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 Lent 2022

Joseph Arndt and Adam Pajan, organists/choirmasters

March 6 - The First Sunday in Lent

5:30 p.m.

Preces and Responses - Maxine Thévenot 

Anglican Chant in E-flat - Kellow J. Pye

"Village" Canticles in C - Ralph Vaughan Williams

Sicut cervus - Palestrina

March 13 - The Second Sunday in Lent

5:30 p.m.

Preces and Responses - Maxine Thévenot 

Anglican Chant in E - C. Hubert H. Parry

Canticles in B minor - T. Tertius Noble

O Saviour of the world - John Goss

March 20 - The Third Sunday in Lent

5:30 p.m.

Preces and Responses - Maxine Thévenot 

Anglican Chant in E-flat - Edward C. Bairstow

Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense Canticles - Herbert Howells

Remember not, Lord, our offences - Henry Purcell

March 25 - The Annunciation

6:30 p.m.

Preces and Responses - Maxine Thévenot 

Dallas Canticles - Herbert Howells

Ave Maris Stella - Judith Weir

March 27 - The Fourth Sunday in Lent

5:30 p.m.

Preces and Responses, Set One - Adam Pajan

Anglican Chant in D - Samuel Sebastian Wesley

Anglican Chant in C after Ein feste Burg - Martin Luther

Collegium Regale Canticles - Herbert Howells

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets - Henry Purcell