09/25/2025
Music at Mass this week, September 28th
Organ Voluntaries:
Prelude-Andante BWV 964 is a transcription of an unaccompanied Sonata movement for violin. Bach transcribed many string works for the keyboard.
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Postlude- Menuet Gothique from Suite Gothique op 25
Léon Boëllmann (1862–1897) was a French composer of Alsatian origin, best known for a small number of compositions for organ.In 1885, Boëllmann married Louise, the daughter of Gustave Lefèvre and the niece of Eugène Gigout, into whose house the couple moved. (Having no children of his own, Gigout adopted Boëllmann.) He was organist titulaire and cantor at Church of St. Vincent de Paul in the 10th arrondissement of Paris a position he held until his early death.
Suite gothique, Op. 25 is a suite for organ composed by in 1895.
The suite consists of four movements:Introduction - Choral, Menuet gothique Prière à Notre-Dame -Prayer to our Lady and Toccata.
Offertory Hymn: Dives and Lazarus Ballade and English Folksong
Kingsfold arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. October 12, 1872, Down Ampney, United Kingdom- August 26, 1958.
As it fell out upon one day,
Rich Divès made a feast,
And he invited all his friends,
And gentry of the best.
Then Lazarus laid him down and down
And down at Divès’ door:
Some meat and drink, brother, Diverus,
Bestow upon the poor.
Then Divès sent out his hungry dogs,
To bite him as he lay;
They hadn’t the power to bite one bite,
But licked his sores away.
Then Divès looked up with his eyes (to heaven)
And saw poor Lazarus blest;
Give me one drop of water, brother Lazarus,
To quench my flaming thirst.
O, was I now but alive again
The space of one half hour!
O, that I had my peace again
Then the devil should have no power.
Communion Motet: Tantum Ergo. Déodat de Séverac,(1871-1921)
de Séverac entered the Paris Conservatoire as a student in 1896, and transferred to the Schola Cantorum where he studied under d’Indy, Magnard and Guilmant.
The Tantum ergo is one of six motets which he composed in 1920. It consists of two verses and an Amen coda.
Tantum ergo sacramentum Veneremur cernui:
Et antiquum documentum novo cedat ritui:
Praestet fides supplementum sensuum defectui.
Genitori, Genitoque laus et iubilatio,
Salus, honor, virtus quoque sit et benedictio:
Procedenti ab utroque Compar sit laudatio. Amen.
Therefore, so great a Sacrament Let us venerate, bowing low;
And let the old law give way to the new rite;
Let faith make up for the senses' shortcomings.
To the Begetter and the Begotten give praise and jubilation,
Good wishes and honor, and power and blessing; A
nd to the One [the Holy Ghost] proceeding from both
Let there be equal praise. Ameneber
