NCYC 2008 Music Selections

“Pacem meam do vobis” (My peace I give you) (sung in Latin)
Text: John 14: 27
Music: Gregorian chant

 “Dona Nobis Pacem” (Grant us peace) (sung in Latin)
Music: aleatoric setting by Robert Chilcott (b. 1955)

 “King of Glory, King of Peace”
Text: George Herbert (1593-1633)
Tune: Johann Rudolf Ahle (1625-1673)
set by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) ed./arr. William Lock

“Surgens Jesus” (Jesus, Arising) (sung in Latin)
Text: John 20: 19-20
Music: Peter Philips

“O, pray for the peace of Jerusalem”
Text: Psalm 122: 6, 7
Music: from “Four Anthems” by Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

“Jerusalem”
Text: Luke 19: 42-44
Music: Egil Hovland (b. 1924)

 “Prayer for Peace”
Text: Henry Williams Baker (1821-1877)
Music: Paul Fetler (b. 1920)

“Let Us Go Rejoicing”
Text: Psalm 122: 1-9
Music: Michael Joncas (b. 1951)

“Lord of Nations, God Eternal”
Text: H. Glen Lamier (1924-1978)
Music: Robert Edward Smith

“Agnus Dei” (Lamb of God) (sung in Latin)
Text: Liturgy of the Mass
Music: Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937), arr. Ronald Huntington (d. 1994)

“Verses of Peace” (sung in Latin)
Text: Liturgical sources
Music: Dan Locklair  (b. 1949)

“Lord Jesus Christ, Thou Prince of Peace" 
DU FRIEDENFÜRST, HERR JESU CHRIST,
Text: Jakob Ebert (1549-1614) / Johann Jacobi (1740-1814)
Tune: Bartholomaeus Gesius (1560-1613) set by J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

“Hashkiveinu,” from the Jewish Evening Liturgy (sung in Hebrew)
Music: Stephen Richards (b. 1935)

“The Lord Will Bless His People”
Text: Psalm 29
Music: Richard Cheri and Jalonda Robertson

“A Gaelic Blessing”
Text: adapted from and old Gaelic rune
Music: John Rutter (b. 1945)

“Psalm 100”
Music:  Knut Nystedt (b. 1915)

“Holy God, We Praise Thy Name” / GROSSER GOTT
Text: Te Deum, German ascr. Ignaz Franz (1719-1790), tr. Clarence Walworth (1820-1900)
Music: 1775 Vienna, Katholisches Gesangbuch (“Catholic hymnal”)
stanza two set by Donald Busarow (b. 1934)

 Pieces sung at liturgy:

“Salve Regina,” Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, sung daily in Latin at Compline

Gloria by George Palmer (b. 1947), with the proposed ICEL revised text
To be sung at 2009 World Youth Day in Sidney, Australia (sung in Latin and English)

The National Catholic Youth Choir is a liturgically-based choir open to Roman Catholic youth entering 10th-12th grade.  The conductor of the choir is internationally renowned choral clinician Dr. Axel Theimer.  Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, a monk of Saint John’s abbey, is the founding director of the choir.  The program takes place each summer on the beautiful wooded grounds of Saint John's Abbey and University in central Minnesota.  What is unique about the National Catholic Youth Choir is its liturgical focus.  The singers learn about the Catholic liturgy and how the treasury of sacred music (Gregorian chant, Palestrina, Mozart, Bruckner, Poulenc, Duruflé...) fits in Catholic worship today.  The choir also sings contemporary and newly-written music, some of it specially commissioned for the NCYC.

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