Music for the Season of Advent / The Advent Choir

Ash Wednesday / March 2nd, 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/2022/03/ash-wednesday-2022.pdf

Webcasts

2022.03.02 Ash Wednesday Webcast

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

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

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 Advent Choir, Mark Dwyer, conductor

Canite tuba in Sion         Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c1524-1594) 

Canite tuba in Sion, quia prope est dies Domini: ecce venit ad salvandum nos. Erunt prava in directa, et aspera in vias planas: Veni, Domine, et noli tardare. Alleluia.

Rorate cæli desuper et nubes pluant justum. Aperiatur terra, et germinet salvatorem: Ostende nobis Domine misericordiam tuam, Et salutare tuum da nobis: Veni Domine et noli tardare. Alleluia 

Blow ye the trumpet in Sion, for the day of the Lord is at hand: behold, he cometh to save us. The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: Come, O Lord, and do not tarry. Alleluia. 

Drop down, ye heavens, from above,  and let the skies pour down righteousness,  let the earth open  and bring forth a Savior.  Show us thy mercy, O Lord and grant us thy salvation. Come, O Lord and do not tarry. Alleluia. (Advent IV, Psalm antiphons 1 & 3 at Lauds; cf Joel 2:1; Isaiah 40:4, Isaiah 45:8; Ps 85:7)

Palestrina - Canite Tuba-The Advent Choir

The Advent Choir, Ross Wood, conductor, Mark Dwyer, organist

Sir Alfred Herbert Brewer (21 June 1865 – 1 March 1928) was an English composer and organist. As organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1896 until his death, he contributed a good deal to the Three Choirs Festival for 30 years. Brewer's D Major Service was composed for the Three Choirs Festival of 1927.

Brewer lived in Gloucester his whole life. He was the organist at two of its churches, and also founded the city's choral society in 1905. He had been a Gloucester Cathedral chorister in his boyhood, and began his organ studies there under C. H. Lloyd. He was educated at the Cathedral School, Oxford and at the Royal College of Music.

In 1913, at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester, Brewer was entrusted with conducting the premiere of Sibelius's tone-poem for soprano and orchestra, Luonnotar, Op. 70.

Brewer's output includes church music of all types, cantatas, songs, instrumental works, and orchestral music. The greater part of his life was devoted to the advancement of the standards of ecclesiastical music. He was knighted in 1926. His notable pupils included Herbert Howells, Ivor Gurney and Herbert Sumsion.

Brewer In D Major - Magnificat / The Advent Choir

The Advent Choir, Mark Dwyer, conductor

Jesus Christ the Apple Tree 		Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987)

The tree of life my soul hath seen, laden with fruit and always green: the trees of nature fruitless be compared with Christ the apple tree.

His beauty doth all things excel: by faith I know, but ne’er can tell the glory which I now can see in Jesus Christ the apple tree.

For happiness I long have sought, and pleasure dearly I have bought: I missed of all; but now I see ‘tis found in Christ the apple tree.

I’m weary with my former toil, here I will sit and rest awhile: under the shadow I will be, of Jesus Christ the apple tree.

This fruit doth make my soul to thrive, it keeps my dying faith alive; which makes my soul in haste to be with Jesus Christ the apple tree.
(Joshua Smith’s Divine Hymns or Spiritual Songs, New Hampshire, 1784)

Poston - Jesus Christ The Apple Tree / The Advent Choir

The Advent Choir, Katelyn Emerson, conductor

Attollite portas, principes, vestras				William Byrd (1543-1623) 

Attollite portas, principes, vestras, et elevamini, portæ æternales: et introibit Rex gloriæ. Quis est ipse Rex gloriæ? Dominus fortis et potens in prœlio. Quis est ipse Rex gloriæ? Dominus virtutum ipse est Rex gloriæ. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto: Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors: and the King of glory shall come in. Who is the King of glory? It is the Lord strong and mighty, even the Lord mighty in battle. Who is the King of glory? even the Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
(Ps 24: 7, 8, 10)

Byrd - Attollite Portas / The Advent Choir

The Advent Choir, Ross Wood conductor

Ave Maria 			John Taverner  (c1495-1545)


Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum; benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. (Luke 1)

Advent Lessons & Carols 11-27-11

Taverner-Ave Maria / The Advent Choir

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

Eternal Father, op 135, no 2 -- Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) / The Advent Choir / Jeremy Bruns, conductor /

Eternal Father, who didst all create, in whom we live and to whose bosom move, to all men be thy name known which is Love, till its loud praises sound at heaven’s high gate.

Perfect thy kingdom in our passing state, that here on earth thou mayst as well approve our service as thou ownest theirs above whose joy we echo and in pain await.

Grant body and soul each day their daily bread: and should in spite of grace fresh woe begin, even as our anger soon is past and dead, be thy remembrance mortal of our sin:

By thee in paths of peace thy sheep be led, and in the vale of terror comforted.

[Sonnet no 69 from The Growth of Love, Robert Bridges (1844–1930)]

2019.05.19 Easter V Evensong

Stanford-Eternal Father, op 135, no 2

The Advent Choir, Mark Dwyer, conductor, Ross Wood, organist

O thou the central orb 			Charles Wood (1866-1926)

O thou the central orb of righteous love, pure beam of the Most High, eternal Light of this our wintry world, thy radiance bright awakes new joy in faith; hope soars above.

Come, quickly come, and let thy glory shine, gilding our darksome heaven with rays divine.

Thy saints with holy lustre round thee move as stars about thy throne set in the height of God’s ordaining counsel, as thy sight gives measured grace to each thy power to prove.

Let thy bright beams disperse the gloom of sin, our nature all shall feel eternal day, in fellowship with thee, transforming clay to souls erewhile unclean, now pure within. Amen.
[Henry Ramsden Bramley (1833-1917) for an edition of Anthems by Gibbons prepared (1873) by Frederick A. Gore Ouseley (1825-1889) to substitute for the secular original, a congratulatory motet “A thanksgiving for the King’s happy recovery from a great dangerous sickness” in 1619, as adapted by Charles Wood]

Wood-O thou the central Orb-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

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

2020.02.16 Epiphany VI A Evensong

Leighton-Magdalene Service-Magnificat

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