Music News and Notes
Feb 21st, 2012 | By mabace | Category: Music News, What's NewFebruary 26, 2012
From Our Choir Director
As the season of Lent begins, the Covenant Choir will sing a haunting anthem by American composer Sam Batt Owens entitled Do Not I Love Thee, O My Lord. The tune is a Sacred Harp hymn, which is typical of the Southern flavor in the composer’s music. Dr. Owens had degrees from Birmingham-Southern College and Vanderbilt University, and he lived in Memphis, Tennessee. A college professor and church musician, he composed over 250 works before his death in 1998.
On March 4, the choir will sing Hymn of Promise, with words and music by the late Natalie Sleeth. Organist John Ferguson has written this delicate, flowing arrangement of what has become a beloved hymn in many churches. Both the Old Testament and the Epistle readings for the day reflect on God’s promises to us.
Glinda
From Our Organist
February 26
Prelude: What Wondrous Love Is This – arr. Dick Bolks
Offertory: Melodie in G – William Stickles
Postlude: The Glory of These Forty Days - setting, Lynn Arthur Koch
March 4
Prelude: Prelude on “Savannah”- Ross Anderson
Offertory: Elevation – Francois Clement Theodore Dubois
Postlude: Largo - John Stanley
