From the Choir Director -
Bernard Wiseman

Music for
Sunday, May 11


Introit
Come Now To Worship The Lord


Anthem
Alleluia, Praise! ............................................................... Luigi Chreubini
— arranged by Douglas E. Wagner —
Dorothy Taft, Accompanist

Choral Benediction
God Be With You Till We Meet Again ............................. William Tomer






From the Organist -
Dr. Rudolf Zuiderveld

Music for
Sunday, May 18

Prelude:
Hymnus, Veni Creator Spiritus (3 verses), De Sancto Spiritu
............................................... Samuel Scheidt

Offertory:
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty
.................... Hennie Slettenhaar


Postlude:
Come Creator, Holy Ghost (Prelude and Chorale)
(Veni Creator Spiritus)
............................................. Johann Sebastian Bach

Music note :
In the beginning of the season of the year that begins at Pentecost, we hear a grand setting of the ancient Pentecost Hymn, Veni Creator Spiritus- Come Creator Holy Ghost, a prayer for the arrival and presence of the Holy Ghost, set by Samuel Scheidt in his Tabulatura Nova of 1624. Scheidt published this first comprehensive printed collection of organ music in Germany, in a magnificent style. In three verses, the chant is heard in long notes, a cantus firmus: first in the soprano. then the tenor, and finally in the bass.

The popular hymn for the Trinity is the 19th-century English hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy — Slettenhaar has paraphrased this melody into a beautiful hymn setting, accompanying the Offertory. Bach set his version of the Veni Creator in a collection of 18 large-scale chorale preludes, collected near the end of his life: the melody is at first accompanied by strongly syncopated accents on every third sub-beat (signifying the Trinity), that blossoms into a second section where bell-like manual music accompanies the cantus firmus, thundering below in the pedal. Grand music, celebrating an important theological doctrine central to historic Christianity.