Current music list

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

Apr. 27 – 2nd Sunday of Easter
Liberty Bells & Chancel Choir
Prelude: A Joyful Ring (Barbara Kinyon, b.1929)
Anthem: Easter Anthem (William Billings, 1746-1800)

May 4 – 3rd Sunday of Easter
Chancel Choir
Introit: Cantate Domino (Mary Lynn Lightfoot, b.1952)
Anthem: Bound for the Promised Land (Southern Harmony, arr. Dill)

May 11 – 4th Sunday of Easter
Intergenerational Choir
Introit: With the Help of the Spirit (Jayne S. Cool, b.1947)
Anthem: This is the Day (Larry Schultz, b.1965)

May 18 – 5th Sunday of Easter
Liberty Bells
Prelude: Branle (Claude Gervaise, 1525-1583, arr. Kevin Dill)
Offertory: Allegro Festivo (Kevin Dill)

Holy Week music list

HOLY WEEK
at the First Presbyterian Church of Meadville



Sunday, April 13
Palm Sunday (11:00 AM)
Chancel Choir
Introit: O Come, Let Us Sing (Hal Hopson, b.1933)
Anthem: Acclamation for Palm Sunday (Kevin Dill)

Thursday, April 17
Maundy Thursday Communion Service (7:30 PM)
Chancel Choir
Introit: Ecce Agnus Dei (Kevin Dill)
Kyrie Eleison: New Plainsong (David Hurd, b.1950)
Anthem: He Was Despised (Karl Heinrich Graun, 1704-1759)

Sunday, April 20
Easter Sunday (9:00 & 11:00 AM)
French Creek Brass Quintet & Chancel Choir
Introit: From the Rising of the Sun (Raymond Weidner, b.1958)
Brass selections to be announced

March music list

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

Mar. 2 – The Transfiguration of the Lord
Liberty Bells & Lower Voices of the Chancel Choir
Prelude: Allegro in C (W.A. Mozart, 1756-1791, arr. Kevin McChesney)
Motet: Dulcis Christe (Michaelangelo Grancini, 1605-1669)

Mar. 5 – Ash Wednesday Communion Service (6:00 PM)
Combined Choirs
Anthem: Sign Us With Ashes (William Rowan, b.1951)

Mar. 9 – 1st Sunday in Lent
Chancel Choir
Introit: Lent Prose (plainsong, mode V)
Anthem: God So Loved the World (Sir John Stainer, 1840-1901)
Communion: Adoro Te Devote (plainsong, mode V)

Mar. 16 – 2nd Sunday in Lent
Basses of the Chancel Choir
Introit: Trisagion, from New Plainsong (David Hurd, b.1950)
Anthem: I Shall Be Satisfied (George Wells, 1819-1873)

Mar. 23 – 3rd Sunday in Lent
Liberty Bells
Prelude: Hope, from Chime Suite (Lynne Hollander)
Offertory: Theosis (Kevin Dill)

Mar. 30 – 4th Sunday in Lent
Chancel Choir
Introit: Bow Down Thine Ear (John Bishop, 1665-1737)
Anthem: Give Me Jesus (Spiritual, arr. William Witherup, b.1945)

The French Connection

The First Presbyterian Church of Meadville
and the Allegheny College Department of Music present:

THE FRENCH CONNECTION
vocal and instrumental music of France

Saturday, March 1, 7:30 PM

Jennifer Dearden trumpet
Juanita Shutsa flute
Sara St. Peter mezzo-soprano
Andrew Daigle tenor
Will McInally piano
Hannah Phillips piano
Kevin Dill organ/piano

music of Poulenc, Balay, Massenet, Lalo, Vierne, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns

free admission

February music list

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

Feb. 2 – 4th Sunday after Epiphany
Chancel Choir
Introit: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto the Lord (Hal Hopson, b.1933)
Motet: Sanctus in D minor, BWV 239 (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)

Feb. 9 – 5th Sunday after Epiphany
Liberty Bells
Prelude: Largo, from Petite Suite (Adolf Torovsky, 1894-1967)
Offertory: Allegro Festivo (Kevin Dill)

Feb. 16 – 6th Sunday after Epiphany
Chancel Choir
Introit: From the Rising of the Sun (Raymond Weidner, b.1958)
Anthem: Prayer of St Teresa of Avila (Kenneth Lowenberg, b.1946)

Feb. 23 – 7th Sunday after Epiphany
Sopranos of the Chancel Choir
Introit: Kyrie Eleison (David Hurd, b.1950)
Anthem: Ave Maria (Simon Lindley, b.1948)

January music list

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

Jan. 5 – 2nd Sunday after Christmas
Kinesis Handbell Ensemble
Prelude: Peal for a New Year (Kevin Dill)
Offertory: Leaning on the Everlasting Arms (arr. Bob Brown)

Jan. 12 – The Baptism of the Lord
Gentlemen of the Chancel Choir
Introit: Sanctus (Thomas Pavlechko, b.1962)
Anthem: Bound for the Promised Land (Early American, arr. F. Moore)
Communion: Adoro De Devote (plainsong, mode V)

Jan. 19 – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany
Chancel Choir
Introit: Give Fellowship, We Pray (Harold Friedell, 1905-1958)
Anthem: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)

Jan. 26 – 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
Liberty Bells & Chancel Choir
Prelude: All Night, All Day (Spiritual, arr. Hart Morris, b.1946)
Anthem: I Will Arise (Southern Harmony, arr. Robert Lehman)

Christmas organ recital

Organ Music for Christmas
Tuesday, December 17, 11:45 AM
Kevin Dill, organist
on the 2500-pipe Schlicker organ (built 1972)

Handel (arr. Potts) Overture from 'An Occasional Oratorio'
Yon Il Natale in Sicilia (Christmas in Sicily)
Bedford A Christmas Suite

Presented as part of First Presbyterian's 'Lunch At First' series.
Admission to the recital is free, with a $5 lunch available afterwards.