Product Description
This is the Piano/Organ Duet edition of the SATB choral piece by the same title, posted separately on SMP. Duration: 2:30. The $4.99 price allows you to duplicate two sets of parts...for the pianist and the organist.
The demo recording is computer-generated, thus the wooden performance and the same registration throughout. :-(
Here are some program notes:
Christopher
Wordsworth (1807-1885) came from a distinguished English family. His
father was first a minister in the Church of England and later Master of
Trinity College, Cambridge. His uncle was none other than the famous
poet, William Wordsworth. In this devout and scholarly environment he
flourishedand after graduating with highest honors from Cambridge, he
became Classical Lecturer and Public Orator at his alma mater. At the
age of 29 he was appointed headmaster of Harrow, a renowned school for
boys. At age 41, he was named Canon of Westminster Abbey. Two years
later, he began a pastorate in a humble, rural parishStanford in the
Valewhich was to last for 19 years. It was during this time that he
published The Holy Year, a collection of hymns for every festival
and season of the Church Year. Included were several texts which were
to later find their way into the canon of standard hymnody, e.g., "O Day
of Rest and Gladness," "See, the Conqueror Mounts in Triumph,"
"Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost" (later altered to "The Greatest of
These"), and "Alleluia! Alleluia!" Wordsworths belief in the importance
of congregational song in public worship was elegantly stated in the
preface of The Holy Year:
"A hymn in public worship is the collective voice of the congregation speaking to God, and singing His praise, or
supplicating His grace. The Church triumphant thanks God for His great glory; and while she duly remembers
what the Lamb who has been slain has done for her, it is not by decomposing herself into individuals that she
glorifies Him, but by a universal chorus of praise for the salvation He has wrought for the whole company of
faithful people in every nation under heaven."
In
1869, when he was 62, Wordsworth was named Bishop of Lincoln, a
position in which he served until a few months before his death 16 years
later.
Lyndell Leatherman (b. 1953) was born into a Nazarene parsonage in southeast Kansas. After studying church music and
composition
at Olivet Nazarene University (Kankakee, Illinois) and Illinois State
University (Bloomington-Normal, Illinois), he was named Music Editor at a
denominational publishing company in Kansas City, Missouri, where he
served from 1977 to 1997. He has enjoyed a diverse career as church
musician, composer, and music editorplacing choral and instrumental
compositions with nine publishers. In 1986 he discovered Wordsworths
metrical rendering of the Apostle Pauls immortal ode to love found in I
Corinthians 13. Wishing to introduce it to the local congregation where
he served as Minister of Music at the time, he was unable to match it
with a suitable tune that was already familiar in his tradition, so he
composed this new melody for the occasion.
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