Worship

Pre-Convention Evensong

Location:  Palmer Episcopal Church

When:  June 19

• Organ Voluntary: Fantasie-Choral in D-flat by Percy Whitlock
•  Introit: Teach me, O Lord  by Edmund Hooper
•  Processional Voluntary: Edwardia by George Thalban-Ball
•  Preces and Responses by David Ashley White
•  Phos hilaron by David Ashley White
•  Psalm 84 by Sir Hubert Parry
•  Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, Westminster Service by Herbert Howells
•  Anthem: Teach me, O Lord John Hilton
•  Anthem: All wisdom cometh from the Lord by Philip Moore
•  Hymn: So the Day Dawn by David Ashley White
•  Hymn: 704 O Thou Who Camest From Above  Descant: Daniel Fortune
•  Closing Voluntary: Allegro Vivace, from Sonata No. 2 Alexandre Guilmant

Musicians:

Dr. Brady Knapp, conductor
Yuri McCoy, organist

Opening Convocation

Location: St. Martin’s Episcopal Church

Keynote speaker: Rt. Rev. Graeme Paul Knowles, retired Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.

Commissions:

• Opening & closing hymns arranged for Organ, Brass, Choir and Congregation by Craig Phillips
• Festival Anthem for Organ, Brass and Choir composed by David Ashley White

Musicians:

• St. Martin’s Episcopal Church choir

“Halle, Halle: We sing the World Around – A Service of World Music”

Location: First Presbyterian Church

Commissions: Choral anthem premiere

Musicians:

• City-wide Interracial Children’s Chorus
• Quintessence from Houston Baptist University
• First Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir
• John Yarrington, conductor
• Rhonda Furr, organist

Service of Choral Evensong 

Location: Christ Church Cathedral

• The Very Rev. Barkley Thompson, Dean
• Robert Simpson, Canon for Music
• Monica Czausz, Cathedral Organist
• The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral

Opening Voluntaries

• Psalm Prelude, Set 2, No. 3  -  Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
• Chorale Prelude on Dunedin  -  David Dahl
• Requiescat in Pace  -   Leo Sowerby (1895-1968)

Closing Voluntary

• Recessional, Op. 96, No 4  -  William Mathias (1934-1992)

Service Music:

• Preces & Responses, Lord's Prayer and Suffrages - Bernard Rose 
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis,  Chichester Service by William Walton

Season of Praise – A Hymn Festival

Location:  St. Luke's United Methodist Church

Musicians: David Cherwien, conductor & organist

Musicians:

• St. Luke’s Chancel Choir
• Brass ensemble

Service of Choral Evensong with Full Orchestra

Location: St. Paul’s United Methodist Church

Service music: 

• Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A Major– Charles Villiers Stanford; 
• Te Deum laudamus in B-flat Major– Charles Villiers Stanford
•  Preces and Responses – David Ashley White
•  Anglican Psalter – The Psalms of David, Pointed and Edited by John Scott

Commission:  Judas and Mary: Ballad from Bayou-büchlein by Rebecca Te Velde

Musicians:

• Rev. Tommy Williams, Senior Pastor
• St. Paul’s Choir, with orchestra
• Paolo Bordignon, Director of Music and Organist
• Kenneth Coleman, Assistant Organist

Compline for the Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Location: Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart

Musicians:

• The Schola Cantorum of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
• Crista Miller, Director of Music & Cathedral Organist
• Michael Emmerich, Co-Cathedral Associate Organist
• Robert Bates, Organist

Music:

• Sinfonia in Honor Sancti Ioannis Baptistae - Naji Hakim (b. 1955)
• Ut Queant Laxis  -  Jehan Titelouze (ca. 1562-1633)
• Sacred Heart Service  -  Michael Emmerich (b. 1987)
• Ut Queant Laxis (Gregorian with polyphony)  -  Hernando Franco (1532-1585)
• Psalm 91 (Gregorian)
• In Manus Tuas  -  Juan de Lienas (fl. 1640)
• Nunc Dimittis  -  Juan de Lienas
• Salve Regina  -  Olivier Latry (b. 1962)
• Soleil du soir  -  Jean Langlais (1907-1991)