Christ Our Passover
SATB choral/organ score and optional timpani part
PEL5004-BCP-Choir and Organ
A WORK FOR SATB CHOIR AND ORGAN WITH OPTIONAL TIMPANI
This setting of the "Easter Anthems" was composed for the choir of Trinity Episcopal Church in Torrington, CT for the Easter Vigil Service. The dramatic unfolding of words and music building to the final climactic 'Alleluia" provides the perfect transition from the Old Testament prophecies to the first mass of Easter. The piece is also generally used for services on Easter Day and during the Easter season.
Composed in honor of The Reverend Ellen Tillotson, Rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, Torrington, CT
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Notes
Included on the recording "Let Us Keep The Feast" with The University of King’s College Chapel Choir, directed by Paul Halley. This setting of the "Easter Anthems" is used at the Chapel every Easter Vigil as the sacred ministers process to the newly dressed high altar for the first mass of Easter.
Texts
Christ our Passover Pascha nostrum
Words: 1 Corinthians 5:7-8; Romans 6:9-11; 1 Corinthians 15:20-22, Book of Common Prayer
Music: Paul Halley
Alleluia.
Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast;
Not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness;
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Alleluia.
Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,
but alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Alleluia.
Christ is risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept.
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Alleluia.
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"This piece is nothing short of a miracle. Words fail. Praise be to God." - YouTube listener, 2019
