Easter Sunday (2013)

Sunday, 31 March 2013

 

Entrance	Jesus Christ is Ris’n Today
Gloria	Psallite
Psalm	This is the Day (mcb)
Sequence	Victimae Paschali Laudes (J. William Greene)
Gospel Acclamation	Easter Gospel Acclamation (Brian Luckner)
Preparation of the Gifts	Now the green blade riseth
Sanctus, Acclamation A, Amen	Spring Sanctus (mcb)
Agnus Dei	from No Greater Love (Michael Joncas)
Communion	Confitemini Domino (Taizé) & Ps 117 (Laurence Bévenot)
Postcommunion	Alleluia Surrexit Dominus (Jacquet de Mantua, 1483-1559)
Recessional	(i) Go in peace, Alleluia (chanted) (ii) At the Lamb’s high feast

 

I reckon Anthony must have been caught out by the clocks changing; at least, his brain was still on snooze when he gave us the start note for our postcommunion motet - top C would have been just right for Lassus the previous night, but for Jacquet we would really have preferred an A. I’m not sure which I’d rather have been equipped with: perfect pitch or a laser death ray gun. (It would have been a pain to have to recruit a new organist, to be fair, and whoever we got wouldn’t be as good as Anthony.) Still, the choir coped admirably, not least the tenors, who had to spend more time than was strictly comfortable around top A. Plainly it’s possible to make beautiful music even while singing with puzzled and/or pained expressions on our faces.

Happy Easter everyone!