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First Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.
Cookeville, Tennessee
Music
Winter 2010 |
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August 22nd
ANTHEM In All These
You Welcomed Me William Bradley Roberts
Text: Carl P. Daw Jr.
Trav’ler’s child laid in
a manger, refugee to Egypt bound,
Pilgrim youth, yet not a
stranger, when your Father’s house you found;
Christ, who set aside
your glory to reclaim our wayward race,
Help us read salvation’s
story in each passing heart and face.
Guest who vintaged wine
from water, wand’ring healer brimmed with balm,
Foreigner whose hearer
brought her heartthirst to your well of calm:
Savior, may we see our
neighbor as an emblem of your care;
In our leisure and our
labor give us grace to find you there.
Homeless squatter in a
garden, feaster in a rented room,
Scapegoat for another’s
pardon, sleeper in a borrowed tomb:
Jesus, outcast and
offender to those certain of God’s will,
Rend the veils of race
and gender, wealth and health, that shroud us still.
Strange wayfarer to
Emmaus, vague form on the distant shore,
Fright to friends (“Does
sense betray us?”) when you stood with them once more:
Risen Lord, be there to
meet us when life dawns eternally;
May your promised
blessing greet us, “In all these you welcomed me.”
August 15th
ANTHEM A
Vineyard Grows K.
Lee Scott
Text: Jaroslav J. Vajda
Amid the world’s bleak
wilderness
A vineyard grows with
promise green,
The planting of the Lord
himself.
His love selected this
terrain,
His vine with love he
planted here
To bear the choicest
fruit for him.
We are his branches,
chosen, dear,
And though we feel the
dresser’s knife,
We are the objects of his
care.
From him we draw the
juice of life,
For him supply his winery
With fruit from which
true joys derive.
Vine, keep what I was
meant to be:
Your branch, with your
rich life in me.
August 8th
VOLUNTARY Prelude in C-Sharp
Major, WTC I J.S. Bach
Paul
Thurmond, Organist
ANTHEM Keep
Your Lamps! African-American Spiritual
André Thomas, arranger
Jonathan Holland, congas
Keep your lamps trimmed
and burning,
Keep your lamps trimmed
and burning,
Keep your lamps trimmed
and burning,
The time is drawing nigh.
Children don’t get weary,
Children don’t get weary,
Children don’t get weary,
‘Til your work is done
Christian, journey soon
be over,
Christian, journey soon
be over,
Christian, journey soon
be over,
The time is drawing
nigh.
August 1st
Offertory ANTHEM Ah, Thou Poor
World Johannes Brahms
Ah, thou poor
world, thou cheatest me;
That I confess
unfeignedly,
Yet in thee
seek my pleasure.
False world,
thou art but idle show;
Thy splendor
fades, as well I know;
Thy joys have
briefest measure.
Thy wealth,
thine honors manifold,
In need, in
death, no comfort hold;
Thy gold is
naught but tinsel gold.
Be thou, O
Lord, my treasure.
July 25th
ANTHEM
Awake, Awake to Love and Work
Christopher Gale
Awake, awake to love
and work, the lark is in the sky.
The fields are wet
with diamond dew, the worlds awake to cry
Their blessing on the
Lord of life, as he goes meekly by.
Come, let thy voice be
one with theirs, shout with their shout of praise;
See how the giant sun
soars up, great Lord of years and days!
So let the love of
Jesus come and set thy soul ablaze.
To give and give, and
give again, what God hath given thee;
To spend thyself nor
count the cost, to serve right gloriously
The God who gave all
worlds that are, and all that are to be.
OFFERTORY Prelude in B Major,
Op. 16, No. 1 Alexander Scriabin
Presbytery Meeting, July 24th
PRELUDE
Blessed
Assurance Kurt
Kaiser
Paul
Thurmond, Organist
OFFERTORY
At the River
Aaron Copland
Anne Thurmond,
clarinet
*POSTLUDE
Fugue in C Major
Dietrich Buxtehude
New Life, New
Love, New Light by Thomas
Troeger and Alfred Fedak
This anthem was
commissioned by First Presbyterian Church, Cookeville to commemorate
its 100th anniversary. The congregation is invited to
join the choir on the fourth and fifth stanzas.
Choir: Earth’s
crust of rock is drifting upon its molten core,
and all the sands are shifting on
every wave-lapped shore,
while in the sky’s vast spaces great
suns recede to night
and leave no shining traces of their
once steady light.
Though all things fade and crumble on
earth and in the sky,
and we frail creatures stumble, our
faith will never die
for we have glimpsed the wonder of
love that never dims
and dreams of hope that thunder
through worship, prayers and hymns.
Faith gives a depth dimension to how
we view all things,
directing our attention to their
undying springs:
the Spirit animating all life in
every place,
the heart of Christ relating to us
with love and grace.
Choir and congregation:
July 18th
VOLUNTARY
Gigue
Arcangelo Corelli
Jeremy Hansen, horn Paul Thurmond, Organist
July 11th
OFFERTORY Song Without Words, Op.
19, No. 2 Felix Mendelssohn
July 4th
VOLUNTARY
The
Prayer of St. Gregory Alan
Hovhaness
Chris McCormick, trumpet
Paul Thurmond, Organist
*OPENING HYMN NO. 150 Come,
Christians, Join to Sing
*CLOSING HYMN NO. 564 O Beautiful for
Spacious Skies
June 27th
MEDITATION
Chant d’Amour
Isaac Albéniz
Anne Thurmond, clarinet
June 20th
ANTHEM Eternal
Light Paul Thurmond
Text: Thomas Binney
(1798-1874)
Solo: Chelsea
Holland
Eternal light! Eternal light!
How pure the soul must be
When, placed within thy searching
sight,
It shrinks not, but with calm
delight
Can live, and look on thee!
The spirits that surround thy
throne
May bear the burning bliss;
But that is surely theirs alone,
Since they have never, never
known
A fallen world like this.
Oh how shall I, whose native
sphere
Is dark, whose mind is dim,
Before the ineffable appear,
And on my naked spirit bear
That uncreated beam?
There is a way for man to rise
To that sublime abode–
An off’ring and a sacrifice,
A holy spirit’s energies,
An advocate with God:
These, these prepare us for the
sight
Of holiness above;
The ones of ignorance and night
May dwell in the eternal light,
Through the eternal love.
June 13th
ANTHEM Gracious Spirit, Dwell
With Me K. Lee Scott
Gracious Spirit, dwell with me, I
would gracious be;
Help me now thy grace to see, I
would be like thee;
And, with words that help and
heal, thy life would mine reveal;
And, with actions bold and meek,
for Christ, my Savior, speak.
Truthful Spirit, dwell with me, I
would truthful be;
Help me now thy truth to see, I
would be like thee;
And, with wisdom kind and clear,
thy life in mine appear;
And, with actions brotherly,
speak Christ’s sincerity.
Holy Spirit, dwell with me, I
would holy be;
Show thy mercy tenderly, make me
more like thee;
Separate from sin, I would and
cherish all things good,
And whatever I can be give him
who gave me thee.
Mighty Spirit, dwell with me, I
would mighty be;
Help me now thy pow’r to see, I
would be like thee;
‘Gainst all weapons hell can
wield, be thou my strength and shield;
Let thy word my weapon be, Lord,
thine the victory.
OFFERTORY Menuett in A Major, K.
15i/k W.A.
Mozart
June 6th
Offertory ANTHEM Lamb of God, What Wondrous
Love Gabriel Fauré
Lamb of God,
what wondrous love, what wondrous love, O my soul,
Love, such
love, that Thou shouldst die, that Thou, for me, shouldst
die.
Lord of Grace,
what matchless love, what matchless love, O my soul.
Son of God,
Thou loving sacrifice, thou loving sacrifice for me.
Here, O Lord,
am I, fearful, sinful one.
Guilty and
condemned, Thy death is surely mine.
Cross of God,
I would to turn away, yet Love it bids me stay, O my soul.
Can it be the
very death I fear is that which draws me near, Lord, to
Thee?
May 30th
VOLUNTARY All
Glory Be to God on High J.S.
Bach
ANTHEM
Holy, Holy, Holy
Franz Schubert
Holy, holy, holy Lord,
God of power and might,
Heaven and earth are
full of your glory.
Hosanna in the
highest.
Blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the
highest.
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