8th Sunday after Pentecost (8/4/19)

Photo by Ch. Reutlinger, Paris, BNF Richelieu - http://kirchenmusik-brenneke.de, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1051825

This Sunday morning we hear two excerpts from a staple of the organ repertory, Suite gothique.

The four-movement work was composed by Léon Boëllmann in 1895, just two years before his untimely death at the age of 35. While greatly influenced by contemporaries César Franck and Camille Saint-Saëns, Boëllmann's compositional style also channeled post-Romantic sensibilities in his sonorous phrasing and harmonies. The beautiful "Prière à Notre-Dame" opens the service 
with "Menuet gothique" closing worship on a majestic note.

The Summer Choir returns for the last time this season with a reading of "Song of Remembrance" by Tom Fettke. This communion anthem is a paraphrase of Jesus' words to us from I Corinthians 11: 24-26 "Do this in remembrance of me."

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