Choral Evensong
Choral Evensong is offered every Sunday of the year as well as on various mid-week feast days. It is sung normally by the Chamber Choir, an ensemble of auditioned professional singers. The Parish Choir sings several times throughout the calendar year.
Throughout the summer, Choral Evensong is offered by a small group of between three and five singers. The full Chamber Choir will return on Sunday, August 21, 2022.
Howells Canticles
Over the next two years, the Chamber Choir will undertake a major project in learning the rest of the complete 20 Evening Canticle settings of Herbert Howells (1892-1983). Several are already offered regularly, but there are over a dozen more. In Fall 2021 Howells canticles will be offered on September 5 and 19, October 3, and November 7. The complete Canticles will be offered in a special Choral Evensong series in 2023, the 40th anniversary of Howells’ death.
Choral Evensong Music List for Fall 2022
August 21 - The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set One - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant (Psalm 111) - Scott Cantrell
Anglican Chant (Psalms 112, 113) - Zachary Malavolti
Canticles in C - Charles Villiers Stanford
Sicut cervus - Palestrina
August 28 - The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set One - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant (Psalm 114) - David Willcocks
Canticles in B minor - Herbert Howells
I was glad - David Hurd
September 4 - The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set Two - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant (Psalm 103) - Kellow J. Pye
Westminster Canticles - Herbert Howells
O pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Herbert Howells
September 11 - The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Mark Dwyer, guest choirmaster
Preces and Responses, Set Two - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant (Psalm 84) - C. Hubert H. Parry
Sarum Canticles - Herbert Howells
Anthem - TBD
September 18 - The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set Two - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant (Psalm 34) - Edward C. Bairstow
Canticles in G - Charles Villiers Stanford
Draw us in the Spirit's tether - Harold Friedell
September 25 - The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set Two - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant (Psalm 19) - Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Anglican Chant (Psalm 46) - Martin Luther
Gloucester Canticles - Herbert Howells
Greater Love Hath No Man - John Ireland
October 2 - The Seventeeth Sunday after Pentecost
Preces and Responses - Maxine Thévenot
Anglican Chant (Psalm 145) - Adam Pajan
Canticles in C - Jack H. Ossewaarde
O taste and see - Joseph Rivers
October 9 - The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Preces and Responses - Maxine Thévenot
Anglican Chant (Psalm 111) - Scott Cantrell
Anglican Chant (Psalms 112, 113) - Zachary Malavolti
St. John's Cambridge Canticles - Herbert Howells
Let the people praise thee, O God - William Mathias
October 16 - The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Preces and Responses - Maxine Thévenot
Anglican Chant (Psalm 114) - David Willcocks
Canticles in B minor - T. Tertius Noble
Hymn to God the Father - Zachary Malavolti
October 23 - The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Plainsong Canticles - adapted by Bruce E. Ford
Like as we do put our trust - Charles Wesley, Jr.
October 30 - The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
Preces and Responses - Maxine Thévenot
Anglican Chant (Psalm 8) - Zachary Malavolti
Anglican Chant (Psalm 84) - C. Hubert H. Parry
Canticles in E - Herbert Murrill
Verleih uns Frieden - Felix Mendelssohn
November 6 - All Saints
Preces and Responses - TBD
Anglican Chant (Psalm 150) - Charles Villiers Stanford
Dallas Canticles - Herbert Howells
And I saw a new heaven - Edgar Bainton
November 13 - The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
Preces and Responses - TBD
Anglican Chant (Psalm 19) - Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Anglican Chant (Psalm 46) - Martin Luther
Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense Canticles - Herbert Howells
Ave Maris Stella - Judith Weir
November 20 - Christ the King
Preces and Responses - TBD
Anglican Chant (Psalm 145) - Adam Pajan
Collegium Regale Canticles - Herbert Howells
O clap your hands - John Rutter