Mary Lee Talbot
Staff Writer
In recent years, at the opening worship service, the Chautauqua season has begun with a remembrance of those who have died since the previous season began. Under the leadership of the late Jared Jacobsen, the Sacred Song Service featured a service of remembrance. Sunday’s Sacred Song Service, at 8 p.m. in the Amphitheater will be “A Service of Remembrance.”
The Rt. Rev. Eugene T. Sutton, senior pastor for Chautauqua, will preside. The Chautauqua Choir under the direction of Joshua Stafford, director of sacred music and Jared Jacobsen Chair for the Organist, will sing “In Remembrance,” music by Clare Harner and text by Eleanor Daley. The choir will also sing “Anthem” from “Ein Deutsches Requiem” by Johannes Brahms. During this anthem, members of the congregation are invited to the stage to enter names of loved ones who have died in books of remembrance. The other anthem will be “Lux aeterna,” by Jeffery L. Ames.
Readings come from the Mishkan T’filah, Celtic poetry from George MacDonald, a prayer from Scott Smith on losing loved ones to dementia or Alzheimer’s, The Book of Common Prayer, the Book of Revelation and the prophet Isaiah.
