This Sunday at Trinity 

This morning’s prelude is the first of Louis Vierne’s 24 Pièces en Style Libre (24 Pieces in Free Style) composed in 1913-14. Twenty-three of the pieces are dedicated to Vierne’s students. Vierne won the competition for the post of organist titulaire of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris in 1900 and remained there until his death at the console during a recital in 1937.

Today’s anthem is an arrangement of Philip P. Bliss’s musical setting of Horatio G. Spafford’s text, “When peace, like a river” by David Ashley White (b. 1944). White holds a Bachelor of Music in oboe performance and a Master of Music in composition, both from the University of Houston, and he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts from The University of Texas at Austin. He has been on the faculty of the Moores School of Music of the University of Houston since 1977. From 1999 to 2014, White was the school’s director. Today he continues as Professor of Composition and Music Theory.

The text of today’s anthem:

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,

when sorrows like sea billows roll;

whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,

It is well, it is well with my soul.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!

My sin, not in part but the whole, is nailed to the cross,

and I bear it no more, praise the Lord,

praise the Lord, oh my soul!

And, Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,

the cloud be rolled back as a scroll;

the trumpet shall resound and the Lord shall descend,

even so, it is well with my soul.

It is well, it is well with my soul.