Advent Lessons & Carols 2019

Interview with William Self by Frank Jank on WTMJ AM Radio Milwaukee, WI
Interview Date May 14, 1957


William Self on WTMJ Radio "Accent On Music" 05/14/1957 at Capitol Drive Lutheran Church

The Feast of Corpus Christi / June 16th, 2022 / The Church of the Advent, Boston.
The Rev'd Dr Jeffrey A. Hanson, Celebrant
The Rev'd Michael Godderz, Preacher
The Choir of The Church of the Advent
Mark Dwyer, DMus, Organist & Choirmaster
Andrew Scanlon, FAGO, Associate Organist & Choirmaster
Downloadable Bulletin link: https://www.theadventboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/corpuschristi-2022.pdf

Webcasts

2022.06.16 Live Corpus Christi Webcast

The First Sunday of Advent / A Service of Advent Lessons & Carols / November 27th, 2022 / The Church of the Advent, Boston.
The Rev'd Jay C. James, Officiant
The Choir of The Church of the Advent
Mark Dwyer, Organist & Choirmaster
Andrew Scanlon, Associate Organist & Choirmaster
Downloadable Service Leaflet: https://theadventboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/advent-lc-2022.pdf

2022.11.27 Advent Lessons & Carols

3/15 Wurlitzer organ, Wurlitzer Store, Chicago, Illinois, recorded May 22, 1928.  Assisted by Larry Gomar, xylophone.

Dance of the Blue Danube - Jesse Crawford, organ

Robin Boyle (1927-2003) interviews Sidney Torch (1908-90) concerning his weekly broadcast "Friday Night is Music Night."

00:00  "Slaughter on 10th Avenue," Robert Docker, piano
08:28  The beginning of "Friday Night is Music Night"

SINGERS

11:40  John Hanson
12:31  "Stouthearted Men" John Hanson
13:53  Joan Hammond
14:22 "There is a Call" Joan Hammond
14:42  Cynthia Glover
16:23  "Wings of Melody" Cynthia Glover
17:58  John Lawrenson
19:42  "The Changing of the Guard" John Lawrenson
20:50  "The London Transport Suite" Mishap
24:06  David Hughes
25:37  "You Are My Lucky Star" David Hughes
26:54  Closing Remarks
28:19  "All Strings and Fancy Free"

Sidney Torch Interview, BBC Radio, 1983

The Feast of the Ascension / May 9th, 2024 / The Church of the Advent, Boston.
The Rev'd David Thompson, Celebrant
The Rev'd Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff, Preacher
The Choir of The Church of the Advent
Mark Dwyer, DMus, Organist & Choirmaster
Andrew Scanlon, FAGO, Associate Organist & Choirmaster
Downloadable service leaflet: https://theadventboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ascension2024.pdf

2024.05.09 Ascension Day Webcast

The 20th Sunday after Pentecost / October 6th, 2024 / The Church of the Advent, Boston.
The Rev'd David Thompson, Celebrant
The Rev'd Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff, Preacher
The Choir of The Church of the Advent
Mark Dwyer, DMus, Organist & Choirmaster
Andrew Scanlon, FAGO, Associate Organist & Choirmaster
Downloadable service leaflet: https://theadventboston.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/xx-pentecost-2024.pdf 

2024.10.06 Live Sunday Mass Webcast

The Advent Choir; Elise Groves, Stephanie Scogna, Francesco Logozzo, Cody Bowers, Glenn Billingsley, Jacob Cooper soloists; Mark Dwyer, conductor, Katelyn Emerson, organist

Walton-Magnificat-Chichester Service / The Advent Choir

Blow out the trumpet -- Martin Peerson (c1572–c1650) / The Advent Choir / Mark Dwyer, conductor / Jeremy Bruns, organ /

Blow out the trumpet in Sion, and sound the alarum in my holy mountaine. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand. And sound the alarum in my holy mountaine. (Joel 2:1)

2019.11.17 Proper 28 C

Peerson-Blow out the trumpet / The Advent Choir

The last and greatest Herald -- John McCabe (1939–2015) / The Advent Choir / Mark Dwyer, conductor / Jeremy Bruns, organ /

The last and greatest Herald of Heaven’s King, girt in rough skins, hies to the deserts wild, among the savage brood the woods forth bring, which he more harmless found than man, and mild.

His food was locusts, and what there doth spring, with honey that from virgin hives distill’d; parch’d body, hollow eyes, some uncouth thing made him appear long since from earth exiled.

There burst he forth: “All ye whose hopes rely on God, with me amidst these deserts mourn, repent, and from old errors turn!”

Who listened to his voice, obey’d his cry? Only the echoes, which he made relent, rung from their flinty caves, “Repent! Repent!”

[William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649), in his Flowers of Zion, 1623]

2019.12.01 Advent Lessons & Carols

McCabe-The last and greatest Herald / The Advent Choir

The Cherubikon, op 41, no 6 -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) / The Advent Choir / Mark Dwyer / conductor

Izhe kheruvimï tayno obrazuyushche, i zhivotvoryashchey Troytsye trisvyatuyu pyesn pripyevayushche; vsyakoye nïnye zhityeskoye otlozhim popyecheniye. Yako da Tsarya vsyekh podïmyem, Angelski,inyevidimo dorinosimachinmi, Alliluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Let us, who mystically represent the Cherubim and sing the thrice-holy hymn to the life-giving Trinity, lay aside all worldly cares: that we may receive the King of All, invisibly escorted by the angelic hosts, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

(Οἱ τὰ Χερουβεὶμ μυστικῶς εἰκονίζοντες, from The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)

Tchaikovsky-The Cherubic Hymn, op 41, no 6 / The Advent Choir

Adam lay ybounden -- Howard While Skempton (born 1947) / The Advent Choir / Mark Dwyer, conductor

Adam lay ybounden, bounden in a bond: four thousand winter thoght he not too long. And all was for an appil, an appil that he took, as clerkes finden wreten in their book.
Ne hadde the appil taken ben, ne hadde never our Lady a ben heavene quene. Blessed be the time that appil taken was: therefore we may singen: Deo gracias. [Thanks be to God]

(London: British Library Sloan MS 2593, 15th cent)

Skempton-Adam lay y-bounden / The Advent Choir

E’en So Lord Jesus, Quickly Come -- Paul Otto Manz (1919–2009) / The Advent Choir / Jeremy Bruns, conductor / 

Peace be to you and grace from him who freed us from our sins, who loved us all and shed his blood that we might saved be. 

Sing holy, holy, to our Lord, the Lord, Almighty God, who was and is and is to come; sing holy, holy, Lord! 

Rejoice in heaven, all ye that dwell therein, rejoice on earth, ye saints below, for Christ is coming, is coming soon, for Christ is coming soon! 

E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come, and night shall be no more; they need no light nor lamp nor sun, for Christ will be their All! 

[text adapted by Ruth Manz (1919–2008) from Revelation 22]

Manz-E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come / The Advent Choir

Matin Responsory -- adapted from a Nunc dimittis of G. P. da Palestrina (1525–1594) / The Advent Choir / Mark Dwyer, conductor / Jeremy Bruns, organ / Francesco Logozzo, Henry Clapp, Laura Ziegler & Agnes Coakley Cox, soloists /

Cantor: I look from afar:
Gentleman: And lo, I see the power of God coming, 
and a cloud covering the whole earth.
Cantor: Go ye out to meet him and say:
Choir: Tell us, art thou he that should come to reign over thy people Israel?
Soprano: High and low, rich and poor, one with another,
Choir: Go ye out to meet him and say:
Soprano: Hear, O thou shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Choir: Tell us, art thou he that should come?
High Voices: 	Stir up thy strength, O Lord, and come
Choir: to reign over thy people Israel.
Cantor: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
Choir: I look from afar: and lo, I see the power of God coming, 
and a cloud covering the whole earth.
Low Voices: Go ye out to meet him and say:
Choir: Tell us, art thou he that should come to reign over thy people Israel?

(Aspiciens a longe, First Responsory at Matins of Advent Sunday)

1 Come, thou Redeemer of the earth,
And manifest thy virgin-birth:
Let every age adoring fall,
Such birth befits the God of all.

2 Begotten of no human will,
But of the Spirit, thou art still
The Word of God, in flesh arrayed,
The Saviour, now to man displayed.

3 The virgin womb that burden gained
With virgin honour all unstained,
The banners there of virtue glow,
God in his temple dwells below.

4 Forth from that chamber goeth he,
That royal home of purity,
A giant in twofold substance one,
Rejoicing now his course to run.

5 From God the Father he proceeds,
To God the Father back he speeds,
Runs out his course to death and hell,
Returns on God’s high throne to dwell.

6 O equal to thy Father, thou!
Gird on thy fleshly mantle now,
The weakness of our mortal state
With deathless might invigorate.

7 Thy cradle here shall glitter bright,
And darkness glow with new-born light,
No more shall night extinguish day,
Where love's bright beams their power display.

8 All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, eternal Son, to Thee;
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the Holy Paraclete.

(Veni Redemptor gentium, Ambrose of Milan: tr John Mason Neale)

Palestrina-Matin Responsory & Hymn-Puer Nobis / The Advent Choir

Rani Arbo "Crossing the Bar"

Evening Service  'Collegium Magdalanæ Oxoniense' -- Kenneth Leighton / The Advent Choir / Mark Dwyer, conductor / Jeremy Bruns, organ /

20.02.16 Epiphany VI B Evensong

Leighton-Magdalene Service-Nunc dimittis

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McCabe-The last and greatest Herald / The Advent Choir

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