David Harrison 57

Psalm Preludes (2019)
for solo organ 

I. Psalm 40, vs. 3
II. Psalm 33, vs. 3

Derrick Meador, organ
National City Christian Church
Washington, DC 
May 2019

Psalm Preludes (2019) - solo organ

The First Sunday after the Epiphany / The Baptism of the Lord / January 9th, 2022 / The Church of the Advent, Boston.

The Rev'd Douglas Anderson, Celebrant
The Rev'd David Thompson, Preacher
The Choir of The Church of the Advent
Mark Dwyer, Organist & Choirmaster
Andrew Scanlon, Associate Organist & Choirmaster
Downloadable Bulletin: https://www.theadventboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/bulletin-9-1-2022.pdf

Webcasts

2022.01.09 Live Sunday Mass Webcast

Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City
Dr. Gerre Hancock, Organist and Master of the Choristers

Epiphany Procession, January 2004

Brightest and Best (Morning Star)

Hymn: Christ triumphant (Guiting Power)

Light Down (2018)
After the traditional folk song LOVING HENRY

Light Down takes its title from the opening line of the traditional murder ballad Loving Henry. The folk material, the story of a woman murdering her adulterer lover, is quoted in the alto flute. The ensemble interjects through a catalogue of orchestrational colors - a scrape on the tam-tam, a cluster in the piano, or a drone on the open strings of the cello. A series of sections based on patterns frame the ballad. This piece is dedicated to noexit, whose artistic directors always elicit particular delight in the macabre.

Light down, light down, loving Henry, she said 
And stay all night with me 
There’s a chair for you and a chair for me 
And th candle’s a burning free

I can’t light down Lady Marget, he said 
And stay all night with thee
For my only little gallin the Arkansas land 
Will wait long for me comin home

Then bending over th horn of his saddle 
He kissed her one, two and three
She took a sharp knife all from her side 
And pierced him both wide and deep 

Ride on, ride on, loving Henry, she cried 
And ride beneath th sun
And your only little gal in th Arkansas land 
Will wait long for you comin home

I can’t ride on, Lady Marget, he cried 
And ride beneath th sun 
For don’t you see my own hearts blood 
A tricklin down, does run

Some takin him by th lily white hands 
Some takin him by th feet
They throwed him in th dark river side 
That runs so wide and deep

Lie there, lie there, lov’n Henry, she cried 
Till th meat rots off your bones
And your only little gal, in the Arkansas land 
Will wait long for you comin home

Loving Henry
As sung by Joan O’Bryant Wichita, Kansas
June 21, 1958
Max Hunter Folk Song Collection Missouri State University






Live Recording
March 2018
No Exit New Music Ensemble
WOLFS Gallery
Cleveland, OH

Light Down (2018) - flute, string trio, piano & percussion

1 Abide with me: fast falls the eventide;
the darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

2 Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away.
Change and decay in all around I see.
O thou who changest not, abide with me.

(Sopranos, Tenors)
3 I need thy presence every passing hour.
What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?
Who like thyself my guide and strength can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, O abide with me.

(Altos, Basses)
4 I fear no foe with thee at hand to bless,
ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Where is death's sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if thou abide with me.

(All)
5 Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes.
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven's morning breaks and earth's vain shadows flee;
in life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

Light Down (2018) - flute, string trio, piano & percussion

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