"Ye watchers and ye holy ones", St. Bartholomew's Church
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- #618 from the Hymnal 1982. Closing Hymn on the Last Sunday after the Epiphany (Transfiguration Sunday), February 19, 2012, at St. Bartholomew's, an Episcopal church in New York City.
Words: John A. L. Riley (1858-1945)
Tune: 'Lasst uns erfreuen', from Auserlesene Catholische Geistliche Kirchengeseng, 1623; adapted and harmonized by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
It is traditional in the Western church to omit 'Alleluias' during Lent, and so the last Sunday before Lent becomes an opportunity for the congregation to adorn their worship with the word of praise one last time before the fast. I was unable to post this hymn before the beginning of Lent, and, out of respect for the custom, did not do so until now.
One of my favorite hymn tunes ("All creatures of our God and King".) There is nothing more majestic than the sounds if a great choir and organ.
An "old friend" in St. Bartholomew's NY as I worshipped with this magnificent choir and congregation. Sites revisited.
That ONE soprano rocks my world!!!
Does anyone know who the organist was?
It's too fast. Not by a lot, but by enough. It would be much more grand at about two clicks slower. It's a hymn about the eternal praises of the heavenly host. What's the rush? They got time.
Is it true that Leopold Stakovsky used to be organist there?
Agreed
Wonderful but I think it would have been better if the organist would have played a verse or two with much less volume for greater variety.
Indeed, Mr. Franz, when the organ, after a verse or two, came in with "thunder" it adds another dimension. Just as the choir doesn't harmonize following alternative verses but at the finale.
It's St. Bart's. The organ has to go that hard in order to be heard. If you've never been in the church it's an astonishingly bad acoustic and the organ has to go like blue blazes to lead the congregation.
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Disgraceful and they have the money to address that issue like St. Thomas 5th Avenue did and with even more stunning results, Riverside Church which at one time had the acoustics of a broom closet whereas today it's stunning. This is the largest pipe organ in NYC and the last Aeolian-Skinner organ from the factory and it deserves better acoustics.