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Holy Spirit Church is vibrant Episcopal Community on Houston's west side. We meet for worship every Sunday at eight o'clock and ten thirty AM.  We offer contemporary and traditional expressions of Anglican worship.  These sermons are from that context.

Apr 12, 2020

Surrexit Christus Hodie
by Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)

Recorded at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, 2018

Arranged by Stephen J. Morris for: 4 trombones, timpani, and organ
Originally a choral work for 11 voice parts.

The text is the basis for our hymn “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today”


Apr 12, 2020

Praise the Lord with Drums and Cymbals
by Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)

Recorded at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, 2003

Arranged by Donald Rotermund for: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, and organ


Apr 12, 2020

Grand Choeur Dialogué
by Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)

Recorded at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, 2003

Arranged by Stephen J. Morris for: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, and organ.
Originally a work for organ.

Gigout served as the organist at the Church of Saint-Augustin in Paris for 62 years.


Apr 12, 2020

Carillon-Sortie
by Henri Mulet (1878-1967)

Recorded at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, 2018

Arranged by Stephen J. Morris for: 4 trombones, timpani, and organ
Originally a work for organ.

“Carillon” piece were popular in late-19th and early 20th-century France.  The main objective was to imitate the tolling of bells,...


Apr 12, 2020

Victimae Paschali Laudes

by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

Recorded at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, 2015

The traditional sequence for Easter.