01Mar
In this text based on a portion of the Passion of Our Lord According to Saint John, appointed every year in the RCL for Good Friday, John Core (1951-2017) adroitly compares the sacrifice of Isaac, stopped by angelic intervention in the book of Genesis, with that of Jesus on the cross in recounting the events of that fateful day. The familiar tune SOUTHWELL is recommended for this text.
Core was born at Camp (now Fort) Rucker, Alabama, and earned a B.A. in Speech Communication from West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he served as a Library Associate cataloging music from 1975 until his death in 2017. Core was a member of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, and published four collections of texts with Wayne Leupold Editions. Copes attended Davidson College in North Carolina and Union Theological Seminary in New York, from which he received both the M.Div. and M.S.M. degrees. He served as minister of music in a number of United Methodist churches and taught organ and church music classes in several colleges and universities. He also served as a consultant for the 1966 revision of The United Methodist Hymnal, and his hymn tunes are now found in the hymnals of numerous denominations.
Mark Alan Filbert, Hymnology Consultant
Mark Alan Filbert is Cantor (Organist/Choir Director) for Saint Paul Lutheran Church in downtown Denver, Colorado, a position he has held since 2002. Currently pursuing a doctoral degree in sacred music (DSM) through the Graduate Theological Foundation, Mark holds bachelor’s degrees in sacred music (BM) and music education (BME) from Oral Roberts University and master’s degrees in sacred music (MSM) and choral conducting (MM) from Southern Methodist University. He completed further study in the United States at Northwestern University, Westminster Choir College, Hamline University, the University of South Carolina, and DePaul University, from which he received the Level III Orff-Schulwerk Teaching Certificate, and in Europe at the Netherlands Carillon School, the Haarlem International Organ Academy, also in the Netherlands, and the Centro Pro Unione in Rome. Mark’s scholarly articles and reviews have been published in Reformed Liturgy and Music, The American Organist, and The Hymn. An avid collector of hymnals, he is a Life Member of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada and has been a featured performer and/or workshop presenter at four national conferences. He is also an active member of the American Guild of Organists, having recently served as Worship Chair for the 2019 Denver Regional Convention, and as Sub-Dean, Dean, and Grant Writer for the Denver Rocky Mountain Chapter. He resides in Aurora, Colorado, with his husband of 29 years, Thomas C. Strickland, and their two cats, Libby and Brubeck.
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