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.
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 2021
Joseph Arndt and Adam Pajan, organists/choirmasters
August 15 - The Feast of St. Mary the Virgin
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set 1 - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant in G - Robert Cooke
Canticles in C - Jack H. Ossewaarde
Ave maris stella - Judith Weir
August 22 - The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Anglican Chant in G - Scott Cantrell
Canticles in F - Michael Bedford
Like as we do put our trust - Charles Wesley, Jr.
August 29 - The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set 1 - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant after Tonus peregrinus - David Willcocks
Canticles in B minor - T. Tertius Noble
O pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Herbert Howells
September 5 - The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set 1 - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant in E-flat - Kellow J. Pye
Canticles in B minor - Herbert Howells
I was glad - David Hurd
September 12 - The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set 1 - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant in E - C. Hubert H. Parry
Canticles in G - Charles Villiers Stanford
Draw us in the Spirit's tether - Harold Friedell
September 19 - The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Ubi caritas - Ola Gjeilo
Preces and Responses, Set 2 - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant in E-flat - Edward C. Bairstow
Collegium Regale Canticles - Herbert Howells
I was glad - C. Hubert H. Parry
September 26 - The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set 2 - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant in D - Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Anglican Chant in C - after Martin Luther
Canticles in C - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sicut cervus - Palestrina
October 3 - The Feast of St. Michael and All Angels (transferred)
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set 2 - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant in D - Adam Pajan
Gloucester Canticles - Herbert Howells
O clap your hands - John Rutter
October 10 - The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set 2 - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant in G - Scott Cantrell
Canticles in E - Herbert Murrill
Judge eternal - Gerre Hancock
October 17 - The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Preces and Responses, Set 2 - Adam Pajan
Anglican Chant after Tonus peregrinus - David Willcocks
Canticles in F minor - Pelham Humfrey
Greater Love Hath No Man - John Ireland
October 24 - The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
5:30 p.m.
Sung by the Parish Choir
Preces and Responses - Maxine Thevenot
Anglican Chant in E-flat - Kellow J. Pye
Canticles in C - Charles Villiers Stanford
O how amiable - Ralph Vaughan Williams