Third Baptist Church, St. Louis
Choir Repertoire, 2017
In addition to three hymns, the Choir also offers an anthem; on occasion,
the previous Sunday’s anthem is repeated as a prelude to the next Sunday’s worship.
The Music Dept. reserves the right to change the following selections, as circumstances warrant.
January 1, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Eugene Thayer: Variations on Auld Lang Syne (op. 30)
Choral Prelude: E. J. Moeran: Christmas Day in the Morning
Offertory: Robert Leech Bedell: Noël: Il est né le divin Enfant (op.11, 1)
Anthem: Benjamin Britten: New Year Carol
Postlude: Myron Roberts: Variations on a London Carol
January 8, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Niels Gade: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
Choral Prelude: J. S. Bach: How Brightly Shines The Morning Star!
Offertory: J. S. Bach: Allemande (arr. for piano from the fifth French Suite)
Anthem: Peter Cornelius: The Three Kings
Postlude: Franklin Ashdown: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise; Recessional; Trumpet Tune
January 15, Sunday: service: NO CHOIR Sanctuary
[Church canceled because of inclement weather]
January 22, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: John Ness Beck: I Need Thee Every Hour
Offertory: Dale Wood: There Is A Happy Land (trad. American melody)
Anthem: arr. John Ferguson: Shall We Gather At The River
Postlude: Paul Manz: God of Grace
January 29, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Charles Callahan: Meditation on Gustav Holst’s Thaxted
Offertory: Kenyon Emrys-Roberts: Theme from To Serve Them All My Days
Anthem: Ken Naylor, arr. J. R. Daniels: How Shall I Sing That Majesty (w/ organ)
Postlude: J. S. Bach: Little Prelude in C Major (BWV 553)
February 5, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Choral Prelude: Ken Naylor, arr. J. R. Daniels: How Shall I Sing That Majesty (w/ organ)
Offertory: Felix Mendelssohn: Adagio (Third Sonata for Organ)
Anthem: Walter K. Stanton: Christ is the World’s True Light (w/ organ)
Postlude: Brent Johnson (arr.): The Church’s One Foundation (based on William Walton)
February 12, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Healey Willan: Prelude on Rockingham
Offertory: Franz Schubert: Impromptu (op. 90, 3)
Anthem: Melissa Dunphy: A New Heart (world premiere; written for TBC)
Postlude: Niels Gade: Allegro con fuoco (Three Tone Pieces, 3)
February 19, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Organ Prelude: Siegfried Karg-Elert: From God I Will Not Depart
Choral Prelude: Melissa Dunphy: A New Heart (written for TBC)
Anthem: Ralph Vaughan Williams: O Taste and See (w/ organ)
Postlude: G. F. Handel: March from Scipio
February 19, Sunday: EVENING SERVICE (5 pm) Sanctuary
Organ Prelude: Grayston Ives: Processional
Choral Prelude: Melissa Dunphy: A New Heart (written for TBC)
Offertory: Amy Beach: Dreaming (op. 15)
Anthem: arr. John Ferguson: Shall We Gather At The River
Postlude: Théodore Dubois: Toccata in G
February 26, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Organ Prelude: William Lloyd Webber: Aria
Choral Prelude: Ralph Vaughan Williams: O Taste and See (w/ organ)
Offertory: arr. Stacey Gibbs: Ain’t-a That Good News (East Michigan University Concert Choir)
Anthem: Jack Halloran: Witness (East Michigan University Concert Choir)
Postlude: Frank Bridge: Allegro Marziale (Six Organ Pieces, 3)
March 1, Ash Wednesday: EVENING SERVICE (6pm) Chapel
Anthem: John Stainer: God So Loved The World
March 5, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Organ Prelude: Richard Purvis: Contemplation upon Tallis’s Canon
Choral Prelude: John Stainer: God So Loved The World
Offertory: Jean Sibelius: Valse Triste (op. 44, 1)
Anthem: Thomas Tallis: If Ye Love Me
Postlude: Healey Willan: Prelude on Darwall’s 148th
March 12, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: James Martin: Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?
Offertory: Dan Locklair: The Peace May Be Exchanged (Rubrics, IV)
Anthem: W. A. Mozart: Jesu, Word of God Incarnate
Postlude: Eric Thiman: Prelude on a theme of Orlando Gibbons (Song 1)
March 19, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude; Franklin Ashdown: A Tuscan Adagio
Offertory: Percy Whitlock: Folk Tune
Anthem: As I Went Down to the River to Pray (Trad. American)
Postlude: Francis Snow: Angelus
March 26, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Piano Prelude: Dmitri Shostakovich: Fugue (op. 87, 14)
Choral Prelude: Russian Kontakion: Give Rest, O Christ
Offertory: Thomas Pitfield: Sonatina for guitar (including Variations on a Russian theme)
Anthem: Piotr Tchaikovsky: Aria (from Eugene Onegin)
Postlude: Georgi Mushel: Toccata
April 2, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Organ Prelude: Herbert Howells: Master Tallis’s Testament (pt. I)
Choral Prelude: Thomas Tallis: If Ye Love Me
Offertory: Herbert Howells: Master Tallis’s Testament (pt. II)
Anthem: Herbert Howells: My Eyes for Beauty Pine
Postlude: Herbert Howells: Master Tallis’s Testament (pt. III)
April 9, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Ernest Bloch: Moderato (from Suite Modale) (flute & piano)
Offertory: J. S. Bach: Sicilienne (from Sonata II) (flute & piano)
Anthem: arr. Josephine Poelinitz: City Called Heaven
Postlude: Edwin T. Childs: St. Theodulph ~ All Glory, Laud & Honor
Holy Week
April 13, Maundy Thursday: EVENING SERVICE (7 pm) Chapel
Anthem: Hugh S. Roberton: All In The April Evening
April 14, Good Friday: EVENING SERVICE (7 pm) Sanctuary
Franz Josef Haydn: Seven Last Words of Christ (Perseid String Quartet)
April 16, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata #3; first movement
Choral Prelude: arr. Charles Wood: This Joyful Eastertide
Offertory: William Lloyd Webber: Prelude on Rockingham
Anthem: Keith Hampton: Praise His Holy Name!
Postlude: Herbert Howells: Paean
April 23, Low Sunday: NO CHOIR Sanctuary
Prelude: Duke Ellington: Come Sunday (piano solo)
Offertory: Gerald Near: Aria, for piano & organ
Postlude: Charles Callahan: A Gospel Prelude, for piano & organ
April 30, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: J. S. Bach: Largo (from Concerto in D, BWV 1043) (arr. for piano & organ)
Choral Prelude: Charles Wood: This Joyful Eastertide
Offertory: J. S. Bach & Charles Gounod: Ave Maria (arr. for piano & organ)
Anthem: J. S. Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Postlude: Alec Templeton: Bach Goes To Town (piano solo)
May 7, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Romanza on The White Rock
Choral Prelude: William H. Harris: Most Glorious God of Life
Communion Setting: William Mathias: 1976 Service (op. 71) (Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
Offertory: Everett Titcomb: Adoro Te Devote
Postlude: William Mathias: Fanfare
May 14, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Arthur Foote: Prelude (op. 50, 5)
Choral Prelude: Stephen Paulus: Hear My Words
Offertory: Amy Beach: Dreaming (op. 15)
Anthem: Melissa Dunphy: A New Heart
Postlude: Francis Jackson: March in C (op. 109)
May 21, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Joseph Jongen: Petite Pièce (W. 313)
Anthem: arr. Gordon Jacob: Brother James’s Air
Offertory: Granville Bantock: A Toccata of Galuppi’s
Postlude: Max Reger: Benedictus (op. 59, 9)
May 28, Sunday (Memorial Day Weekend): service Sanctuary
Prelude: Hubert Parry: Elegy
Offertory: Jean Sibelius: Valse Triste (op. 44, 1)
Anthem: arr. Howard Helvey: My Lord, What A Mornin’!
Postlude: Eugene Thayer: America (a Fugue in five voices)
June 4, Sunday: service (Pentecost) Sanctuary
Prelude: J. S. Bach: Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist (BWV 631)
Choral Prelude: William Mathias: Gloria (from Communion Service, op. 71)
Communion Setting: William Mathias: 1976 Service (op. 71) (Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
Offertory: Dietrich Buxtehude: Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist (BuxWV 208)
Anthem: John Rutter: For The Beauty of the Earth
Postlude: Richard Elliott: Every Time I Feel The Spirit
June 11, Sunday: service (Trinity) Sanctuary
Prelude: G. F. Handel: Largo (orig. “Ombra mai fu”, from Serse)
Offertory: G. F. Handel: Coro (from Water Music, Suite #2)
Anthem: G. F. Handel: Forever Blessed Be Thy Name (from Jephtha)
Postlude: G. F. Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from Solomon)
June 18, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Felix Mendelssohn: Prelude in G major (op. 37, 2)
Offertory: Robert Schumann: Fugue of B-A-C-H in G minor (op. 60, 3)
Anthem: Felix Mendelssohn: I Will Sing Of Thy Great Mercies (from St. Paul)
Postlude: Niels Gade: Allegro (Three Tone Pieces, 3, op. 60)
June 25, Sunday: service: NO CHOIR Sanctuary
Prelude: George Shearing: Amazing Grace
Vocal Prelude: Duke Ellington: Come Sunday (vocalist: Margaret Boeckman)
Offertory (Music Camp Choir): Be Strong In The Lord; Praise You
Anthem (soloist): Walter Hawkins: Goin’ Up A-Yonder (vocalist: Margaret Boeckman)
Postlude: Robert J. Powell: Chorale Prelude on Oh, Praise Ye The Lord
July 2, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Charles Callahan: Chorale Prelude on Thaxted
Communion Setting: William Mathias: 1976 Service (op. 71) (Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
Offertory: Richard Purvis: Pastorale on Forest Green
Anthem: Peter Hurford: Litany to the Holy Spirit
Postlude: J. S. Bach: Little Fugue in D minor (BWV 544)
July 9, Sunday: service (GUEST CHOIR) Sanctuary
The Youth Choir of Broadway Baptist Church, Fort Worth (TX)
Prelude: Erin MacGorman: Hyfrydol (Concord Handbells)
Choral Prelude: Emily Crocker: Jubilate Deo
Anthems: Joseph Sabolick & Benjamin Harlan: Come Just As You Are
Douglas E. Wagner: Be Thou My Vision (Concord Handbells)
Mark A. Miller: I Choose Love
Lyn Robbins & Tom Fettke: He Gives More Grace
Bruce Stevenson: Amazing Grace
Lloyd Larson: They’ll Know We Are Christians
Mark A. Miller & Lindy Thompson: Teach Me To Fly
Offertory: Jason W. Krug: When I Survey The Wondrous Cross (Concord Handbells)
Anthems: Ryan Murphy: Pilgrim Song
Tom Fettke: The Prayer
Cindy Berry: I Put My Hope In You
Choral Benediction: Allen Pote & Tom Long: We Will Be A Shelter
Postlude: Susan E. Geschke: Holy Manna (Concord Handbells)
July 16, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Leo Sowerby: Carillon
Offertory: Harold Stover: Fantasia on Savior, Again To Your Dear Name
Anthem: Leo Sowerby: Jubilate in C
Postlude: Dan Locklair: The People Respond – Amen! (Rubrics, V)
July 23 service: NO CHOIR Sanctuary
Prelude: Jan Sandström: Sång till Lotta*
Offertory: Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thais*
Postlude: Charles Gounod: Marche Triomphale (arr. for piano)
(*Guest artist: Adam Kosberg (trombone)
July 30, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Johannes Brahms: Herzlich tut mich erfreuen (op. 122, 4)
Offertory: Robert Schumann: Warum? (= Why?) (#3 of Fantasiestück, op. 12)
Anthem: William H. Harris: Vox Ultima Crucis
Postlude: Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Monologue 1 – Con Moto (from op. 162)
August 6, Sunday: service: NO CHOIR Sanctuary
Prelude: W. A. Mozart: Adagio for glass harmonica in C major (K. 617a)
Offertory: Charles Ore: I Love To Tell The Story
Anthem: (Gene Dobbs Bradford, guest harmonica player)
Postlude: Joe Utterback: Variations on Beach Spring
August 13, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Prelude: Joseph Jongen: Choral (op. 37, 4)
Offertory: César Franck: Danse Lente (FWV 22) (for piano)
Anthem: César Franck: O Lord, Most Holy (Panis Angelicus) (FWV 61, 5)
Postlude: Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens: Fanfare
August 20, Sunday: service Sanctuary
Organ Prelude: Healey Willan: Prelude on Christe, Redemptor omnium (op. 157, 2)
Offertory: Gerald Near: Aria (duet for piano & organ)
Anthem: Healey Willan: Now Let The Heavens Be Joyful
Organ Postlude: Healey Willan: Postlude on St. Anne
August 27, Sunday: service [Mark Pye, guest oboist] Sanctuary
Prelude: Georg Philipp Telemann: Siciliana; Aria 1; Aria 2 (from Partita #2 in G)
Offertory: Carl Nielsen: Romanze (from Two Fantasy Pieces for oboe & piano, op. 2)
Anthem: Howard Helvey: Jesus, My All, To Heaven Is Gone
Postlude: Georg Philipp Telemann: Aria 6 (from Partita #2 in G)
SEPTEMBER 3
Prelude: [Paul Schmidt, piano – guest soloist]
Choral Prelude: Richard Phipps: Create In Me A New Heart
William Mathias: Communion Service (op. 71)
Anthem: William Mathias: Gloria
Postlude: [Paul Schmidt, piano – guest soloist]
SEPTEMBER 10 [Reformation: Luther]
Prelude: Douglas Steele: Arioso (organ)
Choral Prelude: Richard Phipps: Create In Me A New Heart
Offertory: Arnold Bax: Paean (piano)
Anthem: Ralph Vaughan Williams: O Lord How Amiable Are Thy Dwellings
Postlude: Douglas Steele: On The Triad (organ)
SEPTEMBER 17 [Reformation: Luther]
Prelude: Felix Mendelssohn: Consolation (#3 from Songs Without Words, op. 30)
Choral Prelude: Felix Mendelssohn: In Deep Despair I Call (chorale, from Aus tiefer Not, op. 23)
Offertory: Max Reger: Prelude on Aus tiefer Not (op. 67, 3)
Anthem: Walter Hawkins: Goin’ Up Yonder (arr. Martin Sirvatka)
Postlude: Calvin Taylor: I’ve Been In The Storm So Long (arr.)
SEPTEMBER 24 [Reformation: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God]
Prelude: Dietrich Buxtehude: Prelude on Ein Fest Burg (BuxWV 184)
Offertory: Paul Wachs: Soir d’Automne (piano) (Fall begins 22 September)
Anthem: David von Kampen: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Postlude: Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Fantasia on Ein Feste Burg (op. 65, 47)
OCTOBER 1 [Reformation: Zwingli]
Prelude: Haydn Wood: Prelude (piano)
William Mathias: Communion Service (op. 71)
Offertory: Maria Theresia von Paradis (really by Samuel Dushkin): Sicilienne (organ)
Anthem: G. F. Handel (really by Siegfried Ochs): Thanks Be To Thee
Postlude: Percy Grainger: Handel In The Strand (piano)
OCTOBER 8 [NO CHOIR; Guest brass ensemble: nightmusic]
Prelude: Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata
Offertory: Morten Lauridsen – O Nata Lux
Meditation: Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune
Postlude: Johann Sebastian Bach: My Spirit Be Joyful (from Cantata Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal, BWV 146
OCTOBER 15 [Reformation: Servetus]
Prelude: Douglas Steele: Chorale Prelude on Gibbons’ Angel’s Song
Offertory: Nathan Nokes: Funeral Procession (from The Burning of Servetus) (piano)
Anthem: Orlando Gibbons: O Lord, Increase My Faith
Postlude: Anonymous: Two Early 16th century pieces (organ)
OCTOBER 22 [Pilgrimage: Stewardship]
Prelude: Thomas Dunhill: Three Preludes for Piano (1 & 2)
Meditation: Thomas Dunhill: The Cloths of Heaven (op. 30, 3) (Margaret Boeckman, soprano solo)
Offertory: Thomas Dunhill: Nocturne (op. 38, 1) (organ)
Anthem: Thomas Dunhill: Pilgrim’s Song
Postlude: Thomas Dunhill: Three Preludes for Piano (3)
OCTOBER 29
Choral Prelude: arr. John Ferguson: Shall We Gather At The River?
Hymn: arr. Benjamin Harlan: As I Went Down To The River to Pray
Offertory: Edward Macdowell: To The Sea AND From A Wandering Iceberg (Sea Pieces, op. 55, 1 & 2)
Anthem: Will James: Dark Water
Postlude: Dudley Buck: Chorale Prelude on St. Anne (op. 49, 5) (organ)
NOVEMBER 5 [Stewardship: What the Tide Brings In]
Prelude: Edvard Grieg: Organ arrangement of Violin Sonata #3, 2nd movement (op. 45)
Choral Prelude: Edvard Grieg: God’s Peace Is Peace Eternal (orig. Trudom)
Offertory: Edvard Grieg: Arietta (op. 12, 1)
Anthem: Edvard Grieg: Jesus, Friend Of Sinners (orig. Ave Maris Stella) (EG 150)
During Communion: Edvard Grieg: Poetic Tone-Pictures (op. 3, 4)
Postlude: Edvard Grieg: Jesus, meine Zuversicht (EG 185b)
NOVEMBER 12 (TBC joined by Southern Union Missionary Baptist Church)
Prelude: Dan Forrest: What Wondrous Love Is This? (piano)
Choral Prelude: sung by the choir of Southern Union Missionary Baptist Church
Offertory: George Shearing: Prelude on I Love Thee, My Lord
Anthem: arr. John Carter: Guide My Feet, Lord
Dismissal: sung by the choir of Southern Union Missionary Baptist Church
Postlude: Dan Forrest: O Worship The King (piano)
NOVEMBER 19 [Leading On Empty]
Prelude: Vladimir Rebikov: Berceuse (op. 7, 1) (organ)
Offertory: Sergei Prokofiev: Gavotte (op. 12, 2) (piano)
Anthem: Mily Balakirev: Send Out Thy Light
Postlude: Georgi Mushel: Toccata (organ)
NOVEMBER 26 [Christmas or Chaos]
Prelude: Edvard Grieg: Klokkeklang (op. 54, 6) (piano)
Offertory: Franz Josef Haydn: Representation of Chaos (from Creation) (organ & piano)
Anthem: arr. Howard Helvey: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
Song of Benediction: Charles Ives: Serenity
Postlude: Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Marche Triomphale on Nun Danket Alle Gott (op. 65, 59) (organ)
DECEMBER 3
Prelude: Gerald Finzi (arr. Robert Gower): Carol (organ)
William Mathias: Communion Service (op. 71)
Offertory: Jack Richard Hodkinson: December (piano)
Anthem: Henry Ley: A Choral Hymn for Advent
Postlude: Frank Bridge: Allegro Marziale e ben marcato (Six Organ Pieces, 3) (organ)
DECEMBER 10 (Carol Service)
Prelude: J. S. Bach: Prelude on In Dulci Jubilo (BWV 608)
Choral Prelude: Peter Warlock: Where Riches Is Everlastingly
Six interludes (solo piano): Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite (complete)
Solo (voice & piano): Peter Warlock, arr. Sting: Balulalow
Solo (voice and guitar): J. S. Bach, arr. Sting: You Calm My Fearful Mind in Winter
Carols: Peter Warlock: Adam Lay Ybounden
Peter Warlock, arr. Philip Brunelle: The First Mercy
Peter Warlock: The Five Lesser Joys of Mary
Peter Warlock, arr. Dom Gregory Murray: Come To Bethlehem (orig. Pieds-en-l’air)
Peter Warlock: The Sycamore Tree (Three Carols, 3)
Offertory: Peter Warlock, arr. George Shearing: Balulalow
Postlude: J. S. Bach: Prelude on In Dulci Jubilo (BWV 729)
DECEMBER 17
Choral Prelude: Michael McCabe: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (organ)
Offertory: Eric Carlson: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (piano)
Anthem: Douglas Nolan: A Prayer for Advent (solo trombone: Adam Kosberg)
Postlude: Adolphus Hailstork: Toccata on O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (organ)
DECEMBER 24
Prelude: Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Choral-Improvisation on In Dulci Jubilo (op. 75, 2)
Choral Prelude: Joseph Martin: Prayer for Advent
Meditation: Robert MacGimsey: Sweet Little Jesus Boy (solo: Ella Banks)
Offertory: Jean Langlais: La Nativité (Poèmes Évangéliques (op. 2), 2)
Anthem: Witold Lutoslawski: The Holly and the Ivy
Postlude: Richard Elliott: I Saw Three Ships
DECEMBER 31
Prelude: G. F. Handel: Pastoral Symphony (from MESSIAH) (piano)
Choral Prelude: Edgar Bainton: Ring Out, Wild Bells
Offertory: G. F. Handel: Aria from Concerto Grosso, #12 (op. 6) (organ)
Anthem: Peter Warlock: What Cheer? Good Cheer!
Postlude: G. F. Handel: Hallelujah Chorus (from MESSIAH) + Uwe Korn: Halleluja Rock (piano)