The Holy Eucharist: Rite II on The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, October 12, 2025, at 11 a.m.
The Holy Eucharist: Rite II on The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, October 12, 2025 at 11 a.m. at Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rabbi Aaron Bisno was the preacher. Assisting: the Rev. Jonathon W. Jensen, Rector, the Rev. Cameron J. Soulis, Senior Associate Rector, the Rev. Bonnie-Marie Yager-Wiggan, Associate Rector, the Rev. Deanna J. Briody, Curate, the Rev. Geoffrey S. Royce, Deacon, Alan Lewis, Organist, Jon Tyillian, Assistant Organist. Musical Notes: The music of Thomas Tallis was just being rediscovered in the 1910s and 20s, after three centuries of obscurity. In 1918, the young composer Herbert Howells (1892-1983), a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music in London, was engaged to assist R.R. Terry, the music-director of London’s Westminster Cathedral, in the task of reclaiming the surviving Latin music of the Tudor era, a project that culminated in a multi-volume series published in the 1920s under the auspices of the Carnegie UK Trust. This encounter with the music of Tallis and his contemporaries made a deep impression on Howells, one expression of which was the organ piece heard as today’s Prelude, dating from 1940. Its title explicitly invokes the Tudor composer, and its musical form recalls the Pavan, a sixteenth-century dance; the music itself suggests the pre-tonal “modal” character of sixteenth-century music. Three variations grow from a soft beginning to a loud finale, fading away to a whisper at the conclusion. The Welsh composer William Mathias (1934-92) was prolific in various genres, but made a particularly enduring mark with his music for the Church. The congregational setting used today of the canticle “Glory to God in the highest,” composed for The Hymnal 1982, is familiar in churches across our nation. And the Offertory Anthem today, composed for the 1981 marriage of the then-Prince and Princess of Wales, continues to be sung around the world wherever traditional choral music flourishes. The Processional is a jubilant organ piece that, like the choral and congregational pieces, embodies a rhythmic vigor and playfulness that is infectious. The Choir sings Evensong this afternoon at 4 p.m., with music mostly by Charles Wood, a very fine composer of the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras. Please join us. Visit our website at http://www.calvarypgh.org Download the bulletin for this service at https://www.calvarypgh.org/bulletins-... Visit our YouTube page where you will find an archive of our services, sermons, and classes at / @calvaryepiscopalchurchpitt207
