Music Director Paul Cienniwa is on sabbatical during this time. Guest musicians and music directors include pianist Bob Winkley, pianist/composer Larry Thomas Bell, The Pennies, jazz musician Jeannie Gagné, and, of course, the soloists and Choir of First Church in Boston.

For the latest Sunday order of service, click here.

Guest Musicians: The Choirs of the Collegiate and Spence Schools
Prelude
Bridge Over Troubled Water: Simon/Garfunkel, gospel style arrangement arr. Kirby Shaw
Choral Meditation
My Spirit Sang All Day: Gerald Finzi
Offertory
A Boy and a Girl: Eric Whitacre
Postlude:
Bawo Thixo Somandla: Xhosa, South Africa

Prelude
Prelude and Fugue in C# Major, BWV 848 (WTC 1): Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Choral Meditation
Libera nos, salva nos: John Sheppard (c.1515-1558)
Offertory
Thankful: Carole Bayer Sager, David Foster, Richard Page (2007)
Postlude
Finale Jubilante: Healey Willan (1880-1968)

Guest choir: Tenuto Chamber Singers
Saunder Choi, conductor; Patrick Rawlings, assistant conductor

Sopranos: Emily Rosenberg, Sarah McKenzie, Shannon Devine, Sheena Hong, Katie Kim
Altos: Clara Chan, Katie Yosua, Emily Higgins, Ece Minuroglu, Esin Aydingoz, Grace Koo
Tenors: Dylan Varner-Hartley, Patrick Hoagland, Joseph Lee, Dalton Harts, Louis Rabaso
Basses: Patrick Rawlings, Rumle Jensen, Eren Basbug, Julian Wong, Arthur Smeall, Danny Forde

The Tenuto Chamber Singers is a student-led and organized choir from the Berklee College of Music. The group works hand in hand with Berklee’s composition department and Professor Andrew List to promote the creation and performance of new choral works written for the group by Berklee students. Formed in the Fall semester of 2012, it has successfully premiered 3 student pieces at their debut concert, “Elemental,” last Christmas. It has just successfully launched its first open cal for scores, and will be premiering 5 new student compositions at their upcoming concert on the 30th of April, 7.30pm at the Old South Church Gordon Chapel.


Prelude
Silence My Soul: Francisco Feliciano
Choral Meditation
Tanzen und Springen: Hans Leo Hassler
Offertory
Io, Piango: Morten Lauridsen
Postlude
Circle of Life: Elton John, arr. Fidel Calalang

Prelude
The Lark Ascending: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Annegret Klaua, violin; Bob Winkley, piano
Choral Meditation
Sanctus, from Requiem, Op. 48: Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Offertory
Sanctus, from St. Cecilia Mass: Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Ethan Bremner, tenor soloist
Postlude
Toccata, from Symphony #5: Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)

Prelude
Ouverture (Partita No. 4, BWV 828): Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Bob Winkley, pianist
Choral Meditation
Rise up, my love: Howard Skempton (b. 1947)
Offertory
I Call Heaven and Earth: Richard K. Winslow (1965)
Postlude
Aria (Partita No. 4, BWV 828): Bach

Prelude
Canzona in F; Ave Maris Stella: Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Musical Meditation
Danny Boy: Frederic Weatherly (1848-1929)
Nicholas Hebert, tenor
Offertory
Open: Elaine Bearer (2002)
Postlude
Passacaglia: John E. West (1863-1929)

Prelude
Le banquet céleste: Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)b
Choral Meditation
O sacrum convivium: Messiaen
Offertory
Kyrie, Op. 106, No. 1: Karl Henning (b.1960)
Postlude
Prelude and Fugue, d minor: Johann Ludwig Krebs (1690-1762)

Prelude
De Profundis, Op. 16: Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961)
Choral Meditation
Star-crossed: Saunder Choi (b.1988)
Offertory
The Other: Paul Ayres (2010)
Postlude
Prelude, Fugue, Toccata in D: Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer (c.1670-1746)

Prelude
Triptych: James Bohn (b. 1970)
Choral Meditation
We Are....: Ysaye M. Barnwell (b. 1946)
Offertory
The Swan: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), arr. J.J. Bloom
Postlude
Prelude #1 in All Major Keys: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)