10/29/2026
𝗔 𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗜𝗠
This Sunday we celebrate the Feast of All Saints! The music at the 10 am worship service will reflect this Feast Day with the choral mass setting, Mass for the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, was composed in 1998 by me during my tenure as Cathedral Organist at St. John’s. It had its debut at the Cathedral in 1998 by the Cathedral Choir and Choristers and at Lincoln Center in 2015 when it was performed in concert by the National Chorale at David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall). The Offertory Anthem, The Saints of God, was composed by New York City composer James Bassi. A resident of Queens, New York, Jim was a choral section leader and resident composer at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. He has served as musical director for several Broadway productions, and his music has been premiered around the world and in the USA, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The Anthem for the Departed is taken from the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). Requiem was composed in the late 1800’s and completed in 1900. Fauré wrote of the work, "Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest." The Communion Anthem, And I Saw a New Heaven, was composed by British-born composer Edgar Bainton (1880-1956). This is perhaps his best-known work as it so amply captures the beauty and mystery of the text from the Revelation to John with its rich melodic and harmonic textures.
We will also welcome Mr. Michael O’Gieblyn, violin, and Mr. Aziz Sapaev, cello, as our guest musicians at the 10 AM! I’m greatly looking forward to this beautiful service as we remember all those saints in our lives who have gone before us and I can’t wait to hear everyone singing “For All the Saints”!!
I’ll see you Sunday!
Tim
