Music for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, February 10, 2019

Prelude: A Memory Patricia DeWitt 

The prelude is an original composition by Patricia DeWitt for recorder and piano. Patricia DeWitt herself will play the recorder.

Gathering Hymn: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty (Nicaea) ELW 413)

Hymn of the Day: Risen Lord, We Gather Round You (Abbot's Leigh)

This hymn does not appear in ELW. The text is by Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr. Stuempfle, who died in 2007, was president of Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg from 1976 to 1989. He began his time at Gettysburg as a professor in 1962 which means his total time in service to the seminary was 27 years. A prolific author of hymns, he has eight hymn texts in Evangelical Lutheran Worship.
Read more about his life here:
https://www.elca.org/News-and-Events/5876

Musical Offering (Festival Choir): Keep Silence John Helgen

This is a choral setting of "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" (ELW 490) with a musical atmosphere that evokes Isaiah's vision in today's Old Testament reading. The piano, recorder (Patricia DeWitt) and windchime accompaniment combine with the choir to create a mystical image of the throne of God and the beings who surround it.

Communion Hymns:
You have come down to the Lakeshore (Pescador de hombres) ELW 817

This hymn was a favorite of our beloved Viki Grzelinski who sang in the Festival Choir for many years. Every time we sing the hymn, we remember her for the faith she lived so well. Viki, a child of God, died in 2012.

Our friend Viki could often be found with a water bottle in one hand and Bach in another.

Here I Am, Lord (Here I Am, Lord) ELW 574

Sending Hymn: Rise, Shine, You People (Wojtkiewiecz) ELW 665

The hymntune name is a very interesting one. The composer, Dale Wood, is the son of Finnish-Polish parents. The tune is named for his Polish family.

Postlude: Trumpet Fanfare on "Rescue" Don Hustad

This piece (which features the Festival Trumpet stop on our organ) comes from a text and tune by Fanny Crosby, a prolific hymn writer (more than 8,000 hymns to her credit) and mission worker who was born in Brewster, New York in 1820.
In today's gospel reading Jesus tells the fishermen, ". . .from now on you will be catching people."
Fanny Crosby says it with these words:
"Rescue the perishing, Duty demands it;
Strength for thy labor the Lord will provide.
Back the narrow way, Patiently win them;
Tell the poor wand'rer a Savior has died.
Rescue the perishing, Care for the dying;
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save."

sources:
Hymnal Companion to "Evangelical Lutheran Worship"
Wikipedia