{"id":7864,"date":"2019-12-16T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T14:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=7864"},"modified":"2019-12-16T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T14:11:07","slug":"mount-calvary-music-december-22-2019-advent-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/mount-calvary-music-december-22-2019-advent-iv-7864.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mount Calvary Music: December 22, 2019: Advent IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Dream of Saint Joseph,<\/span><\/em> by Philippe de Champaigne<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Mount Calvary Church<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A Roman Catholic Parish<\/em><\/p>\n

The Personal Ordinariate of S. Peter<\/em><\/p>\n

Eutaw Street and Madison Avenue<\/p>\n

Baltimore, Maryland<\/p>\n

December 22, 2019<\/p>\n

Advent IV<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Rev. Albert Scharbach, Pastor<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Allen Buskirk, Choirmaster<\/em><\/p>\n

Midori Ataka,\u00a0<\/em>Organist<\/i><\/p>\n

8:00 A.M. Said Mass<\/p>\n

10:00 A.M. Sung Mass<\/p>\n

Brunch to follow in the undercroft<\/p>\n

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Organ Prelude<\/strong><\/p>\n

O Come, All Ye Faithful<\/em>, Arranged by Hal H. Hopson<\/p>\n

Organ Postlude<\/strong><\/p>\n

Offertoire sur Deux Noels<\/em>, by Alexandre Guilmant<\/span><\/p>\n

_________________<\/p>\n

Common<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anglican Folk Mass<\/em>, Shaw<\/p>\n

_________________<\/p>\n

Anthems<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Spotless Rose<\/em><\/a>, Herbert Howells (1892-1983)<\/p>\n

A spotless Rose is blowing sprung from a tender root, of ancient seers’ foreshowing, of Jesse promised fruit; its fairest bud unfolds to light amid the cold, cold winter and in the dark midnight. The Rose which I am singing, whereof Isaiah said, is from its sweet root springing in Mary, purest Maid; for through our God’s great love and might the blessed babe she bare us in a cold, cold winter’s night.<\/p>\n

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It is a simple setting of the anonymous fifteenth-century poem about Jesus\u2019 birth and the purity of Mary, and the naivety of the words seem to give Howells the springboard to create something that appears the model of simplicity on the surface, but hides a deeper complexity \u2013 how many carols written in 1919 move mellifluously between 7 8, 5 4 and 5 8 with the subtle changes of metre emphasising the stresses of the words and Howells\u2019s restrained homophony? The harmony moves seamlessly from a modal E major to the minor before returning to the major for the end of the first verse \u2013 then the magic happens! The second verse\u00a0 has a stunning tenor solo that brings a radiant glow to the music, but the skill is in the accompaniment given by the rest of the choir.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most celebrated moment of the piece is the very end, in fact the final cadence \u2013 this cadence (on the words \u201ccold winter\u2019s night) is one of Howells\u2019s most sublime and affecting moments and the composer Patrick Hadley famously wrote to Howells saying \u201cI should like, when my time comes, to pass away with that magical cadence.\u201d The cadence itself moves from A minor to E major through some wonderfully piquant suspensions and unusual dissonance resolutions.<\/p>\n

_________<\/p>\n

Ave Maria<\/em>, Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum; benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.<\/p>\n

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.<\/p>\n

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This is a deeply compelling setting of the familiar text. The piece commences with a series of contemplative exchanges between the upper and lower voices; the ensuing, unexpected changes of key and texture are potently effective, and typical of Jackson’s compositional style.<\/p>\n

Jackson comments:<\/p>\n

Why compose yet another Ave Maria? After all, there are innumerable other settings of the Angelic Salutation, many of them great masterpieces. Yet any new treatment of even the most familiar words can, I hope, say something unique about them.<\/p>\n

I have divided the bipartite text into three sections. In the first, divided sopranos and altos lead the hymning of the Virgin. After an impassioned and anguished outburst (“Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis”), there follows a solemn and hushed prayer-chorale, while two solo sopranos soar heavenward in imploration.”<\/p>\n

________________<\/p>\n

Hymns<\/strong><\/p>\n

O Come, O Come Emmanuel<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a translation of the Latin hymn\u00a0Veni veni Emmanuel<\/em>, which in turn is based on the seven O Antiphons, which are sung in the monastic office at the Magnificat on the days preceding Christmas. These antiphons are of ancient origin, dating back to at least the ninth century. The hymn itself, though, is much more recent. Its first appeared in the 18th century. It is interesting to note that the initial words of the actual antiphons in reverse order form an acrostic: O Emmanuel, O Rex, O Oriens, O Clavis, O Radix (\u201cvirgula\u201d in the hymn), O Adonai, O Sapientia. ERO CRAS can be loosely translated as \u201cI will be there tomorrow\u201d.<\/p>\n

__________<\/p>\n

Creator of the stars of light<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>is a translation by John Mason Neale (1818\u20131866) of the 9th<\/sup>\u00a0century\u00a0Creator alme siderum<\/em>. The translation captures the essence of the original Latin. Contrasting \u201ceverlasting light\u201d with the \u201cstars of night\u201d in the first stanza is a common theological theme of Latin hymns. Stanza two refers to the great New Testament hymn found in\u00a0Philippians <\/em>2:10-11: “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”<\/p>\n

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The Dream of Saint Joseph, by Philippe de Champaigne. Mount Calvary Church A Roman Catholic Parish The Personal Ordinariate of S. Peter Eutaw Street and Madison Avenue Baltimore, Maryland December 22, 2019 Advent IV Rev. Albert Scharbach, Pastor Dr. Allen Buskirk, Choirmaster Midori Ataka,\u00a0Organist 8:00 A.M. Said Mass 10:00 A.M. Sung Mass Brunch to follow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,1318,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymns","category-mount-calvary-church","category-music","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7867,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions\/7867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}