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+  HOLY WEEK & EASTER MUSIC 2009  +

                                            PALM SUNDAY, April 5

                                                                  BLESSING & PROCESSION OF PALMS,

MASS OF PALM SUNDAY  11:00 a.m.

                                               Gregorian chant:  Antiphon Hosanna, Communion Pater, si non potest

                                               Passion of Christ from Mark's Gospel:  chant recitation in English

                                                    (Narrator: David Ronis, tenor; Christ: Robert Kuehn, baritone; Speaker: Scott Fraser)

                                               Motet:  Christus factus est, Johann Ernst Eberlin

                                               Motet:  Tristis est anima mea, Johann Kuhnau

                                               Motet:  Ecce vidimus eum, Jackson Hill (from Three Motets,

                                                    commissioned by Corpus Christi Church in 1977)

HOLY THURSDAY, April 9

MASS OF THE LORD'S SUPPER (bilingual)  7:30 p.m.

Gregorian chant:  Introit Nos autem; Antiphons Postquam surrexit Dominus; Ubi caritas;

   Domine, tu mihi lavas pedes; Mandatum novum do vobis; Maneant in vobis;

   Communion  Hoc corpus; hymn during final procession Pange lingua

Agnus Dei:  Mass for Four Voices, William Byrd

Motet:  Domine non sum dignus, Tomás Luis de Victoria

Motet:  O Domine Jesu Christe, Tomás Luis de Victoria

Motet:  Pan divino, graçioso, sacrasancto, Francisco Guerrero 

GOOD FRIDAY, April 10

TENEBRAE SERVICE  10:00 a.m.

                                                       Following the monastic Offices of Matins & Lauds for Good Friday

                                                       A traditional and ancient service with Gregorian chant antiphons,

                                                          psalms, lessons (Lamentations of Jeremiah)

                                                       Motets:  Ludovico Viadana, Marc'Antonio Ingegnieri

CELEBRATION OF THE LORD'S PASSION:
THE SOLEMN LITURGY  3:00 p.m.

                                                       Gregorian chant:  Gradual Christus factus est

                                                       Passion of Christ from John's Gospel:  chant recitation in English

                                                          with choral responses by William Byrd

                                                          (Narrator: Robert Kuehn, baritone; ; Christ: Frank Barr, bass;

                                                          Speaker: David Ronis, tenor)

                                                       Improperia:  Popule meus, quid feci tibi? (The Reproaches),

                                                          Tomás Luis de Victoria

                                                       Motet:  Nolo mortis peccatoris, Thomas Morley

                                                       Motet:  Adoramus te Christe & Innocens captus, Harvey Burgett

                                                          (from The Passion of Jesus Christ According to St. John, 

                                                          commissioned by Music Before 1800,

                                                          first performed at Corpus Christi Church March 23, 1997)

HOLY SATURDAY, April 11

TENEBRAE SERVICE  10:00 a.m.

Following the monastic Offices of Matins & Lauds for Holy Saturday

A traditional and ancient service with Gregorian chant antiphons,

   psalms, lessons (Lamentations of Jeremiah)

Motets:  Ludovico Viadana

               THE EASTER VIGIL (bilingual)  8:00 p.m.

               Gregorian chant:  Psalms & canticles, The First Canticle of Moses,

                  Easter proclamation Exsultet, Antiphon Vidi aquam,

                  Communion Pascha nostrum

               Agnus Dei:  Missa brevis, Andrea Gabrieli

               Anthem:  Salve festa dies (Hail thee, festival day!), Ralph Vaughan Williams

               Motet:  Ardens est cor meum, Richard Deering

               Motet:  Haec dies, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

EASTER SUNDAY, April 12

MASS FOR EASTER SUNDAY  11:15 a.m.

                                   Gregorian chant:  Introit Resurrexi; Gloria & Sanctus, Missa VIII "De angelis"

                                   Agnus Dei:  Missa "Ad majorem Dei gloriam," André Campra

                                   Motets from the Gradualia, William Byrd:

                                      Victimae Paschali (sequence), Pascha nostrum, Resurrexi,

                                      Haec dies, Terra tremuit

                                      (The Gradualia is Byrd's monumental collection of compositions which systematically

                                      encompasses the proper or appropriate music for the Mass of all the major feasts of the

                                      Roman Catholic liturgical year.)

                                   Organ chorale preludes for Easter from the Orgelbüchlein,

                                      Johann Sebastian Bach

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The Choir of Corpus Christi Church

Marion Beckenstein, Lesley Zlabinger, sopranos

Phyllis Farmer, Scott Fraser, altos

Scott England, David Ronis, tenors

Frank Barr (Solemn Liturgy), Thomas Baker, Phillip Gleason, Robert Kuehn, basses

Louise Basbas, Director of Music and Organist