Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast No. 774! Today's question was sent by Julie who is a member of our Total Organist community and she writes:
I was pleased that I was given Sunday’s hymns a couple of weeks in advance, which helps with planning preludes and postludes, but I got an email on Thursday notifying me that the processional and recessional hymns had been changed. (Sometimes the pastor will make changes if he thinks the text of a hymn fits better with his sermon.) So since according to the email the first hymn was going to use the tune “Erhalt uns Herr, bei deinem Wort“ instead, I practiced three different settings of it on Friday, only to find out on Saturday that there was a typo in the hymn number and the first hymn will actually use the tune “Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend.” So I practiced a couple of preludes based on that by Georg Böhm and Gerald Near, along with preludes by Pachelbel on “Es woll uns Gott gnädig sein” and a Buxtehude Praeludium which I will use as a postlude (BuxWV 147 in G major, one of the shorter, easier ones). I may start the prelude music early and use one or two of the preludes on “Erhalt uns, Herr” anyway.
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