The prelude will be based on the day's Gospel hymn, "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" - a bright setting by Wibur Held, whose music I often use. Mr. Held was prolific and both professor of organ at Ohio State and organist at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio, for 30 years, living to 100 (d. 2014).

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The organ prelude Sunday is a Percy Whitlock setting of "Song 13" (themselves settings of Psalms) by Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). Whitlock was an English organist and composer whose works only began to gain wide recognition in the latter 20th century. He lived only from 1903-1946, another victim of TB.

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