Sample Vespers Service

Sample Jazz Vespers Service

THE CHAPEL OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD

THE GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Thursday, 18 November 1999 5:30 PM

Evensong

PRELUDE                                  Nuages              D. Reinhardt/M. Ageron

OPENING SENTENCES & COLLECTS      Book of Common Prayer, 109-110

(All stand)

O GRACIOUS LIGHT                                  Book of Common Prayer, 112

MUSICAL OFFERING   

                                              All of Me                    S. Simons/G.Marks

(All are seated)

PSALM 150                                               Book of Common Prayer, 807

LESSON

MUSICAL OFFERING           A Child Is Born                                T. Jones

LESSON

HOMILY                                                                             Dean Ewing

MUSICAL OFFERING     Solo Piano Improvisation                   L. Musiker          

THE PRAYERS

(All stand)

            THE LORD’S PRAYER                     Book of Common Prayer, 121

            SUFFRAGES B                               Book of Common Prayer, 122

            COLLECTS                              Book of Common Prayer, 123-124

MUSICAL OFFERING            Come Sunday                            D. Ellington

(All are seated)

A GENERAL THANKSGIVING                       Book of Common Prayer, 836

(All stand)

OFFERTORY                 Pennies From Heaven           A. Johnston/J. Burke

(All are seated)

PRAYER OF ST.CHRYSOSTOM                     Book of Common Prayer, 126

(All stand)

BLESSING AND DISMISSAL

POSTLUDE                              Israel                                         J. Carisi

Jazz Vespers emerges as a synthesis of traditions, a blending of an age old liturgywith the unique heritage we call jazz. With a freshness that is open to God’s Spirit,this musical tradition sounds the hopes, dreams, joys, frustrations and pain thatexpresses human experience, while exploring a musical vocabulary that transcendsthe limits of the written or spoken word.

                                    MUSICIANS: LEE MUSIKER PIANO

                                                     BOB RENINIO, BASS

                                                     MIKE BERKOWITZ, DRUMS

                                                     NORM FREEMAN, VIBES