The Holy Eucharist: Rite II on Pentecost 25, November 10, 2024 at 11 a.m., Calvary Episcopal Church

The Holy Eucharist: Rite II on The Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost, November 10, 2024 at 11 a.m., Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Reverend Bonnie-Marie Yager-Wiggan, Associate Rector, was the Preacher. Assisting: The Reverend Jonathon W. Jensen, Rector, The Reverend Cameron J. Soulis, Senior Associate Rector, The Reverend Deanna J. Briody, Curate, Alan Lewis, Director of Music, Jon Tyillian, Assistant Organist. Musical Notes: Randall Thompson (1899-1984) was an American composer and educator, based successively at Wellesley College, the University of California, Berkeley, the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, the University of Virginia, and Harvard University, his alma mater. His 1935 book, College Music, is credited with a complete restructuring of the ways American higher education approached music. He composed extensively for choruses around the nation, often working with secular or only broadly sacred texts (most famously, the choral setting of the word “Alleluia” that he composed for the opening of the new Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, in 1940). The Best of Rooms sets a short devotional poem by the seventeenth-century poet and cleric Robert Herrick (1591-1674)—born, that is, two years prior to the somewhat better-known George Herbert, whom he outlived by four decades. Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a spectacularly successful opera composer, working first in his native Italian, and later in French, to produce nearly forty operas before his surprising exit from the operatic field in his late thirties. O salutaris hostia is one of a number of sacred works he composed during his long, and sometimes secluded, retirement. Harvey Gaul (1881-1945) was the Organist of this parish from 1910 until just before his death. He was a widely published composer, particularly of choral music for the Church, but also in other genres. He composed today’s Postlude in honor of two soldiers from Pittsburgh who lost their lives in the First World War: the artist Fred Demmler and the poet Francis Hogan. Visit our website at http://www.calvarypgh.org Download the bulletin for this service at https://www.calvarypgh.org/bulletins-... Visit our YouTube page where you will find an archive of our services, sermons, and classes at    / @calvaryepiscopalchurchpitt207