FESTIVAL OF HYMNS

There is stealthy restoration in singing together, for it pulls our panicked breathing into one chorus of wind between measures, drawing deeply from where we need not be frightened.

Our bodies are fearfully and wonderfully made, with chemicals and instincts to protect who we are and what we already have. But this is mere survival, a barely being place.

How risky, then, that God is calling us out of our shallow gasps for air and into the deep, abundant breath of life, robust melodies that move us forward.

It is difficult to feel this wind all alone, so remember to sing together and often, always expanding the body and making room for shalom and the Spirit in the heart of your song.

Meta Herrick Carlson

ABOUT TONIGHT’S HYMN FESTIVAL

Five centuries of Lutheranism have treasured the gift of music. At the heart of that treasure is the power of the human voice singing with others in community. “Next to the word of God,” Martin Luther said, “music deserves the highest praise.” Luther was referring to the power of singing God’s word to and for each other the psalmists, too, understood music’s power to express our burdens, pleadings, questions, praises and prayers to God and to each other. Accordingly, this Festival of Hymns weaves together poetry, reflection, scripture reading, prayer and, of course, several hymns and songs.

Like many hymn festivals, tonight’s singing together is built around a theme: “come, bring …”. In our worship life at LSM this summer, we have felt drawn many times to the invitation of Jesus in Matthew’s gospel: “come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). We have experienced this as the gospel’s wonderful freedom to bring everything that burdens us to God.

Tonight, we give expression through many styles in ways that have felt authentic and meaningful to this year’s LSM community from a cappella singing and chant, to singing accompanied by invigorating percussion or soothing bells, by the beautiful piano or glorious organ and, of course, many other instruments that all help us sing together in community.

Music. Faith. Community. These are the three pillars of LSM that tonight’s Hymn Festival seeks to embody. Whether you are a student, alum, faculty or staff, or our guest we welcome your voice and hope you feel the invitation to “come, bring …”.

A special note to our guests: Tonight, we will collect an offering during an extended introduction for the hymn, “Alleluia! Voices Raise.” This offering supports the music, instruments, the musicians leading tonight’s singing many of whom aspire to become church musicians as well as the future worship life of LSM.

abendmusik Oboe Concerto in C Major K. 314

II. Andante ma non troppo

Rachel Gripp SOLOIST

LSM Sinfonietta (fellow ensemble)

Elizabeth Ames CONDUCTOR

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791

Amur Bashirov • Hadi Masood • Gabe Roethle VIOLIN

Chloe Kitzmiller VIOLA

Ina Torres Prada O’Ryan CELLO

Matthew Jahnke • Matthew Clarke BASS

Austin Smith (faculty) OBOE

Olivia Remak FLUTE

Kristen Ronning • Bruce Atwell (faculty) HORN

Come, Christians, Join to Sing arr. Kevin McChesney

LSM Handbell Choir

Jeffrey Scott Doebler CONDUCTOR

Come, bring your burdens to God … reflection Sing It All Hannah Johnsrud processional “Come, bring your burdens to God”

You may join the choir in singing melody, harmony, Xhosa, or English

Hymn

Stanza 1 All

Stanza 2 High voices (soprano, alto)

Stanza 3 Low voices (tenor, bass)

Stanza 4 All

Come, bring your pleadings to God … reflection Spirit-Verbs: Becoming anthem Spirit, Moving Over Chaos

Spirit, moving over chaos, bringing light where there was none, be to us a light, revealing where the work is to be done. Praise to God, among us dwelling, praise the Spirit giving light.

Breath, instilling animation, giving life, informing soul, breathe into all our beings life that makes the Body whole. Praise to God, among us dwelling: praise the Spirit giving life.

Power, Lifeforce, Inspiration, blowing, breathing, brooding here, call, enliven, and empower for your work, both far and near. Praise to God, among us dwelling, praise the Spirit giving strength.

Spirit, moving over chaos, bringing light where there was none, be to us a light, revealing where the work is to be done.

Praise to God, among us dwelling, praise the Spirit giving light.

Patricia Blaze Clark

2002 Gemini Press

Susan Palo Cherwien

1953–2021

David Ashley White

b. 1944

hymn “Gracious Spirit, heed our pleading”

The choir introduces the hymn by singing the refrain in Swahili

After the introduction, join in singing stanzas 1–5 and the refrain in harmony

Come, bring your questions to God … reflection Discerning Hymnody hymn “Ask the complicated questions”

Stanza 1 All

Stanza 2 Low voices (tenor, bass)

Stanza 3 High voices (soprano, alto)

Stanza 4 All reflection Theme and Variations on Holy Manna

Hannah Johnsrud

Anne Krentz Organ

Like practice and performance, listening is also an important part of the Lutheran hymn singing tradition. Since the seventeenth century, many composers have written hymn preludes for organ or other instruments that (wordlessly) interpret images or ideas in the texts. Today, many texts are sung to the same tune a universe of interpretive possibilities!

Holy Manna is an American folk tune found in the shape-note hymnal

The Southern Harmony (1835) and first appeared in William Moore’s Columbian Harmony (1825). The tune has wide ecumenical usage: it is found in over 200 hymnals today, including Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW), Lutheran Service Book (LSB), and All Creation Sings (ACS).

Holy Manna is set to two texts in ELW: “All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly” and “God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens”; three texts in LSB: “Christ, the Word of God Incarnate”; “Faith and Truth and Life Bestowing”; “Gracious God, You Send Great Blessings”; and one text in ACS: “Earth Is Full of Wit and Wisdom.”

LSM’s Liturgical Composer-in-Residence, Anne Krentz Organ, has arranged Holy Manna for solo instrument and keyboard in the form of a theme and variations. Like singers of generations past who listened to hymn and chorale preludes, you are invited to imagine how the theme and each variation interpret each other as the piece unfolds.

Theme, “Confidently”

All who hunger, gather gladly; holy manna is our bread. Come from wilderness and wand’ring. Here in truth we will be fed. You that yearn for days of fullness, all around us is our food. Taste and see the grace eternal. Taste and see that God is good.

Sylvia Dunstan

Variation I, “Lightly”

Earth is full of wit and wisdom, sounding God’s delighted laugh, From the tiny roly-poly to the treetop-tall giraffe. All creation sings in wonder; even rocks and trees rejoice As they join the ringing chorus: echoes of our Maker’s voice.

Adam M. L. Tice

The variations continue on the following page u

Variation II, “Reflectively”

Gracious God, you send great blessings new each morning all our days. For your mercies never ending, for your love we offer praise. Lord, we pray that we, your people who your gifts unnumbered claim, Through the sharing of your blessing may bring glory to your name.

Gregory J. Wismar

Variation III, “Nimbly”

God, who stretched the spangled heavens infinite in time and place, Flung the suns in burning radiance through the silent fields of space: We, your children in your likeness, share inventive pow’rs with you; Great Creator, still creating, show us what we yet may do.

Catherine Cameron

Variation IV, “Majestically”

Christ, the living bread from heaven, food for body, food for soul; Christ, the manna daily given, nourish, strengthen, make us whole. Feed us with the food of heaven, foretaste of the feast to be; Quench our thirst with living water springing up eternally.

Steven P. Mueller

Come, bring your praises to God … reflection Take Your Place offering Improvisation on “Alleluia! Voices raise”

Nathan Baker-Trinity

Offerings may be placed in the basket, or you can use the QR code at left https://www.lsmacademy.org/support hymn “Alleluia! Voices raise”

Sung by all in unison reading Isaiah 55:12–13

Response: Thanks be to God.

hymn “Cantad al Señor”

The choir sings the first stanza in Spanish Then, all sing stanzas 1–5 in English

Come, bring your prayers to God … reflection Help Me to Believe in Beginnings hymn

“Confitemini Domino”

Sung several times in the style of the Taizé Community in France

You may sing any combination of melody, harmony, Latin, English, or simply “be”

Ted Loder

reading Matthew 11:28–30 litany and closing prayer Holy One, hear our prayer . . . hymn “To you before the close of day”

Response: Thanks be to God.

For those who do good . . .

For those who do ill . . .

For those of us who try to do good . . .

Keep watch, dear Lord . . .

O loving God, O risen Christ, O comforting Spirit, whose love no word can express whose care no mind can grasp: as daylight fades around us and your blessed dark surrounds us, take us by the hand your beloved people and hold us in your warm embrace through this night of rest and into the waking day, that we may live and breathe and move in you giving glory to you as your resurrected people always held in your loving embrace. Amen.

After the choir has recessed and the music has concluded, all may depart the sanctuary in silence

You may greet service leaders in the narthex

Worship Leaders

LSM 2023 Worship Staff

CHAPLAIN Rev. Nathan Baker-Trinity

The Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Endowed Chaplain Chair

SACRISTAN Hannah Johnsrud

Sponsored by Craig Mueller and Ernest Vasseur

LITURGICAL COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE

ASSOCIATE CANTOR

Anne Krentz Organ

Sponsored by David Schack and Claire Bushong

Ezechiel Daos

LSM 2023 Chapel Choir

Luke Baker-Trinity

Sadie Cinnamon

Edra Clements

Ella Crader (student life staff)

Gabe Day-O’Connell

Jonah Dennis (student life staff)

Karli Fisher

Jonah Hackbart-Morlock (fellow)

Anna Hartwell

Audrey Heath

Lorelei Heath (student life staff)

Valerie Hinkle

Elijah Iwama

Adam Lindemer (student life staff)

Maryanne McNutt (student life staff)

Savannah Mitchell

Alison Pollock

Sydney Raley

Hugh Reynolds

Jimmy Rich

McKayla Kwamboka Sagini

Brooke Schlotman

Lilia Schmidt

Shakeira Simmons

Naomi Tracy-Hegg

Bri Wurpts

LSM 2023 Handbell Choir

Edra Clements

Manuel Diaz

Anika Ellis

Karli Fischer

Avon Hackbart-Morlock

Kaylee Iwama

Eliana Jaffe

Clara Kupferschmid

Instrumentalists

VIOLIN Luke Baker-Trinity

Rachel Handlin (faculty)

Maryanne McNutt (student life staff)

McKayla Kwamboka Sagini

CELLO Anna Hartwell

DOUBLE BASS Matthew Jahnke (faculty)

FLUTE Jonah Hackbart-Morlock (fellow)

OBOE Rachel Gripp (fellow)

SAXOPHONE Stacy Maugans (faculty)

HORN Bruce Atwell (faculty)

TRUMPET Thomas Baker-Trinity

Christian Chaisson (fellow)

Paul Morton (faculty)

TROMBONE Rev. Nathan Baker-Trinity (chaplain)

Brandon Domingue (fellow)

Benjamin Yates (faculty)

TUBA Mark Severtson (fellow)

TIMPANI David Eyler (faculty)

PERCUSSION Sam Deneen (fellow)

Jonah Hackbart-Morlock (fellow)

Seth Hartwell (academy director)

Lydia Lehmann

Quentin Maas

Spencer Maas

Hugh Reynolds

Ben Schueler

Henry Schueler

Prof. Cheryl Slack (student life staff)

Noelle Streuber-Eden

Sources And Permissions

Liturgies at Lutheran Summer Music are adapted or reprinted from Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006), Lutheran Service Book (2006), All Creation Sings (2020), and SundaysandSeasons.com, with copyrights held or administered by Augsburg Fortress and Concordia Publishing House. Texts and music reprinted under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License SAS006481; One License A-709357; and Augsburg Fortress Hymns License 14057. Additional materials from Connections Worship Companion © 2023 Westminster John Knox Press.

Music

Alleluia! Voices raise. Text: George Wither, 1588–1667, alt., based on Psalms 148 and 150. Music, PRINCETON: Richard W. Hillert, 1923–2010, © 1990, 1991 Oxford University Press. Reprinted from ELW, Hymn 828. Setting for brass, percussion, organ, and assembly by Richard W. Hillert.

Cantad al Señor (Oh, sing to the Lord). Text: Brazilian folk song; transl. Gerhard M. Cartford, 1923–2016, © Gerhard M. Cartford, admin. Augsburg Fortress. Music, CANTAD AL SEÑOR: Brazilian folk tune. Reprinted from ELW, Hymn 822 and LSB, Hymn 808. Arrangement by Robert A. Hobby, b. 1962, © 1994 MorningStar Music Publishers.

Come, bring your burdens. Text: South African; English text by Barbara Clark, Mairi Munro, and Martine Stemerick. Music, WOZA NOMTHWALO WAKHO: South African melody; arr. Welile Sigabi. English text and arr. © 2008 WGRG, Iona Community, admin. GIA Publications, Inc. Reprinted from ACS, Hymn 1009.

Confitemini Domino (Come and fill our hearts). Text: Psalm 136:1, adapt. Taizé Community. Music: Jacques Berthier, 1923–1994, and Taizé Community. Text and music © 1982, 1991 Les Presses de Taizé, admin. GIA Publications. Reprinted from ELW, Hymn 528. Gracious Spirit, heed our pleading. Text: Wilson Niwagila; transl. Howard S. Olson, 1922–2010. Music, NJOO KWETU, ROHO MWEMA: Wilson Niwagila; arr. Egil Hovland, 1924–2013. English and Swahili text and music © Lutheran Theological College, Makumira, Tanzania, admin. Augsburg Fortress. Reprinted from ELW, Hymn 401.

Lift up your heads, all you bowed low. Text: Susan R. Briehl, b. 1952, © 2013 Susan R. Briehl, admin. Augsburg Fortress. Music, WEST LEESTAD: Zebulon M. Highben, b. 1979, © 2013 Zebulon M. Highben, admin. Augsburg Fortress. Commissioned for the 2013 Institute of Liturgical Studies at Valparaiso University and reprinted from ACS, Hymn 1032.

Theme and Variations on Holy Manna. Sponsored by Amy and Scott Feira and composed by Anne Krentz Organ for LSM 2023. Free downloadable scores and accompaniments will be made available on LSM’s website for the following instruments: violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, and the saxophone family (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone).

To you before the close of day. Text: Compline office hymn, ca. 6th cent.; transl. John Mason Neale, 1818–1866, alt. Music, JAM LUCIS ORTO SIDERE: Plainsong mode VI. Reprinted from ELW, Hymn 657 and LSB, Hymn 889.

Text

Help Me to Believe in Beginnings. Ted Loder, Guerillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2005).

O loving God, O risen Christ, O comforting Spirit. Susan Palo Cherwien, To God I Give My Melody: Reflections for Worship (St. Louis: MorningStar Music Publishers, 2019), 131.

Spirit-verbs: Becoming. Susan Palo Cherwien, To God I Give My Melody: Reflections for Worship (St. Louis: MorningStar Music Publishers, 2019), 208–209.

There is stealthy restoration in singing together. Meta Herrick Carlson, “Anxious Ones,” in Speak it Plain: Words for Worship and Life Together (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2020), 4–5.

Acknowledgements

The pillars of music, community, and faith at LSM are sustained by the generosity of friends, alumni, congregations, and communities that support the program through faculty, studio, and staff sponsorships, student scholarships, as well as through gifts.

LSM especially thanks Brian and Kim Becker for underwriting tonight’s livestreaming and Valparaiso University for the use of instruments and music. This Hymn Festival is partially made possible through the Eugene and Mary Sukup Church Music Program at LSM, and the commission for liturgical instrumental music is sponsored by Amy and Scott Feira.

We also thank the following sponsors of electives that support the training of church musicians at LSM:

Church Music • sponsored by Janet and Randy Peterson in memory of Paul Bouman, and by Paul Killinger in honor of Pamela and Keith Killinger

Handbells • sponsored by Nancy Jones and Michael Hovland, and by Mary Bricker

Introduction to Pipe Organ • sponsored by Pamela and Keith Killinger