Discover Top Posts Tagged with #biery

* * * CW: Religious * * *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgaO76MTr88

I learned I can't hold in a cough and sing at the same time. Oh well. I still went off into my head once I got the cough out of the way.

Those stimmy chord tuning warmup videos I posted a few days ago were us tuning for this song! :D

I totally didn’t notice I was stimming with my hand until I watched the video back.

#actuallyautistic #actually autistic #stimming #choir #music #religious #ghira don't look #Catholic #Ubi Caritas #Biery

Biery’s “Ubi Caritas” is still the most transcendent stim moment I’ve ever had with my church choir. The chords, the rhythm, the meaning...it was magic.

I had such an out of body experience singing this. Wow. I was surrounded by light, but I wasn't perceiving it with my eyes. I saw a garden bloom and I saw trees. I saw the sun and the universe. I saw things I can't describe. That's why I shut my eyes at one point. I was totally in another place and God was there with me.

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wMrpH8WAxk

#actuallyautistic #Ghira don't look #religious #Ubi Caritas #Biery #choir #church #Catholic

Music for Rally Day

This Sunday is Rally Day, with one service (at 10:15) and afterwards the opportunity for the parish to sign-up for Education classes and other small groups and ministries, re-dedicating our lives once more to a life of discipleship. I’ve kept this in mind while choosing the music for the service.

The opening hymn is a great hymn from the last 25 years that may be new to most of the congregation, but I feel is an excellent way to open the Rally Day service. It is a real catchy tune, easy to learn and to sing. To help introduce the tune to the congregation, I am playing Galliard on “Gather Us In” as the opening voluntary. The galliard was a form of Renaissance dance and music popular all over Europe in the 16th century. Its four hopping steps and one high leap permitted gentlemen to show off for their athletic prowess as well as their dancing ability! In musical compositions, the galliard was written with six beats to a phrase. The distinctive rhythm can still be heard today in songs such as My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.

During communion, I will again be playing an organ arrangement of the hymn O Food to Pilgrims Given by Emma Lou Diemer. One of America’s best composers, (of whom you may never have heard), she is the consummate musician—at once a composer, an educator and a performer. Born into a family of church musicians in Kansas City, Missouri in 1927, she began showing musical prowess at age five, and by age six she was composing her own music. She went on to study at Yale University and Eastman School of Music, and by the time she retired from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1991, Diemer had become one of the most widely published composers in America. Her composing and performing activity continued unabated after her retirement. In addition to organ and choral music, she has written works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano and solo voice. She was the American Guild of Organists’ Composer of the Year in 1995.

The piece is based on the communion hymn which we have sung every Sunday in August. The accompaniment is played by the hands with shifting chord clusters on alternating manuals, giving an unsettled feeling while the melody is given a staccato yet steadfast treatment in the pedals. It may not be your favorite organ piece, but it does echo that sense of mystery of the Eucharist which we have been focusing on these last four weeks in our Gospel readings.

Voluntaries

Galliard on “Gather Us In” – James Biery (b. 1956)

O Food to Pilgrims Given – Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927)

Maestoso – Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984)

Anthem

O God, My Heart is Ready - Simon Lindley (b. 1948)

hymns

Here in this place (GATHER US IN)

All glory be to God on high (ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH)

Stand up, stand up for Jesus (MORNING LIGHT)

I’m a-going to eat at the welcome table (Spiritual)

I am the bread of life (I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE)