[Magdalen] Stuttgart

[Scott Knitter]

We'll start on Sunday with Sleepers, wake (Wachet auf) at Ascension,
Chicago. After the Bach prelude on that tune, of course.

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 1:48 PM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
> My professional organization used to have an annual meeting alwaysat
> Chicago's Palmer House Hotel over the first weekend in December.They still
> have a meeting on that date, but now vary the location of themeeting.
> I always used that meeting as an excuse to head over to Scott K's
> AscensionChurch (and once in awhile to Saint Luke's, Evanston) for their
> SolemnHigh Mass for the First Sunday of Advent.
> Ascension at that time always had the custom of using "Come ThouLong
> Expected Jesus" to the Stuttgart tune.  I still expect that that hymnwill
> kick off Advent, wherever I am, though that is not always the case.
> The plainchant Propers are wonderfully elegant for Advent in generaland
> especially for the First Sunday of Advent, so all in all it wasalways a
> treat to go to Chicago at that time, over and beyond theprofessional
> aspects.
> Further, this meeting gave me an opportunity to ride all three of thegrand
> passenger streamliners back in the day.  This included theMilwaukee Road
> Hiawatha, the Omaha Road 400, and my personalfavorite, the Burlington
> Zephyr.  The latter hugged the east bank ofthe most picturesque section of
> the Mississippi before making thecut across Illinois at Savannah, Ill.
> E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come!
>
>
> David Strang.
>


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA