We do a lot of Palestrina, Victoria, Tallis (a LOT of Tallis), Byrd, Mendelssohn, some Brahms, the occasional Mozart, etc. Easter was Bach overload. Zzzzz.
Fortunately, the guys going through the seminary now are fans of this sort of music. You should have seen what they requested for the Transitional Deaconate Ordination. All good stuff.
Wrt Bach, one of the parishioners said absolutely the weirdest thing to our music director. She asked him why he played so much Bach for preludes and postludes, because "it sounds like squirrels in a box."
He was glancing over his shoulder for lightning bolts . . . .
He still plays Bach but also a lot of Buxtehude and his favorite 20th c. French composers (he did a Fulbright at the Lyons Conservatory).
I prefer the more chaste and restrained English Renaissance myself, but that's just me. Probably my Anglican raisin'.
We've started doing Anglican Chant for the Psalm occasionally, just to vary the mix a little bit. I don't think it's actually been revealed that it's Anglican, but they all like it.
Wrt Proulx, he has some excellent stuff -- and his work on the 1982 Episcopal Hymnal alone would get him gold stars. Musically that volume is superlative. The usual deadwood - just multi-culti deadwood instead of the treacly Victorian kitsch of the 1940 edition - but plenty of pure gold. I think he wrote the descant for "Crown him with many crowns" which is more fun than a day at the races.