Carlyle Sharpe (b. 1965) is Professor Emeritus of Music in Composition and Theory at Drury University in Springfield, Mo. Sharpe’s anthem Laudate nomen won the American Guild of Organists/ECS Publishing award in choral composition in 2000. The title is the Latin incipit to Psalm 135, which Sharpe sets in English, using the version from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. The work’s high degree of rhythmic complexity demands energetic, precise performances from choir and organ alike.

Marc’Antonio Ingengieri (c. 1535–1592) was a contemporary of G. P. Palestrina, whose 500^th birthday we celebrate this year. Ingegnieri’s works were often misattributed to Palestrina, and, indeed, the motet sung at Communion, “O bone Jesu,” is one such misattributed work.

On this date in 1872, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was born. Vaughan Williams was a profound influence on the young English composer Herbert Howells (1892–1983). In time for the 100^th anniversary of Vaughan Williams’s birth, Howells penned a “Sarabande for the 12^th of any October,” an organ work that evokes Vaughan Williams’s “ambivalent” harmonic language and the Tudor influences the two composers had in common. Two other Howells compositions are included in this service: his hymn tune “Michael” (Hymn 665) and the jubilant Paean.

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Keys to the Kingdom strives to be an almost weekly blog about the music and liturgy of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, St. Louis, Missouri. It is written by David Sinden, Organist & Director of Music. You can learn more about the church's music ministry at stpetersepiscopal.org/worship/music or email David at