January music list posted

Music list for choral services (11:00 unless otherwise noted)

Jan. 2 – 2nd Sunday after Christmas (10:00 AM)
Chancel Choir
Introit: Divinum Mysterium (plainsong, mode V)
Anthem: What is this Lovely Fragrance (arr. H. Willan, 1880-1968)
Postlude: The March of the Three Magi (Franz Liszt, 1811-1886)

Jan. 9 – The Baptism of the Lord (11:00 AM services resume this week)
Chancel Choir
Introit: Lord, When You Came to Jordan (Genevan Psalter, 1542)
Anthem: Brother James’s Air (arr. Gordon Jacob, 1895-1984)
Postlude: Postlude in F, Op. 50 no. 3 (Denis Bédard, b.1950)

Jan. 16 – 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Chancel Choir
Introit: From All that Dwell Below the Skies (arr. Michael Burkhardt)
Anthem: Lead Me, Lord (Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810-1876)
Postlude: Fugue in C, BWV 545 (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)

Jan. 23 – 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Chancel Choir
Introit: Give Fellowship, We Pray (Harold Friedell, 1905-1958)
Anthem: Christ Hath a Garden (Gerald Near, b.1942)
Postlude: Grand Choeur (Théodore Dubois, 1837-1924)

Jan. 30 – 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Chancel Choir
Introit: I To the Hills Lift Up Mine Eyes (Jean Berger, 1909-2002)
Anthem: Lord, for Thy Tender Mercies’ Sake (R. Farrant, 1530-1580)
Postlude: Te Deum Laudamus (Dietrich Buxtehude, 1637-1707)

Christmas Organ Recital

Organ music for Christmas
Tuesday, December 21 at 11:45 AM
Kevin Dill, organist

Prelude & Fugue in G, BWV 550
J.S. Bach

The Shepherds at the Manger
The March of the Three Magi
from Weihnachtsbaum
Franz Liszt

Christmas in Sicily
Pietro Yon

Carillon on a Ukranian Carol
Gerald Near

Kevin Dill, a native of Canada, is a graduate of the University of Victoria and the University of Alberta, where he studied with Dr. Erich Schwandt, Michael Gormley, and Dr. Marnie Giesbrecht. In 2005 he received the Associateship Diploma from the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and in 2009 placed third in the RCCO's national organ playing competition. In addition to his work as Music Director at First Presbyterian, he has performed solo and duo recitals throughout Northwestern Pennsylvania, and has premiered his own choral and organ compositions.

Dill's recital is presented as part of First Presbyterian's "Lunch At First" series, which hosts speakers on a variety of topics on the third Tuesday of the month. This is the fifth consecutive year he has presented a Christmas recital on the church's three-manual, 2500-pipe organ. Admission to the recital is free, with lunch available afterwards in the Fellowship Hall for $4.