J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in Eb Major, BWV552

Schroeder: Choralfantasie für Orgel: "O heiligste Dreifaltigkeit"

Langlais: Trois Méditations sur la Sainte Trinité

Text: Jeffrey Rowthorn, 1978

1 Lord, you give the great commission: 
 "Heal the sick and preach the Word." 
 Lest the church neglect its mission 
 and the gospel go unheard, 
 help us witness to your purpose 
 with renewed integrity; 


Refrain: 
 with the Spirit's gifts empower us 
 for the work of ministry. 


2 Lord, you call us to your service: 
 "In my name baptize and teach." 
 That the world may trust your promise 
 life abundant meant for each 
 give us all new fervor, draw us 
 closer in community; Refrain 


3 Lord, you make the common holy: 
 "This my body, this my blood." 
 Let us all, for earth's true glory, 
 daily lift life heavenward, 
 asking that the world around us 
 share your children's liberty; Refrain 


4 Lord, you show us love's true measure: 
 "Father, what they do, forgive." 
 Yet we hoard as private treasure 
 all that you so freely give. 
 May your care and mercy lead us 
 to a just society; Refrain 


5 Lord, you bless with words assuring: 
 "I am with you to the end." 
 Faith and hope and love restoring, 
 may we serve as you intend, 
 and, amid the cares that claim us, 
 hold in mind eternity; Refrain 



Hymn: Lord, You Give The Great Commission (Tune: Rowthorn)

IU Choralfest Singers
John Stender, Conductor
Kartika Putri, Organist
Molly Grettenberger, Harp
Melinda Leoce, Percussion

Bernstein: Chichester Psalm, Mov. 1

Text: Henry Scott Holland, 1902, alt. 

Judge eternal, throned in splendor,
 Lord of lords and King of kings,
 with thy living fire of judgment
 purge this land of bitter things;
 solace all its wide dominion
 with the healing of thy wings.

 Still the weary folk are pining
 for the hour that brings release,
 and the city's crowded clangor
cries aloud for sin to cease;
 and the homesteads and the woodlands 
 plead in silence for their peace.

 Crown, O God, thine own endeavor;
 cleave our darkness with thy sword;
 feed the faint and hungry people
 with the richness of thy word;
 cleanse the body of this nation
 through the glory of the Lord. 

Hymn: Judge Eternal, Throned In Splendor (tune: Rhuddlan)

Rheinberger: In Memoriam

Recorded live during a hymn festival at First United Methodist Church in Martinsville. 

The improvisation following the hymn is based on the fourth stanza of the hymn text "For the Healing of the Nations" with a brief musical quote from a newly composed hymn tune "There's a Wideness in God's Mercy" (https://soundcloud.com/kartika-putri-12/composition-hymnchoral-theres-a-wideness-in-gods-mercy), earlier sung in the hymn festival.

Text: Fred Kaan

You, Creator God, have written
 your great name on humankind;
 for our growing in your likeness
 bring the life of Christ to mind;
 that by our response and service
 earth its destiny may find.


Hymn, followed by an improvized postlude: For the Healing of the Nations

Words: Frederick William Faber, 1862 (paraphrased)
Music: Kartika Putri

There's a wideness in God's mercy
 like the wideness of the sea;
 there's a kindness in his justice,
 which is more than liberty.
 There is welcome for the sinner,
 and more graces for the good;
 there is mercy with the Savior; 
 there is healing in his blood.

There is no place where earth's sorrows
 are more felt than up in heaven;
 there is no place where earth's failings
 have such kindly judgment given.
 There is plentiful redemption
 in the blood that has been shed;
 there is joy for all the members
 in the sorrows of the Head.

For the love of God is broader
 than the measure of our mind;
 and the heart of the Eternal
 is most wonderfully kind.
 If our love were but more simple,
 we should take him at his word;
 and our life would be thanksgiving
 for the goodness of the Lord.


Composition (Hymn/Choral): There's a Wideness in God's Mercy

Recorded live at Zion Lutheran Church, Bensenville IL

Sung as a wedding processional, with the bridesmaids and groomsmen processing on stanzas 3 and 4, and the bride processing on stanza 5 

Hymn treatments improvised by Kartika Putri, Organist

“O Morning Star, how fair and bright!
 You shine with God’s own truth and light,
 Aglow with grace and mercy!
 Of Jacob’s race, King David’s son,
 Our Lord and master, You have won
 Our hearts to serve You only!
 Lowly, holy!
 Great and glorious,
 All victorious,
 Rich in blessing!
 Rule and might o’er all possessing!

*

“Come, heavenly Bridegroom, Light divine,
 and deep within our hearts now shine;
 There light a flame undying!
 In Your one body let us be
 As living branches of a tree,
 Your life our lives supplying.
 Now, though daily
 Earth’s deep sadness
 May perplex us
 And distress us,
 Yet with heavenly joy You bless us.

*

“Lord, when You look on us in love,
 At once there falls from God above
 A ray of purest pleasure.
 Your Word and Spirit, flesh and blood
 Refresh our souls with heavenly food.
 You are our dearest treasure!
 Let Your mercy
 Warm and cheer us!
 O draw near us!
 For You teach us
 God’s own love through You has reached us.

*

“Almighty Father, in Your Son
 You loved us when not yet begun
 Was this old earth’s foundation!
 Your Son has ransomed us in love
 To live in Him here and above;
 This is Your great salvation.
 Alleluia!
 Christ the living,
 To us giving
 Life forever,
 Keeps us Yours and fails us never!

*

“O let the harps break forth in sound!
 Our joy be all with music crowned,
 Our voices gladly blending!
 For Christ goes with us all the way—
Today, tomorrow, every day!
 His love is never ending!
 Sing out!  Ring out!
 Jubilation!
 Exultation!
 Tell the story!
 Great is He, the King of Glory!

*

“What joy to know, when life is past,
 The Lord we love is first and last,
 The end and the beginning!
 He will one day, oh, glorious grace,
 Transport us to that happy place
 Beyond all tears and sinning!
 Amen!  Amen!
 Come, Lord Jesus!
 Crown of gladness!
 We are yearning
 For the day of Your returning!”

— Lutheran Service Book,
“O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright,” 395:1-6

Hymn: O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (tune: Wie schön leuchtet)

Text: Timothy Dudley-Smith (© 1985 Hope Publishing Co.)
Tune: Max Miller (© 1984 Max Miller)

Recorded live at First United Methodist Church in Martinsville, IN
Hymn treatments and interludes improvised by Kartika Putri, Organist, with the congregation's entrances lead by the FUMC Sanctuary Choir

1 Behold a broken world, we pray,
 where want and war increase,
 and grant us, Lord, in this our day,
 the ancient dream of peace:


2 A dream of swords to sickles bent,
 of spears to scythe and spade,
 the weapons of our warfare spent,
 a world of peace remade;


3 Where every battle flag is furled
 and every trumpet stilled,
 where wars shall cease in all the world,
 a waking dream fulfilled.


4 No force of arms shall there prevail
 nor justice cease its sway;
 nor shall their loftiest visions fail
 the dreamers of the day.


5 O Prince of peace, who died to save,
 a lost world to redeem,
 and rose in triumph from the grave,
 behold our waking dream.


6 Bring, Lord, your better world to birth,
 your kingdom, love's domain;
 where peace with God, and peace on earth,
 and peace eternal reign.


Hymn: Behold A Broken World (tune: Marsh chapel)

Bernardo Pasquini: Variationi Capricciose

Text: John of Damascus (c. 750), trans. John Mason Neale, 1862
Tune: Ellacombe, found in Gesangbuch der Herzogl, 1748)

The Day of Resurrection

1 The day of resurrection! 
 Earth, tell it out abroad; 
 the passover of gladness, 
 the passover of God. 
 From death to life eternal, 
 from earth unto the sky, 
 our Christ hath brought us over, 
 with hymns of victory. 


2 Our hearts be pure from evil, 
 that we may see aright 
 the Lord in rays eternal 
 of resurrection light; 
 and listening to his accents, 
 may hear, so calm and plain, 
 his own "All hail!" and, hearing, 
 may raise the victor strain. 


3 Now let the heavens be joyful! 
 Let earth the song begin! 
 Let the round world keep triumph, 
 and all that is therein! 
 Let all things seen and unseen 
 their notes in gladness blend, 
 for Christ the Lord hath risen, 
 our joy that hath no end. 


Hymn: The Day of Resurrection (tune: Ellacombe)

Madeline Shugert, Saxophone
Kartika Putri, Organ

Graham Fitkin: Watching, for soprano saxophone and organ

Written for the First United Methodist Church Handbell Ensemble (2-octave set):

To God be the glory, great things he has done;
 so loved he the world that he gave us his Son,
 who yielded his life an atonement for sin,
 and opened the lifegate that we may go in.

Refrain:
 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord; let the earth hear his voice!
 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord; let the people rejoice!
 O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,
 and give him the glory; great things he has done.

Composition (Handbells): To God Be The Glory

The Methodist Hymnal #302
Text: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 
Music: Lyra Davidica, 1708 
Tune: EASTER HYMN, Meter: 77.77 D

1. Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia! 
 Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia! 
 Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia! 
 Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!

2. Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia! 
 Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia! 
 Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia! 
 Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia!

3. Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia! 
 Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia! 
 Once he died our souls to save, Alleluia! 
 Where's thy victory, boasting grave? Alleluia!

4. Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia! 
 Following our exalted Head, Alleluia! 
 Made like him, like him we rise, Alleluia! 
 Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!


Kartika Putri

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