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CATHEDRAL BASILICA MUSIC
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Liturgy: MAY 10th/11th, 2025 FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Choir not in Session ROB AWAY: DR GORDON OKAWARA-guest organist for the weekend
CANTOR 5PM KEVIN HARKIN 9AM SANDRA GOULD 11AM SANDRA GOULD
Processional Hymn 646 COME AND SING TO GOD OUR SAVIOR
Gloria Alstott
Psalm 100 found at # 99 WE ARE HIS PEOPLE...
Preparation of the Gifts: 577 COME, REJOICE BEFORE YOUR MAKER
Gospel 248 v. I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD, SAYS THE LORD;
I KNOW MY SHEEP, AND MINE KNOW ME.
MASS OF LIGHT AND PEACE ACCLAMATIONS
Communion Procession: 598 Gentle Shepherd Recessional Hymn
580 REJOICE IN GOD [sung to All People Who on Earth 578]
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CANTOR SCHEDULE UPCOMING MASSES
= means confirmed
MAY 10/11, 2025 ROB AWAY 5 PM KEVIN HARKIN
9 AM SANDRA GOULD=
11 AM SANDRA GOULD=
MAY 17/18, 2025 5 PM MARY HELWIG=
9AM SANDRA GOULD =
11 AM AINSLEY JOHNSTONE=
AY 17/18, 2025 5 PM MARY HELWIG= 9AM SANDRA GOULD = 11 AM AINSLEY JOHNSTONE=
MAY 24/25, 2025 5 PM KEVIN HARKIN= 9AM SANDRA GOULD= 11 AM AINSLEY JOHNSTONE
MAY 31/JUNE 1, 2025 5 PM DOREEN KARPUK 9 AM SANDRA GOULD = 11 AM AINSLEY JOHNSTONE=
JUNE 7/8, 2025 5 PM DOREEN KARPUK
9 AM SANDRA GOULD= 11 AM
JUNE 14/15, 2025 5 PM LAURA PIN= 9 AM SANDRA GOULD=
11 AM
JUNE 21/22, 2025 L5 5 PM MARY HELWIG
9 AM SANDRA GOULD= 11 AM
JUNE 28/29, 2025 L5 5 PM DOREEN KARPUK 9 AM SANDRA GOULD=
11 AM
JULY 5/6, 2025 5 PM DOREEN KARPUK
9 AM SANDRA GOULD=
11 AM AINSLEY JOHNSTONE=
JULY 12/13, 2025 5 PM LAURA PIN=
9 AM SANDRA GOULD=
11 AM
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CHOIR PRACTICE: TBA
UPCOMING CHOIR MOTETS-MAY-JUNE
MAY 25th6th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C CHORAL PRELUDE: Introit Bk page 65 HAPPY THE PEOPLE MOTET: E 179 I WILL PRAISE YOUR NAME FOREVER-Accurso
JUNE 1stSOLEMNITY OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD CHORAL PRELUDE: E 151 SEASONAL EASTER PSALM
MOTET: E 21 LAUDA JERUSALEM-EASTER VERSES
JUNE 8thSOLEMNITY OF PENTECOST
CHORAL PRELUDE: L69 O SACRUM CONVIVIUM-Perosi
MOTET: L 92 HYMN OF JUBILEE-Lecot with verses in English attached [not Pilgims of Hope Hymn BTW]
JUNE 15thTHE SOLEMINTY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
CHORAL PRELUDE: E 7 FOR I WENT WITH THE MULTITUDE-Aston or
LIKE BURNING INCENSE
MOTET: MAGNIFICAT AND FALSO BORDONE-Willan
JUNE 22thTHE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST SOLEMNITY: CORPUS CHRISTI
CHORAL PRELUDE: O SACRUM CONVIVIUM-Perosi
MOTET: L 9 AVE VERUM-Byrd
Choir off until September Thanks for a fabulous sesaon of very high quality music and attention to detail!!!
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CHOIR MAILBOX CONTENTS S is conductor's score, = means in mailboxes
INTROIT BOOK PAGES PAGE 65 HAPPY THE PEOPLE-Davis S PAGE 153 ANTIPHON AND PSALM FOR CTK “Worthy is the Lamb S
Please return all other Introits back in your binder in page order LATIN MOTETS L 9 AVE VERUM-Byrd S= L 21 LAUDA JERUSALEM-EASTER TEXT-[POWELL S= L21 LAUDA JERUSALEM CORPUS SANGUIS-POWELL S= L 62 AGNUS DEI-Hassler S= L 50 SANCTUS-Corso S= L 53 HAEC DIES-Webbe [Instrumental parts also] S= ENGLISH MOTETS E 7 FOR I WENT WITH THE MULTITUDE-ASTON = E 32 REMEMBER-HARRIS S= E 45 I SEE HIS BLOOD UPON THE ROSE-Bedford S= E 85 SOUND THE BELL-Perry S= E 151 SEASONAL EASTER PSALM 118 S= E 124 LAUDA JERUSALEM-EASTER TEXT -Lectot S= E 165 FROM THE DEPTHS OF SIN-Ridout 1971 S= E 204 PILGRIMS OF HOPE JUBILEE 2025-Meneghello S= E 132 REMEMBER-Harris S= E 179 I WILL PRAISE YOUR NAME FOREVER-Accurso Eng. French & Italian texts = E 208 EASTER PSALM-Guilmont s = Instrumental parts also S=
MISCELLANEOUS SHEETS and PSALM PRELUDE SHEETS: THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD PS. 19 SIXTH READING-Lynch 37.1 S= SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER PS. 66-Blanchard S= 2ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME PS. 96-Paul McKay 73 S= SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME PS. 119-Lynch S= EASTER SUNDAY PSALM-see sheet S= 407 HAIL OUR SAVIOR'S BODY FOR HOLY THURSDAY DAILY CHORAL WARMUPS for 2025-2027 S= [please return other warmups] E 196 FESTIVAL ALLELUIA- Chepponis S = ALSTOTT MASS SETTING for the Gloria=s MASS OF LIGHT AND PEACE ACCLAMATIONS= S
WEDDING SOUND FILES
Wedding couples please click on the various titles to hear typical music we use for our Weddings here at the Cathedral Basilica.
Please click on the link to listen to them.
https://soundcloud.com/robert-corso
HYMNS FOR THE SIGNING OF THE REGISTER
CIS BOOK:
6.27 God who Created Hearts to Love
6.32 God our Author and Creator
6.33 God We Praise You
CBW III:
561 O God Beyond All Praising
564 Praise to the Lord the Almighty
626 God Who Blesses New Beginnings
629 When Love is Found
438 To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King
430 Christ is Made the Sure Foundation
424 I Come With Joy
RESPONSORIAL PSALMS from CBW III
Psalm 33 CBW III # 47 May Your Love Be upon Us O Lord
Psalm 66 CBW III # 153 Cry Out with Joy to God
Psalm 103 CBW III # 130 The Lord is Compassion and Love
Psalm 92 CBW III # 143 It is Good to Give Thanks to You O God
Psalm 33 CBW III # 100 Lord let Your Love be Upon Us
Psalm 33 CBW III # 109 Happy the People
Psalm 103 CBW III # 181The Lord is Compassion and Love
Psalm 89 CBW III # 148 Forever I will Sing the Goodness of the Lord
COMMUNION HYMNS FOR A WEDDING WITH MASS
CBW III
601 Gather Us Together
597 Bread of Life
598 Gentle Shepherd
602 Eat this Bread
603 Gift of Finest Wheat
610 Taste and See
611 Take and Eat
612 Drink in the Richness
CIS BOOK
65 Life Giving Bread
610 Taste and See
62 Dona Nobis Pacem
63 The Hand of the Lord
67 Our Blessing Cup
68 Take and Eat
66 One Love Released
ORGAN INFO AND ARCHITECTURE
CATHEDRAL BASILICA ORGAN FACTS & FIGURES & SPECIFICATIONS
Info on the Cathedral Basilica organs http://www.musiqueorguequebec.ca/orgues/canada/hamiltonkcc.html
U Tube channel featuring our organs: https://www.youtube.com/user/organ449/videos
Built for the Cathedral Basilica by J. Steinmeyer in 1933 of Oettengen, Bavaria, Germany
Opus 1570, 1933. The Cathedral organ’s stoplist was drawn up by Msgr. Ludwig Berberich, choirmaster of Munich cathedral which also had a Steinmeyer organ. He also helped design the Steinmeyer organ in Blessed Sacrament cathedral in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The original Steinmeyer console had 3 manuals with rocker type tabs and a non American Guild of Organists standard pedal board which was flatter in shape.
A four manual console, replacing the original console with a flat pedal board, North German style, and rocker tablets for stops was installed 1990 by the Denton and Son organ company, Hamilton, Ontario. It was built by the R.A. Colbey organ company in Johnson City, Tennesee. The console purchased from the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, was used as their temporary console during their organ’s rebuild in the late 1980’s.
The organs have 86 ranks [sets of pipes] with 4970 pipes, divided between Sanctuary Organ 22 ranks, Gallery Organ 64 ranks.
There are two other Steinmeyer organs in North America. One is located at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Altoona Pennsylvania which was built in 1931. The other is a small mechanical action organ in Chicago.
The sanctuary organ’s 2 manuals are “floating”. They are available on all manuals. The gallery console, with its French Tier stop jambs, is modelled after Eglise St. Jean Baptiste in Montreal near Mount Royal. I chose this prototype because of its ease in pushing and pulling stops. There are a few blank drawknobs which could be used for future additions.
Future additions could include a positive “chair” organ to be built behind the organist on the edge of the gallery. It could include a spindle flute of spotted metal @ 4’ pitch and an Hautbois 8’ in the Casavant French tradition of voicing. An En Chamade Trumpet stop of 16', 8' and 4' would add greatly to the already formidable reeds in the Cathedral Basilica organ. Our 16' Tuba in the great division, was made by Willis in England. Willis and Steinmeyer were good friends and both highly regarded each other's work and pipe voicings.
All organists have wish-lists for their organs, no matter how large and comprehensive they are. In spite of having 86 ranks on the Cathedral organ, I keep dreaming of having a beautiful Chalemeau Clarinet 8' stop.
A Note on the carpets: Carpets do not have a tradition in gothic and church architecture in general
harboring many molds, mildew and air-borne particles which can be harmful to humans in public places. They destroy the natural acoustic of a building and muffle the song and prayers of the assembly at Mass. Ceramic tiles, marble or any hard surface should be used in the place of rugs. Steps should be taken by pastors, parish councils and renovators to remove all carpets from churches and replace them with a durable, hard surface, easily cleaned and attractive, with acoustically reverberant sound flooring.
Nelson and Janine Denton [Denton & Son organ company of Hamilton] installed the console which included a new Peterson Orgaplex solid state Switching System and a new multiple memory Combination action. The sanctuary organ has 2 manuals but no longer has a playable console. It was dismantled and sold during the installation of the new gallery console in 1990.
The Denton family have serviced the organ from 1933 until 2013.
Between 1998-2007 , the Denton company has re leathered 8 bellows.
Since January 2013, The Cumberland Organ Works of Hamilton Ontario, under the direction of Bruce Cross and David Seeley, have been servicing the organ. They have improved the speech of the 16 foot case pipes in the facade and worked on the electrical system of the console. They have releathered the swell and choir division bellows. They converted mixture rank pipes away from cone tuning.
The 14 ranks of mixtures on the great manual is quite revolutionary for a Canadian 1933 organ. Most organs built during this period in Canada, mainly by Warren, Legg, Mitchell and Casavant had mostly 16’, 8’ and 4’ and 2’ stops. The great manual has an unbelievable brillance and power with its mixtures and full length reed resonators.
To build a replacement for the Cathedral Basilica Organs today would probably cost over 3.5 million dollars, depending on the organ firm. Within the last decade, we have replaced the leathering on the pedal, and two great manual bellows. Work totalling $17,000 was completed in the winter, replacing the leathering on the choir and swell bellows. In 2011, the leathers for the operation of the two tremulants were replaced. Janine and Nelson Denton also rebuilt the pedal board for $3,700 which was worn down due to the ample use the organ undergoes each weeks. A new digital transposer was installed in the summer of 2011 on the organ. Future work projected should include a Clarinet solo stop for the choir manual.
A new Casavant console was installed in April 2016 as a four manual French terraced console with cow bone white keys and ebony sharps and flats. This was done under the supervision of Robert Hiller, president of Alan T Jackson Limited in Toronto working for Casavant. The prototypes for this console can be found in St. Jean Baptiste and Eglise Tres Saint Nom de Jesus, both in Montreal.
The two manual Sanctuary Console, has been restored and renovated in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec by the Casavant firm. The Bourdon 16' in the sanctuary was sent to the Casavant factory at that time where the tonal director greatly improved the volume and speech of those wooden pipes. The console is capable of playing both the Sanctuary and Gallery organs and is placed on a moveable platform. All the memory and pistons and crescendo programs, are playable from the Sanctuary Console except for the 250 stage sequencer.
Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King (Catholic) Steinmeyer & Company, Oettingen, Bavaria, Op. 1570, 1933/1990 [IV/84-86] 2016
All reeds, except Rankett 16’ in the swell and Krumhorn 8’ in the choir, have full length resonators
Console built in 2016 by Casavant Freres. Ste. Hyacinthe Quebec. 4 manuals [cow bone and ebony keyboards] with French terrace stop jambs
AGO 32 note pedal board
12 generals x 100 levels of memory x 100 organist's banks
tablet with transposer, midi file recorder, 250 bank sequencer
12 general pistons with 250 levels of memory available
Great
Diapason 16 [61 large scale zinc pipes in case] [montre= show pipes]
Diapason 8 [61 pipes]
Violoncello 8 [61 spotted metal pipes]
Gemshorn 8 [ 61 pipes ] common metal
Gedeckt 8 [61 pipes] [1-12 wood, remainder common metal]
Octave 4 [61 pipes] spotted metal and common metal
Rohrfloete 4 [61 pipes spotted metal]
Quint 2 2/3 [61 pipes]
Super Octave 2 [61 pipes] high tin content
Cornet V [274 pipes]
Mixture V [287 pipes]
Scharf IV [244 pipes]
Tuba 16 [61 full length pipes] [Willis built in England]
Trumpet 8 [61 full length pipes]
Clarion 4 [61 full length pipes]
Celesta
Great Sub
Unison Off
Great SuperChoir/Great Transfer
Swell
Rohrgedeckt 16 wood [73 pipes]
Diapason 8 [73 pipes]
Viole 8 [73 pipes]
Viole Celeste 8 [50 pipes]
Tibia Clause 8 [73 wood pipes]
Octave 4 [73 pipes]
Salicet 4 [73 spotted metal pipes]
Twelfth 2 2/3 [61 pipes]
Nachthorn 2 [61 pipes]
Tierce 1 3/5 [61 pipes]
Plein Jeu V [305 pipes]
Cimbel III [183 pipes]
Rankett 16 [73 ¼ length pipes]
Trumpet Harmonic 8 [73 pipes]
Tremulant
Swell Sub
Unison Off
Swell Super
Choir
Violfloete 8 [73 spotted metal pipes]
Undamaris 8 [61 pipes]
Copper gedeckt 8 [ 73 copper pipes]
Geigenprincipal 4 [73 pipes]
Blockfloete 4 [73 pipes]
Nazard 2 2/3 [73 pipes]
Siffloete 1 [61 pipes]
Larigot II [122 pipes]
Krummhorn 8 [61 ¼ length pipes, copper resonators, zinc boots]
Celesta
Tremulant
Choir Sub
Unison Off
Choir Super
Antiphonal (floating)
Salicional 8 [61 pipes]
Quintade 8 [61 pipes]
Prestant 4 [61 pipes]
Twelfth 2 2/3 [61 pipes]
Schwiegel 2 [61 pipes]
Cimbel III [183 pipes]
Chimes [24 tubular bells]
Cimbelstern wheel bells
Echo (floating)
Geigen Principal 8 [61 pipes]
Dulzfloete 8 [61 pipes]
Nachthorn 8 [61 pipes]
Rohrfloete 4 [61 pipes]
Octave 2 [61 pipes]
Sesquialtera II [122 pipes]
Tremulant
Gallery Pedal
Diapason 16 in case 32 large scale zinc pipes [montre=show pipes]
Diapason 16 II 32 large scale zinc pipes borrowed from Great
Violone 16 zinc 32 pipes
Bourdon 16 wood 32 pipes
Gedeckt 16 (swell) wood
Quintbass 10 2/3 wood 32 pipes
Octave 8 (swell)
Gedeckt 8 (swell, wood)
Choralbass 4 spotted metal 32 pipes
Bachfloete 2 32 pipes
Mixture IV 128 pipes
Posaune 16 32 pipes full length resonators
Rankett 16 (swell)
Trumpet 8 (swell)
Antiphonal Pedal
Diapason 16 32 large scale zinc pipes
Bourdon 16 wood 32 pipes
Diapason 8 [from echo division]
Rohrfloete 4 [from echo division]
Pedal Super
Full inter-manual couplers
Solid state multi-memory combination action
Swell, Choir, Echo, and Master Swell pedals
Cresecendo pedal
Couplers for Cathedral Basilica Steinmeyer organ 1933 Hamilton Ontario
4,937 pipes
Sanctuary Organ
Gt to Ped 8
Gt to Ped 4
Sw to Ped 8
Sw to Ped 4
Sw to Gt 8
Sw to Gt 4
Sw 16, 8, 4
Gt 8, 4
Gallery Organ
Gt to Ped 8
Gt. to Ped 4
Sw to Ped 8
Sw to Ped 4
Ch to Ped 8
Ch to Ped 4
Pedal Super
Sw to Gt 16, 8, 4
Ch to Gt 16, 8, 4
Sw to Ch 16, 8, 4
Ch to Sw 16, 8, 4
Gt to Ch transfer
Gt 16, unison off, 4
Sw 16, unison off, 4
Ch 16, unison off, 4
Echo on Aux. 8, 4 [top manual]
Ant. on Aux. 8, 4 [top manual]
Echo on Sw 8, 4
Ant. on Gt 8, 4
ORGANISTS/MUSIC DIRECTORS
FLORENCE LOVERING 1933-c. 1939
MARY BURJAW 1939-1968
DENNIS J. DRISCOLL 1968-1974
JAN SEROZYNSKI 1974-1976
ROBERT A. CORSO 1976-
First Mass played on Tuesday April 13th, 1976