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2007-2008
Greetings, everyone! I hope you will find the listing of our concerts and special services helpful.
If you are not on our mailing list but would like to be (or would like to correct a listing we already have), call 561-835-9904, choose option #2 and leave your information on our voice-mail system. Those on the music mailing list monthly reminders of upcoming events. If there are any last-minute changes to our schedule, you can always find those changes right here on this page.
P.S. Many folks continue to rave about our 1999/2000 Austin Organ (opus 2777) of 109 ranks. To view the organ stop list in .PDF format, click here
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SCHEDULE OF BETHESDA MUSIC OFFERINGS
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| Concert by the Lycoming College Tour Choir |
| 24 February 2008 (Sunday), 4:00 p.m. |
| Fred Thayer, conductor |
| Hailing from Wlliamsport, Pennsylvania and conducted by Dr. Fred Thayer, the 40-voice Lycoming College Tour Choir has been widely acclaimed as one of the finest college musical groups in the East. Since its inception in 1947 by Walter McIver, the Choir has presented concerts in every state east of the Mississippi River. They also have toured in Canada, England, Puerto Rico, and Europe. |
Ten-dollar requested donation at the door
No tickets available in advance
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| Recital |
| 2 March 2008 (Sunday), 3:30 p.m. |
| Brian Stanley, trumpeter |
| Brian Stanley, one of our area's most outstanding trumpeters, will play a half-hour recital prior to Evensong. |
Free-will offering
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| Evensong |
| 2 March 2008 (Sunday), 4:00 p.m. |
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| The Bethesda Choir, under the direction of Organist and Choirmaster Harold Pysher, leads this service of Evensong. For more information about the service of Evensong, see the bottom of this page. |
Free-will offering; reception following Evensong
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| Palm Sunday |
| 16 March 2008 (Sunday), 11:00 a.m. |
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| The Blessing of the Palms, Procession, and Holy Eucharist; music by the Bethesda Choir |
Free-will offering
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| Maundy Thursday |
| 20 March 2008 (Thursday), 7:30 p.m. |
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| Holy Eucharist with Stripping of the Altars; music by the Bethesda Choir and the Bethesda Youth Choir |
Free-will offering
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| Good Friday |
| 21 March 2007 (Friday), Noon to 3:00 p.m. |
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THE GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY
Meditations by the Bethesda clergy and music by the Bethesda Choir, featuring the Requiem of John Rutter in his arrangement for chamber orchestra and choir |
Free-will offering
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| The Great Vigil of Easter |
| 22 March 2008 (Saturday), 6:00 p.m. |
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| Lighting of the New Fire, Holy Baptism, the First Eucharist of Easter, and Homily; music by the Bethesda Choir |
Free-will offering
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| Easter Day |
| 23 March 2008 (Sunday), 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. |
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| Festal Eucharist (identical services); music by the Bethesda Choir, with Brass, Timpani, and Organ
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Free-will offering
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| Recital |
| 6 April 2008 (Sunday), 3:30 p.m. |
| Timothy Hall, organist |
| Mr. Hall, Director of Music and Organist at Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church in Savannah, Georgia, will play a half-hour recital prior to Evensong. |
Free-will offering
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| Evensong |
| 6 April 2008 (Sunday), 4:00 p.m. |
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| The Bethesda Choir, under the direction of Organist and Choirmaster Harold Pysher, leads this service of Evensong. For more information about the service of Evensong, see the bottom of this page. |
Free-will offering; reception following Evensong
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| Recital |
| 4 May 2008 (Sunday), 3:30 p.m. |
Jerri Goffe, pianist
Harold Pysher, organist |
| Dr. Jerri Goffe and Harold Pysher will perform a half-hour recital of piano/organ duets prior to Evensong. |
Free-will offering
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| Evensong |
| 4 May 2008 (Sunday), 4:00 p.m. |
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| The Bethesda Choir, under the direction of Organist and Choirmaster Harold Pysher, leads this service of Evensong. This is our final Evensong of the season.
For more information about the service of Evensong, see the bottom of this page. |
Free-will offering; reception following Evensong
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EVENSONG
If you are not accustomed to this service, these notes may be useful. Our aim here is to offer
beauty in word and song to God, the giver of all beauty and goodness. Based on the services held
daily in the medieval Church, Evensong (as arranged in The Book of Common Prayer of
the Anglican Church) has been sung regularly in our Church since the sixteenth century, the
Tudor age, with only a few breaks. The majority of the music is sung by the priest and the choir.
You are asked to join silently in the service while they sing the prayers and other music which they
have practiced with care and are offering on your behalf. We all join the choir in singing the
Creed, in adding AMEN to the other prayers, and in singing hymns. Because
we maintain this tradition of Evensong, you will find that we use in this service an older form of
language, that is to say, what has come to be known as Rite I.
After the introduction to the service, we all sing the PHOS HILARON,
a canticle extolling the virtues of light. The choir then sings the appointed Psalm. We can think
about the Psalm, the hymn book of the temple at Jerusalem, as did our Lord Jesus Christ when
he used them. The Lesson from the Old Testament follows. It is read from the lectern. The
choir then sings MAGNIFICAT, the song of the Blessed Virgin Mary
when the promises of the Old Testament came true (Luke 1). The Lesson from the New
Testament proclaims the good news of Jesus Christ and is followed by NUNC
DIMITTIS, the song of Simeon when he had seen our Lord in the temple at
Jerusalem (Luke 2).
All then stand, facing the altar and other reminders of the life of our Lord Jesus Christ. We sing
together the Apostles' Creed, the expression of faith by those who, generation by generation in
the Christian Church, respond to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, crucified and alive.
Versicles and Responses are then sung by the priest, choir, and congregation. They are followed
with the COLLECTS, short prayers which serve to "collect" our thoughts.
Choir anthems follow. These are usually meditations on a text in the Bible or in the old prayer
books. Prayers are then said, as we ask for God's blessing on those in need and on ourselves as we
return to our work in the world.
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You may reach the music office information line at (561) 835-9904. Our voicemail
system will give you the option of hearing pre-recorded information about the next
event in our series or being added to our music mailing list
(the music mailing list is for non-parishioners). This line is available
24 hours a day.
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