die.\u201d Victoria highlights the word \u201cmori\u201d with longer note values, repetition, and chromatic alterations (E-flat major, D major, and G major triads in the key of F major). The piece closes as the sun returns and we hear a final, rousing chorus of alleluias.<\/p>\n ___________________<\/p>\n Hymns<\/strong><\/p>\n Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/strong>(SCHM\u00dcCKE DICH).\u00a0The original German text,\u00a0Schm\u00fccke dich, o liebe\u00a0<\/em>Seele, was written by the German politician and poet Johann Franck (1618\u20141677) in the aftermath of the Thirty Years\u2019 War. It expresses an intimate relationship between the individual believer and his Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus, ascended into heaven, is still present as our food in this \u201cwondrous banquet.\u201d He is the fount, from whom our being flows as we receive Him and are filled with Him. He feeds us and transforms us into His likeness so that we become His joy and boast and glory before the heavenly court.<\/p>\n