Sunday’s 9am and 11am services will feature splendid organ and/or choral works by English composers Herbert Howells (1892-1983), C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918), and William Byrd (c. 1540-1623), as well as French organist Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968).
Our special Lenten musical offering this year is a prayer service held each Wednesday in March in the Chancel area, in place of our lay-led Evening Prayer which will resume in April. We will start each Wednesday evening in the Parish Hall with a simple soup-and-bread supper available from 5:30 to 6:00 pm on March 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, followed by Holden Evening Prayer at 6:15 pm in the church.
As we return to two separate bulletins for the 9am and 11am services in Lent, our service music also changes for the season. Sundays in Lent will feature settings by two of the most influential African-American Episcopal music leaders working today.
This Sunday’s offertory anthem, Gwyneth Walker’s Dazzling as the Sun, has a transfiguration text by Delores Dufner of the Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict in Minnesota.
This Sunday, the choir will sing an anthem by Moses Hogan who is best known for revitalizing the Negro spiritual tradition.
We have another musical event coming up at St. Michael’s on Saturday, February 11, at 3:00 pm. Ping & Woof Opera presents the vocal recital “Songs for My Valentine” with husband and wife singers Jocelyn Claire Thomas (soprano) and Zachary Lenox (baritone), accompanied by Hannah Brewer on piano.
Sunday’s gospel states “You are the light of the world.” We celebrate this light through song with hymns such as Gather Us In
The offertory anthem on Sunday, January 29 is a setting of the Beatitudes (Sunday’s gospel reading) by American composer Nancy Wertsch.
This Sunday for our season of Epiphany the choir will sing Randall Thompson’s Choose Something Like a Star, based on a poem by Robert Frost. Also plan on coming to Choral Evensong for the feast of Candlemas on Wednesday, February 1st at 7 PM
This Sunday we observe MLK Day through a couple of musical choices at our morning choral services. Our offertory choir anthem is a soulful spiritual arrangement of City Called Heaven by African-American composer and conductor Josephine Poelinitz
Sunday Worship Schedule
7:30 – Spoken Traditional language (Rite 2 with no music)
9:00 – Traditional Service with Choir
11:00 – Inclusive Language with Choir
1:00 pm – Misa en Español
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