Hymn - "Stars and Planets Flung in Orbit" (AKA "Praise My Soul the King of Heaven")

Processional Hymn (excerpt; first and last stanzas)
"Stars and Planets Flung in Orbit" with Descant
(AKA "Praise My Soul the King of Heaven")
camcorded live 06 September 2009

This was the Processional Hymn on Wayne's last Sunday at Redeemer.

"Stars and planets flung in orbit, galaxies that swirl through space,
Powers hid within the atom, cells that form an infant's face:
These, O God, in silence praise you; by your wisdom they are made.

Christ, the word before creation as creation's final goal,
Once you came for earth's redemption; by your spirit make earth whole.
Then, O God, the new creation will your praise forever sing."

Tune: "Lauda anima", John Goss (1800-1880)
Last Stanza Descant: Craig Sellar Lang (1891-1971)
The Goss harmonizations (different for each stanza) are used

The Redeemer Congregation and Choir
Deborah Dawson Goldman, Flute
The parish choir of the Church of the Redeemer
Wayne Burcham-Gulotta,
Music Director/Organist

J. W. Steere & Son Organ Co., Opus 701, 1918, 3/49

Ernest M. Skinner bought out Steere in 1920 and Skinner ran Steere as a separate company for about a year. Then they brought it into the fold as a separate Skinner factory. For a time organs being built there had the Skinner name but were essentially Steere organs. Much of the great Skinner at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA is Steere (1915 major enlargement of 1902 Hutchings). Final expansion to the Skinner instrument at Yale we know today was the 1928-1929 rebuild.

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Morristown, NJ, USA

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[madlyderanged]

Nice descant...

[joenwayne]

@madlyderanged

Thanks for viewing and your kind comment. 

[JusticeRW]

Nice!!

[joenwayne]

Thanks for your comment and for viewing.

Greetings to you in New Zealand from New Jersey, USA.

[dvorak789]

I LOVE the text of that first verse! I've never seen/heard that text before! What hymnal is that from?

[joenwayne]

#567 in The New Century Hymnal (The Pilgrim Press), hymnal of the United Church of Christ.

Thanks for viewing and your comments.

[RobCharles1981]

Love This 5 Huge Stars!

[madlyderanged]

Good

[joenwayne]

Thanks Rob. "Lauda anima" by John Goss is among my all-time favorite hymn tunes.