Sacred Heart Music Blog
The Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2019
Prelude: Pastoral Milhaud was born in Marseille, the son of Sophie (Allatini) and Gabriel Milhaud. His father was from a Jewish family from Aix-en-Provence, and his mother was from a Sephardi Jewish family from Italy. Milhaud began as a violinist, later turning to...
Baptism of the Lord
Processional: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise was written by Christopher Wordsworth (1807 - 1885), the nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high honors, in...
Epiphany
Prelude: The March of the Magi Kings. Theodore Dubois (1837-1924) is a very strange piece. The French elite were in love with everything "Eastern". Here is The Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) an oil painting on canvas by Eugène Delacroix, dated 1827. It...
The Third Sunday in Advent or Gaudate Sunday
Prelude: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland [BWV 659]* Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) Based Veni Redemptor Gentium by St. Ambrose [Aurelius Ambrosius] ( c. 340 – 397). Here is a link to the original: Latin.https://youtu.be/1yZr3w7YHuQ. This music is from a large body of...
The Second Sunday in Advent
The Prelude this week is an arrangement by J.S. Bach of a movement from Kantate 140 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, [also known as Sleepers Wake], He composed the cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November...
The First Sunday in Advent, 2018
The Church has begun a New Year! Advent marks the start of a new cycle of readings and a new beginning but we begin quietly. The General Instructions of the Roman Missal says: "In Advent, the organ and other musical instruments should be used with a moderation that is...
The 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Prelude: Symphonie 2 ‘V. Adagio’ Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) Offertory, Sunday at 11:00 a.m.: Expectans Expectavi Charles Wood The poem is by Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley (19 May 1895 – 13 October 1915) a British Army officer who fought in the WW I. He was...
2018 Parish Picnic
Come and have a great time with us. Sacred Heart is having it's 2018 Parish picnic on Sunday October the 14th. There will be lots of fun activities, games and more. See poster for details.
Trinity Sunday
Prelude: The Mystery of the Holy Trinity from Glorious Bodies by Oliver Messiaen This is the last of seven compositions that form Glorious Bodies. The cycle was finished in August 1939 just before the Second Wold War began. The entire piece is dedicated to the number...
Find mp3 recordings of the Sacred Heart choir below. These are amateur recordings taken by choir members throughout the liturgical year. Please be cautious when listening with headphones, as there are sudden volume changes due to music dynamics and noises in the...