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MUSIC AT SAINT BARNABAS

The Organ | Music Schedule

A service of Evensong and Benediction is celebrated the third Sunday evening of each month. In 1998, the church initiated a series of Festival High Evensong and Benediction services. These are celebrated once a quarter and allow us to share this special service with a large number of visitors. For these services, we are sometimes joined by additional choristers from Trinity Cathedral and other churches. We are thus able to present settings of the evening canticles, the Magnificat and the Nunc Dimittis, again in the context for which they were intended.

The church has historically employed music directors of note to lead this ministry. These have included names such as the late Arthur Gaeth, Mr. Thomas Stapleton, Miss Marilyn Musick, and Mr. J. Michael McCabe. The present organist/choirmaster is Mr. Nick F. Behrens. He has held this post since Ascension Day 1995. Mr. Behrens is a noted organist in the city, who also serves as the assistant organist of Saint Cecilia's (RC) Cathedral four blocks up the street from Saint Barnabas. We are also currently blessed with a Rector who has the finest chanting voice in the State of Nebraska.


The Organ

The present organ was originally a 9 or 10 rank Pilcher Company Organ, installed in the Fall of 1921 for $5000. This replaced a smaller pipe organ which was destroyed in a fire in the north end of the church on November 12, 1920. Records do not indicate the builder of this first organ, but it must have been quite small as it was appraised as only an $800 loss on the insurance report. Because the new organ took up more space than anticipated, the organ/choir loft was enlarged in October 1922.

In 1971 the Pilcher organ was rebuilt and considerably enlarged by Mr. John Hansen and Mr. Fred Meijerding of the Lewis Organ Company of Council Bluffs, Iowa. The string rank, a flute stop from the Swell, and the 4’ Octave on the Great were retained on the manuals. Three other ranks were re-used to create new independent pedal stops. Sixteen ranks of new pipework were purchased from the Thomas Anderson Company of North Easton, Mass. The Anderson Company supplied pipework for a number of American organ builders, including the noted Aeolian-Skinner Company. The Organ now contains 25 ranks of pipes with a total of 1462 pipes.

Music Schedule-Year of Grace 2003

See also music from previous seasons

1 January, AD 2003, Wednesday, 10:00 AM – The Feast of the Circumcision – High Mass – Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena (sung by all)…Healey Willan, Personent Hodie…Gustav Holst

5 January, 2003 – The Second Sunday after Christmas - Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena (sung by all)…Healy Willan; Myn Lyking….R.R. Terry; In the Bleak Midwinter….Harold Darke; Ding Dong, Merrily on High…..Charles Wood

6 January, 2003, Monday– Epiphany Day – High Mass, 6:30 PM, Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena (sung by all)…Healy Willan; Unto Us a Boy is Born ….Willcocks;

12 January, 2003 – First Sunday after The Epiphany - Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena (sung by all)…Healey Willan; Whence is that Goodly Fragrance…Willcocks ; Lord, We Beseech Thee…Adrian Batten; Unto Us A Boy is Born….Sir David Willcocks

19 January, 2003 – Epiphany II- Messe de Minuet poer Noel…Marc-Antoine Charpentier; O Almighty God…John Barcrofte*

25 January, 2003 – Saturday, 10:00 AM - King Charles the Martyr (observed) – Sung Morning Prayer with Communion – 10:00 AM – Morning Prayer Canticles from Hymnal; Short Communion Service…Adrian Batten: Call to Remembrance….Richard Farrant

26 January, 2003 – Epiphany III – Short Communion Service…Adrian Batten; Almighty and Everlasting God*…Orlando Gibbons;

2 February, 2003 –Solemnity of Candlemas, The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary –Solemn High Mass, Missa Brevissima….Claudio Casciolini; There is no Rose of Such Virtue…David H. Williams; Nunc Dimittis in B Flat….Adrian Batten

9 February, 2003 – Epiphany V - Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena (sung by all)…Healey Willan; The Best of Rooms…..Randall Thompson; Ave Verum Corpus….Camille Saint-Saens;

16 February, 2003 Septuagesima Sunday - Communion Service in A Flat…Basil Harwood; Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether….Harold Friedell

23 February, 2003 – Sexagesima Sunday - Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena (sung by all)…Healey Willan; Ave Verum Corpus….William Byrd; Lord, That Descendest…..Eric Gritton

2 March, 2003 – Quinquagesima Sunday - Communion Service in E (Collegium Regale)…Harold Darke; Ave Verum Corpus….Wolfgang A. Mozart; God So Loved the World….John Goss

5 March, 2003 – Ash Wednesday – 6:30 High Mass - Missa Marialis (sung in Latin by the choir); Treasures in Heaven…Joseph Clokey, Psalm 51….Fauxbourdon setting after Palestrina

9 March, 2003 – Quadragesima Sunday, The First Sunday in Lent – The Great Litany in Procession – Missa Marialis (sung by all)…Plainsong; Call to Remembrance*…Richard Farrant; Forty Days and Forty Nights….L Beethoven

16 March, 2003 – Lent II - Decalogue in Procession - Missa Ave Jesu….George Oldroyd ; O Saviour of the World….John Goss; Thou Knowest Lord….Henry Purcell

23 March, 2003 – Lent III – Decalogue in Procession - Missa Marialis (sung by all)…Plainsong; Hide Not Thou Thy Face From Us, O Lord…Richard Farrant; Purge Me, O Lord….Thomas Tallis, Nolo Mortem Peccatoris…Thomas Morley;

25 March, 2003 – Tuesday - The Annunciation – transferred - 6:30PM – Missa Marialis (sung in Latin by the Choir)…Plainsong; Salutation Carol…arr. R. Vaughan Williams; Ave Maria – J. Archedelt

30 March, 2003 – Rose Sunday/Lent IV – Missa Tempore Quadragesimae…Michael Haydn; O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem*…John Goss; Prayer That Jerusalem may Have Peace… Charles V. Stanford

6 April, 2003 – Passion Sunday/Lent V – The Great Litany in Procession - Missa Marialis (sung by all)…Plainsong; Turn Thy Face from My Sin…Thomas Attwood; Adoramus Te….Theodore Dubois; Stabat Mater….Joseph Rheinberger

13 April, 2003 – Palm Sunday – Missa Seraphica…Tone IV/Burgess; The Passion according to St. Matthew…Tomas Luiz da Vittoria; Qui Est Homo…Joseph Rheinberger; Surely He Hath Bourne Our Griefs….G.F. Handel;

17 April, 2003 – Maundy Thursday (6:30 PM) – Missa de Angelis…Plainsong; Ave Verum Corpus…Camille Saint-Saens; In Monti Olivetti…Anton Bruckner

18 April, 2003 – Good Friday – Liturgy of the Day (12:00 noon) – Passion according to St. John…Tomas Luiz da Vittoria, Reproaches…Vittoria, Is it Nothing to You…Frederick A.G. Ouseley; Nolo Mortis Peccatoris…Thomas Morley

19 April, 2003 – The Easter Vigil – 9:00 PM – Missa Brevissima….Claudio Casciolini; Regina Coeli… Antonio Lotti; Magnificat in Fauxbourdon…John Holmes

20 April, 2003 – Easter Sunday – Missa Brevis Sti. Joannis de Deo…Joseph Haydn; Christ Our Passover….Sir John Goss; Regina Coeli…Wolfgang A. Mozart; Easter Sequence …Traditional Plainsong

27 April, 2003 – Low Sunday/Easter I - Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena (sung by all)…Healey Willan; Christ Our Passover….Sir John Goss; Come Ye Faithful…R.S. Thatcher;

4 May, 2003 – Easter II – Mass of the Quiet Hour….George Oldroyd; I Know that My Redeemer Lives…..J.M. Bach;

11 May, 2003 – Easter III – Communion Service in A Minor…Francis Snow; Ave Maria….Sir Edward Elgar; Jubilate Deo*.…W.A. Mozart, Regina Coeli…W. A. Mozart

18 May, 2003 – Easter IV - Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena (sung by all)…Healey Willan; If Ye Love Me…..Thomas Tallis; With a Voice of Singing…Martin Shaw; Regina Coeli….Antonio Lotti:

25 May, 2003 – Easter V - Rogation Sunday – Missa Sancta Lucano….Alfred M. Smith; Lord, Treasures in Heaven….Joseph Clokey

29 May, 2003, Thursday – Ascension Day - Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena (sung by all)…Healey Willan;

1 June, 2003 – Sunday After Ascension - Missa Iste Confessor….G. Palestrina ; For thy Tender Mercy’s Sake….Christopher Tye

8 June, 2003 – Whitsunday – Organist/Choirmaster Nick Behrens will be at St. Aidan’s Pro-Cathedral, Des Moines (ACA), Guest Organist Marilyn Walker. Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena (sung by all)…Healey Willan; Come Holy Ghost….Thomas Attwood

11 June, 2003, Wednesday – The Feast of St. Barnabas (6:30 PM) – Mass for Three Voices….William Byrd; Verily, Verily, I Say Unto You…..Thomas Tallis

15 June, 2003 –Trinity Sunday – Mass for Three Voices….William Byrd; Laud to the Trinity…..J. Michael McCabe

22 June, 2003 – Corpus Christi (transferred from June 19) Missa Seraphica…Tone IV/Burgess; Verily, Verily, I Say unto You…Thomas Tallis; O Sacrum Convivium…..Thomas Weelkes

28 June, 2003 – Second Sunday after Trinity – Low Mass With Hymns

During the Summer Months, the Communion Service Music will alternate between the setting by John Merbecke, and the setting by L.J. White with the Old Scottish Chant Gloria.

7 September, 2003 – Trinity XII – First Communion Service (Sung by all)….John Merbecke; Haste Thee, Oh God to Deliver Me….Adrian Batten, Ave Verum Corpus….A. Guilmant

14 September, 2003 – Trinity XIII – Short Communion Service…..Adrian Batten; Ave Verum Corpus….W.A. Mozart, O Saviour of the World…John Goss

21 September, 2003 – Trinity XIV – Communion Service in E Flat (Sung by all)…L.J. White; Old Scottish Chant Gloria; O Taste and See….John Goss; O Taste and See…..Ralph Vaughan Williams

Festival Evensong and Benediction – 5:30 PM – Preces and Suffrages….Thomas Tallis; Organ Magnificat in A…..Michel Corette; O Lord the Maker….William Mundy;

28 September, 2003 – Trinity XV –Missa Sancti Niniani…..C.E.S. Littlejohn; Comfort, O Lord, The Soul of Thy Servant….William Crotch

29 September, 2003 Monday – Michaelmas – High Mass 6:30 PM, Missa de Angelis …Latin Gregorian Plainsong ; Ave Verum Corpus…W.A. Mozart;

5 October, 2003 – Trinity XVI – Communion Service in E Flat (Sung by all)…L.J. White; Old Scottish Chant Gloria; Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace….S.S. Wesley; Locus Iste…..Anton Bruckner:

12 October, 2003 – Trinity XVII – Missa Solemnis….Edward Mechelare; Turn Thee Again O Lord…. Thomas Attwood

19 October, 2003 – Trinity XVIII– First Communion Service(Sung by all)….John Merbecke; Pray that Jerusalem May have Peace…..Charles V. Stanford; Treasures in Heaven…..Joseph Clokey

26 October, 2003 – Trinity XIX – Missa Parochialis….George Oldroyd; Ave Maria….Tomas L. de la Vittoria; Thou Visitest the Earth….Maurice Greene

1 November, 2000, Saturday – The Feast of All Saints – High Mass 6:30 PM – Missa de Santa Maria Magdalena (Sung by all)…Healy Willan; The Souls of the Righteous…Stanley Marchant

2 November, 2003 - Trinity XX – Communion Service in E Flat (Sung by all)…L.J. White; Old Scottish Chant Gloria; Teach Me, O Lord the Way of Thy Statutes…William Byrd; I Heard a Voice/These Are They….John Goss;

3 November, 2003, Monday – All Souls Day (Transferred from Nov. 2) – Requiem High Mass 6:30 PM – Requiem Introit…Latin Plainsong; Missa Marialis …Plainsong; Thou Knowest Lord…Henry Purcell; I Heard a Voice…John Goss, These are They…John Goss; Russian Contakion

9 November, 2003 – Trinity XXI – Mass for Four Voices…..William Byrd; Ave Verum Corpus….Sir Edward Elgar

16 November, 2003 – Trinity XXII -- First Communion Service (Sung by all)….John Merbecke; Behold How Good and Joyful….John Clarke-Whitfeld; Psalm 130….Paul Manz

23 November, 2003 – Last Sunday After Trinity - Christ the King Sunday – Missa L’Hora Passa…..L. Viadana; Brother James Air……Gordon Jacob

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