Tuesday, October 7, 2008

One: World Communion

The first salvo of this project has been fired.

Sunday, Oct. 5 (World Communion Sunday) #39 and #40 FP Choir, Joanna Hawkins Nannestad (alto), Karen Tucker (piano).

The choir sang "Their Sound is Gone Out" at the beginning of worship. It was vibrant and resounding- the scale passages starting at letter A wanted to rush, but the tenors were able to rein it in. It was an excellent start to world communion worship. The text was reinforced with the reading of Psalm 19 a few minutes later. (Accompanied, by the way, by Haydn's "The Heavens are Telling. We had or very own Handel and Haydn Society this Sunday.)

My lovely wife presented an alto rendition of "Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together." For those curious, it was Version II, the shorter version, with a recitative at the end. While we were not prepared to sing the following chorus, I had planned that E cadence to help transition into the Doxology. Oops! We do not sing the Doxology in that spot on Communion Sundays. Ah, well.