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Track(s) taken from SIGCD631

You are one in Christ Jesus

First line:
Alleluia. For as many of you as were baptized
composer
Gerre Hancock (1934-2012)
author of text
Bible
Galatians 3: 27-28

The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York, Jeremy Filsell (conductor), Benjamin Sheen (organ)
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Recording details: February 2020
Saint Thomas, Fifth Avenue, New York, USA
Produced by Adrian Peacock
Engineered by David Hinitt
Release date: April 2021
Total duration: 5 minutes 32 seconds

Cover artwork: Organ case carving of Gerre Hancock in Saint Thomas Church.
Photo by Ira Lippke
 

You are one in Christ Jesus utilizes a text on Christian Unity taken from 2 Galatians and was a commission by St Mark’s, San Antonio, Texas, to honour and commemorate Edwin Rieke’s 25 years of service as Organist and Director of Music. Its opening cherubic Alleluias are affecting and the concluding recitative-style delivery of the baptismal text is preceded by the undulating eighth-note ‘rocking’ figures (giving a ‘faux’ sense of continuous rhythmic movement), one which appears, leitmotif-like, throughout all Hancock’s improvised and written music.

from notes by Jeremy Filsell © 2021

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