CUUC Music: Sun June 18

Jolkebuddha.com reports: "Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between, he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in the attic."

The father of twenty children and one of history’s greatest composers, J. S. Bach epitomizes the juncture between music and paternity. The Two and Three-Part Inventions were written by Bach as a gift to his ten-year-old son Wilhelm Friedemann as a guide to mastering keyboard techniques and a model of polyphonic composition. In honor of Fathers’ Day, a group of these perennially beloved teaching pieces opens the morning’s Prelude.

The CUUC Choir is on hand with a special valedictory offering for the final service of the “official” church year, along with anthems related to the monthly theme of Freedom and the eternal longing for peace. Tchaikovsky’s “June”, a seasonal offering written as part of a monthly commission for the St. Petersburg music journal Nouvelliste, rounds out Sunday morning’s music.

Read on for programming details.

Prelude: Adam Kent, piano

Two-Part Inventions Nos. 1, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 13

                                                            J. S. Bach

Introit: CUUC Choir, directed by Lisa N. Meyer and accompanied by Georgianna Pappas

And Wherever You Go

                                                            Douglas E. Wagner

Anthem:

Flying Free 

Don Besig

Offertory:
June: Barcarolle, Op. 37, No. 6

                                    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Anthem:

Let There Be Peace On Earth   

Sy Miller and Jill Jackson, arr. by Mark Hayes