January 22, 2023

Music Box

January 22, 2023

Jubal Joslyn, tenor Cathryn Wilkinson, piano and organ

Janneke Hoogland, cello

Cathryn Wilkinson, piano and organ

Prelude

Vocalise……Sergei Rachmaninoff
“Winter” from The Seasons……Antonio Vivaldi
Morning Light……Cary John Franklin

Offertory

“The Summons”……John L. Bell

Postlude

Dance Rustique……W. H. Squire

 

A New Hymn for a New Epiphany

Today we will sing a portion of “The Summons” together. This will be a new song for many of us. This music originated in Scotland in 1987, the work of John Bell, who is a pastoral and musical member of the Scottish Iona community. John Bell was educated in Glasgow and eventually answered a call to serve the marginalized and disenfranchised. He worked as youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, and eventually turned to composing hymns to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: “I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution.” [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] Bell became the convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), and his hymns have since become popular across the world. – Adapted from Emily Brink, www.hymnary.org

 

Welcome to Janneke Hoogland, cello

A Bay Area native, cellist Janneke (“Yanika”) Hoogland holds degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. In addition to performing throughout the peninsula, she is the cello coach for Youth Music Monterey, teaches music at Carmel River Elementary School, and has a studio of private music students.