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Alleluia Voices Raise 89.03 (PDF downloadable file) (MP3 downloadable file) (mp3 file)
Congregation, SATB, brass quintet, timpani, organ
Text: George Wither, alt.
Tune: RH, PRINCETON
Westminster Choir College, Oct. 1989 Symposium,Church Music: The Future Princeton University Chapel, 17 October 1989, Sir David Willcocks, dir.
Oxford University Press, 1990, 1991
Amid the World’s Bleak Wilderness 03.15 (PDF downloadable file) (mp3 file)
Congregation, SATB, organ
Text: Jaroslav J. Vajda.
Tune: RH, GRANTON
Music of Richard Hillert III: A Festival of Hymns, 20 Oct. 2003
As Lately We Watched 03.12 (PDF downloadable) (mp3 file)
Congregation, SATB, strings, organ.
Text: anon. Tune: RH, SALISBURY STREET
Music of Richard Hillert III: A Festival of Hymns, 20 Oct. 2003
As Moses, Lost in Sinai's Wilderness 77.05 (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, SATB, trumpet, organ
Text: Henry L. Letterman. Tune: RH, RIVER FOREST
At the Lamb's High Feast 77.02 (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, choir (high/low voices), brass quintet, organ
Text: Office hymn, tr. R. Campbell.
Tune: Bohemian Brethren, SONNE DER GERECHTIGKEIT
Seminex Chorus, St. Louis, 1977, Mark Bangert, dir.
Awake, My Heart, with Gladness 97.09 (mp3 file) (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, SATB, brass quartet, timpani, organ
Text: Paul Gerhardt, tr. J. Kelly, alt.
Tune: J. Crüger,AUF, AUF, MEIN HERZ
Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, 30 March 1997.
Northwestern Publishing House, 2001
Called and Gathered by the Spirit 96.16 (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, SATB, children's choir, organ, brass quartet, timpani
Text: Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr.
Tune: RH, ASHBURN
50th anniversary of Ashburn Lutheran Church, Chicago, Mark Alan Filbert, dir.
GIA1997
Earth and All Stars 80.07 (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, choir(s), brass, timpani, organ, opt. handbells
Text: Herbert F. Brokering.
Tune: David N. Johnson, EARTH AND ALL STARS
First performance, Grace River Forest, 8 June 1980, Paul B. Bouman, dir.
Full score and choral/organ editions, CPH 1981
For All the Saints 95.17
Symphonic band, (Congregation), SATB, organ
Text: Wm. W. How.
Tune: R. Vaughan Williams, SINE NOMINE
Chicago Symphony Center, Wind Symphony and choirs of Concordia University, 5 Nov. 1995, Richard Fischer, dir.
God of the Promise 79.04 (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, SATB, 3 trumpets, organ
Text: Gracia Grindal.
Tune: RH, CHRIST SEMINARY
Christ Seminary-Seminex, St. Louis, 18 May 1979, Mark Bangert, dir. AF, 1990
God, Whose Giving Knows No Ending 85.02 (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, choir, organ, oboe, and optional strings
Text: Robert L. Edwards.
Tune: Sacred Harp, BEACH SPRING. The Hymn Society of America for the Internationa] Conference on Hymnody, 11-16 August, 1984, Bethlehem, PA
Agape (Hope Publishing), 1986
In His Temple Now Behold Him 96.01 (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, choir, opt. brass, keyboard
Text: H. J. Pye, alt., St. 4: Latin hymn, tr. by J. M. Neale
Tune: Henry Purcell, WESTMINSTER ABBEY
Choirs of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 4 Feb. 1996, Henry V. Gerike, dir.
Lift High the Cross 79.11
Congregation, SATB and high/low voices, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, organ
Text: G. W. Kitchin, M. R, Newbolt.
Tune: S. N. Nicholson, CRUCIFER
Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Saginaw, MI, 10 Feb., 1980, George Frank, dir. GIA 1983
O God of Light 01.01
Congregation, SATB, oboe, opt. trumpet, strings, organ
Text: Sarah E. Taylor, adapt.
Tune: H. Barrie Cabena, ATKINSON
Grace Lutheran, River Forest, Bach Cantata Series, 21 January 2001
O Kingly Love 95.14 (PDF downloadable) (mp3 file)
Choirs: men, treble, SATB; brass quintet, timpani
Text: Martin H. Franzmann (1907-76),
Tune: RH, KINGLY LOVE
Choirs of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Henry V. Gerike, dir.
CPH 1997
O Sons and Daughters of the King 92.05
Congregation, choir, organ, with solo trumpet
Text: Latin, tr. by John M. Neale.
Tune: O FILII ET FILIAE CPH 1993
Prepare Us, Lord 03.14 (mp3 file) (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, SATB, organ
Text: F. Pratt Green.
Tune: RH, FRARY
Music of Richard Hillert III: A Festival of Hymns, 20 Oct. 2003
Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven 95.12
Congregation, SATB, brass quintet, timpani, organ
Text: H. F. Lyre.
Tune: John Goss, LAUDA ANIMA
Sounds of Summer, Sioux Falls, SD, July 1995
Sing Praise to God, the Highest Good 88.03 (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, choir, and organ with opt. brass and timpani
Text: Joh. J. Schutz, tr. F.E. Cox.
Tune: Melchoir Vulpius, LOBT GOTT DEN HERREN, IHR
Dedication of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Columbus, IN,1 May 1988, Harlan Heideman, dir.
AF, 1992
The Sending, Lord, Springs from Thy Yearning Heart 74.05 (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, SATB, 3 trumpets, organ
Text: William J. Danker.
Tune: RH, MISSION
To Jesus Who Is King 03.13 (PDF downloadable) (mp3 file)
Congregation, oboe (opt.), SATB, organ
Text: Melva Rorem.
Tune: RH, TRIA DONA
Music of Richard Hillert III: A Festival of Hymns, 20 Oct. 2003
When in the Hour of Deepest Need 91.05 (PDF downloadable) (mp3 file)
Congregation, SATB, 2 oboes, strings
Text: Paul Eber, tr. Catherine Winkworth, alt.
Tune: Louis Bourgeois, WENN WIR IN HÖCHSTEN NÖTEN SEIN
Bach Cantata Vespers, Grace Church, 24 February 1991, John Folkening, dir.
When in Our Music 03.09 (mp3 file) (PDF downloadable)
Congregation, SATB, opt. oboe, strings, timpani, (opt. addition of brass sextet stanza 5)
Text: F. Pratt Green.
Tune: RH, revision of WAUSAU
Music of Richard Hillert III: A Festival of Hymns, 20 Oct. 2003
Where Rivers Run and Mountains Rise 02.01 (PDF downloadable)
Choirs, opt. congregation, brass, timpani, keyboard, opt. handbells
Text: Bishop William Boyd Grove.
Tune: RH, WYOMING VALLEY
Sesquicentennial of the Wyoming Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, 1 June 2002, Scranton, PA