Sunday, July 21st
KNOX FISH DINNER – Friday, July 19th is now SOLD OUT. Many thanks to the organizers and volunteers who pulled off this fabulous event!
Donations are now being accepted for our Fall Flea Market (Friday, August 30th). Kindly box up any items and deliver them to the church. Office hours are Monday to Friday – 9AM to Noon. Please no electronics – TVs, computers, etc.
Exciting News! Knox is partnering with the County of Bruce to bring another great monthly resource into our community. Starting in July and following right on the heels of the Good Food Box every month Knox is hosting the Bruce County Outreach. This is a new project that involves the County gathering together social services from noon until 2PM so that folk in our local area do not have to travel to discover what helps are “out there” for them. Bruce County writes: “The goal of Bruce County Outreach is to provide people with the knowledge and awareness of services and supports in their communities and connect people to supports and services that will enhance their quality of life.” No registration is needed for these services, just turn up – and bring anyone who can benefit from this outreach.
Participants may include:
• Bruce County Housing
• YMCA Housing Services
• Bruce County Paramedic Services
• Grey Bruce Public Health
• CMHA Grey Bruce
• VPI Employment Solutions
• Bruce County Ontario Works
• United Way of Grey Bruce
• Salvation Army Owen Sound – Saugeen Shores
The Card Writers return on Tuesday, August 6th at 9:30AM. If you know of someone who could use a note of encouragement, celebrating a life event (birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, etc.) please contact Margaret Weir. You can also contact Barb Stuart, Linda Stanley, Dana Howald, Janice Larsen, Marilyn McKeeman or the office.
Kids Clothing Drive / United Way Backpack Distribution – SAVE THE DATES!
Thursday August 15th:
1PM – 4PM Set-up, sorting, sizing and displaying clothing; sorting backpacks.
6PM – 8PM Distributing clothing and pre-ordered backpacks.
Friday August 16th:
9AM-2PM Distributing clothing and pre-ordered backpacks.
2PM – 3PM Clean-up.
The Fix It Group will reconvene the first Tuesday in September.
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Donation Sites:
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Canada Helps website www.canadahelps.org/en/donate ~ Type in Knox Kincardine ~ click on “Knox Kincardine (Presbyterian)” to donate.
From the Organ Bench – Sunday, July 21st
The prelude this week in entitled “Jesu, Meine Freude” (“Jesus, My Joy”) by J. S. Bach. This excerpt is not taken from his motet of the same name, BWV 227. Rather, the arranger, Mr. S. Drummond Wolff, should have given the piece it’s more familiar title “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”. This is the most common English title of a piece of music derived from a chorale setting of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 (“Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life”), composed by Bach in 1723. You will probably recognize these words that are in some hymnbooks, but unfortunately, not ours at the current time:
Jesu, joy of man’s desiring,
Holy wisdom, love most bright;
Drawn by Thee, our souls aspiring
Soar to uncreated light.
The melody and other elements have been used in several pop and classical crossover recordings:
“Wicked Annabella”, a 1968 track on The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
“Joy”, a 1972 instrumental by Apollo 100 which reached number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 24 in the RPM Canadian chart
“Lady Lynda”, a 1979 song by The Beach Boys with Sterling Smith on harpsichord
“Dormi dormi”, a 2019 track on the extended album Si by Andrea Bocelli, a lullaby inspired by the chorale, sung by Bocelli and Jennifer Garner in Italian and English
You can find all of these on YouTube. I would recommend the Bocelli to you (who knew Jennifer Garner could sing?). I do remember hearing the Apollo 100 version back in my university days. If you listen to the Beach Boys one, try the remastered 2000 version rather than the original 1979 one. I wouldn’t bother listening to the Kinks – just my opinion!
There are several great versions of the true Bach piece on YouTube as well, with choir and orchestra. One of my favourites is the one uploaded by stephenykevin (March 24th, 2007) with the solo violin at the start and then the two sopranos. It is quite exquisite.
For my prelude, however, I play the running introduction part on the Swell (upper keyboard) using the 8’ Stopped Diapason and 8’ Viola da Gamba stops. The chorale melody then is played with the left hand on the Great (lower keyboard) using the 8’ Open Diapason, the 8’ Melodia and the 4’ Harmonic Flute, so the melody can be heard over the upper “running” countermelody. Part way through, the melody switches to the right hand on the Great, with the left hand playing the countermelody on the Swell. It then switches back with the left hand playing the melody on the Great and the right hand continuing to play the high “running” bits. The pedal stops used are the 8’ Bass Flute, the 16’ Gedeckt, and the 16’ Bourdon. The prelude is a bit longer this week but I hope you enjoy it!
The offertory is “Let There Be Peace On Earth” is a song written by Jill Jackson-Miller and Sy Miller in 1955. It was initially written for and sung by the International Children’s Choir created by Easter Beakly and Arthur Granger of the Granger Dance Academy in Long Beach, California. Jackson-Miller, who had been suicidal after the failure of her marriage to screenwriter Felix Jackson, later said she wrote the song after discovering what she called “the life-saving joy of God’s peace and unconditional love”. The song is performed worldwide throughout the year, and particularly during the Christmas season, which has led to it being considered a Christmas song. It is the final song during the holidays each year during the “IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth” firework show at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. The song was performed by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City on September 25th, 2015, at the close of the Interfaith Prayer Service and Remembrance, presided over by Pope Francis at Ground Zero in New York. I present it this morning as it speaks to the message Rev. Kathy is preaching.
The postlude today is based on a spiritual. It is Roger C. Wilson’s arrangement of “Balm in Gilead”. Wilson (April 25, 1912 – October 11, 1988) was a composer of church music active from about 1940 until about 1975. His works were frequently included in Lorenz Publishing’s serials during this era, and many were subsequently anthologized. Some of his compositions were attributed pseudonymously to either Benton Price, Walter Price, Stewart Landon, Lee Rogers, Harold West, or Thomas Ahrens.
I start again at a crescendo level of 3 for the introduction with both hands on the Swell using those string stops, the 8’ Viola da Gamba, Vox Celeste and Aeoline plus the Swell to Swell 4. In the pedal I use the same three as above, the 8’ Bass Flute, the 16’ Gedeckt and Bourdon plus the Swell to Pedal 8. When the actual chorus begins, I play it on the Great using the 8’ Melodia and Dulciana stops plus the Swell to Great 8. For the repeat of the first theme, I have both hands back up on the Swell (softer). When the B section or verse begins, both hands are back down on the Great and I’ve added the 8’ Open Diapason and the 4’ Harmonic Flute and the Great to Great 4 (upper octave!) for more sound. I’m using a volume level of 4 and have also added the 8’ Stopped Diapason and 4’ Flute Traverso on the Swell and coupled those down to the Great using the Swell to Great 4, along with the Swell to Great 8 mentioned above. I’ve also added the Great to Pedal 8 and the Swell to Pedal 4 for more sound down below. When the chorus repeats at the end of this arrangement, I’m back down to a crescendo level of 3 and am playing back up on the Swell for a more contemplative sound. We do have this piece in our Book of Praise, #747, if you would like to follow the tune and read the lyrics written for it.
(I used Wikipedia as my source for the biographical information.)
175TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS
Friday, August 30th – Fall Flea Market
Friday, September 27th – Anniversary Dinner at the Kincardine Legion
Saturday, September 28th – Burlington Men’s Choir
Sunday, September 29th – Church Anniversary Service
Friday, October 25th – The Ballaghs in Concert
Sunday, November 3rd – Malawi Breakfast
Monday, November 11th – Remembrance Day
– “Ringing of the Peace Bell”
Sunday, December 1st – Nine Traditional Lessons & Carols Service
Contact Information
Minister of Word and Sacrament:
The Rev. Dan West
519-386-0962
knoxminister@gmail.com
Clerk of Session:
Wade Gibson
519-395-4124
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Board of Managers Chair:
M. J. (Jim) Prenger
519-389-1971
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Music Team Leader:
Andy Fraser
226-222-9161
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Card Writers Convener:
Margaret Weir
519-396-8749
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Prayer Chain Coordinator:
Caryl Scheel
519-396-2904
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Treasurer:
Christine Goodspeed
1-905-979-0034
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Custodial:
Nancy Pilcher
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