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Since certain other bloggers seem willing to remind me that having a blog generally means that you actually intend to post, sometime... ever, here I will attempt to get rolling again with yet another music list.

Lent, Holy Week and Easter, in my humble opinion, seemed to work quite well musically. I enjoyed many of the various offerings. Since the hymns have been rather typical, I will not recount those now but instead, give a brief wrap-up of various musical offerings.

Lent:
I made the decision to stick with the Church Publishing's Gradual Psalms on most Sundays of Lent to help keep a contrast to Portland Psalter that we use much of the year. On the First Sunday of Lent and Palm Sunday, we used Marty Haugen settings of the psalms for those days. They went over very well with this congregation. As for anthems, two larger ones were Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus and Taste and See by Vaughan Williams.

Now in more of a list form:

Palm Sunday
Taize - Hosanna. This was while we were processing in the park. We sang, "All Glory, Laud and Honor" while in the church.
During the Offertory: O Sacred Head - David Hurd (we did the standard hymn version later in the service)
Communion Anthem: What Have we Done (Sezeni Na), Hal Hopson. This was a very powerful moment with a piece based on a South African song.

Maundy Thursday
Ubi Caritas Et Amor, Maurice Durufle
Draw nigh and take the Body of the Lord set to Song 46 by Orlando Gibbons

Easter and Easter Vigil
For the canticles we about every type of "psalm chant" imaginable: Plainsong, Simplified Anglican Chant, and Anglican Chant.
The Psalm for Easter was Anglican Chant with a congregation response. We are generally using those for Major Feasts (if I get around to writing the antiphons).

For the remainder of the choir year which ends at the beginning of June, here is a list of some of the music:

Old Hundereth Psalm Tune - Ralph Vaughan Williams
I Love you, O My God Most High - David Hogan
If Ye Love Me - Thomas Tallis
Praise His Holy Name - Keith Hampton