Music for Holy Week, St. John, Stamford

In Holy Week, the music of the new liturgical movement is on display as in no other time of the year. There are many dozens if not hundreds of examples around the country, as chant and polyphony make ever more inroads into parish life, and perhaps the comment box would be a good place to note some.

So in blogging the repertoire of St. John Evangelist, Stamford, Connecticut, (and you might as well visit the site to see what a truly wonderful parish website looks like; it is a model and ideal), I'm not trying to slight anyone else but rather just showing what is not only possible but what is actually happening in Catholic America:

Choral Repertory for Holy Week and Easter 2009

PALM SUNDAY – 12:00 Noon High Mass
Mass ordinary Missa quarti toni (No Kyrie or Gloria) – Victoria
Antiphon Hosanna filio David – chant (tutti)
Hymn No. 60, All Glory, Laud and Honour (tutti)
Psalm 22 My God, my God – chant (tutti)
Gradual Christus factus est – chant (men)
Offertory Improperium – chant (women)
Motet Crucifixus á 8 – Lotti
Communion Pater, si non potest – chant (men)
Vere languores – Victoria
Miserere mei – Byrd
Postlude Psalm 51 – Tonus peregrinus (tutti)

TENEBRÆ – Holy Wednesday at 8:00 PM – Men of the Choir
Psalms and Canticle in program
In monte Oliveti – Croce
Tristis est anima mea – Croce
Ecce vidimus – Viadana
Traditor autem – chant
Christus factus est – chant

HOLY THURSDAY – 8:00 P.M. Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Mass Ordinary Missa ‘Æterna Christi munera’ (No Kyrie) – Palestrina
Introit Nos autem gloriari opportet – chant (women)
Psalm Our blessing cup – chant (tutti)
Tract Ab ortu – chant (men)
Antiphon Mandatum novum – chant (men)
Motet Ubi caritas – M. Duruflé
Offertory Ubi caritas – chant (women)
Motet Nos autem gloriari opportet – Palestrina
Communion Hoc Corpus – chant (men)
Motet Ave verum Corpus – W. Byrd
Procession Pange lingua – Chant/Palestrina
Tantum ergo – Victoria

GOOD FRIDAY – 3:00 P.M. Passion Liturgy
Tract Father, into your hands – chant (tutti)
Gradual Christus factus est – chant (men)
Gospel St. John Passion – Chant/Weber fauxbourdon
Soloists: Msgr., DiGiovanni, Paul Tipton, Terrence Fay
Antiphon This is the wood of the cross – chant (tutti)
Improperia Popule meus (The Reproaches) – Victoria – Quartet in east gallery
Hymn Vexilla regis – Chant (women)
Motets Miserere mei – Allegri
O vos omnes – Casals

HOLY SATURDAY – 8:00 P.M. Vigil of Easter
Mass Ordinary Missa brevis (No Kyrie) – Mathews
Lumen Christi – chant (tutti)
Exsultet with responses, e.g., “And also with you.”
Psalms & Canticles – chant (men and women alternating)
Solemn Alleluia – chant (tutti)
Offertory Dextera Domini – chant (men)
Motet Ye choirs of new Jerusalem – Stanford
Communion Pascha nostrum – chant (women)
Sicut cervus – Palestrina
Ave verum – Mozart
Most glorious Lord of life – Harris
Ite Missa est – chant (tutti)

EASTER SUNDAY – 12:00 Noon High Mass
Mass Ordinary Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo – Haydn
Introit Resurrexi – chant (men)
Psalm 118 This is the day the Lord has made – chant (tutti)
Alleluia Pascha nostrum – chant (men; verse sung by Jeff G.)
Sequence Victimæ paschali laudes – chant (tutti)
Offertory Terra tremuit – chant (men)
Motet Ye choirs of new Jerusalem – Stanford
Communion Pascha nostrum – chant (women)
Laudate Dominum – Mozart (Heidi V.)
Ave verum – Mozart
Most glorious Lord of life – Harris
Ite Missa est – chant (tutti)