Our service music (the sung parts of the service that remain unchanged per season) in this Epiphany season utilizes exclusively BIPOC composers to highlight Black History Month in February and the musical legacy of Latin American composers. At 9am during Epiphany we will feature the works of African-American composers, including a beloved Sanctus by Grayson Warren Brown. The Gloria and Fraction (“Christ our Passover”) are by well-known Anglican composer and organist David Hurd (pictured), who was professor of sacred music and director of chapel music at the General Theological Seminary for 39 years.

At 11am this season, our service music will come from the resource Enriching Our Music, which provides alternate canticles and settings for the Eucharist from a wide variety of composers. Our selections are by Latin American composers, including an unusual Sanctus from “Mass of the Nicaraguan People” (aka Misa Campesina Nicaragüense), which is a famous revolutionary Mass by Carlos Mejía Godoy. It incorporates liberation theology and Nicaraguan folk music, and you will notice that the Sanctus uses language outside of the normal “Holy, holy, holy” we are used to singing (we will use an English translation). We will also sing a Fraction Anthem in Spanish from Misa Xochipilli (inspired by the Aztec culture) and a Song of Praise by Pablo Sosa in English and Spanish.